Rich Scarcella joined the Reading Eagle staff in 1986. He's covered Penn State football since 1989. He also covers high school baseball, golf, volleyball and bowling and college basketball. He previously worked at the Standard-Speaker in Hazleton, where he was raised.
When James Franklin began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Kutztown University in 1995, college football – and athletics in general – looked very different. Players who chose...