{"id":353916,"date":"2025-11-04T01:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/353916\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:45:13","slug":"penn-state-coaching-search-hot-board-9-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/353916\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Coaching Search Hot Board 9.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 11 and a half seasons, the James Franklin era has ended <\/a>for Penn State football. Athletics director Pat Kraft announced his firing<\/a>\u00a0after a stunning three-game losing streak ruined long-held expectations for another deep College Football Playoff run.<\/p>\n

This is the Lions247 Coaching Hot Board, which we will continue to update frequently until Kraft’s national search for a new head football coach is complete. Whether it takes days, weeks or months, this is the place to find the latest news on the topic.<\/p>\n

Our most recent updates involve Clark Lea<\/a><\/b>,\u00a0Brian Hartline<\/a><\/b>,\u00a0Jeff Brohm<\/a><\/b>, Mike Elko<\/a><\/b>,\u00a0Eli Drinkwitz<\/a><\/b>,\u00a0and others. Scroll down to their dedicated profiles below for the latest scoop.<\/p>\n

*Coaches are listed in order of latest updates.<\/p>\n

You can also follow our dedicated VIP thread on the Lions’ Pride Board<\/a>,<\/strong> where we post live updates as soon as information comes in. This article\u00a0and the attached thread have now blown past 2.5 million page views and 31,000 comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Continue reading for the latest on a high-profile Nittany Lion coaching search…<\/p>\n

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2. AWESOME\u00a0PERK:<\/a><\/strong> Free Paramount+ Premium w\/ full-priced monthly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 11 and a half seasons, the James Franklin era has ended for Penn State football. Athletics director…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-353916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115488903951765747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}