tOSU -6.5 at Penn State (ov/un 130.5) Tue 9 ET, BTN

[colobuck79]

You are now my idol.

 

[DZ83CK]

So is this Ed DeChellis' last season coaching PSU? I sure hope so for the sake of the Big Ten - there's not much of a case to keep him around other than A) they extended his contract through the 2013-14 season after they won the NIT in 2009, so it will cost them a lot of $ to let him go, and B) he's not getting paid a lot (compared to most B10 MBK coaches), so it might cost them more $ to hire somebody who will do a good job. Of course, DeChellis has not done a good job at PSU in terms of on-court performance of his teams. I like OSU having a 14-game winning streak against PSU (in fact, Matta has never lost to them as coach at OSU), but not making the tourney for 8 years in a row is an embarrassment to PSU, and by extension an embarrassment to the Big Ten. This was a senior-laden team (they start 4 seniors typically), and with that senior-laden team that includes arguably the best player (and certainly the most productive player) in school history they got blown out at home by the two best teams in the league (in addition to another home blowout loss to Maryland and a home loss to Maine), they aren't going to make the NCAA tourney as an at-large team, ED's PSU teams have never made the NCAA tourney (in spite of having the best player in school history for four years), they have zero top-100 recruits coming in for next season (which will be a major rebuilding job) ... add it all up and I don't see much reason for DeChellis to be kept around.

 

[Mike80]

blah blah blah blah

Translation: Fuck Penn State

 

[Mike80]

Isn't that the guy hired as football HC at tsun?

Nah that's this guy:

 

[LitlBuck]

So is this Ed DeChellis' last season coaching PSU? I sure hope so for the sake of the Big Ten - there's not much of a case to keep him around other than A) they extended his contract through the 2013-14 season after they won the NIT in 2009, so it will cost them a lot of $ to let him go, and B) he's not getting paid a lot (compared to most B10 MBK coaches), so it might cost them more $ to hire somebody who will do a good job. Of course, DeChellis has not done a good job at PSU in terms of on-court performance of his teams. I like OSU having a 14-game winning streak against PSU (in fact, Matta has never lost to them as coach at OSU), but not making the tourney for 8 years in a row is an embarrassment to PSU, and by extension an embarrassment to the Big Ten. This was a senior-laden team (they start 4 seniors typically), and with that senior-laden team that includes arguably the best player (and certainly the most productive player) in school history they got blown out at home by the two best teams in the league (in addition to another home blowout loss to Maryland and a home loss to Maine), they aren't going to make the NCAA tourney as an at-large team, ED's PSU teams have never made the NCAA tourney (in spite of having the best player in school history for four years), they have zero top-100 recruits coming in for next season (which will be a major rebuilding job) ... add it all up and I don't see much reason for DeChellis to be kept around.

How do you like me now that I have gotten my team into the NCAA tournament and went to the Finals of the Big Ten tournament Pretty good for a guy who doesn't know how to coach and especially for a guy who has to coach at a football school with Joe Pa hanging around

 

[DZ83CK]

PSU finally found some luck ... this surprise run to the NCAA tournament will buy DeChellis at least another year, maybe two more years. It has not been healthy for the PSU program to keep him around this long - the sooner they get rid of him, the better. They will be putrid next season & that will put him right back on the hot seat.

 

[LitlBuck]

PSU finally found some luck ... this surprise run to the NCAA tournament will buy DeChellis at least another year, maybe two more years. It has not been healthy for the PSU program to keep him around this long - the sooner they get rid of him, the better. They will be putrid next season & that will put him right back on the hot seat.

I don't think that Penn State throws a whole lot of money into their basketball facilities so he is going to have a hard time recruiting top-notch high school talent. I think he changed his game around a little bit during the end of the season and they performed much better. Almost any team that loses its starters from one year to the next isn't going to be very good.

 

[GeorgiaBuck2]

I'll give him credit where credit is due. He came back into the locker room and congratulated Thad on winning the tournament and said to go as far as you can. I thought that was pretty cool.