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[ConnHuskBask]

I actually had tagged you yesterday on the site to get your take on it. Be interested to see a bit more there if you'd care to share.

 

[Bomber36]

He better hope that Cooley doesn’t wake up Georgetown as a sleeping giant.

Based on tonight’s game, we have a cushion there.

 

[Leebo]

I have to wonder if this person won't have a harder time getting legitimate people like Fanta to talk to him for future projects.

 

[Bomber36]

I suspect its someone who is doing this for the first time and is working through being new in the process, but I thought given those expectations they did a really good job. I hope they continue to get better and follow through with the other 10 schools. I also hope they improve the sound engineering.

The voice narration was excellent.

Even though he couldn’t pronounce “amica”?

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

I’m honestly not trolling. I could probably be more respectful, but the way your fanbase is treating a guy who’s had some of the best success in so long there is pretty cringe to see.

It may hurt to hear how Georgetown is a better gig but it’s true. Their history includes some great players (AI, Morning, Mutumbo, etc.) which if Cooley can get them on track, he can utilize in recruiting. While also being in one of the most fertile basketball grounds in the country. Acting oblivious to how good of an opportunity it is to be the guy to take Georgetown out of the dumps is indeed very oblivious.

Do you know how DC would act if he managed to bring them back to a Sweet 16?? It’s honestly shameful what you all did to him in that doc and not good karma for your fanbase. You also missed a prime opportunity to showcase the history of your program because you all were so obsessed with tearing that man down. You all played yourself.

Every other school is going to talk about the pride and history that their program has and your doc is going to be a woe is me feature.

 

[joelerg87]

I’m honestly not trolling. I could probably be more respectful, but the way your fanbase is treating a guy who’s had some of the best success in so long there is pretty cringe to see.

It may hurt to hear how Georgetown is a better gig but it’s true. Their history includes some great players (AI, Morning, Mutumbo, etc.) which if Cooley can get them on track, he can utilize in recruiting. While also being in one of the most fertile basketball grounds in the country. Acting oblivious to how good of an opportunity it is to be the guy to take Georgetown out of the dumps is indeed very oblivious.

Do you know how DC would act if he managed to bring them back to a Sweet 16?? It’s honestly shameful what you all did to him in that doc and not good karma for your fanbase. You also missed a prime opportunity to showcase the history of your program because you all were so obsessed with tearing that man down. You all played yourself.

Every other school is going to talk about the pride and history that their program has and your doc is going to be a woe is me feature.

I think the anger is over how he left. He had one foot out the door with a significant portion of the season left and they tanked. It was a pretty sad end to his tenure there. Seemed like his doing.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Right. Please don’t spend an hour talking about the rise and fall of the Ollie era with random boneyarders speaking on how his drinking habits caused his tenure to end.

To whom are you writing your fears?
Are any other projects in the works?
Do you believe there will more?
What if De Paul hires Ollie?

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

To whom are you writing your fears?
Are any other projects in the works?
Do you believe there will more?
What if De Paul hires Ollie?

They are suppose to do one of these for every Big East team. As a historical project for how special the conference is. So we should have one in the works as well.

Ollie should retire before he takes DePaul as a job.

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

I think the anger is over how he left. He had one foot out the door with a significant portion of the season left and they tanked. It was a pretty sad end to his tenure there. Seemed like his doing.

That’s fine but this kind of scorn is outrageous. You wouldve thought he left them with a tournament ban and NCAA violations like Cal does to his schools.

He left them in a great place moving forward. If I’m not mistaken he didn’t even do them like Pitino did Iona and poach half the team. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong if he indeed did or try to.

 

[superjohn]

That’s fine but this kind of scorn is outrageous. You wouldve thought he left them with a tournament ban and NCAA violations like Cal does to his schools.

He left them in a great place moving forward. If I’m not mistaken he didn’t even do them like Pitino did Iona and poach half the team. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong if he indeed did or try to.

He did try to do that, that's not why he's a scumbag.

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

He did try to do that, that's not why he's a scumbag.

From my understanding, he’s a scumbag because he did a good job of building an exciting culture that the fans could get behind and then left for a better job in a bad way? Not by anything he did publicly, but just because he took the job early behind the scenes?

Harbaugh is literally a Michigan man who every offseason puts the fanbase in limbo about whether he is going or staying and is doing it again after a National Championship. It quite literally hurts the programs recruiting acting the way he does. He tried to leave for the Vikings job a year before but they didn’t want him. You’ll never hear Michigan fans say a bad word about him though.

But maybe you’re referring to the affair that he had which was nobody’s business and makes PC’s fanbase even poopier for going so hard to expose it?

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

What is the lie? Are you saying people are upset because he said Georgetown was a better job and you all are saying that’s a lie he’s just leaving because of the affair?

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

I’m going to say this and try to be done with it.

But one important piece that isn’t brought up much (and some people probably aren’t going to want to hear) is even though he is Providence born and raised. He’s also a black man who looked up to John Thompson. That position at Georgetown is not only prestigious for black coaches because of JT, but the brand in general in the black community. DC is chocolate city. To this day it’s one of the most diverse areas in the country and has one of the most affluent black populations. All of that matters when it comes to that job also having an emotional pull for him and his family.

It is super frustrating to watch this very not diverse fanbase tear this black man down and slander him this much just because he didn’t leave how they would have liked him to after what he did for them. Like how pathetic do you have to be to dedicate a documentary that is suppose to be about your proud history to talk about this man’s rumored affair. And yeah, as a black man that pisses me the hell off that they would stoop so low. Low lives of a fanbase for that.

I guarantee you he is not going to be treated that way by his Georgetown and DC community whether he is successful there or not. Seeing how he’s been treated im so happy he’s in that area. I didn’t even care that much about Cooley before but this bs has me rooting for him and I hope Providence stays the insecure little brother program that they have fully proven they are.

 

[Punkbo]

I wish I was living in the past. I lived in Providence in the ‘80s when the mob made sure the food in that city was as good as any city in the country. I loved watching college basketball and my beloved Hartford Whalers at Challenge’s and dining at Hemenway’s, Capriccio’s and on Federal Hill.

But other than a magical run by Pitino, PC basketball always disappointed. The best game I attended while living in Providence? Princeton against Georgetown. I like your passion and loyalty, but face reality. Ed Cooley is the best thing that’s happened to PC basketball in a long time. Let’s hope that Kim English can provide some magic as well.

 

[auror]

It is super frustrating to watch this very not diverse fanbase tear this black man down and slander him this much just because he didn’t leave how they would have liked him to after what he did for them. Like how pathetic do you have to be to dedicate a documentary that is suppose to be about your proud history to talk about this man’s rumored affair. And yeah, as a black man that pisses me the hell off that they would stoop so low. Low lives of a fanbase for that.

The documentary was not about Providence's history. It is about Cooley leaving. It is a single subject documentary. Anything else covered is only context for that. It's called 'Divine Providence' because that was what Cooley said in his Gtown intro press conference..

 

[superjohn]

I’m going to say this and try to be done with it.

But one important piece that isn’t brought up much (and some people probably aren’t going to want to hear) is even though he is Providence born and raised. He’s also a black man who looked up to John Thompson. That position at Georgetown is not only prestigious for black coaches because of JT, but the brand in general in the black community. DC is chocolate city. To this day it’s one of the most diverse areas in the country and has one of the most affluent black populations. All of that matters when it comes to that job also having an emotional pull for him and his family.

It is super frustrating to watch this very not diverse fanbase tear this black man down and slander him this much just because he didn’t leave how they would have liked him to after what he did for them. Like how pathetic do you have to be to dedicate a documentary that is suppose to be about your proud history to talk about this man’s rumored affair. And yeah, as a black man that pisses me the hell off that they would stoop so low. Low lives of a fanbase for that.

I guarantee you he is not going to be treated that way by his Georgetown and DC community whether he is successful there or not. Seeing how he’s been treated im so happy he’s in that area. I didn’t even care that much about Cooley before but this bs has me rooting for him and I hope Providence stays the insecure little brother program that they have fully proven they are.

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

The documentary was not about Providence's history. It is about Cooley leaving. It is a single subject documentary. Anything else covered is only context for that. It's called 'Divine Providence' because that was what Cooley said in his Gtown intro press conference..

Okay I’m confused then. Are all of the documentaries going to be covering one subject for all the programs?

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

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I fully expected this kind of response from you.

 

[Leebo]

Okay I’m confused then. Are all of the documentaries going to be covering one subject for all the programs?

It's some guy with a youtube channel who wants to be a video essayist. Who knows what he'll do.

 

[auror]

Okay I’m confused then. Are all of the documentaries going to be covering one subject for all the programs?

From their original announcement:

Through 11 documentaries (1 per school), Big East Films' inaugural series will dive into the best stories from each program, with topics ranging anywhere from improbable tournament runs to coaching scandals.