When Virginia Tech fired Brent Pry after a Week 3 loss to Old Dominion in mid-September, nobody knew where they were going to turn to for his replacement. The one clear thing was this: it was a hire that the search committee needed to nail.
Little did they know that the prefect candidate was about to fall into their lap a month later. James Franklin would be fired at Penn State, and about six weeks later, he was hired at Virginia Tech, replacing his former defensive coordinator at Penn State.
A lot of people saw the hiring as a good one for Virginia Tech.