O F F - S E A S O N R E P O R T
LONG-DISTANCE
DEDICATION
Penn State's offensive line may be scattered, but players are determined
to adapt to a new position coach and continue moving forward
F
rom a distance, it might seem like an imperfect
storm, an unfortunate con9uence of good
moves and bad timing.
The Penn State football team had hired a new of-
fensive coordinator and a new o:ensive line coach a
few months earlier, and the change in leadership
meant that Michal Menet, Will Fries and their fellow
linemen were going to have to adapt to a di:erent
way of doing business this spring. Even with James
Franklin hailing the new coaches as savvy tacticians
who understood that it would be better to build on
what had come before rather than trying to replace it
wholesale, there were going to be a few transitional
di;culties. There always are.
And then came the shutdown. When Penn State's
football program went dark along with the rest of the
sports world due to the COVID-19 crisis, those tran-
sitional di;culties suddenly began to look a whole
lot more daunting than they had seemed just a few
months earlier. That's how they looked to outsiders,
at any rate. Not to Menet.
"It's really not that bad," said the 8
