“You’ve all said it before. When a friend’s relationship abruptly ends, a loved one passes away or when your favorite team loses the big game. You utter the four words that absolutely no one wants to hear, much less believe: Time heals all wounds.
“But if the aforementioned cliché is indeed true, it looks like Penn State men’s basketball coach Ed DeChellis could use a week (or even a month) to recover from his team’s recent play. A visibly frustrated DeChellis spoke to the media yesterday morning at his weekly press conference and said the team’s problems are nobody’s fault but its own.
“‘We’re the ones that kind of got us into the mess and we’re the ones that kind of have to work to get us out of it,’ he said. ‘And we can’t feel sorry for ourselves.’
“Saturday’s 76-50 blowout loss to Wisconsin (14-4, 5-2 Big Ten) left the Nittany Lions (7-13, 1-6) winless in 11 of their past 13 games. After an admittedly sleepless Saturday night, DeChellis is trying hard to find some solutions.
” ‘I think that’s what’s frustrating for me, when I come home Saturday and don’t sleep, is you search, and you search, and you search and you try to help our team, try to help our kids get an advantage somewhere, or try to help them get better somewhere,’ DeChellis said. ‘And it’s just got to be on the court and it’s just going to take some time.’ …”