Penn State Nittany Lions HC James Franklin, who coached Saquon Barkley in the NCAAF, shared his thoughts on the Philadelphia ...

Franklin and Knowles previously had discussed a job at Penn State. An early morning call two days after Ohio State's national ...

In the days after the Orange Bowl, Penn State’s players gathered on campus for a team meeting. At that point in January, they ...

College football’s offseason brings news almost daily and James Franklin seems pretty comfortable with it all.

Franklin had talked to Knowles in December 2021 shortly after defensive coordinator Brent Pry, one of his longtime assistants ...

Penn State's James Franklin explained, for the first time, of hiring away top defensive coordinator Jim Knowles from Ohio ...

Penn State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles, a hybrid in his own right, has made a living at most of his coaching stops by maximizing what can be done with a ...

They’ve been certain already-implemented aspects of the scheme that Franklin doesn’t want changed under any circumstance. In the case of new defensive coordinator hire Jim Knowles, one of those ...

Jim Knowles arrives as the nation’s highest paid assistant coach at $9.3 million — $3.1 annually for three years — but he was ...

Manny Diaz and his ambitious recruiting team currently boast the No. 32-ranked haul nationally, enjoying three 2026 three-star pledges in Christ Church Episcopal School (S.C.) wide receiver Jude Hall, ...

Knowles was introduced as Penn State's defensive coordinator on Tuesday, one week after he left Ohio State to take the job.

He made it clear that he and Franklin plan to mesh their defensive philosophies, just like previous Penn State defensive ...