Ed Cooley to Georgetown

[NJHusky]

I didn’t know much about Copley’s background prior to this. Wow. Impressive guy. Either way he wins. Goes to Gtown for another challenge or gets what we wants from Providence admin. Kudos

 

[navery12]

Can you use a waiver if you follow your previous coach?

Yeah your coach was still fired at your current school so you'd get a waiver

 

[ElGreco]

Wild day for the Big East.

Providence should give the Kennesaw State coach consideration. He was impressive today even with the loss. Seemed highly intelligent when he was interviewed.

Now if they could get Billy Donovan to come home that would be something.

 

[ElGreco]

Did he do an Edsall?

Scooted off the floor post game well before the team.

 

[PNolanFan]

Cooley has been lauded as this great coach but I don’t see it. His high water mark was last year winning 2 tourney games but going down to Kansas. Before that it’s pretty pedestrian and look at this year, his team got worse as the season went on. They beat us in the first game with a bullying back down style layups and getting the refs to give them an insane number of foul shots. Unimaginative offense but it’s all they can do. GT can have him, he will probably be better than Patrick but would we want him? Hell no.
They are hiring a guy who himself said “I should be fired” at Louisville. Does St. John’s care? Nope. Pitino gets to play his home campus games in a high school gym. He’ll recruit, he always does, and they’ll be competitive until his next scandal which btw is just around the corner.

He took over a bottom feeder, Providence was basically Depaul 10 years ago and now has them as a tournament team pretty much every year.

 

[ElGreco]

Bobby Hurley to PC is not exactly an unrealistic proposition.

Good fit but I’d hate to see the Hurley brothers battle 2-3 times a year. Also, probably not an upgrade from an AZ State job.

 

[ElGreco]

Hard to see why Cooley would go to Georgetown, seemingly a lateral move, unless Georgetown is offering a better NIL situation. Which they very well may, they are certainly richer and have a bigger donor base than PC.

If Cooley can recruit better with NIL support, you have to think he can bring Georgetown into the top tier of the Big East. Would be fun.

The lights are much brighter in DC.

 

[ctchamps]

Good fit but I’d hate to see the Hurley brothers battle 2-3 times a year. Also, probably not an upgrade from an AZ State job.

I was happy AZ State lost yesterday. Don’t want any Hurley distractions short term never mind long term!

I have spoken!

 

[HuskyHawk]

Sure sounds like things have soured to the point of no return. PC board is imploding and most hate him. They actually think Billy Donovan or the Celtics guy are interested in replacing him

If Kevin McNamara is saying he’s gone, he’s gone.

 

[wheelerdog]

Bobby Hurley to PC is not exactly an unrealistic proposition.

I believe I have read articles in the past where the Hurleys have stated that they would avoid coaching in the same conference

 

[Palatine]

PC should hire a female coach. Break the gender barrier. That would be BIG news. Really put Providence on the map.

 

[BGesus4]

given how much pc fans hate our Hurley, it would be the chefs kiss to have them get one on their sidelines

 

[ElGreco]

If Kevin McNamara is saying he’s gone, he’s gone.

He’s gone. All the signs are there. Once it’s set Pitino goes to St Johns. Now hearing Cooley’s wife wants out of RI as well. His daughter may settle in the DC area after graduating from Georgetown.

 

[Jbirdp5]

Legitimate options I’d look at if I were PC

Jared Grasso
John Becker
John Linehan
Tobin Anderson
Mitch Henderson

Always been impressed by Becker, even yesterday his team has a plan and executes…surprised he hasn’t gotten more looks

 

[ElGreco]

I believe I have read articles in the past where the Hurleys have stated that they would avoid coaching in the same conference

Would hate to see them play 2-3 times per year. Syracuse would have been the place!! BC, Pitt & Penn State would work “if” there were openings. He’s a Northeast guy.

 

[PNolanFan]

If you are a providence fan you have to still be grateful to Cooley for elevating the program, 7 tourney appearances, you would have to go back like 35 years to get that many I believe. I say this as their fanbase seems to be trashing him now which makes no sense. I think I saw someone earlier on the board compare it to the edsall situation which I think actually makes sense. Now Cooley if he leaves will do it with alot more class than edsall did so not a direct comparison

 

[McLovin]

Hard to see why Cooley would go to Georgetown, seemingly a lateral move, unless Georgetown is offering a better NIL situation. Which they very well may, they are certainly richer and have a bigger donor base than PC.

If Cooley can recruit better with NIL support, you have to think he can bring Georgetown into the top tier of the Big East. Would be fun.

Heard he asked for (and was guaranteed) $3 million per year in NIL money at Georgetown…

 

[Kembacity]

PC should hire a female coach. Break the gender barrier. That would be BIG news. Really put Providence on the map.

Their fans would LOVE that!

 

[Madmannsucks]

I know it isn't going to happen...but could you imagine the insanity of the Big East if Providence hired Kevin Ollie?!

Ollie at Providence
Cooley at Georgetown
Pitino at St Johns

...add all that to the current coaching lineup of the BE with Hurley, Smart, Miller, Holloway, Matta McDermott, etc

That would be completely crazy with the characters and history of all involved. Hell, the Big East could probably make more money off of a Netfilx reality series following all the teams/coaches around in a documentary than they do off their actual media rights deal!

Doubt Coach Ollie will be going anywhere soon. The people he works for have loads of money and have no problem spending it.

 

[SubbaBub]

Makes zero sense unless its a payday for Cooley. Moving from one small Catholic school to another in the same conference is a huge middle finger to the PC program that finally reached respectability.

Cooley must think his PC tenure has topped out with UConn once again the head and shoulders best program north of Philly. Credit to Hurley for that.

Gtown is a moribund program though credit to them for finally ending the John Thompson legacy straight jacket.

 

[FriarJ]

I don’t know how much stock to put into that, but Cooley did nothing postgame to indicate that he was staying at PC - he sounded like he was gone.

Absolutely devastating for Providence fans. They’ve been talking about this being his dream job forever and not only is he dumping them, but he’s dumping them for an in-conference rival.

We’ve told Providence fans for years that they have a hard ceiling…well, Ed Cooley is about to show it to them.

The fans have been talking about it? It’s all Ed Cooley f ing talked about. He was always FOS apparently and I ate all of it. Leave, it’s a free country but spare us all the Us, We, Together, Family, Friar nonsense. It was I, Me, Alone, Selfish, Hoyas all along. He tanked a season, to go to a fellow conference member. Fire him today.

 

[dennismenace]

John Thompson and even his son are gone forever. So are the glory days of Georgetown Providence should move their campus to Newport and re-label themselves as "the Commodores" in honor of Cornelius Vanderbilt and his mansion in Newport called "The Breakers."

 

[PWS]

Recruiting wise maybe not

In the beginning, Patrick recruited well at GT. His problem was 4 or 5 of them would transfer out after year one. After several cycles of this, the recruiting dropped off & they went completely off the rails picking up transfer problems to fill in the gaps.

 

[Deleted at users request]

This is a great move for both Georgetown and Cooley. Hope he makes them a powerhouse again and hope Pitino does the same for St John’s.

Having those 2 as our conference leaders would be so much better with their markets over teams like Xavier and Marquette.

Cooley is going to kill it over there with all the resources available. It’s probably the most attractive school in conference to recruit at outside of our own.

 

[FriarJ]

The only reason Providence had a brief revival was because UConn had Kevin Ollie recruiting from a bar stool for three years.


I don’t think he gives a crap about any of that - and you overestimate Providence’s reach in Rhode Island. This isn’t the state U, it’s a lil fritter of a private school.

I think he likely feels like it’s time for a move and it probably is. Recruiting is no longer easy with UConn back up and running next door. Getting out and getting a new five-year deal somewhere else probably feels like an escape hatch for him. It just so happens that the hatch goes to Georgetown and not somewhere else - I think any port in a storm.

People don’t care about Providence College in RI? You are giving Cooley a run for his money in being FOS and I’m not even halfway through this thread yet.