Chaney has a pretty good track record . . . for Temple. It's not an easy place to get good recruits, and he has the virtue of being a well-established coach. That helps with recruiting considering the neighborhood Temple is in is something comparable to a hell-hole.
He has always been the black Bobby Knight - the outbursts, threats, and occasional displays of violence. Both coaches were successful in winning ballgames and educating their recruits. Yet the media has long hated one and pandered to the other.
One of his recruiting tools (and the way he got Temple on the map) is the fact that he's basically willing to put anyone on the schedule, anywhere. Temple perrenially has one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the country. This year they had Georgetown, South Carolina, Arizona St., Villanova, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Wake Forest, Maryland, and Duke. A schedule like that cuts both ways. You're going to lose a lot of games. But if you have a good record in-conference, the strength of schedule raises your power rating up high enough that you can get into the NCAA tournament, even with only a 17-13 overall record or so -- which Temple has done a few times.