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Username Post: Can anyone defend Steve?
Mike Porter 
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Mike Porter
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
Reg: 11-21-04
03-10-24 07:40 PM - Post#364991    
    In response to GoQuakersGo

  • GoQuakersGo Said:
Steve Donahue:
8 seasons
1 Ivy title
4 seasons with losing record
3 Ivy seasons with losing record

Glen Miller:
3+ seasons (fired 7 games into 4th season)
1 Ivy title
2+ seasons with losing record (0-7 in year he was fired)
1 Ivy season with losing record (6-8 in 2008-09)

Is Steve really any better?

Steve had 2 all-time great players on his roster in 8 years (Brodeur, Dingle) and only turned that into 1 Ivy title (with 0 Ivy League tournament wins in every other season). His program is, if you are generous, a distant 3rd best in the league. Penn is closer to Brown and Cornell in stature than it is to Princeton and Yale.

If you are a talented recruit, why would you come to Penn over other top programs (in the Ivy League or elsewhere)? Is it to play in the always empty Palestra? Is it because this program was competitive a generation ago? Is it because Steve Donahue took a team to the Sweet 16 when today's recruits were in diapers?

I am sure Steve Donahue is a nice guy, but his track record and the outlook of this program are impossible to defend without conceding that you don't care about winning at the highest levels of the league, let alone nationally.



The answer is NO.

You forgot:
- 0 Top 100 Teams in 8 seasons
- 0-11 against Princeton the last 6 years (I have a 6 year old kindergartener born shortly after the last Penn win).

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