Troy University Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Assistant AD / Football Operations
- Email:
- efranks@troy.edu
- Phone:
- 3682
Prior to Kentucky, Franks spent one season as the director of player personnel at Florida under Dan Mullen following four years as the director of recruiting at Arkansas under Bret Bielema. The Razorbacks averaged a top-25 recruiting class over his final three recruiting classes, including the best class in program history.
Franks came to Fayetteville with 10 years of collegiate experience, including serving as associate head coach and running backs coach at Southeastern Louisiana. He has coached or trained multiple professional athletes, including Wes Welker, Terence Newman and Darren Sproles, and also has extensive recruiting ties to Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas and Mississippi.
At Southeastern Louisiana, he tutored Xavier Roberson to multiple All-America honors as a sophomore running back and kick returner. In 2012, Roberson and Rasheed Harrell teamed to make up one of the top freshmen running back duos in the country under Franks’ leadership. Before Southeastern Louisiana, Franks spent two seasons as defensive line coach and head strength coach at Delta State. There, he coached a pair of first-team All-Gulf South Conference selections in 2011.
Franks was a defensive graduate assistant at Wisconsin for two seasons. Prior to Wisconsin, Franks coached the defensive line at Texas State for the 2003 season and was an academic counselor and director of minority relations at Kansas State from 2001-03.
His first collegiate coaching experience came at Kansas State, where he was a strength and conditioning coach for the football team during the 2000 season and 2001 offseason. His first coaching position was at Heritage High School in Oklahoma City, where he tutored defensive backs and was a strength coach for the school from 1996-2000.
The Kansas native earned his bachelor’s degree in 2000 and a master’s degree in adult education from Kansas State in 2002.
He is married to the former Angela Dent.
