Fran Dunphy
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Show 022
The week, The Passing Game with Fletcher Arritt is proud to have legendary Temple head coach Fran Dunphy as our guest. Coach Dunphy boasts a resume of eleven NCAA bids, twelve conference titles, three Big Five City Series championships, eleven 20+ win seasons, and five perfect conference records.
His coaching career began almost fourty years ago as an assistant at West Point in 1971. After four years at West Point, Dunphy left the ranks of college coaching and returned to his high school alma mater, Malvern Prep, in Pennsylvania.
In 1979, Dunphy returned to college coaching at La Salle University. The next year, he moved to our nation's capitol to become the assistant at American University--where he spent two seasons on Gary Williams' staff and three under former NBA head coach, Ed Tapscott. From American, Dunphy moved back to La Salle for three more years prior to taking his final assistant position at The University of Pennsylvania. He was named head coach of the Quakers in 1989, after only one season as an assistant.
As the Quakers' head coach, Dunphy led Penn to 10 Ivy League Championships. In 2006, he left Penn to replace John Chaney at Temple University. He is the first person to be a head coach at two Big 5 schools and has led the Owls to three straight Atlantic 10 tournament championships. We are honored to have him as our guest.
Listen:
Download mp3 File:
(right-click to save)
