Fran Dunphy
Fran Dunphy
Francis Joseph DunphyOctober 5, 1948) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at Temple University. He succeeded John Chaney in 2006...
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I am excited about the opportunity to coach at Temple University and look forward to the challenges that lie ahead in keeping Owl basketball among the nation's elite programs.
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It's a great opportunity to come to Hawaii and not only enjoy the history and tradition of the place, but also to play college basketball. So we feel pretty fortunate to do both.
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When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.
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This is a wonderful opportunity and now it's up to me to seize it and surround myself with some pretty good guys.
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He'll remember it, which is the difficult part. He should never question how much heart and desire and hard work he's put into this. He deserves an opportunity to get one of these wins.
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He's just a good basketball player, and the opportunity presented itself and he's done a good job with his opportunity. All you want from your young guys when they're given that chance is to play their very best. It looks like he's really stepped his game up.
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We just needed to close out the last 20 minutes and play it very much like the first 20 minutes.
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The Yale guys really turned up the screws defensively. We needed to be more patient. We needed to be exact in what we were doing.
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We went to Duke this year as decided underdogs. Our job is to prepare our guys; we watched a number of segments of film.
everybody
Sometimes it's contagious; you make them and everybody makes them.
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Everybody stepped up. That's what it would take to win a game like this.
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That's two real good wins for us, there's no question. We feel very fortunate to have won both games.
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I wish that was the only problem we had.
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I wish my job was that easy. The biggest quality of the Texas team is their balance, not just a few players.