Penn State’s coaching search has gone from silent to seismic in Week 5, and the newest tremor has a name everyone knows. Kalen DeBoer. For a month, the Nittany Lions ran the quietest search in America and now suddenly, the volume is impossible to ignore. And the next layer of this story only gets louder .

Centre Daily Times’ Jon Sauber dropped a grenade on November 21. His report says Kalen DeBoer isn’t merely an option. He’s the primary target. The list had the usual respectable names like Marcus Freeman , Bob Chesney , Brent Key . But none of them shook the fan base like the Alabama head coach sitting at No. 2. Why second on the list but first in PSU’s heart? There’s a twist there.

Sauber’s explanation is blunt. Kalen DeBoer is the preferred candidate, but ranked

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