Tom Penders = Assclown (updated)

by Nestor on Dec 20, 2005 10:31 AM PST in Basketball

So I have been staying away from commenting on this assclown Tom Penders, the current head coach of Houston Cougers. Apparently Penders was taking shots at Howland for not responding to his requests for scheduling a game with Houston. Here is Greg Doyel from CBS Sportsline giving the lowdown:

Penders wants UCLA and Houston to schedule a rematch of their 1968 showdown, when Lew Alcindor and Elvin Hayes helped fill up the Astrodome.

Penders also wants to recruit in Los Angeles, and playing a home-and-home series with the Bruins would help. UCLA coach Ben Howland isn't interested in helping Penders build his program. Imagine that.

Howland turned down Penders' overtures, and so Penders took a shot at Howland in the Times, saying, "So many people just want to protect their own little nests and have a fool-the-fan mentality."

Good line, Turnaround Tom. But then, he's full of good lines (among other things).

Penders might want to be careful with that mouth of his. With his track record, too much attention might be a bad thing.

And that Penders "track record" Greg is referring to:

[P]enders' reputation was badly tarnished when he left Texas after the 1997-98 season amid accusations he anonymously released the grades of Longhorns player Luke Axtell after Axtell announced he was transferring to Kansas.

Three years later, Penders resigned at George Washington as the NCAA investigated misuse of telephone cards by players.

What a pathetic, corrupt assclown this guy is. And apparently he is a worse coach. His team just lost to South Alabama in its first game after making the top-25. ROFL. JD has more thoughts on the College Hoops Moron of the Year in his Bruin Hoop Scoop. Idiot. I have nothing else to add on this loser.

UPDATED 1:24 pm EST:Thanks to the guys at BON for pointing us to this Texan take on the Houston assclown:

When I first met Tom Penders over 15 years ago, I was impressed by his relaxed and friendly attitude. He was a basketball writer?s dream - quotable, talkative, forthcoming. And it didn?t hurt that at the time he was helping jazz up a lousy basketball league (the Southwest Conference).

Since that first meeting, Penders has gone from being Texas? coach to George Washington?s coach to a television/radio analyst to being Houston?s coach.

During that journey, I?ve figured out that Penders speaks for effect. That all he is concerned about is advancing his own self-serving agenda. And it?s all about Tom. Penders fooled me for a few years but now I?m old enough to know better.

BTW one more note on this. Did you notice assclown Penders fit in so nicely at ESPN? Kind of a perfect cynergy over there at Bristol where they collect all the reject assclown fired coaches who are "quotable, talkative, forthcoming" and fit in oh so well with those blowhard gasbags like DUKE Vitale, Katz, Gottlieb. Hmmm .. who am I thinking of here?:

Can someone help me out on this?

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Assclown indeed

We had to suffer through over a decade of his bullshit.

http://www.burntorangenation.com/story/2005/12/15/124434/19

by HornsFan @ Bruins Nation on Dec 20, 2005 10:14 AM PST reply actions

Thanks for the pointer guys

much appreciated.

by Nestor on Dec 20, 2005 10:32 AM PST up reply actions

Penders is irrellevant

His decisionwants to pop off about one of the best program builders in the country, Ben Howland, is an indicator of what an idiot he is.

Phi Slamma Jamma's not walking through that door anytime soon.

by Ajax on Dec 20, 2005 10:43 AM PST reply actions

Yeap ...

But the bigger question is why is ESPN hiring such moron, dishonest scumbags and propping them up as experts on college hoops? On the other front they have Bob Davies chiming on college football and ND. How do you think the guys at BGS feel about this?

by Nestor on Dec 20, 2005 10:44 AM PST up reply actions

It just occurred to me

Dorrell would be a perfect CFB analyst.

He's a clean-cut, good-looking young man with head coaching experience. He could even team up with Lavs and lament about the unreasonablness of UCLA fans.

by Ajax on Dec 20, 2005 11:07 AM PST up reply actions

Right now KD is Fox Sports Material ...

Lavin as much of a dogshit of head coach he was ... he won some big games. KD has won nothing. Right now KD won't garner much interest than being some stand by analyst at Fox Sports West 3 (when that channel becomes available).

by Nestor on Dec 20, 2005 11:19 AM PST up reply actions

I Agree

I think Dorrell would make an excellent [television analyst] [NFL coach] [general manager] [athletic director] [ice capades director] [corporate vice president] [motivational speaker ("I forgot about the best player on my team, and I am still standing. If that can happen to me and I still have my job, imagine what you can do if you only had a boss who didn't care how you performed!)]

Pick one. Any one. As long as he is not still the head football coach at UCLA.

by Koach Karl I on Dec 20, 2005 12:54 PM PST up reply actions

On Steve...

I can't understand the hatred some people have for Steve Lavin. He's an absolutely horrific coach, but he's been nothing but supportive of UCLA after they showed him the door - he could have very easily thrown a big hissy fit to the national media, and probably would have gotten sympathy from non-UCLA fans who only saw his Sweet Sixteen statistic and never got to understand his lack of understanding for the game, his underachieving teams, etc. But he left without saying a single bad word about the administration, consistently tries to give the Pac-10 ESPN face time (a topic everybody here seems to be sore about, I might add), and has committed no greater crime than managing to get in way over his head because the UCLA administration decided to go the 'cheap' route in hiring a new coach in the 90's. If you were the #3 assisstant at UCLA, and suddenly you were offered the head coaching job you so dreamed about far earlier than you thought it would come, would you say no? Puh-frigging-lease. He's no more guilty than any of us of relishing an opportunity that was given to him. The administration is at fault for not firing him. But Lavin's nothing worse than an awful basketball coach - some people around here treat him like he's the antichrist.

by Underbruin on Dec 20, 2005 10:09 PM PST reply actions

Funny

I was thinking the same thing. I think he was a bad coach, but that doesn't mean he was a bad person. I think he tried to be buddy-buddy a little too much with his players, but it's not like he was committing NCAA violations or molesting children. I understand his idiocy screwed up our program, but he is gone now, and Howland is picking it back up. He tried to spin as much as he could, because I guess he wouldn't have gotten very far telling the press, "Look, I'm in over my head and I have no idea what the hell I'm doing." People can say all they want about his coaching and what that did to the program, but I don't really understand why people STILL hate him. He's no longer at UCLA! He can't do anything else to our team!

GO BRUINS. HOOK 'EM HORNS.

by uclawarren on Dec 21, 2005 2:57 PM PST up reply actions

Now that I think of it

He's kind of like that really nice guy at work who keeps making stupid mistakes all the time. I'm not saying that Lavin was a saint, but he was just a bumbler. I bet if someone offered that goofy guy at work a chance to be CEO, I'm sure he would take it, run the company into the ground, and then maybe get a job somewhere else. But I wouldn't hate the guy.

GO BRUINS. HOOK 'EM HORNS.

by uclawarren on Dec 21, 2005 3:01 PM PST up reply actions

Uhm ...

Lavin was a bad person. Talk to anyone who had any close connections to the program while he was the Coach. He basically stole millions from UCLA pretending to be the head coach. Here is clue - he never showed up to work on time. And when he was in office instead of worrying about recruiting and analyzing game films he was too busy watching Montel. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Talk to any recruiting analysts who specializes and Southern Cal prep. hoops, and you'd realize how derelict Lavin was in his duties as the head basketball coach of UCLA, and you'd realizw how so many fans close to the progrm were so raged by his shenanigans. Lavin was evil. And right now he is only propping up UCLA so that he can claim in the media that he left Howland with a lot of talent. A truely evil, decietful motherfu*ker this scumbag is.

by Nestor on Dec 22, 2005 6:18 AM PST up reply actions