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HAHAHAHA!
WOO!
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Oct 1, 2009 1:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
That is great!
DECHELLIS SMASH
"How many things do you do where you are involved with 110,000 other people on the same page? Unless you're in an English class cheating with 30 other guys."
by psu on Oct 1, 2009 1:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Uhh...
From the Post-Gazette:
“We are proud of what we have accomplished thus far and are focused on more goals ahead,” said DeChellis, who has an 84-103 record in six seasons at his alma mater.
by Cairo on Oct 1, 2009 3:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Never Underestimate Stupidity
This is Tim Curley’s world of Penn State nepotism, you just live in it.
Only Penn State basketball and its disillusioned following could characterize an NIT championship as reason to celebrate.
Hoorah, Hoorah, Penn State basketball under Ed DeChellis peaked with an NIT appearance.
Enjoy the ride down.
Will Joe Crispin be available in 2012? Does he have ties to the Curley family?
Who is currently coaching Penn State — Altoona? I’m sure he or she will be in consideration.
by NittanyBadger on Oct 1, 2009 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Two words: Cael Sanderson
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Oct 1, 2009 11:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
3 more NIT championships!
3 more NIT championships!
3 more NIT championships!
by jacum21 on Oct 1, 2009 6:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Honestly, consistency would actually be a good thing for this program
so while, it’d be cool for them to make the tourney, 3 NIT championships wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing.
by dawsonPSU10 on Oct 1, 2009 6:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Honestly, its been consistent
Consistently bad.
Let’s not make Penn State basketball out to be some revolving door of coaches.
DeChellis is entering year 7.
Dunn was there for 20 years, 9 as a head coach.
I’ll challenge anyone to identify any other program in the country with that level of “consistency” yet as poor results as the Penn State basketball program has produced.
You keep keepin’ on Penn State basketball.
by NittanyBadger on Oct 1, 2009 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It amazes me
That people don’t realize just how bad this program was when he inherited it. He didn’t even have an office he could take recruits to, so he had to take them to see the football team. It was a joke, and he has somewhat fixed it. This was not a 5 year turn-around, this was a 10 year job at the minimum. DEBBIE DOWNER.
by STU Boy on Oct 2, 2009 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
/agree
After what we had, the NIT championship was DEFINITELY something to celebrate, and look at the recruits we’re getting now. We seeeeeem to be on an upswing of sorts that can continue/improve.
by PSUisMyHeart on Oct 2, 2009 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
10 year job?
What planet do you live on where coaches get 10 years to turn around a program?
Don’t think of it as Debbie Downer but rather Ryan Realism.
Consider a name change from STU Boy to FAN Boy, because it is apparent that your blind loyalty supercedes any logic.
by NittanyBadger on Oct 2, 2009 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
No matter how long it would take, any coach that turns this program around is worth it. We’ve been perennially terrible. If there is a coach that could turn this program around to consistent good seasons, 10 years is a small price to pay. DeChellis just had an ALL TIME penn state record year for wins, won our first real post season tournament and is pulling in a solid recruiting class (possibly our best ever, I wouldn’t know, but I’ve heard that). Not only that, the culture of basketball at Penn State has changed. More people than ever care about it. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we set a Penn State best year round attendance record this year. Which helps tremendously with recruiting. You’re being far from realistic if you don’t see that we’re making progress. Why the hell would they make a coaching change in the middle of that. You almost sound like you don’t want Penn State basketball to turn around.
by PSUisMyHeart on Oct 3, 2009 2:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not proposing coaching change, but questioning the extension
I desperately want Penn State basketball to turn around. It’s why I have so much passion in my belief that DeChellis will never be the guy to lead Penn State to sustained competitiveness.
“Rioting” after the UNC victory and attending the Sweet 16 round in Atlanta in 2001 were some of the greatest Penn State sports moments of all-time. (it was hardly a “riot”, but that is of course how Centre Daily Times saw it)
Let’s face it winters in the midwest are long and fairly desolate on the sports landscape, anyone that doesn’t want Penn State basketball to succed is nuts.
I think extreme caution should be used when trumpeting “ALL TIME RECORD WINS IN A SEASON”. For starters, they achieved that record with a schedule that was so poor it was the laughing stock of every bubble team analysis, and may have prevented them from entering the tournament. (the real one, not the NIT, which suddenly everyone thinks so highly of)
DeChellis’ contract already covered the next two seasons, I simply don’t understand what the rush/reasoning was to extend it another 3 to cover the next 5 years. To reward success in the NIT? Well, as the saying you goes “you get what you reward”.
To reward DeChellis for his “progress” after 6 years? Does that warrant an extension? The fact that in 6 years Penn State basketball has stopped losing 85% of its conference games and now wins 50%? Shouldn’t the expectation be progress? Why reward progress that, at best, meets expectations after 6 years with 3 unnecessary contract years?
by NittanyBadger on Oct 3, 2009 9:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah I don't get the haters.
I have been attending PSU basketball games since I have been attending PSU football games. As bad as people want to laugh at our program right now for celebrating an NIT tourney title, either they are just spiteful people, unreasonable or do not understand exactly how awful things were at the tail end of Jerry Dunn/beginning of DeChellis.
Coach K, Bobby Knight and John Wooden combined couldn’t have won more than a half dozen games with the program how it was.
As was stated by people above me, the team had no offices, more of a closet. Had a decent arena that basketball played in as an afterthought to big concerts with piss poor facilities else wise. A reasonable evaluation of Ed’s tenure would show that he has taken a perpetual last place Big Ten team and has brought them up at least into the middle of the pack, contending with the top. IMO that is a hell of a lot harder to do than taking a middle of the road team to the actual top. He basically is building the entire program.
Look, no one has delusions of grandeur about Penn State basketball. We know our place, but we also know that it is a long road to the top and we are taking those positive steps. If this is still the result 3-5 more years from now, then it would be greatly disappointing yes, not now though.
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
by Roland86 on Oct 2, 2009 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
This would be like
Indiana fans calling for Crean’s head after his dismal season and looking past the utter destruction that Samspon left behind.
by STU Boy on Oct 2, 2009 11:47 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Similar, yes
But, at least Indiana still is a “name” program, and it is reasonable for their fans to expect a more rapid climb, but not an immediate one either.
That’s the thing I don’t get. We have no real history of excellence in basketball, so what does it matter to people if it takes DeChellis a couple more years to reach a nice level? As long as we show signs of improvement from season to season(which we have done under Eddie) and are not sitting idle?
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
by Roland86 on Oct 2, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
So you're comparing Jerry Dunn to Calvin Sampson?
Interesting, because Jerry Dunn was on the staff for 20 years.
I’m also curious as to how an Athletic Director would allow for a basketball program to deteriorate to such a state that they don’t even have suitable offices? Surely this didn’t occur overnight, and the erosion took place right under Curley’s nose.
by NittanyBadger on Oct 2, 2009 11:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
+1
Last season we broke the all time record for wins by a PSU basketball team. As a fan I am very optimistic with Ed as our coach.
"How many things do you do where you are involved with 110,000 other people on the same page? Unless you're in an English class cheating with 30 other guys."
by psu on Oct 2, 2009 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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