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the coach of the Texans, and John Donovan, who I think at the time was the recruiting coordinator. And then I was coaching the receivers. So, yeah, it was a great staff. I think that's the type of staff that we have now where you're able to sit in that room and you're able to have really good dialogue and people are bringing really good input and suggestions and comments. That's what you're trying to do. You're trying to surround yourself with as many good people and coaches as you possibly can that have ideas. That's what that room was like. I mean, you look at it, our first three years (2001-03) there, I think we won 31 games. We had a lot of success. So you know, that's a treat. I actually stay in touch with most of those guys. You and the team look at this as one day at a time, but the students are so excited, looking at the whole big pic- ture of the bowl games. It seems like overnight Penn State, the pride, the image, everything's back. Can you comment on that? I actually believe that's always been there. That's one of the things that I said early on in my time at Penn State, because I had spent very little time here to be honest with you. But I have worked at nine different institutions, and that's the thing that really jumps out to me. The pride in Penn State is unbelievable, the pride on this campus, the pride in the community. Even when you're somewhere else, you're in another community, you're in another airport, and you are wearing something with Penn State on it, and they scream out "We are!" And you scream back, "Penn State!" It's a really special thing and I think it's one of the things that differentiate us. When we have the largest active alumni base in the country, it's special. I think [Monday night's celebrations were] an opportunity for maybe that pride to explode and that excitement to explode because again I think it's part of the healing. It's part of us moving for- ward. Did you ever pay much attention to Rutgers when you were growing up? I know they kind of had a down pro- gram for a while. How have you seen that program kind of grow in the last decade to 15 years as they become a little more prominent? I think I mentioned this to you guys before. I wasn't really a watch-sports and watch-college-sports, specifically, guy. I was running around, playing sports – baseball, basketball, football – all day long. Kick the can – whatever games we were playing outside with our buddies all day long. I probably should have been studying a little bit more, probably should have been studying a little bit more. But I wasn't a guy staying in a house watching sports and watching college sports. I think obviously everybody in the coun- try noticed, as well as I did profession- ally, when they were able to really make a move and start to have more success. That was apparent, I think, to anybody that follows college football. I did notice that and did see that and am aware of that. S E P T E M B E R 1 0 , 2 0 1 4 B L U E W H I T E O N L I N E . C O M 14 FRANKLIN CONTINUED FROM 13 Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Hey Sports Fans ...Get 15% Off your hotel stay! 15% discount lioncountrylodging.com When travelling ...think of us in Carlisle! Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Hey Spor Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê ts Fans ...Get Hey Spor Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê ts Fans ...Get 15% Off your hotel stay! Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê your hotel stay! Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê your hotel stay! Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê 15% discount Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount 15% discount Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê When travelling ...think of us in Carlisle! Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê When travelling ...think of us in Carlisle! Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê When travelling ...think of us in Carlisle! lioncountr lioncountr lioncountr lioncountr lioncountr lioncountr lioncountr Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê When travelling ...think of us in Carlisle! lioncountr lioncountr lioncountr lioncountrylodging.com ylodging.com ylodging.com ylodging.com ylodging.com ylodging.com ylodging.com ylodging.com ylodging.com ylodging.com ylodging.com ylodging.com lioncountr Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê When travelling ...think of us in Carlisle! Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê When travelling ...think of us in Carlisle! Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê When travelling ...think of us in Carlisle! Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê When travelling ...think of us in Carlisle! Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê

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