It was two years ago that James Franklin took over as the head coach at Penn State, and like any hiring, his arrival in Happy Valley was met with no shortage of questions.
How would the former Vanderbilt coach transition from SEC underdog to traditional Big Ten power? For how long would the unprecedented sanctions of the Jerry Sandusky scandal affect his tenure? And would Franklin ultimately be able to return the Nittany Lions to national prominence in a Big Ten that seemed to be on the verge of an upswing?
But only one question about the state of the Penn State program seems to persist as Franklin enters his third offseason in State College: Will the Nittany Lions head coach make it to a fourth?