Penn State star quarterback touts culture-changing new head coach

A caller epoch has started successful the Penn State Nittany Lions shot program.

The schoolhouse hired Matt Campbell arsenic its caller caput manager aft helium spent 10 years with the Iowa State Cyclones, turning them from a 3-9 squad to a schoolhouse that made 7 vessel appearances aft going 4 years without making one.

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Penn State Nittany Lions caput manager Matt Campbell looks connected from the tract during the Penn State Blue-White Spring crippled astatine Beaver Stadium successful University Park, Pa., connected April 25, 2026. (Matthew O'Haren/Imagn Images)

Penn State backmost Rocco Becht, who transferred to Penn State from Iowa State, talked Wednesday astir however Campbell volition beryllium capable to alteration the civilization wrong the program.

"He wants to physique a player-led program," helium told ESPN. "When you’re not each aligned with the aforesaid goals and expectations, you’re not going to triumph those large games. … Last year, it wasn’t truly player-led and the civilization conscionable wasn’t ever there.

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Penn State backmost Rocco Becht reacts during the Blue-White Spring crippled astatine Beaver Stadium successful University Park, Pa., connected April 25, 2026. (Matthew O'Haren/Imagn Images)

"Right now, wherever we are, everyone is wholly bought in."

Campbell is taking implicit for James Franklin, who was with Penn State for 12 years earlier helium was fired successful the mediate of the 2025 play arsenic the squad mislaid 3 games successful a row, including an upset nonaccomplishment to unranked UCLA erstwhile the squad was ranked seventh successful the nation.

Terry Smith took implicit for Franklin and helped salvage the play with a Pinstripe Bowl triumph implicit Clemson.

Now, with a caller caput coach, caller backmost and a 12-team College Football Playoff, the excuses for the Nittany Lions to not marque it to the postseason are moving out.

Penn State made the College Football Playoff successful 2024, but mislaid to Notre Dame successful the semifinals. It was the team’s lone CFP appearance.

Penn State Nittany Lions caput manager Matt Campbell answers questions from the media pursuing the Blue-White Spring crippled astatine Beaver Stadium successful University Park, Pa., connected April 25, 2026. (Matthew O'Haren/Imagn Images)

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The squad past won a nationalist rubric successful 1986.