Penn State football coach James Franklin accomplished that goal with a big swing, moving to hire Jim Knowles, the defensive coordinator for national champion Ohio State. Though the hire won't be ...

Jim Knowles' Ohio State departure sent shockwaves across college football, but according to defensive line coach Larry Johnson, the story is much more significant.

Penn State pulled off a big move in the coaching world by hiring Jim Knowles away from national champion Ohio State to be its new defensive coordinator. A national championship-winning assistant ...

Naturally, head coaching hires dominate the conversation around the coaching carousel every year. Head coaches are, obviously ...

Penn State put together a compelling package for defensive coordinator Jim Knowles to leave Ohio State less than one week after winning a national championship. Thanks to reporting from CBS Sports ...

(AP) — Penn State has lured Jim Knowles away from Ohio State. The Nittany Lions hired Knowles on Monday to serve as their defensive coordinator. Knowles held the same position with the national ...

Ohio State has lost its defensive coordinator to a Big Ten rival. Penn State announced Monday it had hired Jim Knowles as its defensive coordinator. According to multiple reports, Knowles reached ...

Penn State’s athletic director Pat Kraft spoke on Monday and praised his new defensive coordinator. “For me, it was a no-brainer for Jim Knowles,” Kraft told reporters. After Tom Allen left ...

There’s plenty of buzz around Penn State heading into the 2025 season. With quarterback Drew Allar returning and a loaded backfield with Nick Singleton and Kay ...

it also will not return its defensive coordinator. Jim Knowles departed for Penn State just a few days after the team returned to Columbus from the national title game to become the highest-paid ...

Since then, Penn State has replaced defensive coordinator Tom Allen by hiring Jim Knowles away from Ohio State, hired Stan Drayton to replace running backs coach Ja’Juan Seider and paid for several ...

Penn State football fans who have followed ... Yet the Nittany Lions recently made defensive coordinator Jim Knowles the nation's highest-paid assistant, stamping their position in the financial ...