ESPN.com was nice enough to feature Penn State’s own Ed DeChellis as a guest on SportsNation’s user-generated Q&A series, and though he was only around for about 20 minutes, he addressed some of the pressing issues about Penn State basketball.   Well, not really.  It was pretty boring, standard stuff that side-stepped any controversy.  Still, there were a few good questions sprinkled in, including one from yours truly.  I’d sent in about 6 or 7 and of course they took the least important one.  But here are a few of the answers DeChellis gave.

Devon (Long Island): As a Penn State alum, and not as a coach, what does having a good basketball team mean to you?

Ed DeChellis: (3:10 PM ET ) It means a great deal to me. We’ve worked extremely hard to grow a quality program. We’ve worked from the ground up on every aspect of our program. Each aspect of our program has improved every year. We will continue to improve it. I work extremely hard every day to give our alumni and our students nad [sic] our fans the program that they all want. That is to be a Big Ten champion and NCAA Tournament team.

Like I said, a pretty impressive non-answer.

The next question came, ostensibly, from a future Nittany Lion football player.  If this was you, SOA, kudos for caring.  And if not…why?  Either way, not a bad question.

Stephen Obeng-Agyapong (Bronx, NY): Should we expect the same up-tempo offense this year, or will there be a drastic change?

Ed DeChellis: (3:14 PM ET ) Expect the same uptempo offense. Maybe even more with the balance at the guard positoin that we will have. We hope to press more than we have. I think we’ll be a deeper, balanced team, especially in the back court.

Remember how the only thing that kept Penn State from making the NCAA tournament was its pitiful non-conference schedule?  Ed DeChellis does.

Blake (Mechanicsburg, PA): Coach, is your ’09/’10 schedule complete? How do you feel about it?

Ed DeChellis: (3:15 PM ET ) Our 09-10 schedule is just about complete. We’re looking to secure one more contract. We feel good about our schedule. We looked at he RPI of the teams that we are playing and hopefully have made good decisions about our non-conference schedule. Keep in mind, it is very difficult to anticipate how teams on your non conference schedule will play in the upcoming season. That ended up being a huge problem for us this year in not getting into the NCAA Tournament.

That’s pretty much it as far as the important questions.  If you want to read about whether the Creamery has named a flavor after Ed how how he interacts with JoePa, click through.

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