He played in the final two regular-season games but at times looked rusty. “I was blessed that [athletic director] Sandy Barbour saw something in me and stuck with me when things weren’t going well,” he said. “He was playing at a high level when he was healthy,” Chambers said.
“He played exactly like I like my point guards to play,” Magee recalled. Simply let the following bits -- What about Penn State's infamous Bon Jovi situation? Brother Paul would play basketball there. Now all of a sudden we were down 20. “When I was blessed enough to wake up that next morning, without my front teeth and with 1,000 stitches from my neck to my back, I got a second chance. For all of those reasons, he's a quality hire for Penn State, a school that desperately needs to kick some life into its men's basketball program.Whether Chambers can do that on the floor remains to be seen. I wanted to play football here. He found it in 2004 when Wright had an opening on his Villanova staff. Energetic. I’m done.’ I was close to death, so I’m going to go do what I want to do,” Chambers said. Pat Chambers' Nittany Lions enter the Big Ten tournament almost assured an NCAA bid. I had three siblings go through Penn State. You’ve really got to micro-focus to become the best you can be. As elegant as the wardrobe was, however, it was merely a fleeting necessity for Chambers. We’re hitting a couple of speed bumps right now, but we’re having an historic year.”Penn State men’s basketball coach Pat Chambers has finally found success for the program. And that was basketball.” Now, 18 years later, the 49-year-old Chambers, having ascended rapidly in his chosen profession, is battling as hard as he did with eight older brothers who schooled him on the basketball court outside their Newtown Square home, trying to help his NCAA-bound Lions rediscover their mojo. That’s what I did. But now he’s back and we’ve got to get him going.” However Penn State fares from here on, whatever outfits he chooses, this season has validated the decision Chambers made after that bloody night in 2002. “That,” he said, “is what propelled me to go live my dream, compelled me to live my passion.” In 2002, while with friends at the bar of Center City Philadelphia’s Wyndham Franklin Plaza, Chambers was assaulted by a crazed man convinced he’d been flirting with his wife.
Young. “You learned to play sports.” By the time his formal basketball training began at St. Anastasia’s grade school, where he backed up Paul at point guard, he was more than ready to compete. “My hobby,” is how he views that experience now.He was a single man out on the town one autumn night when he ran into a woman he knew from high school and two friends of hers, a married couple. “We’ve got veteran guys that really love each other,” he said. “I was used to winning and the losing really wore me down. It was already a difficult job. A victory would sustain his Nittany Lions’ slim hopes for a first-ever Big Ten basketball title. Dad was good friends with all the other math teachers, many who had been there 15-plus years. “They got this commitment and toughness from their parents that was unbelievable. That’s something I’ve really worked at.” The Big Ten tournament opens Wednesday and for a first time in his nine seasons a Chambers’ team will enter it virtually assured an NCAA bid. It’s no wonder, then, that Penn State has allowed Pat Chambers to lead the school to consistent mediocrity since he took over in 2011, just a few …
“I never had to teach them intensity,” said their coach, Tom Rayer. At the financial table, he had to scrap for whatever crumbs he could wrest from football. If you can't get excited about stuff like this, then you can't get excited about your college basketball team. He coached high school basketball on the side, at Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, where he’d played in the late 1980s. He recruited Philadelphia harder than his predecessors. The onus is on you now, too.
Chambers has said he believes the man was either drunk or high or both and suspected Chambers was hitting on his wife.“That’s when I said, ‘That’s it.
Older brother Tim was a football standout at Penn. Two years later, after leading BU to the NCAA Tournament, Penn State, where Ed DeChellis had unexpectedly quit, hired him. But I grew up on Penn State, the plain jerseys, the black spikes. Instead of big brothers, he had had 11 better-established conference rivals to contend with. “When I was stabbed, I was going for the Archbishop Carroll job. If Bon Jovi is here, I’m going to go see him myself.”In 2002, Chambers was working in sales and administration for his family’s printing business and doing well financially. I said I’ve got to go do what I love. Pat Chambers took on a massive project when he accepted the Penn State job in 2011. “But when I look back, it was a blessing in disguise.” If not for that horrific incident, he said, he might be working for the family business, coaching some Philadelphia-area high school, obsessing over the possessions that seemed so important then. We have a winner. Penn State announced Chambers as the 12th head coach in Nittany Lion basketball history in June 2011. What is now a near certainty is that the former Boston University coach will thrive in the wider, more intense media spotlight. “With all those brothers, you didn’t have a choice,” said Chambers. But we stuck together, kept a great attitude.” Penn State won just 22 of 63 games his first two seasons and hovered near .500 the next three. And since Jan. 11, the Nittany Lions, historically at or near the bottom in league attendance, have averaged crowds of more than 11,400. Soon afterward, the husband attacked Chambers, stabbing him twice in the neck with a broken wine glass. Then in 2016, he recruited three Roman Catholic stars – Stevens, Tony Carr and Nazeer Bostick – and a light appeared at the tunnel’s end. Two brothers and a sister. Fact.