{"id":53875,"date":"2025-07-10T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53875\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:30:09","slug":"an-absolute-honor-how-irish-star-adam-mccann-gibbs-earned-chance-to-commit-to-penn-state-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53875\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An absolute honor:\u2019 How Irish star Adam McCann-Gibbs earned chance to commit to Penn State football"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PennJames Franklin and Justin Lustig went to a unique destination to get their punter of the future.
\nJoe Hermitt | jhermitt@pennlive.comPennLive<\/p>\n

Tadgh Leader had much bigger fish to fry that day.<\/p>\n

Yet, as he prepared to later stand at the altar and get married on a late-June Wednesday, he still spent the morning working to secure a stateside audition for one of his star pupils \u2014 Adam McCann-Gibbs of Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Listen to the Blue-White Breakdown podcast\n<\/p>\n

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