Closer look at Penn State recruiting in post-Franklin era; breaking down Lions' Iowa matchup

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4.9 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Penn State football's next two recruiting classes have undergone major changes since the Sunday firing of head coach James Franklin. We break down what comes next in Nittany Lions' class-building efforts, then are joined by an Iowa insider for a closer look at PSU's matchup with the Hawkeyes. Enjoy complete Penn State coverage anytime at Lions247.com. Follow the team on X: @Lions247 @TDsTake @danieljtgallen @tyler_calvaruso @MarkXBrennan. Follow or subscribe to the Lions247 Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. And watch every episode on YouTube. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back into the Lions 24-7 podcast. I am Tyler Downinghew. We got another episode for you. We've been bringing them to you quite a bit in recent days. We had our post-game podcast on Saturday night after the Lost Northwestern. Of course, we had our emergency podcast on Sunday following the firing of James Franklin and then Mark Brennan joined the conversation
0:22.4	with us on Monday when we were fresh out of a press conference with both Athletics Director
0:26.4	Pat Kraft and interim head coach Terry Smith. There was a lot to take away from those interactions.
0:31.7	Obviously a lot to digest based on where Penn State has gone here in the last 50 hours or so.
0:36.6	And we have a lot for you waiting in that podcast from Monday if you missed it.
0:41.1	And certainly from Sunday, if you missed that one as well.
0:43.6	We're going to turn the page forward a little bit here.
0:45.8	Talk about this matchup at Iowa.
0:48.1	You've got Iowa City trip coming up on Saturday night.
0:51.7	It looks like it might be a rainy, ugly kind of weather matchup, which isn't all that
0:55.6	great for a first time starting quarterback and Ethan Grunkemeyer. But we're going to dive into a lot on
1:01.1	Iowa, what they have brought to the field. And we'll learn a little bit about what the Hawkeyes
1:05.4	perspective is on this Penn State team. You have to imagine they anticipated this would be a
1:09.6	major opportunity to beat
1:11.4	a projected national championship contender. And they're certainly getting a very much different
1:16.2	version of these nintney lions than they anticipated coming to town, sputtering to town
1:21.4	this Saturday. So stay tuned for that with David Icult, an insider for Iowa on our 24-7
1:27.0	sports network.
1:28.4	But as promised early in the week, we got to get to Penn State recruiting because a lot has happened.
1:33.0	A lot has happened since Sunday since James Franklin was removed from the head coach position.
1:38.0	Tyler Calvaruso has been all over it.
1:39.7	We've been doing our coverage in a different way in terms of tracking the Penn State coaching search and doing a lot of post-Franklin commentary over at lines 24-7 and along
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