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Big East February '26 Thread

is Georgetown about to finish last in the conference? I thought Cooley would be a good hire based off of his track record at Prov, wild that it's year 3 and he still can't get it off the ground with NIL/portal available.
 
aceboon said:
is Georgetown about to finish last in the conference? I thought Cooley would be a good hire based off of his track record at Prov, wild that it's year 3 and he still can't get it off the ground with NIL/portal available.
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Cooley has been incredibly disappointing. He did a really good job in resuscitating the Providence program.
Just hearing the announcers talking about the t-shirt toss made me chuckle. You know in crowded arenas the cheerleaders giving away t-shirts need a special device to catapult the t-shirt far distances to get to levels far enough away from the court. In the Georgetown game the cheerleaders can do underhand tosses to get all the people t-shirts.
 
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aceboon said:
is Georgetown about to finish last in the conference? I thought Cooley would be a good hire based off of his track record at Prov, wild that it's year 3 and he still can't get it off the ground with NIL/portal available.
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I’m sure Georgetown is one of the teams UConn doesn’t want to meet again in NYC.
 
gsmooth said:
Cooley has been incredibly disappointing. He did a really good job in resuscitating the Providence program.
Just hearing the announcers talking about the t-shirt toss made me chuckle. You know in crowded arenas the cheerleaders giving away t-shirts need a special device to catapult the t-shirt far distances to get to levels far enough away from the court. In the Georgetown game the cheerleaders can do underhand tosses to get the all the people t-shirts.
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This is what happens when a fan base leaves and does not come back.

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DFW HOYA said:
This is what happens when a fan base leaves and does not come back.

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Sad. Cooley wasn't the guy. In this day an age, need someone who knows how to execute, not a traveling salesman. Cooley is a fine coach as it comes to culture building and motivating, but in this world it's about knowing how to build a roster with pinpoint accuracy, leveraging the portal and managing NIL/Ops. More science than art these days.

Big question is how far gone is that fanbase, will they return with a winner, quickly?
 
aceboon said:
is that from last night?
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It could be from any night and every night of a Georgetown game. It's really sad to see what that Georgetown Basketball program has become. I still remember Hoya Paranoia from the 1980s and then the mid 1990s with Allen Iversen. They were the quintessential popular iconoclastic team in those decades. John Thompson 3rd did a solid job during his time in the 2000s and early 2010s with a Final Four, but since then it has been crickets and apathy.

I thought Cooley would be the guy, but like I said in the post above he really has disappointed and underwhelmed.
 
RuffRuff said:
Sad. Cooley wasn't the guy. In this day an age, need someone who knows how to execute, not a traveling salesman. Cooley is a fine coach as it comes to culture building and motivating, but in this world it's about knowing how to build a roster with pinpoint accuracy, leveraging the portal and managing NIL/Ops. More science than art these days.

Big question is how far gone is that fanbase, will they return with a winner, quickly?
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St. John's is the template. Small alumni base but huge metro area and if you can produce high level basketball the fans will return
 
Tyler2Rings said:
St. John's is the template. Small alumni base but huge metro area and if you can produce high level basketball the fans will return
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St. John's has 200,000 alumni and 60 percent of them live within an hour of the campus.
Georgetown has 240,000 alumni and 10 percent of them live within an hour of the campus.
 
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Tyler2Rings said:
St. John's is the template. Small alumni base but huge metro area and if you can produce high level basketball the fans will return
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StJ has a very unique advantage in Mike Repole. They also got a very shiney HOF coach circumstantially on the back end. I don't know if this is the template, as very hard to reproduce. Is Pitino Jr the coach in waiting?
 
DFW HOYA said:
St. John's has 200,000 alumni and 60 percent of them live within an hour of the campus.
Georgetown has 240,000 alumni and 10 percent of them live within an hour of the campus.
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That's good info. But my point is that when StJ sells out MSG, it's not all alums. Many are hoop fans that want to see high level ball. Similar dynamic could exist in the DC metro, no?
 
DFW HOYA said:
St. John's has 200,000 alumni and 60 percent of them live within an hour of the campus.
Georgetown has 240,000 alumni and 10 percent of them live within an hour of the campus.
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Where are you getting that 10% figure from?
 
Tyler2Rings said:
That's good info. But my point is that when StJ sells out MSG, it's not all alums. Many are hoop fans that want to see high level ball. Similar dynamic could exist in the DC metro, no?
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Eh, such a diff vibe. MSG is a mecca. I can buy this. MSG is also so easy to get to for so many.
 
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Inyatkin said:
A couple decent seasons at New Mexico. If he had a different last name no way he’d be getting all these opportunities
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He won the NIT and made the dance multiple times at Minnesota. Had a winning record at FIU for the first time in 15 years his lone season there, on top of his success at New Mexico. For sure his last name is probably his best asset, just not his only one.
 
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Frenemy said:
He won the NIT and made the dance multiple times at Minnesota. Had a winning record at FIU for the first time in 15 years his lone season there, on top of his success at New Mexico. For sure his last name is probably his best asset, just not his only one.
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Produced JT Toppin, Donovan Dent. Guy can coach.
 
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3rdbass said:
DePaul is definitely not the DePaul of old. Loved seeing them getting better. The Big East isn't great this year but at least we don't Have DePaul playing like a low division 1 school this year.
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Yeah they did something UConn hasn't done: sweep Creighton. Holtzmann is turning that program around and DePaul is no longer the doormat for the rest of the Big East teams to wipe their feet on. I said this in January, DePaul will not play beyond the Big East Tournament, but they are not going to be a pushover if you see them on the schedule-they will be a pain in the ass.

Brandon Maclin was carving up Creighton. Riebe will be very good for UConn and will make his way to the NBA, but I would love NJ Benson on this UConn team. He plays above the rim and leads the nation in dunks.
 
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