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The Valenti Show

What Do These Comments From James Franklin Tell You About The State Of MSU Football?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Valenti reads some quotes from new Virginia Tech head coach James Franklin and wonders what J Batt is thinking by continuing to employ Jonathan Smith.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, we're going to get back into this Dan Campbell stuff.

0:02.6

I promise. Just sit tight for a second.

0:04.4

I want to read this quote to Rico.

0:06.7

And maybe tomorrow we can get more into it.

0:10.2

Because I think for Spartan fans, there's like a three-pronged point of frustration.

0:15.9

It goes well beyond the program being utter garbage.

0:18.8

But it's more a lack of any leadership at MSU willing to say anything that leads you to believe it's going anywhere.

0:28.4

And that's from the NCAA thing.

0:30.8

That's from the head coach position.

0:33.0

That's from this private equity thing.

0:34.9

But I wanted to read this to you.

0:36.2

James Franklin took the V Tech job.

0:39.7

I would kill for a head coach at Michigan State to speak this way.

0:44.9

He won the press conference.

0:46.5

Well, it's important to make people believe that you're going to raise a standard.

0:51.2

Now, his ability to or to not raise and deliver on this, that is what he

0:57.3

will be judged by. I'm just talking about, you want to feel good for a day. I want to read

1:02.0

these two quotes to you and tell me if this is like, this is everything MSU needs, but it's at

1:06.8

V Tech. He was asked the question on Wednesday. Virginia Tech took what athletic director

1:13.5

Whit Babcock and others said as the first major step to back up the mountain announcing the

1:20.1

hiring of Franklin. Quote, does it look, feel, smell, and operate like a big time program?

1:27.1

All of those things need to be in place.

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