Penn State interim coach Tom Bradley may get a chance to make his pitch to take the job permanently sometime next week.

Acting athletic director David Joyner doesn’t think fired coach Joe Paterno’s replacement has to have head-coaching experience. Nor does Joyner view previous ties to the university as a negative.

A month after the school descended into turmoil following child sex-abuse charges against a retired assistant coach, Penn State is moving forward with the arduous task of rebuilding the proud program.

Whether that long-term future includes Bradley remains in question, though the longtime defensive coordinator is at least expected to lead the 24th-ranked Nittany Lions (9-3) when they play No. 20 Houston (12-1) in the TicketCity Bowl on Jan. 2 in Dallas.

“Tom and I are talking about that now. We’re going to work it out on his schedule,” Joyner said Thursday evening in Dallas, where he and Bradley formally accepted the invite to the game played at the Cotton Bowl. “He’s got a lot of things he’s got to pay attention to right now.”

Bradley said he thought that meeting would come next week. Regardless of who is on Joyner’s interview list — and Joyner said he did not have a list of finalists — the next coach will have a myriad of issues to navigate over for months to come.

Bradley took over Nov. 9 after school trustees fired Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno amid mounting pressure that school leaders should have done more to prevent allegations of abuse by ex-assistant Jerry Sandusky.

Sandusky faces more than 50 charges and has maintained his innocence. Paterno is not a target of the investigation.

But the scandal’s ramifications are wide ranging, including several other probes or inquiries into the school and program.

The latest comes from the Big Ten, which said it will conduct its own review and reserved the right to hand down sanctions pending its findings. The 12-member league also planned an immediate review of institutional control of athletics at its schools, including the possibility of a common set of “stress tests” to ensure accountability and oversight.