Nov. 13—Drew Allar’s relationship with Mike Yurcich goes back to when he was a high school junior at Medina High School in Ohio.
Yurcich, who was then the offensive coordinator at Texas, was the first assistant from a Power Five school to recruit Allar.
So when Penn State football coach James Franklin fired Yurcich as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Sunday, the obvious question was: Will Allar stay with the Nittany Lions?
“I had really good conversations with them (Allar and backup Beau Pribula),” Franklin said Monday. “I had really good conversations with their families. I feel good about that.”
Allar, a former five-star prospect, has completed 61.6% of his passes for 1,965 yards and 21 touchdowns with one interception in his first season as the starter. But in Penn State’s two losses to Ohio State and Michigan, he went 28-for-64 for 261 yards and two TDs, including 10-for-22 for a season-low 70 yards against the Wolverines.
Pribula has completed 7-of-17 passes for 81 yards and two scores and has rushed for 240 yards and four TDs.
Graduate assistant coach Danny O’Brien, who played quarterback at Maryland when Franklin was the offensive coordinator there, will lead the position group for the rest of the season.
“I’m going to make sure that I’m in every single one of the quarterback meetings with Danny,” Franklin said. “It allows us to get somebody else on the headsets as well in terms of bumping somebody up into that full-time role. We’ll probably make that decision today.”
Running backs coach Ja’Juan Seider and tight ends coach Ty Howle, who both have had the title of co-offensive coordinator, will share play-calling duties the rest of the season.
Seider, a former quarterback at West Virginia and Florida A&M, has been on the Penn State staff since 2018. Howle, a former Penn State offensive lineman, is in his…
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Publish date : 2023-11-14 04:49:00
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