ALTOONA -- Penn State wide receiver Saeed Blacknall and linebacker Manny Bowen stayed in California with their teammates for last year's Rose Bowl, but they didn't participate.
While both players were suspended from the game for a violation of team rules, they still remained on the trip. On Thursday, during the Penn State Coaches Caravan's stop in Altoona, head coach James Franklin talked about the decision to let Blacknall and Bowen travel with the team and his overall philosophy on disciplining players.
"I think that's one of the things coaches struggle with, I think businesses struggle with, universities struggle with, is that when they make decisions, people on the outside judge those decisions," Franklin said, "but they have very little of the information, in my opinion, to make that judgement with.