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James Akinjo Leaving Georgetown

husky429 said:
Yeah PG is a big concern for me next year. Gaffney hasn't shown it (yet), and Cole may or may not pan out. Might the difference between being a good, and a great team.
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The good news is that Dan Hurley has the luxury of waiting until spring before making a decision on whether there is a need to a bring in a PG. He has 3 more months of practice and games to gauge the growth of Gaffney and Cole for that position. Of course this is assuming AG graduates and moves on. If he stays, PG is a moot point.
 
superjohn said:
None of them have been great, it's basically a mix of some solid players and some busts. Akinjo is the best of the bunch and he's a fairly low percentage gunner. Enoch, Durham, Emmitt Matthews all decent rotation players. Vance regressing into a bust, Prince Ali kind of a bust. Turtle Jackson, MAL, Kisunas total busts. Zach Brown, don't even ask.
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I thought it was a terrible embarrassment that these guys decomitted?
 
krinklecut said:
They are ripping Akinjo apart over on the Georgetown forum.

If he's not involved in any misconduct, how can you do anything but feel for the kid?
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Depends on the veracity and severity of the rumored Ewing misconduct. Could be rumored misconduct just like it was rumored that Akinjo was "on a list" floated around campus. Could also be an ex post facto justification from a minor incident.

In that case, I'd be pretty pissed that he's bailing on the team mid-season because they booted his friend off the team for very legitimate reasons. He's entitled to do it, but doesn't mean fans can't think less of him for doing so.

Again, the above is based on a scenario in which his leaving was not especially provoked.
 
MDHuskFan said:
People thought us firing Ollie was hard. Picture being GT and having to fire PATRICK EWING.....
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GU: "Yeah, Patrick. We have to move in another direction.

Patrick: "I must defer to my friend."

Friend:
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Stainmaster said:
I thought it was a terrible embarrassment that these guys decomitted?
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Of course it was. We couldn't even field a basketball team, Ollie was recruiting off of youtube and insta.

We had three probable starters leave and our top recruit switched schools, this is after the previous seasons where he lost our top recruit because he stopped calling him and losing his top tecruit the next year to cross dressing and petty crime.
 
superjohn said:
Of course it was. We couldn't even field a basketball team, Ollie was recruiting off of youtube and insta.

We had three probable starters leave and our top recruit switched schools, this is after the previous seasons where he lost our top recruit because he stopped calling him and losing his top tecruit the next year to cross dressing and petty crime.
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Steve Enoch is now the starting center on the nation’s #1 team. He’s averaging 10 Points / 8 Rebounds per game. A big body too. He was a huge loss.
 
Chief00 said:
Steve Enoch is now the starting center on the nation’s #1 team. He’s averaging 10 Points / 8 Rebounds per game. A big body too. He was a huge loss.
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Way more annoyed about Kofi but I like our squad. In retrospect it was good everyone left Ollie, it led to us getting rid of him.
 
Chief00 said:
Steve Enoch is now the starting center on the nation’s #1 team. He’s averaging 10 Points / 8 Rebounds per game. A big body too. He was a huge loss.
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They gave him 19 minutes a game in the year he would have been a senior at UConn. If we could have redshirted him ourselves and kept him, I would have signed up for that.
 
superjohn said:
Of course it was. We couldn't even field a basketball team, Ollie was recruiting off of youtube and insta.

We had three probable starters leave and our top recruit switched schools, this is after the previous seasons where he lost our top recruit because he stopped calling him and losing his top tecruit the next year to cross dressing and petty crime.
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You can’t have it both ways. Either it’s embarrassing that the staff let someone get away, or they’re a disappointing bust who wasn’t good enough to come here.
 
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Chief00 said:
Steve Enoch is now the starting center on the nation’s #1 team. He’s averaging 10 Points / 8 Rebounds per game. A big body too. He was a huge loss.
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Steve would not help us this year. He would have graduated
 
Stainmaster said:
You can’t have it both ways. Either it’s embarrassing that the staff let someone get away, or they’re a disappointing bust who wasn’t good enough to come here.
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What are you talking about? Those are the players he brought in and they all left him, he scrambled around bringing in worse players barely being able to fill out a roster.
 
Kenny11 said:
The craziest thing I read was those players not showing up to hearings. I can’t believe they would be advised to no-show and if they were trying to hide it, it’s still very hard to believe Ewing, the AD and the whole school didn’t know about this.
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From what I read on the Georgetown board- people are not always informed they are being summoned in a TRO case. I don’t know how true that is so I will defer to counsel on that @businesslawyer

Supposedly- since there is limited harm to the accused but the massive benefit to the accusers these TRO’s are routinely granted. Because of the routine nature- Georgetown didnt act on these until there internal investigation was complete or the courts made a non temporary determination.

The prevailing narrative on the Hoya board is one of the players broke the temporary restraining order which is why he was removed but others named in TRO were not- and akinjo was unrelated.

Again, this is all speculation- but it seemed like it could be plausible
 
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businesslawyer said:
LMAO. Georgetown hasn't said a single bad word about Akinjo. The people who have defamed him are message board posters here who think it's fair to speculate anonymously where they have no basis to do so.
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Yeah the first couple pages of this thread are rough
 
auror said:
Depends on the veracity and severity of the rumored Ewing misconduct. Could be rumored misconduct just like it was rumored that Akinjo was "on a list" floated around campus. Could also be an ex post facto justification from a minor incident.

In that case, I'd be pretty pissed that he's bailing on the team mid-season because they booted his friend off the team for very legitimate reasons. He's entitled to do it, but doesn't mean fans can't think less of him for doing so.

Again, the above is based on a scenario in which his leaving was not especially provoked.
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I'm all in favor of kids making decisions they think are best for their lives whether or not it affects my basketball team. Thinking less of a young man or woman's character for making the best decisions for themselves because it hurts the amateur sports team you follow is bad fandom.
 
1) Transfers to UConn don't get waivers

2) Always thought it was ridiculous that a player has to sit out a year but a Coach can pick up and leave.
 
8893 said:
Hit 27k views and almost 350 replies in 24 hours - Thanks for all who participated - James Akinjo is done with Georgetown and he ain’t coming here.
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Agree, good thread and had breaking news added as some information was revealed. It’s tough for NBA guys to make the transition to college coach - especially given the current environment of colleges.
 
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This thread has gone Full Yard with room to spare!

15 pages of accusations ranging from sexual assault to weed smoking weed. Evidence? Reddit.....G D Reddit

Ollie has no eye for talent. Yes he does, but he can't coach.

Vance Jackson is a bum

The College Kid may be innocent but homesick.

15 pages, and counting, and the kid probably can't transfer here. Of course, we have no reason the think he would if he could...........which he probably can't,

Damn, this is the Yard in full bloom. All that's missing is a reference to AO's dad and which school Kasongo will pick.
 
MilliniumPrince said:
This thread has gone Full Yard with room to spare!

15 pages of accusations ranging from sexual assault to weed smoking weed. Evidence? Reddit.....G D Reddit

Ollie has no eye for talent. Yes he does, but he can't coach.

Vance Jackson is a bum

The College Kid may be innocent but homesick.

15 pages, and counting, and the kid probably can't transfer here. Of course, we have no reason the think he would if he could...........which he probably can't,

Damn, this is the Yard in full bloom. All that's missing is a reference to AO's dad and which school Kasongo will pick.
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Read this while having pizza and drinking beer.
 
businesslawyer said:
LMAO. Georgetown hasn't said a single bad word about Akinjo. The people who have defamed him are message board posters here who think it's fair to speculate anonymously where they have no basis to do so.
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Right? Holy cats, sometimes this board is like 3rd grade(I heard he killed 2 people).
 
businesslawyer said:
No he wasn't. He absolutely sucked for two years. Didn't mean he didn't have potential to get better
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He had no meaningful Bigs coaching while at UConn. He didn’t suck anymore than anyone else on a losing team - Chief said he was good at the time, he just wasn’t utilized right. He has played well at Louisville from the get go.
 
Chief00 said:
He had no meaningful Bigs coaching while at UConn. He didn’t suck anymore than anyone else on a losing team - Chief said he was good at the time, he just wasn’t utilized right. He has played well at Louisville from the get go.
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Where was Howie Dickenman when we needed him most? I know retired.
 
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