To borrow a baseball metaphor, Penn State director of athletics Pat Kraft was in an 0-for-20 slump while swinging from his heels trying to blast a home run.

He missed on Mike Elko, Kalen DeBoer and Marcus Freeman during his bungled one-man search.

He pursued a coach, BYU’s Kalani Sitake, while underestimating his deep roots and way of life that kept him in Provo, Utah.

He passed on James Madison’s Bob Chesney, a Pennsylvania native who has literally won at every level of college football and who’s now headed to Big Ten brethren UCLA.

While other schools were hiring new coaches within two hours or less, Kraft took almost 60 days to find a new coach, which cost Penn State a recruiting class.

He finally got a hit with the late Friday night hiring of Iowa State’s Matt Campbell. It might t

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