Watch: Penn State head coach James Franklin bye week press conference
The Penn State Nittany Lions Football team enters its second bye week undefeated after a harrowing trip to Los Angeles and a 33-30 overtime win over USC this past weekend. Head coach James Franklin and his staff opened up the doors of the Lasch practice facility on Tuesday for the media to check out the practice and discuss the team’s progress with the head coach afterward. Hear Franklin’s complete comments in the video embedded below or on the Blue White Illustrated YouTube Channel.
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Penn State bye week progress
After throwing for nearly 400 yards in the win over USC on Saturday, quarterback Drew Allar was a major focus of the conversation on Tuesday. Franklin says that the coaching staff and Allar have worked well together.
“I think Andy and Danny O’Brien, our quarterbacks coach, and Drew, I think are doing a really good job. I think Beau [Pribula] as well. Like I’ve mentioned before, I think, I think Drew is a year older, much more comfortable, much more confident in his role as a leader, in understanding the speed of the game, how to prepare all those things.”
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“I think Danny’s done a really good job of spending time and building trust and having kind of a demeanor on the sideline that I think has been really good for him as well. And then, you know, Andy is doing a really good job of playing to Drew strengths as well as playing to our personnel strengths. I think it’s a combination of all those things.”
Wisconsin game details revealed
After the bye, Penn State hits the road again, this time heading to Wisconsin. The new-look Badgers are 4-2 and coming off a 42-7 win over Rutgers this past weekend. They’ll play Northwestern in Evanston before the showdown with the Nittany Lions on October 26. This week, we learned that the game, which will be telecast on NBC, is a night game, slated for 7:30 EST.
We’ll have complete game week coverage of the leadup to the game most fans circle as a “trap game” next week.
