{"id":269779,"date":"2025-11-03T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269779\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:47:07","slug":"penn-state-coaching-search-hot-board-9-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/269779\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Coaching Search Hot Board 9.0"},"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>\u00a0after 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/coach\/Clark-Lea-636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Clark Lea<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/coach\/Brian-Hartline-4127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Hartline<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/coach\/Jeff-Brohm-248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeff Brohm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/coach\/Mike-Elko-1055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Elko<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/coach\/Eliah-Drinkwitz-1596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eli Drinkwitz<\/a>,\u00a0and others. Scroll down to their dedicated profiles below for the latest scoop.<\/p>\n<p>*Coaches are listed in order of latest updates.<\/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 2.5 million page views and 31,000 comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for the latest on a high-profile Nittany Lion coaching search&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TRENDING LIONS247 VIP SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/join\/?promo=JOIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$AVE BIG ON ANNUAL: 50% off our regular price during\u00a0coaching search<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/join\/?promo=JOIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AWESOME\u00a0PERK:<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/join\/?promo=JOIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> 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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-269779","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\/269779","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=269779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}