Landing Knowles as defensive coordinator last week is probably the biggest hiring coup of head coach James Franklin's 11-year tenure in State College. Penn State is not only getting one of the top ...

STATE COLLEGE − James Franklin got the phone call at 5:40 a.m., two days after the national championship game. It was about Jim Knowles, Ohio State's multimillion-dollar defensive coordinator.

New information suggests Jim Knowles had been on James Franklin's radar for quite some time. In Audrey Snyder's latest for The Athletic, she revealed that Penn State had its eyes on Knowles since ...

Two weeks ago, Jim Knowles was basking in the afterglow of ... and national stages — and installed him as the head of coach James Franklin's defense. Knowles, a Philadelphia native who has ...

Penn State has hired Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles in the same role, Nittany Lions coach James Franklin announced Monday. Knowles heads to Penn State on a three-year deal with an ...

Prior to that Boston arguably had the better of what chances there were at the Jakemans Community Stadium, with Tom Donaghy saving well from Jimmy Knowles in the first half. After the break ...

Penn State wasted no time hiring Jim Knowles as defensive coordinator, coach James Franklin said Tuesday. The process unfolded “pretty quickly” due to past conversations with Knowles when the ...

Prior to that Boston arguably had the better of what chances there were with Tom Donaghy saving well from Jimmy Knowles in the first half. After the break, Donaghy parried a dangerous cross from ...

According to Knowles' new boss, Nittany Lion head coach James Franklin, the defensive coordinator planned to join his players and participate in the Scarlet and Gray's celebration. "I will say ...