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Penn State adds another analyst to the football staff

Penn State adds special teams analyst to staff from Auburn

Penn State head coach [autotag]James Franklin[/autotag] had an analyst role to fill on his staff after seeing Ken Whisenhunt move on to a similar role with Alabama this week. It appears that the vacancy has been filled. Eric Sachse, a former Boise State kicker who most recently was serving as an analyst with Auburn, was confirmed to be the latest addition to the support staff for the football program.

Sachse will be the second special teams analyst for Penn State to help assist special teams coordinator Stacy Collins, who also has a previous stop at Boise State in his coaching career. Collins and Sachse did not overlap their time with the Boise State program, however. Penn State’s other special teams analyst is Eric Raisbeck.

Sachse spent one season at Boise State after four years at a Division 3 school, Trinity College. At Boise State, Sachse converted 14 of 17 field goal attempts and connected on 61 of his 62 extra point attempts for the Broncos in 2019.

Other analysts on Penn State’s support staff include [autotag]Deion Barnes[/autotag], [autotag]Dan Connor[/autotag], [autotag]Gabe Infante[/autotag], [autotag]Calvin Lowry[/autotag], [autotag]Frank Leonard[/autotag], [autotag]Rick Lyster[/autotag], [autotag]Danny O’Brien[/autotag], [autotag]Danny Rocco[/autotag], and [autotag]Charles Walker[/autotag].

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Delaware Head Coach Danny Rocco on Greg Schiano: ‘The Perfect Guy for That Job’

Danny Rocco, head coach of Delaware, praises the job being done by Rutgers football head coach Greg Schiano.

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Delaware head coach Danny Rocco acknowledged the tall mountain his team will need to climb this Saturday at Rutgers. He also had high praise for Scarlet Knights head coach Greg Schiano in the second season of his return back to the Rutgers football program.

Schiano has guided Rutgers to a 2-0 start the season, beating Temple in their home opener and then grinding out a 17-7 win at Syracuse this past Saturday.

Last year in his return to Rutgers, Schiano surprised many in the college football world with a 3-6 record, all in Big Ten play.

Rocco called Schiano “the perfect guy for that job.”

“I would say you talk about that perfect guy for the job, that mindset. I think in a lot of ways, Greg is that,” Rocco told reporters on Monday in his weekly media availability.

“He’s been there before. He has got background, history, relationships, knowledge, and obviously a great resume and experience. So all those things are kind of thrust into a second cycle where things probably were going to happen a little more quickly than if he was new to the area and maybe new to the job and the university. Recruiting wise, his connections with his staff, their connections to him, their connections to the state of New Jersey, the region, and things like that. Now the challenge for them is how quickly can they climb?”

Delaware, despite being in the FCS, is certainly no slouch of a program. Rocco is one of the best head coaches in the region and has his team among the best in the FCS last season. Last season, Rocco was named the AFCA Regional Coach of the Year.

Currently, Delaware is 2-0 after beating St. Francis (PA) this past weekend. They went 5-0 in their regular season last year (played in the spring due to COVID-19), winning the Colonial Athletic Conference for the second time in program history and earning a berth in the FCS Playoffs.

In the postseason, they beat Sacred Heart and Jacksonville State before losing to South Dakota State in the semifinals.

Rocco said that Saturday’s game at a Big Ten opponent will be “business as usual…it’s not a week where I have to do a whole lot of motivating.”

“We’re certainly going to have to go up there and play our best game to feel like we can come out of there with the win,” Rocco said.

“Ultimately, that is the formula: go up there, be at your best, be really good in the biggest moments, the special situations – the third down, the red zone, the kicking game. These things have got to be really good for us. And then find a way to stay in it, keep it tight and find a way to be in at the end to be in a position to make plays to have a chance to win the football game.

“College football is a beautiful thing, I mean it is any given Saturday. You start all over every week, you really do. It’s something I love about the job.”