After being teased as a new addition to the football staff over the weekend, the news is finally official. Former Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley has joined the football program's coaching staff to serve as the team's assistant quarterbacks coach for head coach James Franklin and quarterbacks coach Danny O'Brien.

McSorley, 29, has joined the football program as an offensive analyst, according to the university staff directory. He will work under head coach James Franklin and alongside quarterbacks coach Danny O'Brien and coordinator Andy Kotelnicki in helping Penn State's offense.

Days after Pat Kraft, who enters his third year as the Penn State Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics, made headlines over the weekend when he suggested at THON that Trace McSorley, who served as the event’s pep rally emcee,

The Penn State of the last 10 years—a consistently successful program good for 10 wins and participation in a game around New Year's Day—is as much a Trace McSorely construction as a James Franklin construction.

Penn State football made its most important hire of the offseason official on Tuesday afternoon, as it announced that Trace FREAKING McSorley was joining the football staff as an offensive analyst and assistant quarterbacks coach.