Big East February '26 Thread

[FriarJ]

Being pretty good and playing a bland, dull style of basketball isn't upholding the brand that school was built on. Brutal hire.

Yep, all those locals that lived the Georgetown brand are long gone and they are not coming back. I can’t think of a once great program more doomed than they are. Not even Cuse is that screwed. They still average around 17k, which is half of what they used to but 3-4 times what Georgetown gets.

 

[BFieldHusky]

Being pretty good and playing a bland, dull style of basketball isn't upholding the brand that school was built on. Brutal hire.

Once again, you do not research things before you post dumb things. So you think a guy who won 278 games at GTown (winning percentage of 65%) including 58% of BE games, went to the tournament 8x, and went to a Final 4 is a "brutal hire."

 

[bendm]

Doesn’t get much better than PC fans taking pot shots at Georgetown on a UConn board

 

[businesslawyer]

Being pretty good and playing a bland, dull style of basketball isn't upholding the brand that school was built on. Brutal hire.

“I really don’t care if we win a lot of games so long as I like the style we play.” Said no fan of any team or program ever.

 

[RuffRuff]

“I really don’t care if we win a lot of games so long as I like the style we play.” Said no fan of any team or program ever.

He did have a F4. I'd be curious to what Gtown attendance was like that year.

 

[FriarJ]

Doesn’t get much better than PC fans taking pot shots at Georgetown on a UConn board

Well, one thing I will always know as bad as it gets for us we will always have fans butts in seats.

 

[FriarJ]

“I really don’t care if we win a lot of games so long as I like the style we play.” Said no fan of any team or program ever.

I think the point is that the team style changed as the demographic did in DC and now it’s gone. You must remember the brand that they were, rough, tumble, proud and unapologetic. They were DC’s team. That is gone and impossible to get back. DC was 80% Black in the 80’s and Georgetown was their team. Now DC is about 40% Black and shrinking every year as gentrification proceeds. The vast majority of the alums don’t care and never did about basketball.

 

[aceboon]

He did have a F4. I'd be curious to what Gtown attendance was like that year.

quality sucks but the place looks pretty packed out here, I don't think those Jeff Green/Roy Hibbert era teams had issues drawing fans, especially since they had a heavy DMV presence on the team and they were winning

 

[FriarJ]

quality sucks but the place looks pretty packed out here, I don't think those Jeff Green/Roy Hibbert era teams had issues drawing fans, especially since they had a heavy DMV presence on the team and they were winning

Attendance had already started dropping by then. I posted those figures above. Still good average attendance but nothing like in the heyday.

 

[asteinindc]

i live in DC and have relatives and friends who WERE georgetown season ticket holders—not grads of the school but fans of good basketball. They lived in the MD suburbs and would come downtown for the games ALL the time, including in the JT3 era. They stopped doing so (i noticed because I would get their tickets for the UCONN games). It's actually pretty simple as to why. The team started sucking. The shlep wasn't worth it. And they haven't returned to winning since. If the team gets better the fans will show up again. Not a crazy proposition.

Quick note: i went to the uconn game this year. Brutal game as we all remember. the arena was, i dunno, half full maybe and of that i'd say half or so were uconn fans. Even the big draws aren't filling that arena.

I also think that the GOOD dc hoops scene is basically now just high school because the wizards have really sucked a lot too. There's not really much muscle memory of going downtown for a game anymore

 

[TRest]

I think the point is that the team style changed as the demographic did in DC and now it’s gone. You must remember the brand that they were, rough, tumble, proud and unapologetic. They were DC’s team. That is gone and impossible to get back. DC was 80% Black in the 80’s and Georgetown was their team. Now DC is about 40% Black and shrinking every year as gentrification proceeds. The vast majority of the alums don’t care and never did about basketball.

I also doubt any college team will again become the cool program for middle school and high school kids to rep. Georgetown, UNLV, and UNC all had huge fan bases in the popular culture and street wear. I can’t think of anything like that now.

 

[RuffRuff]

I also doubt any college team will again become the cool program for middle school and high school kids to rep. Georgetown, UNLV, and UNC all had huge fan bases in the popular culture and street wear. I can’t think of anything like that now.

Nope - game has changed too much.

The only CBB brand that still has some of that swag is Duke. Saw the top ten most watched games this year, was a lot of Duke, Michigan, Mich St and Arkansas. We didn't appear.