Sports Illustrated Includes Brian Kelly In List Of Candidates For The Penn State Job

With Penn State firing James Franklin on Sunday, many have begun compiling lists of candidates to land the job in Happy Valley.

One of those potential candidates, according to Bryan Fischer of Sports Illustrated, could be LSU coach Brian Kelly...

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Brian Kelly, LSU head coach

LSU coach Brian Kelly could be a better cultural fit with the Nittany Lions than he is at LSU.

There’s a case to be made that Kelly and Franklin were the two most successful head coaches not to have won a national title and that going from one to the other will only produce the same results in State College, Pa. But Kelly is a serial winner and seems like a much better cultural fit at Penn State than LSU. A change of scenery on the coach’s end and a big name on the school’s end could be a win all around.

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Here's all the canidates SI listed for the Penn State job:

Matt Rhule, Nebraska head coach
Curt Cignetti, Indiana head coach
Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss head coach
Brian Kelly, LSU head coach
Matt Campbell, Iowa State head coach
Manny Diaz, Duke head coach
Dan Mullen, UNLV head coach
Mike Tomlin, Steelers head coach