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Penn State AD Hopes to Have Coach Soon

DALLAS — Penn State’s search to replace fired coach Joe Paterno could be wrapped up in the next few weeks.

Act­ing ath­letic direc­tor David Joyner said Thurs­day he’d like the next coach to have time to inter­act with recruits before high school seniors can announce their col­lege choices start­ing Feb­ru­ary 1.

A four-day con­tact period for coaches begins Wednes­day– two days after the 24th-ranked Nit­tany Lions face No. 20 Hous­ton in the Tick­etC­ity Bowl in Dal­las. Another 16-day con­tact win­dow starts Jan. 13.

“I’d like to get this fin­ished so that who­ever the head coach is, be it (interim coach Tom) Bradley or some­body else, has enough time to really inter­act with recruits and to do the best they can do,” Joyner said before a team din­ner in Dallas.

“There’s a three-week open period (before national sign­ing day). That would be nice. I’m not going to let that dic­tate if there are a cou­ple days one way or the other. But I think it would be very good for recruits.”

Bradley took over Nov. 9 after Paterno was fired in the after­math of child sex abuse charges against retired defen­sive coor­di­na­tor Jerry Sandusky.

Paterno, who tes­ti­fied before a grand jury inves­ti­gat­ing San­dusky, is not a tar­get of the probe, the state attor­ney general’s office has said. San­dusky is await­ing trial after plead­ing not guilty.

Joyner said the search is down to a “hand­ful of peo­ple” though inter­views were not over. He also said the school was still being con­tacted by poten­tial applicants.

Joyner didn’t name poten­tial can­di­dates, nor did he reveal how many peo­ple have interviewed.

“No, I have not made a final deci­sion yet. I haven’t cho­sen to do that because we’re eval­u­at­ing them and I’m still look­ing at can­di­dates right now,” Joyner said.

Bradley and defen­sive line coach Larry John­son are among those who have had interviews.

Among other rumored names, Ten­nessee Titans coach Mike Mun­chak on Wednes­day denied he was inter­ested in the job at his alma mater for the third time since his for­mer coach Paterno was fired.

“They have not con­tacted me in any way or talked to me about the pos­si­bil­ity of work­ing there,” the first-year Titans coach said. “I have not reached out to them. I have a job that I enjoy quite a bit.”

Also, Green Bay quar­ter­backs coach Tom Clements declined com­ment last week on whether he was inter­ested in the job and would not con­firm a report that he had interviewed.

Joyner and school pres­i­dent Rod­ney Erick­son had ini­tially indi­cated they had hoped to have Paterno’s replace­ment selected by the bowl game.

Paterno won a Divi­sion I record 409 vic­to­ries in a head coach­ing career that began in 1966– 16 sea­sons after start­ing at Penn State as an assis­tant. He is recov­er­ing from a bro­ken pelvis while also being treated for lung cancer.

“We’re being pur­pose­ful and delib­er­ate,” Joyner said. “This is the first coach­ing search with foot­ball that maybe we’ve ever done. I’m not sure how things worked in 1950 and 1966, but I imag­ine it was a lot dif­fer­ent than we’re doing now.”

Also Thurs­day, backup quar­ter­back Rob Bolden worked with the starters again with first-stringer Matt McGloin still being held out of prac­tice. He hasn’t taken the field since suf­fer­ing a con­cus­sion and seizure Dec. 17 fol­low­ing a locker room alter­ca­tion with receiver Cur­tis Drake.

Bolden began the sea­son shar­ing time with McGloin, but hasn’t started since Oct. 15.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that I can go out there and do what I need to do,” Bolden said.

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