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Josh Pate's College Football Show

James Franklin joins Josh Pate - Pate State Speaker Series

Josh Pate's College Football Show

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News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.43.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Virginia Tech Head Coach James Franklin is the latest guest on the Pate State Speaker Series.

 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed human.

0:17.8

You and I are sitting together last summer.

0:21.0

We're on your balcony.

0:22.3

We're up in state college.

0:24.1

And seasons about to come.

0:26.2

And then we fast forward.

0:27.6

I mean, if I were to just snap my fingers, there's no way you could have known what life was about to have in store.

0:32.5

But I mean, does this not perfectly illustrate how foggy it is at all times, like how you can really never think

0:39.1

you got a hold of things, because as soon as you think you got a hold of things, life just

0:42.2

throws you the ultimate curveball.

0:43.6

Yep.

0:44.0

It's also why I've never gambled in my life, right?

0:47.1

Like it's unpredictable at times, and, you know, right're we're blessed and fortunate to be here and happy

0:55.7

and excited and got a huge chip on our shoulder but no i mean obviously when we're sitting there

1:00.7

talking last summer um could not imagine you know that things would have changed the way to change

1:06.1

so but let me also say i also own the things that I had responsibility for and didn't do.

1:14.1

That's what I was going to ask you, because I remember the day it happened, we're doing the show.

1:18.9

I was trying to look back and try and figure out if you had ever been terminated before.

1:23.6

It had been a long time if it had ever happened.

1:25.6

So we went back to the mid-90s.

1:27.4

Like you may have worked at a grocery store at some point, but in coaching it hadn't happened. So like many people can relate to that who are watching right now, maybe not as a football coach, but whatever they do. So I've had it happen to me before. I've got the reactive emotion, and that takes a little while. But then you slowly transition to like more reflective emotion. It could be with a breakup you had with a girl 10 years ago. And I've had them and I look back completely different than I felt in the moment. So now you're not even a year removed, but you're far enough removed where maybe you look back and you feel different things than you felt in the moment. How have you noticed those feelings change over time?

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