Even more good news!John Chaney has decided it's time. Monday morning, Chaney announced he is retiring after 24 remarkable years as Temple's men’s basketball coach. The 74-year-old Hall of Famer guided the Owls to five NCAA regional finals and 17 NCAA tournament appearances and was twice the national coach of the year. Chaney has 741 wins as a college coach, including a 516-252 record at Temple, and has won six Atlantic 10 titles. He is also a five-time Atlantic 10 coach of the year. But what Chaney was most proud of was earning the award for Teacher of the Year in the late 1970s at Cheyney State. - Comcast Sportsnet Philadelphia.
Curiously, Comcast didn't mention these little "highlights" from this thug's career:
"Chaney was suspended for the rest of the regular season by Temple on Friday for ordering rough play by one of his players, who proceeded to foul out in four minutes against Saint Joseph’s and broke an opponent’s arm."
Or this one:
"In January, Chaney used his time at a Philadelphia sports writers dinner to rail against President Bush and the war in Iraq. Chaney rambled on until he was nearly booed off the stage. He challenged one dissenter to meet him outside.
That echoed similar sentiments weeks earlier when Chaney scolded the people of Ohio, the state that helped Bush win the election with 20 electoral votes, saying, 'It's not the people I hate, it's what they did that I hate.'"
Or this . . .
"Many have cited other incidents such as the one a decade ago when he screamed "I will kill you" at then-Massachusetts coach John Calipari during a postgame news conference."
Yeah, Chaney is a true American hero.
"But what Chaney was most proud of was earning the award for Teacher of the Year in the late 1970s at Cheyney State."
ReplyDelete"...he screamed 'I will kill you' at then-Massachusetts coach John Calipari during a postgame news conference."
Yeah, that's the kind of guy you want teaching your kids. What an a$$clown.
What a winner. Wonder if his mad teaching skillz that "earned" the Teacher of the Year award were anything like some of his other antics.
ReplyDeleteWere they the same teaching skills that led to Cheney losing it accredidation?
ReplyDeleteHe did care about helping his guys, BUT and a big BUT, he was such an arse and a rude, irrational jerk that any good he had done has been out-weighed. If you are going to be a role model and stick up for your beliefs, fine. But don't do it in an unprofessional way when you represent a university. I never really liked Chaney, but when he turned one of his players into a goon, my level of dislike turned to hate. What is he teaching that young man, who is in college for an education, about life that can be used in real-life when he finishes school? All Chaney did was "tell" a young man to do what he went to school to avoid.
John - I wouldn't want him in the same school as my kids.
ReplyDeleteUber - I highly doubt it.
RT - Stephen A. Smith sticks up for him in today's Inky. That should tell you something.
Sounds like a lot of sour grapes from a Hawks fan to me! The guy knew his game though. Did pretty well with some of those teams he had, never had a ranked team, but still you knew that if they got into the tournament, they could go a round or two with what they had. Go owls!
ReplyDeleteI just read the column. Ok...will Chaney be receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Kennedy Honors, a place in history books as a leader of men, or will he have a statue made of him and placed in one of the "squares" in Philly? Well, my vote is for a statue...birds have pretty good aim.
ReplyDeleteSteven A Smith's award? He should win the Twain award for humor, because how can we take someone like Smith, in his own tiny littly bubble, seriously?
Vinnie - And the resident Owls alum chimes in. Lost in the first round of the NIT??? Ouch.
ReplyDeleteRT - I;ve said it before, and I'll say it again, Stephen A. Smith is a tool.