SEC Coverage

Vanderbilt has officially hired James Franklin several days after the WaPo and ESPN reported they would. Geez guys, could you have moved any slower in the contract negotiations? It's a wonder the Big Ten didn't come sniffing after you last summer.

My blogging time right now is mostly spent trying to finish some things up before bowl season begins, so I won't have much today. However, Anchor of Gold has a nice piece on the performance of James Franklin, Vandy's head coach-in-limbo (nice term, Train Island), at Maryland. It's a bit of a mixed bag, but that's what you'd expect from a coach whose teams range from 9-4 to 2-10.

The Washington Post is at it again with the Vanderbilt head coaching search, this time reporting that it's Marlyand OC James Franklin who will be Vanderbilt's next head football coach. If it comes to pass, that means the SEC will have taken the nation's only two head coaches in waiting away from the schools they were supposed to take over. Anchor of Gold is on top of the story, and the denizens there don't seem wowed by the hire. Honestly, I wouldn't be either after being told erroneously that Gus Malzahn was going to be the next coach.