T
he 2010s were a decade of drastic
change for the Penn State football
program. We knew that going in. Every-
one was well aware when the decade
began that the Paterno era was nearing
its end. But the orderly transition that
had been widely expected never hap-
pened, and rather than handing the pro-
gram o< to a designated in-house
successor, the university made a clean
break.
Two years later, the man who'd been
chosen to succeed Joe Paterno, New
England Patriots o
