After only having eight players last year and having to play some players almost 40 minutes a game, Pasadena City College women’s basketball head coach Joe Peron knew he had to make it a priority to recruit heavy this offseason to make sure he has the depth to avoid a repeat.
23 years and counting: Basketball coach not retiring any time soon
“Nope, I’ll never coach.” Those were the words Joe Peron echoed to George Terzian, his former coach at PCC, when Terzian told him that he would make an incredible coach one day. As to why Peron never entertained the possibility of coaching when he was younger, he said he had seen other coaches embarrass their players, something he would never want to do. “They humiliate them, they spit on ‘em, and I thought I’d never coach,” Peron said. After transferring from PCC and graduating from …