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On Nov. 19, new football head coach James Franklin addressed a crowd in Cassell Coliseum about his plans for the future of Virginia Tech.

As Franklin weighed his options about where to coach next, he said the way Brent Pry spoke about Virginia Tech was influential.

During his introductory speech, Franklin made it clear his goal was to retain the players at Virginia Tech while making contact with all the top high school athletes in the commonwealth. Even through the changing college landscape Franklin believes you can run a program in a way that can be transformational.

The James Franklin era at Penn State came to an end last weekend when the Nittany Lions fired their coach of 12 years. Franklin left an indelible mark on the program in nearly all the right ways, rebuilding it into a perennial Big Ten and national ...