Another head coach just jumped the track. James Franklin flew off the rails and straight into Blacksburg. The former Penn State Nittany Lions head coach left a lot of money on the table to take up the Virginia Tech Hokies job. Making his first cameo as the Hokies’ head man during the men’s basketball game, he already talked big.

In front of a packed basketball crowd at Cassell Coliseum, Franklin pulled up with a demand for the basketball fans. “Let’s have this place rocking tonight to help our basketball team. Let’s make sure Lane Stadium is rocking on Saturday,” said Franklin. “We can’t do this by ourselves. It’s going to take an entire community pulling the rope in the same direction.”

Turns out Franklin might already be Hokie Nation’s unofficial good-luck charm. Moments after Frankl

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