PHILADELPHIA — According to several sources familiar with the decision, Fran Dunphy has agreed to be the next head men’s basketball coach at La Salle University, his alma mater.
Dunphy, already the first to be head men’s basketball coach at two separate Big Five schools, after long runs at both Penn and Temple, is about to make it three schools. So what is already a unique Philadelphia coaching career is veering into never-to-be-repeated territory.
According to multiple sources, Dunphy is taking the job after he himself tried to convince several others, including former assistant Matt Langel, now Colgate’s successful head coach, to take it. Dunphy’s concern, one alumnus close to him said, is for the institution itself, beyond the basketball program.
