{"id":375306,"date":"2025-12-29T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375306\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:36:09","slug":"danton-lynn-declines-comment-on-penn-state-dc-opening-i-just-focus-on-the-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375306\/","title":{"rendered":"D’Anton Lynn declines comment on Penn State DC opening: ‘I just focus on the players’"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the college coaching carousel has mostly stopped spinning at the head coach level, the assistant pool is still seeing a number of significant shakeups. Could USC<\/a> defensive coordinator D\u2019Anton Lynn<\/a> join that mix?<\/p>\n

Lynn has been reported as a potential target for Penn State<\/a> coach Matt Campbell<\/a> in recent weeks. He addressed that noise ahead of the Valero Alamo Bowl, which will be played on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just focus on the players,\u201d Lynn told reporters, according to Ryan Kartje of the LA Times<\/a>. \u201cI just focus on what\u2019s in front of me, their growth, their development and just trying to get their 10th win.\u201d<\/p>\n

The links between D\u2019Anton Lynn and the Penn State job have been reported for at least a week now, as Campbell looks to round out his staff in Happy Valley. But for now, there\u2019s been no real movement on that front.<\/p>\n

Even USC head coach Lincoln Riley<\/a> has seen the rumors come across his desk. To the point that he addressed them last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t have an update,\u201d Riley said of D\u2019Anton Lynn<\/a>. \u201cThis is just what happens this time of year, especially when you have a really good staff, and are doing a lot of really positive things. This is part of what happens. So, we\u2019ve seen it, we understand it. We\u2019ll obviously see how it plays out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Penn State coaching staff is getting a major shakeup this season after James Franklin<\/a> was fired midseason and eventually replaced by Campbell. Now, Campbell is trying to put his stamp on the program\u2019s staff and replace Jim Knowles<\/a>, who left for a job at Tennessee<\/a>. If the replacement does turn out to be D\u2019Anton Lynn, it would likely send ripples through the Big Ten.<\/p>\n

Considered an up and coming coach, Lynn played defensive back at Penn State from 2008 through 2011. Those were the final years of the Joe Paterno<\/a> era. By 2014, Lynn got into coaching as an NFL assistant. Then, in 2023, he made the jump to coaching as the defensive coordinator at UCLA<\/a> and later USC.<\/p>\n

On3\u2019s Dan Morrison also contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the college coaching carousel has mostly stopped spinning at the head coach level, the assistant pool is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-375306","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\/375306","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=375306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}