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Penn State Football weekly chat: Marathon coaching search continues

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Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft. (Credit: Ryan Snyder | Blue White Illustrated)

Penn State football kicks off against Ohio State on Saturday at noon, but from the state of the fanbase on this side of the Midwest divide, you wouldn’t know it. Penn State fans are fully locked in and engaged with the latest news on the coaching search and want a post-mortem on what went wrong with the 2025 football season. In this week’s subscriber chat, the Blue White Illustrated team is addressing all of those conversations and more. Here’s a selection of what we’re talking about this week.

  • Do you think Pat Kraft is willing to wait for a legitimate or elite candidate, even if that person is still coaching in the playoffs, or will he feel pressured to make a hire by late November or early December?
  • Who do you think would be the coaches PSU would most like to see retained?
  • Was Franklin saying things like “best staff and personnel we’ve ever had” (rough quote), a huge miscalculation, or was it the fact that this was probably echoed internally that led to the team getting complacent?
  • Oregon’s overtime fumble bounces in a different direction, and Penn State walks off with a win. What is their record today heading to Columbus? 

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Penn State still facing Ohio State this weekend

During his Wednesday press conference, interim head coach Terry Smith said that the team had it’s “second best Tuesday” of the year this week. When asked what that meant, he explained how the team’s sports science division measures effort and output during the year.

“Yeah, so, I’m not in that field, but it’s more of the output of fast-twitch muscles, right? So like, speed numbers are up. Effort numbers are up. Numbers where we’re running faster, longer distances are up, as opposed to your normal week. So, part of that is the fact that we’re playing Ohio State, right? And then the other part is,  we’re coming off a bye week. We’re a little more rested. The guys are eager to get after it, and they’re taking advantage of these reps.”

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