Both teams conclude regular season play vs Cornell on Sat. We can only hope the women don’t take Cornell for granted and play well at home. Conversely, hopefully the Big Red don’t play like they did last Sunday against Princeton and the Lions pull off an upset.
I think the women have definitely in mind what happened 2 years ago and how a bad game can screw their at-large bid aspirations.
In terms of the men, it would be nice to end the season with a win but at the same time I want really badly Jim to be out next week if possible
Cornell -10.5. Seems generous to the Lions
There is significant smoke that Engles is resigning today.
Sure that’s not Donahue-related smoke?
I want that too.
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That seems ta be a really perverse Penn pleasure, isn’t it: bearing witness to the termination of otherwise, if not record-wise, decent men.
I wish you were right
I’m not taking pleasure in this. I’m trying to share information.
Well, earlier tonight, you wrote about a rumored resignation; then, you at least implied you wanted the other coach gone, too. I mean everybody knows job security is lacking for both; so what you offer is less informative than about wish fulfillment.
I take no pleasure in this, either. Part of a coach’s job description is to win games. SD simply hasn’t fulfilled that part of his responsibility, and I have lost confidence that this will improve absent a change of coaching staff.
One of the things that has long bugged me about his philosophy is that, to my eyes he favors system fit over athleticism. These past two seasons have shown clearly that the upper echelon of the Ivies have found ways to recruit players who are both skilled and athletic, and those schools are doing a better job of developing their players than Penn’s staff has done.
Time to move on.
Time to move on, but with whom? Your complaint is essentially about the last two seasons and you mention that coaches need to win; but this man’s actually won a lot of games (over 300); has had more than 20 victories in a season with three different schools; won four Ivy League championships; even leading one team to the Sweet. 16 as part of March Madness. Throw in the fact that he’s still a fairly young man with twenty-five years of Division-1 men’s basketball head coaching experience and I can only wonder about the chances of success
that any search committee may have in coming up with an equivalent or superior candidate to replace him with.
It’s impossible to make a convincing argument to keep Steve. He lost games that his teams had an extremely high statistical probability of winning with the title on the line when he did have the talent and after that, recruits probably saw what you do not—he no longer is a winning coach. When the recruiting haul becomes so weak that you are forced to bring in Juco transfers just to field a team, it’s time to move on. He indeed is a decent man. But Penn will remain a bottom feeder with him.
How much better would Penn have been with Dingle and Perkins? How many more games does Penn win in your opinion?
Don’t y’all have your own threads for this? Penn fans are like the Dallas Cowboys of the Ivy League. All about you, alllll the time
Aside from the fact that I am also a Columbia alum and post on CU basketball not infrequently, I was just responding to the moderator’s comment bringing Donahue into the conversation. Look up.
You’re fine, man. This is, after all, the toy department of life. Now what about the Redmen - rather, the Red Storm?