Will Ohio State Football Coach Brian Hartline Take the Penn State Head Coach Job?
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Menace 2 Sports with Zach Smith
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
🔥 Will Brian Hartline Take the Penn State Head Coach Job? 🔥
The coaching carousel continues to spin, and now one of the hottest names in the mix is Brian Hartline — currently the offensive coordinator for the Ohio State Buckeyes. With Penn State searching for a new leader after parting ways with James Franklin, could Hartline be the next man to take over the Nittany Lions?
In this video, we break down:
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Why Brian Hartline is emerging as a surprising yet credible candidate for the Penn State job.
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His coaching credentials: elite recruiter, top-tier WR coach, and now OC at Ohio State.
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The pros and cons of Penn State hiring him — strength in youth and innovation vs. lack of head-coaching experience.
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What this means for Ohio State if they lose Hartline and for Penn State's future trajectory.
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Fan and media reaction to the possibility: Is this the splash hire Penn State needs — or too much of a gamble?
Whether you're a Penn State supporter, Ohio State fan, or just love watching major college football coaching moves, this is your must-watch breakdown of what could be one of the biggest hires of the 2025 cycle.
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| 1:43.6 | You deserve that straight for shit. We're not on YouTube. We're going to do a little different this week. Just have a little fun. But huge rumors are swirling about Brian Hartline and Penn State. A little bit of momentum for Hartline. Did he fly to Penn State on the by weekend? |
| 2:17.5 | Yeah, I like flight tracking season. It's like one of those like weird things that kind of goes on and like people get really obsessive and honestly like message boards. Oh yeah. Like this like this is a message board dream right now, all the coaching chaos. And there's more chaos than I think they're, I'm used to seeing. I don't know how it would be you feel, but more chaos than I'm used to seeing. So no, man, hard to Penn State is getting a lot of chatter. And I can't wait to kind of dissect it because I think there's like two sides of it. And I have some serious questions about like, if that's what Penn State's doing, does that mean they strike out on everybody or is that a guy that's near the top of their wish list? And that's the $1 million question. |
| 2:18.8 | Yeah, it's, it's, we're going to have a deep discussion about it. |
| 2:22.0 | But it's either Penn State can't get their top four candidates and heartlines kind of that next category of candidate or they want to kind of go down the trend of college football, of hiring hot names, |
| 2:35.4 | coordinators, the Urban Myers of the world that, you know, no head coaching experience, |
| 2:40.8 | boom, Bowling Green hires them, which I know it's a little different. That's a Mac school, |
| 2:43.4 | but the Kirby Smarts, the Davosweenies, the Ryan Days, the Sharon Moores, like, it's |
| 2:48.6 | becoming more of a thing in college football, and kind of the trend. It's just a huge risk is like what kind of scares people away from it, I think. It is because the guy's never been a head coach and I get it. But if you're Penn State, how many head, I mean, they just did the established head coach thing. It might be time to try out the hot coordinator name thing. Yeah. And I think Brian Hartline is one of the hottest names in college football. You just look at what he's done in recruiting. And it's like, well, damn, Penn State certainly will be able to recruit. So it would be interesting discussion. If you're on Twitter, we're going to read some comments off of Twitter. If you quote tweet it and help spread the show. And if you're on Twitch, send those in. Pat told me he can get any of those comments on. So we're going to try it out. A little different, different vibe, different flavor of menace's sports. 460 people are watching. Hit that retweet button. I will do the same. |
| 3:41.4 | Let's get it going. |
| 3:43.3 | Lukey, let them know what time it is, Bubba. |
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