Particular groups coordinator Joe Lorig leaves Penn State for Oregon

Penn State head coach James Franklin is now formally trying to find a brand new particular groups coordinator. Joe Lorig is returning nearer to his house to tackle the position of particular groups coordinator and nickels coach for the Oregon Geese.

Lorig, a local of Washington and a graduate of West Oregon College, shall be returning to a job that’s a lot nearer to house, which is a part of the draw of the Oregon job for Lorig.

“Rising up within the Pacific Northwest and attending school within the state, the College of Oregon has all the time been my dream job,” Lorig mentioned in a launched assertion by way of Oregon’s athletics division. Lorig can be reunited with Orgeon head coach Dan Lanning. Each coached collectively at Memphis.

“There’s plenty of issues that issue into this, as you guys may think about, some skilled and a few private,” Franklin mentioned in his postgame feedback after the Outback Bowl when requested about the potential for Lorig being pursued by Oregon. “I believe you guys know I’ve been fairly adamant prior to now about the kind of strikes, lateral strikes, however there’s additionally some components in terms of the place guys are from. Each Joe and his spouse are from there, in order that components into this factor as effectively.”

That is the second employees member Franklin has misplaced this week for what might be perceived as a lateral transfer so far as positions go. Penn State’s director of soccer operations Michael Hazel, who had been a longtime employees member with Franklin relationship again to their time collectively at Vanderbilt, left the Nittany Lions to hitch former defensive coordinator Brent Pry at Virginia Tech, the place Pry is now the pinnacle coach.

The departure of Lorig means Penn State has a gap for particular groups coordinator. Lorig additionally coached the skin linebackers in order that position is at the moment vacant as effectively in the intervening time. Nevertheless, the addition of Manny Diaz as defensive coordinator is plugging a gap at defensive coordinator and Diaz or some slight reshuffling of duties on the remaining employees may fill the linebacker teaching place. However the position of particular objects coordinator may end in a recent rent from exterior the Penn State employees.

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