(WHTM) — Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics Dr. Patrick Kraft and interim football head coach Terry Smith will make their first public comments this afternoon after James Franklin was fired on Sunday.

Kraft will now be tasked with a potentially legacy-defining decision on who will be Penn State's next head football coach. At the same time, Smith faces the inenviable task of rallying a program that went from championship hopes to a .500 record.

“Penn State owes an enormous amount of gratitude to Coach Franklin, who rebuilt our football program into a national power,” said Kraft in a statement on Sunday. “He won a Big Ten Championship, led us to seven New Year’s Six bowl games and a College Football Playoff appearance last year. However, we hold our athletics programs to the highe

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