Once the hottest name in college coaching, Dennis Franchione is now 67 and, unlike some of his contemporaries, he has no interest in going back.
“Les Miles is 65, Mack Brown is 67 and I’m 67,” Franchione said. “People kept asking me if I was going to look at the Texas Tech job. Or the Kansas State job. I did it for 40 years. I’m good.”
Fran’s legacy is complicated, but he did something no one in his profession ever has: As the head coach at TCU, he beat SMU; as the head coach of Alabama, he beat Auburn; as the head coach of Texas A&M, he beat Texas.