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Penn State Nittany Lions athletic director Pat Kraft made the decision to hire head football coach James Franklin, and he told reporters on Monday that it wasn’t just the three-game losing streak that led to the decision.

Franklin’s departure is a shock to college football , as the leader in the locker room since 2014 parts ways with the Nittany Lions, who will have a whopping $50 million buyout to pay him.

Kraft said he was "looking at everything" after Penn State’s loss to Northwestern, 22-21, on Saturday.

"I felt after sitting down Saturday and looking at everything, at where we were in terms of the best interest of the athletes and where the program was going that we had to make the hard decision," Kraft told reporte

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