When Virginia Tech fired Brent Pry following a Week 3 loss at home to Old Dominion, it didn’t come as a surprise. The Hokies fell to 0-3 and looked like a team that was checked out, even though the season was just three weeks old.
As soon as the move happened, Virginia Tech formed a search committee to find the next head coach, and this was a hire that they needed to nail. They needed to find the right guy to turn around a program that has been looking to get back to the Frank Beamer days. Little did they know that the next coach was about to fall into their lap.
Three weeks after Pry was fired, Penn State dismissed James Franklin after a third straight loss. Six weeks later, he was hired as the next head coach in Blacksburg.
CFB analyst tabs Virginia Tech coaching carousel winner
Josh Pate, on his Sunday night college football show, named some of the winners of what was a crazy coaching carousel that happened this past fall. He named Virginia Tech as a school that nailed the cycle with the hiring of Franklin…