INDIANAPOLIS -- After agreeing to a 10-year contract in November, Penn State coach James Franklin thinks the university is positioned to compete for championships.
Franklin praised the hiring of athletic director Pat Kraft, a former football player at Indiana, and university president Neeli Bendapudi from Louisville. He noted that Penn State had both an interim athletic director and interim president when he took the coaching job in January 2014, when the university was still reeling from the child sexual abuse scandal involving former football assistant Jerry Sandusky.
"For the first time, the alignment is the way it should be," Franklin told ESPN.