Welcome back into the Lyme 647 podcast.

I am Tyler Donnie.

We've got another episode for you and it is centering on Penn State's new leader, Matt Campbell.

We were back in Beaver Stadium in the media room there on Monday afternoon.

Got a chance to hear from not just Matt Campbell, but Penn State leadership

as well, the president of the university, the athletics director. We will break down what we

took away from that opportunity. Mark Brennan, Daniel Gallen will join me in just a bit here on

this episode and we'll work our way through a lot of stuff that we heard, some of the things that

we asked of Matt Campbell and ultimately where things are now moving from a leadership standpoint, from a roster and staff standpoint,

as a new era of Penn State and the Lions football begins. If you missed it, we came to you

with an emergency podcast on Saturday. We'll call it emergency. We didn't scramble and get

together on Friday evening for you, but we did gather on Saturday, We'll call it emergency. We didn't scramble and get together on Friday evening

for you, but we did gather on Saturday, Mark, Daniel, myself, spent more than an hour reviewing

the twists and turns of Penn State's coach search that led to Matt Campbell, gave you our initial

reaction to the longtime Iowa state leader coming to Happy Valley about Terry Smith remaining on the staff. That's another

topic we'll get into here on this episode. And at that point, we also knew where Penn State was

heading for a bowl, the pinstrait bowl. We now know their opponent for that game. And we'll talk

about that a little bit later in the episode as well. But before Mark and Daniel come back on board

for this episode, I want to turn our attention

back toward Ames. That's where Matt Campbell spent the last decade of his career and really

evolved into a tantalizing coaching candidate for a lot of different programs and even some NFL

franchises over the years. Penn State is ultimately the opportunity that he makes his leap for, but to get

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