Penn State head football coach James Franklin plans to isolate from the rest of his family during the 2020 season in order to protect his youngest daughter's health amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Per ESPN's Andrea Adelson, Franklin's daughter has sickle cell disease, which the Center for Disease Control and Prevention describes as a "group of inherited red blood cell disorders."
Franklin made his comments on HBO's Real Sports in an episode that aired Tuesday, per Adelson.
"There was a lot of tears," he said. "There was a lot of emotion having this conversation with my daughters.