Kieran Darcy: One Shot
You have to understand, we were just so happy to have a team. The NCAA doesn't even keep track of JV teams, but if you take a look around, not many programs have one. But there was a JV team at Penn when Dunphy took the head coaching job in 1989, and he felt very strongly about keeping the team in place over his 17 years there.
"I'm not so sure there could be a more pure form of college athletics," says Dunphy, who replaced John Chaney at Temple in 2006. "They just played because they wanted to play basketball. There was very little, if any, reward in it, other than the personal satisfaction of playing the game. I appreciated that about those guys. And the guys who stuck through it for four years at the JV level, well, I can't say I admire anyone more than those guys."
