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The non-news news of the week in Penn State football land as we creep toward the (final?) Blue-White Game was James Franklin expressing pleasure that the program now has the “alignment” he’s been asking for his entire Nittany Lion tenure.
It’s non-news because, well, in local circles, Franklin has been saying this for a couple of years now, praising AD Pat Kraft and university president Neeli Bendapudi at several public turns for helping bring about this ever-elusive alignment, the definition of which we’ll get to in a second. For national guys, in this case Andy Staples and Ari Wasserman of On3, hearing this stuff for the first time is worth noting and thus, news.
Because, truly, both outside State College, where Penn State finally inched its way into legitimate playoff contending status last season, and inside of it, where every move and utterance Franklin has made since 2014 is dissected and debated, what alignment means for the coach and the program could be a fairly big deal.
