PV basketball....is there a change coming...again





Blackstreet,

Just when coach francis got it going, I'm hearing that he may be leaving....have you heard?!?
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Fair Question! For now we have him for another academic basketball season. Hopefully he will continue to build the program. So both Coach Francis and Prairie View A & M University will have options. This is about a week old for those that follow Praire View A & M University athletics.

Bluedog,

LOL!! As if he would know or care, what we know.
 
Originally posted by Jafus (Thinker)

Bluedog,

LOL!! As if he would know or care, what we know.
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<font color=navy><b>Hey I didn't say that, don't can't it twisted.</b>

:D
 
My sources are now telling me that this will happen any day now and that the assistant coach will get the job on and interim basis due to the timing.
 
Originally posted by blackstreet
My sources are now telling me that this will happen any day now and that the assistant coach will get the job on and interim basis due to the timing.
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<font color=navy>Where is he suppose to be going blackstreet?
 
Hmm...... well let me take a wild guess here. Randy Ayers just got hired as the HC of the Sixers. Francis was an assistant on Ayers staff at my other school Ohio State. So maybe ole Randy is offering Jerry a NBA opportunity. Which no way he can pass up. Of course I am only speculating. But it does make sense. This would be a loss for both PV and the SWAC. However I figured that Francis had too many connections to stay at PV long. Especially after he showed what he could do as a coach. I thought maybe one more good year at PV and he would get other offers.

What I didn't figure was Ayers getting the Philly job and possibly asking an old friend to join him.
 
<font color=navy>Ahhh blu-panther, panthro wassup ya'll always in SU's busniess y ya'll aint talking?

Could this be true? Could a few poster's prediction of Jerome, Jerome only staying no more than two year's be coming to fruition
 
Originally posted by Blu Panther
those details were being worked out while Francis was conducting a basketball camp.....go figure.
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That's called professionalism, and thanks for the info.
 



Ok, what's the deal got damn it, inquiring minds want to know, any other time you(blu panther)and panthro are all up in SU's mustard trying to get the ketchup.

So is or is not your domination in basketball about to take it big hit?(not that it wasn't anyway)
 
Originally posted by bluedog
Answer the question dammit!:redhot:
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rotflol@bluedog.

blue, I on't know about you sometimes... LOL :lol:

I'd like to exercise my 5th amendment privilege. LOL
 
Ayers is expecting to name another assistant next week.

Posted on Fri, Jul. 11, 2003

Sixers' Ayers makes Ford an assistant
The ex-NBA head coach is a Villanova Hall of Famer. Chris Jent also joined the staff.
By Kevin Tatum
Inquirer Staff Writer

New 76ers coach Randy Ayers moved closer to completing his staff of assistants yesterday with the addition of ex-NBA player and coach Chris Ford and Ayers prot?g? Chris Jent.

Ford, 54, a native of Atlantic City who played at Villanova before going on to help the Boston Celtics win three championships as a player and assistant coach, will be a bench coach under Ayers. Ford has been a head coach for three teams in the league.

Jent, 33, has been named assistant coach/player development coach. His main job will be to work with individual players during the season as well as in the off-season. Jent, who played for Ayers at Ohio State, had a three-year NBA career and was with the Houston Rockets when they won the title in 1993-94.

Ayers is expecting to name another assistant next week.

"I'm happy to have Chris Ford with us," Ayers said yesterday after the first session of the Sixers' summer camp. "I've watched his teams over the years, and I've respected him as a coach, and certainly as a player. He knows what it's like to win the last game of the season, and he did it three times. I'm happy to have his experience with us. Chris Jent was a joy to coach, and he has a great work ethic."

Jent will take over the duties that were handled by 46-year-old Bob Bender, who was elevated to assistant bench coach. Meanwhile, 25-year-old Frank Zanin has been promoted to assistant coach/advance scout. Zanin was the Sixers' video coordinator the last three seasons.

Ford, a 'Nova Hall of Famer who guided the Boston Celtics from the 1990-91 season through 1994-95, won two Atlantic Division titles with teams that were led by Larry Bird, Robert Parrish and Kevin McHale.

Ford was at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., for two seasons before accepting the position with the Sixers. He last worked in the NBA as head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers, in the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 seasons.

"This is definitely a homecoming," said Ford, who was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the second round of the NBA draft in 1972. "I'm thrilled to be back in this area, and very thankful that Randy and [the Sixers' front office] gave me the opportunity to come back and assist, and work with Randy to make this a very successful season."

Bender, who was hired last year by then-Sixers coach Larry Brown, was a head coach on the collegiate level for 13 years. He took the University of Washington to four straight NCAA tournament appearances during a nine-year tenure and coached the Sixers' Todd MacCulloch.

Like Sixers president and general manager Billy King, Bender is an ex-Duke player. He was an assistant under Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski for six seasons.

"Bob Bender and I grew up together in the coaching profession," Ayers said. "And we certainly have been with Larry Brown last year, and being together for the start of the second year together will help."

"It's a great opportunity, number one, to have a chance to stay here in Philadelphia and be with Randy as he takes over," Bender said. "I've known Randy a long time, so it's a nice advantage to have a background and history with him."

Jent, who joined the team at Ohio State when current Maryland coach Gary Williams was directing the Buckeyes, played his final three seasons for Ayers as the squad won back-to-back Big Ten championships and made the NCAA tournament for three consecutive years.

"I'm really looking forward to this opportunity," Jent said. "Randy has been in the NBA for six years now, and he hasn't changed as a coach. The most important thing is that he's defense first, and he understands if you don't guard people, you don't win. With Gary Williams, the same thing. Then, with Randy, we really bonded as a team and he had a way of bringing us all together to have one goal, and that was to win."


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Contact staff writer Kevin Tatum at 215-854-2583 or [email protected].


Could this spell doom coming around the corner for PV?
 
Yep, we know what's going to happen. We're going undefeated in SWAC play this fall AND we're gonna' beat the "L" out of ou, tx a&m, uofh (if they rescheduled), AND Rutgers! :tup:

The SWAC doesn't know what's about to hit panthers.... :shame:
 
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