John Chaney
John Chaney
came hoping people possible pull reach stay terrible university
These youngsters came from not just a humble, but a terrible background. And this university made it possible to reach out and pull in people of that kind of background. That?s something that I came here for. And I?m hoping this university will stay its course.
arm broken bryant people saw weeks
Bryant was back in 2 1/2 weeks when everyone thought his arm was broken. It didn't look so broken to people who saw him play.
amazing call fail fall few good leaders learn lessons lies mistakes people saying seem simply spoken themselves words
It's amazing to me that we don't seem to learn lessons when mistakes are made. ... Words that are spoken are simply lies and very few of us will call it like it is. ... Many of our leaders fail us. They find themselves saying things to make people feel good and many people fall for it.
busy carrying league matter parity people point sell talking team
The point of the matter is that we have too many people who sell this league down. If this was the ACC or it was the Big Ten, we'd be busy talking about the parity of the league and not talking about one team carrying the day.
came chance gave man people recognize university
I came here to recognize people at this university who gave a 50-year-old man a chance to come and coach.
giving people fans
The fans are bad everywhere you go, with language, and with behavior. You can't put enough cops in the stands, but you ought to give the cops cameras, give people cameras, so they can take a picture of the idiot and you can identify him.
car drive tried
We tried to make them play faster. When you drive your car fast, you are going to get in more accidents.
floor guys learn maybe pay teach took win
We try to teach our kids. As much as I want to win a ballgame, I had two guys on the floor that I took off for that reason. Maybe they will learn a lesson. Maybe it will pay off for us later.
league parity
There's so much parity in our league that they're all favorites. I think we're the underdogs. Put that out there.
ball easily four nobody players shoots
Villanova could easily be No. 1 in the country. There's nobody that shoots the ball as those four players on the floor, not even Duke.
basket difference earlier floor increased manage minutes question respect team trying underneath
There's no question about the difference he makes when he's on the floor. He's increased his minutes on the floor from 10 to 15 minutes. We're always trying to manage his time, getting him to come back slowly. He makes a lot of difference when he's underneath the basket .The other team has to respect him being there. We just didn't have that in earlier games.
beat good ranked supposed trend
The trend is we don't have a good team. They're a ranked team. They're supposed to beat us.
good talent
I think our talent is as good as anybody's in the league.
I think he makes the difference. I don't know if it's a significant difference, but it's the difference.