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Vanderbilt baseball walks off Kentucky: What Tim Corbin said
Here’s what Tim Corbin said about Vanderbilt baseball’s walk-off win vs. Kentucky and Braden Holcomb’s home run.
Despite it being over a decade since James Franklin coached his last Vanderbilt football game, the former Commodores coach appears to still have a direct phone line for VIP tickets at Vanderbilt sporting events.
He cashed that in on Sunday.
The Penn State football coach was seen in attendance for Sunday’s SEC baseball tournament championship game at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Alabama, and even sat in the home team’s dugout to watch the Commodores beat Ole Miss 3-2 for the program’s fifth SEC tournament title.
Franklin’s sighting caused quite a stir and conversation on college baseball and college football social media message boards, mostly out of curiosity as to why he was there.
After Vanderbilt utility player RJ Austin caught the final out, the SEC Network’s broadcast caught Franklin giving Vanderbilt manager Tim Corbin a congratulatory hug in the dugout. The win for the Commodores gave them the SEC’s automatic bid to the NCAA baseball tournament, where they likely could hear their name called as the No. 1 overall seed on Monday.
Since leaving Vanderbilt for Penn State after the 2013 college football season, Franklin has posted a 101-42 record with the Nittany Lions. He led Penn State to the program’s first College Football Playoff appearance this past season, which they ended up losing to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl semifinal.
Here’s what you need to know on why Franklin was caught seen in the dugout of Sunday’s Vanderbilt baseball game:
Why was James Franklin in the Vanderbilt baseball dugout at SEC tournament?
Franklin was at…
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Publish date : 2025-05-25 21:21:00
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