At 0-7, Penn has decided to fire coach Glen Miller, replacing him with assistant coach Jerome Allen, according to a university press release.
After three-plus seasons with the Quakers, Miller finished with a 45-52 record. He took the team to the NCAA Tournament in his first season, but the team has struggled since. Under former coach Fran Dunpy, who left Penn for Temple in 2006, the Quakers were a perennial Ivy League contender. However, they have lost that status to Cornell.
With Allen at the helm, the Quakers hope to return to Ivy League glory. As a Quaker player in the 1990s, Allen led Penn to three consecutive Ivy League titles, and the team was 42-0 in the league during that run. Penn also pulled off a first-round upset against Nebraska in the 1994 NCAA Tournament.
Allen has lots of ties to the Philadelphia community. He founded a charity in the city and attended high school at nearby Episcopal Academy.
