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O F F - S E A S O N R E P O R T J A N . 1 5 N E W S L E T T E R LOOKING AHEAD NEWSLETTER UPDATE The 2013 football season is in the rearview mirror and spring practice will be here before we know it. Until then (and throughout), Blue White Illustrated will distrubute at least one digital newsletter to our subscribers each month. Expect to see a newsletter in your email inbox at the dates listed below. And remember, all newsletters and magazines are archived at bluewhiteonline.com. At his introductory news conference Franklin said, "We're going to build this program for the long haul." • FEB. 5 • MARCH 5 • MARCH 19 • APRIL 9 • APRIL 12 Patrick Mansell Next man up With James Franklin at the helm, the Nittany Lions find a natural fit for head coach M AT T   H E R B Long before Penn State wanted James Franklin, James Franklin wanted Penn State. Franklin had grown up in the Philadelphia suburb of Langhorne, Pa., and attended Neshaminy High. Before entering the 11th grade, he visited Penn State's summer football camp in the hope of impressing Jim Caldwell, who was coaching the Nittany Lions' quarJ A N U A R Y | MATT@BLUEWHITEONLINE.COM terbacks at the time. "I thought I was good enough to play at Penn State, Franklin said. "I was not. " " He was good enough to play at East Stroudsburg, however, and the decision to attend the little Division II school in the Poconos put him on a path that would eventually make him one of the most sought-after people in college football. 1 5 , 2 0 1 3 1 Franklin fell in love with coaching after taking a grad assistant job at Kutztown University. Once he started climbing the career ladder, he never stopped. East Stroudsburg… James Madison… Washington State… Idaho State… Maryland… Kansas State… Maryland again. Franklin even spent a season with the Green Bay Packers. Onward and upward – that was the trajectory, and it contin- B L U E W H I T E O N L I N E . C O M

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