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[ConnHuskBask]

I would stake my life and the life of my family on the veracity of the reports. That’s how much I know about it. Without getting into details I have a brother in law enforcement. When he says he read it on the message board, you and I both know that if someone you trust immensely posts something on this board you can take it to the bank. That’s what happened in this case.

What is unseemly and what has PC fans so irate is that he was not man enough to own up to his problems without exposing them. Instead he used his sycophants in the media to dump on PC and state how much better the job was at Georgetown and he had to take it. The lies are exposed by his own words in this video. He can rot in hell. DC has changed since they heyday. Nobody is going to Georgetown games and he will never have what he had here from a fan perspective. He was arrogant to believe it was all him. It wasn’t, it never was. It was us supporting him.

Here is something you can take to the bank. PC sent him to rehab multiple times including the summer after the S16. There are not enough F. u’s available in the world for this guy.

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.

 

[FriarJ]

Georgetown is a better job than Providence.

BS, nobody with half a brain thinks that anymore and those that state it can’t back it up, including you. Some knucklehead on the boneyard named Punkbo saying it, does not make it so. They don’t have any fans and the students couldn’t care less, Georgetown can’t give the tickets away and the arena’s area is not what it once was. Too much competition in that city including UM which is 1000% easier to get to and much safer.

2/3’s of PC’s student body pays for season tickets and there is a waiting list. PC has top notch facilities and a multi-million dollar NIL. You are living in the past.

 

[FriarJ]

I'm going to need to see quite a bit of evidence to the contrary before I believe PC is not merely a stepping stone.

Since day one of the Big East (Jimmy Carter was President, the NHL had not yet merged with thw WHA and you & I were very early in our collegiate careers), the only PC head coaches who didn't leave for a better job (whether that was the NBA, Clemson, Virginia or Georgetown) were those who couldn't land abetter job.

Hell, your current head coach, while still in his honeymoon phase gushed about the regard he holds Georgetown in. If he starts winning consistently at PC he'll start getting offers. It will take him ten minutes to pack his bags once his version of Clemson or Virginia calls.

No, what you said is that is what we are mad about. That is what you are wrong about. I have explained in detail why we are mad and you are just going to have to trust that I know a lot of them.

 

[FriarJ]

The bitter scorned energy ex is so strong here.

Why would any coach worth his salt want to coach at PC if the reward for doing anything great and leaving for a better opportunity would be y’all having a if we can’t have him nobody can attitude?

Y’all fanbase need some self awareness lol

Dude, I will have a discussion with you but at least have the self awareness (speaking of it) to not do so obvious a troll job. I honestly don’t have the patience for that BS.

 

[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”?

 

[Deleted at users request]

Dude, I will have a discussion with you but at least have the self awareness (speaking of it) to not do so obvious a troll job. I honestly don’t have the patience for that BS.

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?

 

[Deleted at users request]

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.

 

[Deleted at users request]

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.

 

[Deleted at users request]

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?

 

[FriarJ]

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.

Hahahaha. Yes I should be ashamed of how I’m acting about the guy. You are clueless.

 

[FriarJ]

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?

No, it’s insane how oblivious you are to why our fan base is so irate. Your hate for us completely blinds any consideration of anything else. Either that or you really aren’t very bright and I don’t think that’s the case. Either way you are not worth me trying to convince of why we are all so mad. I have explained it time and time again on here and you obviously gloss right over it. The reasons he gave for leaving are 100% a lie and anyone with even a hint of an open mind knows it. He made the school he said he loved millions of time look bad in the lie. You love that, I get it. Doesn’t make it any less of a f lie.

 

[Deleted at users request]

No, it’s insane how oblivious you are to why our fan base is so irate. Your hate for us completely blinds any consideration of anything else. Either that or you really aren’t very bright and I don’t think that’s the case. Either way you are not worth me trying to convince of why we are all so mad. I have explained it time and time again on here and you obviously gloss right over it. The reasons he gave for leaving are 100% a lie and anyone with even a hint of an open mind knows it. He made the school he said he loved millions of time look bad in the lie. You love that, I get it. Doesn’t make it any less of a f lie.

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?

 

[Deleted at users request]

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]

BS, nobody with half a brain thinks that anymore and those that state it can’t back it up, including you. Some knucklehead on the boneyard named Punkbo saying it, does not make it so. They don’t have any fans and the students couldn’t care less, Georgetown can’t give the tickets away and the arena’s area is not what it once was. Too much competition in that city including UM which is 1000% easier to get to and much safer.

2/3’s of PC’s student body pays for season tickets and there is a waiting list. PC has top notch facilities and a multi-million dollar NIL. You are living in the past.

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.

 

[Deleted at users request]

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?

 

[Deleted at users request]

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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.