This was one of the biggest coaching carousels in college football. Several high-profile coaches either were fired or are moving to other openings. When that happens, recruiting goes crazy, and that is the case this year.
James Franklin was fired at Penn State in October and hired six weeks later at Virginia Tech. He went right to work recruiting and flipped several Nittany Lions recruits to Blacksburg. He has hired a handful of his assistant coaches at Penn State at Virginia Tech, including quarterbacks coach Danny O'Brien. Despite. Moving on to Virginia Tech, they are continuing to circle back to their former recruits from their previous stop and looking to make a move on a flip.