Thanks to Yoni Cohen of the College Basketball Blog for this post about one of the top coaches of all-time, Temple's John Chaney. Unlike some of his coaching counterparts, he's not one to schedule cupcakes to pad his team's record or falsely build his team's confidence. If anything, I believe that at certain points he's been such a touch scheduler that he has hurt his team's confidence, if only because every now and then it's okay to schedule a low-end Division I school to give your team a breather from playing a top-50 team on the road. But that's a bit of hyper-criticism, because Coach Chaney's legacy is complete, and he's already in the Hall of Fame.
Read not only Yoni's post but the link to Greg Doyel's column in The Sporting News as well.
And look out for the Temple Owls this season. They're huge inside, and if they can get better production out of the PG position from Mardy Collins and some halfway decent outside shooting (which they have not received by and large during the past several seasons, the scoring ability of David Hawkins notwithstanding).
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