{"id":240193,"date":"2025-10-21T04:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240193\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:28:07","slug":"penn-state-coaching-search-hot-board-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240193\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Coaching Search Hot Board 5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 11 and a half seasons, <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/article\/penn-state-fires-james-franklin-256550454\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the James Franklin era has ended <\/a>for Penn State football. Athletics director <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/longformarticle\/penn-state-athletic-director-pat-kraft-james-franklin-firing-interim-coach-terry-smith-256779605\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pat Kraft announced his firing<\/a> on Sunday afternoon after a stunning three-game losing streak ruined long-held expectations for another deep College Football Playoff run.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Lions247 Coaching Hot Board, which we will continue to update frequently until Kraft&#8217;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<p>Our most recent updates involve\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/coach\/Mike-Elko-1055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Elko<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/coach\/Matt-Rhule-1095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Rhule<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/coach\/Eliah-Drinkwitz-1596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eli Drinkwitz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/coach\/Kalen-DeBoer-3580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kalen DeBoer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/coach\/Urban-Meyer147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Urban Meyer<\/a>. Scroll down to their dedicated profiles below for the latest scoop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/board\/18\/contents\/penn-state-coaching-search-hot-board-40-256620241\/?page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">You can also follow our dedicated VIP thread on the Lions&#8217; Pride Board<\/a>, where we post live updates as soon as information comes in. This article\u00a0and the attached thread have now blown past 1.1 million page views and 13K comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not yet locked into our coverage\u00a0as a VIP subscriber, join us now with a special offer for 60-percent off by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/join\/?promo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for the latest on a high-profile Nittany Lion coaching search&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/article\/penn-state-coaching-search-flash-sale-60-off-lions247-vip-256625217\/\" target=\"&quot;_blank\u201d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PSU COACHING SEARCH FLASH SALE: 60% Off Lions247 VIP <\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-240193","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}