Uncertainty has permeated the air inside the Lasch Building for the last two weeks.

The folks who work there don’t know where they will be in a month or two or if Penn State’s next head football coach will employ them.

When a college or pro head coach is fired, like James Franklin was on Oct. 12, it affects hundreds of people in and around a team.

Most coaches understand that it comes with the territory and accept it. Others don’t. For all of them and their families, it stings.

“The one thing that we all have very much in common now is the uncertainty of the future,” offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki said. “The future’s always uncertain. We all know that. When something like this happens, the uncertainty is magnified.”

Amid all of the unknown, the Nittany Lions are preparing to fa

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