YORK
James Franklin stood before a crowd of more than 200 on Monday afternoon, dressed in his trademark blue tie, and told them returning to 85 scholarships last season wasn’t the biggest difference-maker for his Nittany Lions.
It wasn’t the emergence of quarterback Trace McSorley. Or the way the front-seven came together, either.
“Probably the biggest difference, to be honest with you, was we owned our locker room for the first time,” he said during the first stop of the Penn State Coaches Caravan. “We had 100 percent buy-in to how we were doing things.
“And I know you’re probably saying, ‘Well, how come it wasn’t 100 percent buy-in the first two years?