He got all our recruits to de-commit literally as he was giving his speech at Penn State- in other words it was all preplanned. And many of those recruits he didn’t even tale to Penn State - so we had no recruiting class. But it gets worse: he took the entire coaching and strength staff. McGugin was empty. I laughed that PSU should be yelling ‘we are Vanderbilt’ instead of PSU. Many of the leaving coaches said goodbye to the team in PSU clothes. We all came to McGugin to thank him and say goodbye. He left out of the back door. Never said goodbye or thank you for giving him his start. The Athletic department at PSU literally has to take out a one page spread in Tennesseean newspaper to say good bye b/c they knew Franklin royally screwed it up. I have no problem with him going to Penn State at all. But man, do it the right way. I wouldnt trust that man to hold $5 for me.

As to football- what he did was all psychological. We had been stuck with the SOV /cursed mentality. He changed that for the players and fans. That was Franklins strength. He isn’t necessarily a great coach but a great manager and had a really good staff that did the football stuff for him. The team played with a different mindset. We also had Jorden Matthews - one of the greatest players in the SEC.

To this day, I don’t understand why he left the WAY he did. My only guess is he purposely wanted to destroy us to make people say that he was one of the greatest coaches ever. Oh well.