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Mike Yurcich intrigued Penn State last year, and now he’s Nittany Lions’ new OC


STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — James Franklin’s running list of offensive coordinator candidates included Mike Yurcich for at least the past two offseasons.

Now, Yurcich is officially part of the Penn State staff, replacing Kirk Ciarrocca as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach on Friday.

“I told him the time before when he called me about Yurcich, I told him that’s who he needed to hire and he didn’t do it,” Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy told The Athletic on Friday. “… I haven’t gotten around to calling James and giving him a hard time yet because I said, ‘You just need to hire this guy. He’s from up there, he’ll be a really good coach.’ But anyway, I was just teasing him. We all gotta do what we gotta do.”

Yurcich was Gundy’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Oklahoma State from 2013-2018. It was Gundy who made the surprising and unorthodox hire of…





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