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Penders Hall of Fame
Tom Penders will be inducted into the College Hall of Fame. The only question left will be wearing a GW cap??
"Penders coached seven different programs over a span of 39 years – Tufts, Columbia, Fordham, Rhode Island, Texas, George Washington, and Houston. His overall record was 649-437, with a 12-11 mark in the NCAA Tournament. In 1987 while coaching Rhode Island, he was named the Atlantic 10 Conference Coach of the Year.=16pxPenders' NCAA teams lost only once to a lower seed, and that was a No. 8 vs. No. 9 game in 1992. His 1988 Rhode Island team was the first A-10 team to reach the Sweet 16. He guided Texas to its first Sweet 16 and Elite 8 appearances in 1990."
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I assume neither GW nor Texas has a vote for the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Great run at Texas despite a bit of a tumultous final season
208-110, 103-48 in league play and won 10 NCAA Tourney games at Texas
GW....not so much.
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Giving up 100+ to Indiana will always be one of my least favorite GW NCAA memories. Silent Bob and I drank a 48-pack in a Whistler, BC, hotel room and woke up with half my head shaved.
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"tumultous final season" at Texas? You mean violating a student´s privacy (and possibly state and federal laws)? And that was just the avant cours to hiding a player´s sexual assault charges from his next employer.
Wins should not be the only criteria for making a collegiate hall of fame...
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GW Alum Abroad wrote:
"tumultous final season" at Texas? You mean violating a student´s privacy (and possibly state a federal laws)? And that was just the avant cours to hiding a player´s sexual assault charges from his next employer.
Wins should not be the only criteria for making a collegiate hall of fame...
How about forcing one of your assistant coaches to violate Luke Axtell's privacy by faxing his grades to a radio station, and allowing said assistant to subsequently take the fall for this (he lost his coaching career as a result) while you are working on your tan vacationing in the Caribbean? A class act that Penders.
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If Penders had won at GW, the crying brigade would be singing his praises and not care at all about any violations at Texas LMAO. But since he didn't (after year 1) he's Pol Pot lol
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If Penders had won at GW, the crying brigade would be singing his praises and not care at all about any violations at Texas LMAO. But since he didn't (after year 1) he's Pol Pot lol
Yeah, there was the fact that he inherited a great program from Jarvis and after one successful season with Mike's players, he steered it into the ground. So that must be it.
Or was it that he wasn't driven to success as a college head coach should be due largely to serious cardio issues which should have prevented him from coaching in the first place?
Or was it that under his watch and largely through the help of his son, he violated an NCAA policy via the phone card scandal?
Or was it that he lobbied hard to recruit a player with a checkered past to say the least who would go on to be convicted for among other things, possessing a gun to force oral sex from an alleged prostitute and sexual assault with a broomstick (Only at GW?)
Or was it that he was hired out of nepotism, ahead of a proud GW alum who was very interested in becoming GW's head coach, and who has only gone on to win 541 games with a winning percentage just shy of 65% as a head coach at Delaware and Notre Dame.
Sure, the reason why GW fans don't like Tom Penders is because he lost too many games. That and that alone must be it.