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Lions247: A Penn State athletics Podcast

Penn State hires Manny Diaz as its next defensive coordinator

Lions247: A Penn State athletics Podcast

247Sports, Penn State, Penn State Nittany Lions, Penn State Football, Penn State athletics, College

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4.8937 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Penn State made a splash on Saturday morning with the appointment of its successor to Brent Pry. Former Miami head coach Manny Diaz was announced as the Nittany Lions' new defensive coordinator. Sean Fitz and Tyler Donohue talk about the move and what to expect and 247Sports' Andrew Ivins brings his unique perspective from covering Diaz, the Hurricanes and his recruiting prowess for the last few years.

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0:00.0

All the big names are here.

0:02.0

Oh, who is that?

0:03.2

I think she was in the movie about that really big shark.

0:05.9

No, not her, the florist.

0:07.8

She's automating invoices on the go

0:09.7

so she can spend more time on that flower wall. Quickbooks to save you up to eight hours a week

0:15.2

so you could bring your vision to life.

0:17.1

That's how your business differently.

0:18.9

Into its QuickBooks.

0:20.9

Welcome back into the Lions 24-7 podcast where we promised you an episode once Penn State

0:25.7

figured things out with the defensive coordinator search. A solution arrived on Saturday in the form of

0:30.8

Manny Diaz, former head coach very recently of those Miami Hurricanes head

0:36.0

coach there dating back to 2019 at 21 and 15 record over a span of three seasons. He will replace Brent Pry as the defensive

0:44.5

coordinator as the linebacker's coach Anthony Poindexter since we last spoke,

0:49.2

confirmed to be sticking around with Penn State out and about with Jamie Franklin as

0:52.8

recently as Friday evening of recruiting on behalf of the Nittany line. So Sean

0:56.9

things are beginning to come together. We had a roller coaster ride of a

1:00.2

defensive coordinator search that spanned about an hour and a half or a week and a half I should say and

1:04.8

Fittingly we got the answer on it as you were out walking the dogs on a Saturday morning

1:09.4

That's how it happened all last year with these transfer things and actually when

1:14.4

Yersich got hired I was definitely out on a dog walk and because I had prepped a

1:18.9

story for Manny late in the week and it was it was just one of those things where I got time it's supposed to be

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