Mike Poorman
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Cooper Cousins Is the Latest in the Penn State O-Line of Leaders
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Cooper Cousins is Nick Dawkins. And Olaivavega Ioane. And Andrew Shelton. And Donovan Smith. All big Penn State offensive linemen, past and present. All big talents. All big leaders. And all had a big classroom presence — in the best way — when I taught them at Penn State. (Dawkins sat front row, center, in a…
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Early Morning Practice for Penn State Football? 5 Reasons Why Matt Campbell Loves It
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Penn State football, led by its new head coach Matt Campbell, officially opened spring practice on Tuesday. Make that Tuesday morning. Many college football teams hold their winter strength and conditioning workouts early in the morning. (Including Penn State.) But when spring ball hits, they shift their 15 workouts with pads and balls and hitting…
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The Transfer Portal Opens on Friday: A Penn State Football Primer
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The NCAA calls it “the notification-of-transfer period,” when student-athletes officially inform their school, and hence, the NCAA that they are interested in changing schools. We all know it as the Transfer Portal. For Penn State and the rest of college football, the portal officially opens at one minute past midnight this Friday. Penn State may…
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Former Nittany Lion D’Anton Lynn of USC to Be Named Penn State’s New Defensive Coordinator
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Updated 2:15 p.m. Dec. 29. Former Nittany Lion cornerback D’Anton Lynn — who has been the defensive coordinator at both Southern California and UCLA — is returning to his alma mater to serve as the D-coordinator for new Penn State head coach Matt Campbell, StateCollege.com has confirmed and numerous outlets have reported. The hiring of Lynn as…
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Is a Revival of the Penn State-Pitt Series Possible Under Former Panther Matt Campbell?
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New Penn State football coach Matt Campbell knows all about historically big, annually bitter, fierce inter-conference, nationally significant long-time rivalries between two in-state football rivals that do not like each other. Proof of concept? Let’s look at Campbell’s personal college football history: Campbell was in a Pitt uniform as a freshman for the Sept. 19,…
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Welcome to Penn State, Matt Campbell: It’s a Natty or Bust
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The Holy Grail for former Indiana football player and current Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft is a national championship. Especially in football, not a surprise given Penn State’s roots — national titles in 1982 and ’86 — and Kraft’s history as a linebacker with the Hoosiers. Kraft first laid down the gauntlet when he was…
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Penn State’s New Head Coach Matt Campbell Has Landed in State College
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The runway at State College Regional Airport — all 6,701 feet of it, a length of over 20 football fields — was more than long enough to accommodate the Cessna Citation Latitude jet that carried Matt Campbell, his wife Erica, and their children from Ames, Iowa to Happy Valley on Sunday. When Campbell — Penn State’s next head…
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BYU’s Kalani Sitake Tells Penn State Football ‘No’ as Head Coaching Search Continues
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Kalani Sitake is staying put as Brigham Young’s head football coach — and not coming to Penn State, as first reported by On3 and confirmed by ESPN and several other media outlets. For Penn State, on Day 52 of its head coaching search since James Franklin was fired on Oct. 12, that’s the way the cookie crumbls.…
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PSUPoorman’s Top 10 on Day 50 of the Penn State Coaching Search: Who Is Kalani Sitake?
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It is now Day 50 of the Penn State Head Coaching Search. And, if we are to read the smoke signals clearly, BYU coach Kalani Sitake has entered the chat. Athletic director Pat Kraft, the point person for the search and the triggerman on firing James Franklin back on Oct. 12, is the man with…
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What’s Next for Penn State Football?
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Penn State, after beating Rutgers here 40-36 for its third win in 15 days, is now bowl eligible. But…make that buts, plural…there’s still a lot to be figured out. To start: Which bowl, where, when and against whom? The representative from the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium was everywhere in SHI Stadium…