Danny Earl joins Penn State coaching staff:
“Ed DeChellis reached back to Penn State’s last glory era of men’s basketball to hire his latest assistant coach.
“Make that the only real glory era of the last half-century. Danny Earl led the only Penn State team to ever achieve an Associated Press top-10 ranking.
“The 1995-96 Nittany Lions, of which Earl was the floor leader and DeChellis the lead assistant, started 19-2 and reached the No. 9 national ranking in mid-February before flaming out.
“Earl was the centerpiece of a rebuilding process that reached its apex during his playing prime. …”