Tapping into Knowles’ brilliance could be the difference between a top-10 unit and one that pushes Penn State to be the ...

Early Monday morning, Virginia Tech announced the hiring of offensive coordinator Phillip Montgomery. The former Tulsa head coach was pipped away from the UFL c ...

Montgomery was hired less than two weeks after former offensive coordinator Tyler Bowen left to become Ohio State’s offensive ...

It’s early in the college football offseason, but Penn State football’s 2025 foundation is already being set. Hiring defensive coordinator Jim Knowles from national champion Ohio St certainly is ...

In Audrey Snyder's latest for The Athletic, she revealed that Penn State had its eyes on Knowles since maybe even before he left Oklahoma State for Columbus. Franklin had him as a potential candidate ...

Franklin had talked to Knowles in December 2021 shortly after defensive coordinator Brent Pry, one of his longtime assistants ...

Virginia Tech head coach Brent Pry believes Sam Siefkes can transform the Hokies defense. Known for his aggressive and adaptable schemes, Siefkes challenges offenses with multiple looks that are ...

Virginia Tech hired a new defensive coordinator this offseason, tapping Arizona Cardinals linebackers coach Sam Siefkes to run the defense. First and foremost, there’s one quality that stands out ...

Knowles is Franklin’s fifth defensive coordinator at Penn State, joining Allen, Manny Diaz, Brent Pry and Bob Shoop ... and that places your defense at a disadvantage. He hasn’t structured ...

While in Happy Valley, he was on staffs with Brent Pry, the Nittany Lions’ defensive coordinator who left Penn State for Virginia Tech in 2022. When he took over as the Hokies’ coach ...

Only six of the 22 starters from the regular-season finale against Virginia, three on each side of the ball, are expected to ...