Word: berndt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What's more, Berndt's ability to turn the 1982 team--recruited almost entirely by his predecessor--into college football's biggest surprise of 1982 paid immediate dividends...
...Almost all of the credit has to go to the quality of coaching," says Stetson, who many credit for raising Penn's national image. "Jerry Berndt came in here and turned around our program with well-organized and targeted recruiting...
Both Stetson and Berndt emphasize that the coach's reputation in the Midwest, a region in which Penn never had much recruiting success, has allowed the Quakers to attract football players they never could have in the pre-Berndt...
...Berndt--a native of Toledo, Ohio and graduate of Bowling Green--admits that he expanded the Quakers' recruiting to include the talent-laden areas of Chicago and St. Louis, which had been strictly off-limits to almost everyone but Harvard and Yale...
Stetson and Berndt both say it has been directly responsible for a new outlook on the Philadelphia campus each fall, has prompted an increase in alumni giving, and has prompted athletes who might not otherwise have applied to give Penn a closer look...