Seth Engle

The road toward next season officially began for Penn State football with the start of winter workouts on Tuesday. What is typically a seven-week program of early wakeups and conditioning drills has been shortened due to the Nittany Lions’ extensive run in the College Football Playoff. That makes these next few weeks crucial in getting…

Penn State has added one of its all-time greats to its coaching staff. Trace McSorley, who is No. 2 among Nittany Lion quarterbacks all time for career wins, completions, passing yards and passing touchdowns, has been hired as assistant quarterbacks coach, the program announced on Tuesday. McSorley now reunites with his college coach, James Franklin,…

Penn State added a key staff member to its recruiting department. Naz Oliver, who served as the head coach of New Jersey’s Malcolm X Shabazz High School over each of the past two seasons, has been hired as a recruiting coordinator with the Nittany Lions, he announced on Tuesday. “We ARE! Jersey/Tri-State Area let’s work!!!!”…

Stan Drayton was formally introduced as Penn State’s running backs coach on Monday, returning to position coaching after four years as Temple’s head coach. Drayton, one of the most accomplished running back developers of the past few decades, has filled the shoes of Ja’Juan Seider, who recently left the Nittany Lions for Notre Dame. In…

The modern landscape of college athletics will further distance itself from an amateurism model on April 7. That’s when the final approval hearing for the House v. NCAA settlement is scheduled, a legal battle set to pay out Big Ten and SEC programs $20.5 million annually in revenue sharing at its conclusion. Soon enough, college…

Matt McGloin is set to reunite with his Penn State coach in a return to football. After a year as a Lackawanna County commissioner, McGloin officially resigned from his political post on Monday and will join Bill O’Brien as an offensive analyst at Boston College, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported on Monday. McGloin played for the…

Penn State defensive end Abdul Carter will not work out at this week’s NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Monday. Carter, who has a chance to become the Nittany Lions’ first No. 1 overall selection since Courtney Brown in 2000, has not fully recovered from the shoulder injury he sustained in…

Stan Drayton originally wanted to be a lawyer. But Ken O’Keefe, then the head coach at Allegheny, and his offensive coordinator Joe Philbin, had other ideas. They laughed in Drayton’s face, assuring him his future lay in coaching. They brought him on board as an Allegheny assistant the year after Drayton graduated, and, 32 years…

The cancellation of spring games is sweeping the nation. On Wednesday, it was reported by Ryan Kartje of the Los Angeles Times that USC will join Ohio State and Nebraska in putting aside the traditional format of its annual spring showcase. It’s expected that other programs will follow suit, but Penn State remains in position…