As a Vandy alum that follows it closely, I'll be surprised if Franklin leaves at this point.  He had a bunch of offers last year.  Arkansas basically offered him the moon.  Auburn reached out.  A bunch of what I would call top 30 programs reached out.  Nobody like Texas did but really good opportunities that have the chance for bigtime success.  And he turned them all down.

 

And then this year USC reached out to him.  It was all behind the scenes and plausible deniability running rampant, but he told them he wasnt interested.  Obviously USC has their own issues right now which could scare off potential coaches but if Franklin was looking to move to the big time, I'm not sure you could do much better than USC.  Maybe Texas is a different animal but I'd be surprised as this point.  I think whats more likely is he'll do something similar to Chris Peterson.  Stay 10 years, max out the program and then leave.  While money is a big attraction Franklin is already in the top half of the SEC in coaches salary.

 

An interesting note about Texas which doesnt get talked about a lot is while they have tons of money and nice facilities, they dont spend their money the same way bigtime SEC schools do.  There was that story recently about how Saban and Mack Brown were flying to some location for some kind of commercial... maybe ESPN commercial.  Well Saban got to fly in on one of Bama's private jets used for coaches.  Mack Brown got stuck on Southwest and the flight had a layover.  How does that happen at Texas?

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