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ecasadoSBU said:
Taking it too serious ma man...

Hatred and anger makes for good and exciting entertainment. I wouldn't watch the game tomorrow if it wasn't just to find out how the Providence crowd reacts to Cooley. See? it's fun!

Don't kill the vibes!
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100%. Rightly or wrongly this is very true. It certainly makes for good copy which is why I am going to the game tomorrow and will record Seton Hall at Marquette.

An educational message to everyone: high rated sports content, entertainment content, and other content in general are akin to when men and women meet with a chance for sparks and being much more than just friends. Love can drive the interest and hatred can lead to high interest in both cases. The death knell that is bad for both is indifference. It's why I like these sports rivalries, even more if they are regional. Think about when UConn played against the likes of Tulsa and UCF in the AAC. Did those games produce any fan passion or emotion? Did the thought of defeating them make you feel great and the thought of losing to them irritate you like a pebble in your shoe when walking? Not one bit. It's why I didn't mind at all when Kalkbrenner stoked the fire last year with his comments about UConn and Sanogo. It made it that much better when Sanogo destroyed his ass.

Yes, I know that was clumsy way to make my point, but you get the picture.:D
 
gsmooth said:
3 national title game appearances including that one championship. That's a good era of dominance in a 4-year span.

1 championship is a great accomplishment. A Final Four is a great accomplishment. There are so many schools and coaches that have tried so hard in vain to even accomplish those goals.
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Edit: There are so many schools and coaches that have tried so hard in vain to even accomplish even getting to 1 Final Four.
 
Deepster said:
LOL. He’s also visiting Indiana and Kansas and let’s be honest. Your best recruiting pitch right now is “you get to play UConn twice a year”. Good luck.
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The insecurity runs deep in this one.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
He said Family Forever… maybe saying that Providence will always be his family no matter what?

Do Providence fans really think Cooley hates Providence and intentionally wants to burn bridges? Has he done anything to do that outside of you all trying to twist his public comments to be shots?
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Okay, As I said you don’t understand, these two words are part of his shtick at PC. I have the ef ing t-shirt.
 
FriarJ said:
The insecurity runs deep in this one.
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
Thx for the link re PG County. I'll look to stream it.

I appreciate what you wrote about DC's market distinction from Providence for Cooley, and his historical connection to John Thompson gives it some background. That said, my preference today would be for him to fail if it reveals that he's not all that good, or succeed if he is that good...but not before he takes some knocks for being smarmy in pursuing his ambition.

@UConnSwag11 's post that joked about Kim English landing at Georgetown if he succeeds at Providence made me chuckle. There's now established precedent.
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It’s a no brainer, especially for a black coach.

You could be the biggest fish in a small pond or you could be a big fish with a bunch of other big fish, many who also look like you. With everything else that comes with it. Even when the rumors started for Cooley to GU I thought it made perfect sense for him.

That precedent was establish long before Cooley. Not only is Providence in a bad area geographically, they have us in their way of an area that already has limited talent resources. The DMV is Georgetown’s for the taking if it can ever get their ish together.

The doc is a really good one. I think it’s on showtime.
 
WhereistheDove? said:
I know quite a few Georgetown alums. Not one of them could give less of an F about Georgetown basketball and they were all there in some pretty good years. I just do not believe the alumni support is there to bring it back to where it
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gsmooth said:
Edit: There are so many schools and coaches that have tried so hard in vain to even accomplish even getting to 1 Final Four.
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Georgetown developed a bigger reputation out of 1 player than any five teams have out of 20. You are right. They had terrific teams during the Ewing era. Won a title. Then they were a good team for several years, but not dominant buy a long shot. Compare their record with Syracuse, or Gonzaga ( minus the title, of course). Or UConn. Or Duke. Or UNC. Contenders year after year. Decade after decade. Syracuse went to Final Fours in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s and 2010’s. Georgetown was a flash in the pan. Yet people talk about them as if they dominated for centuries. Yeesh!
 
FriarJ said:
Okay, As I said you don’t understand, these two words are part of his shtick at PC. I have the ef ing t-shirt.
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No I get that. But just to play devils advocate here.

What if he DID feel that way and still loved Providence. And just did what was best for he and his family.

I doubt he would take a picture with Providence players using the motto he used to build the program and excite the community to troll them.

To me, it looks like a last ditch effort as a “hey, remember what we did together?”.
 
I can only imagine how low class the PC fans will be tomorrow. I didn’t think they could get lower after what they did to Andrea last year but they’ll top it tomorrow.
 
Fishy said:
How anyone doesn’t see what kind of a hole move Cooley pulled on PC is simply beyond me.
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Personally, I never cared about Providence growing up because Cuse, GTown, Nova, and Pitt were all much bigger rivalries. I’ve never met a Providence fan in person either.

So yeah, I don’t know much outside of whatever public facing Cooley did which does not seem as big of a deal as the fan base has been blowing it up to be. I’m genuinely confused. It just seems like Cooley went for a better opportunity which he has every right to do like any other coach.
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
Personally, I never cared about Providence growing up because Cuse, GTown, Nova, and Pitt were all much bigger rivalries. I’ve never met a Providence fan in person either.

So yeah, I don’t know much outside of whatever public facing Cooley did which does not seem as big of a deal as the fan base has been blowing it up to be. I’m genuinely confused. It just seems like Cooley went for a better opportunity which he has every right to do like any other coach.
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Probably saw the writing on the wall with UCONN back like Willard did and wanted a better opportunity. He did max out at PC
 
UConnSwag11 said:
Probably saw the writing on the wall with UCONN back like Willard did and wanted a better opportunity. He did max out at PC
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Right. The ceiling is much higher.

Let Providence fans tell it though it was just about the affair. Lol.

If they want one of their best stretches in history to be remembered like that than hey, that just says too much about their fanbase and what they deserve.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
No I get that. But just to play devils advocate here.

What if he DID feel that way and still loved Providence. And just did what was best for he and his family.

I doubt he would take a picture with Providence players using the motto he used to build the program and excite the community to troll them.

To me, it looks like a last ditch effort as a “hey, remember what we did together?”.
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I don’t doubt he loves Providence, I also believe he did what he thought was his best option for him and his family. He walked into the athletic department right before he left and said “I ef up”.

I’ve explained the problem with his actual actions (not what he may have thought) way too many times on here. Finally, if you think all this happened because he woke up one day and decided that he needed to go to Georgetown to win then I have some land in Florida for you.
 
FriarJ said:
I don’t doubt he loves Providence, I also believe he did what he thought was his best option for him and his family. He walked into the athletic department right before he left and said “I ef up”.
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I don’t see how this train of thought also goes with the train of thought that that tweet was meant to troll Providence fans.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
I don’t see how this train of thought also goes with the train of thought that that tweet was meant to troll Providence fans.
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It’s ego, all ego. He is not even aware of his own schtick. You simply don’t get it, you won’t get it and you are not trying to anyway. I mean the guy came out at his welcome presser and said that he’s there through Divine Providence.

You can’t possibly know because you are not one of us. I’m not expecting you to understand, but you keep talking like you do for whatever reason. Be assured what you think you know about Ed Cooley and why he did what he did and how we should feel about it is about as wrong as any take on the subject I have seen.
 
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Nothing would make me happier than to see my favorite coach, Ed Cooley, waltz into Providence as an 11.5 point underdog and beat the Friars. He could then down a few quahogs and celebrate the night away at the Foxy! Go Hoyas!
 
FriarJ said:
It’s ego, all ego. He is not even aware of his own schtick. You simply don’t get it, you won’t get it and you are not trying to anyway. I mean the guy came out at his welcome presser and said that he’s there through Divine Providence.

You can’t possibly know because you are not one of us. I’m not expecting you to understand, but you keep talking like you do for whatever reason. Be assured what you think you know about Ed Cooley and why he did what he did and how we should feel about it is about as wrong as any take on the subject I have seen.
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FriarJ said:
It’s ego, all ego. He is not even aware of his own schtick. You simply don’t get it, you won’t get it and you are not trying to anyway. I mean the guy came out at his welcome presser and said that he’s there through Divine Providence.

You can’t possibly know because you are not one of us. I’m not expecting you to understand, but you keep talking like you do for whatever reason. Be assured what you think you know about Ed Cooley and why he did what he did and how we should feel about it is about as wrong as any take on the subject I have seen.
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I mean, Harbaugh is probably going to shoutout Michigan at the Chargers press conference after showing them every offseason he’d rather be in the NFL. He’ll probably use a lot of the same mantra’s he did at Michigan there (duh because coaches bring the cultures they instilled with them).

You won’t see Michigan fans crying about it.

Y’all are simply being ungrateful and bitter lmao.

Maybe you all just aren’t used to coaches doing well there to know what this transition looks like. It’s like a guy who talked to his first beautiful girl. They don’t know how to act now.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I'm not sure I'm the one taking things too seriously.

I will simplify things a bit:

1 - Has there been a past occurrence of a coach departing a school that has led to a reaction somewhat similar to how PC fans have reacted (and continue to react) to this one?

2 - What was so uniquely and excessively over the line (when compared to all other coaching departures) about this one case that warrants the fan base's reaction?
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You are doing it again.

You are trying to be logical and scientific in a matter (fans of a sport) that its intended to drive emotion, passion, irrationality and thus make it extremely entertaining.

This is the beauty about sports. This is what makes it entertaining.

the Big East needs more of this irrational hatred and passion, not less.
 
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This isn't just "some coach leaving a school." Cooly is a Providence kid. From the city. RI Player of the Year twice at a HS in Providence. When he got signed to PC from Fairfield, it created a massive buzz around the program. The fan base rejoiced and swelled up to the biggest it had been in years, maybe bigger than it ever was. Then he won the BE regular season. Every PC fan was ready to kiss his ass and sleep with him - male or female. lol. They thought PC hoops was back and ready to shine with their hometown boy at the helm. Then it turns out his house was on the market before the season ended and he was still talking like a long-term coach. Then he bails and left them high and dry. For a program that had no promise to one that had so much to having it ripped from them. They are furious. They took this personal, and they are drunk and scummy to begin with. Should be great TV tomorrow.
 
FriarJ said:
It’s ego, all ego. He is not even aware of his own schtick. You simply don’t get it, you won’t get it and you are not trying to anyway. I mean the guy came out at his welcome presser and said that he’s there through Divine Providence.

You can’t possibly know because you are not one of us. I’m not expecting you to understand, but you keep talking like you do for whatever reason. Be assured what you think you know about Ed Cooley and why he did what he did and how we should feel about it is about as wrong as any take on the subject I have seen.
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You don't have to be a part of it to get, outsiders who have followed what transpired realize Cooley is a scummer.
 
dennismenace said:
Yes, that should be fun to watch the game at PC. How can we get to see that? Replay on youtube?
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The game will be on Fox tomorrow at 12:30 PM. If you can't catch that you can always type "Providence vs Georgetown" in YouTube and the YouTube channel DraftMatic should have the replay.
 
dennismenace said:
Yes, that should be fun to watch the game at PC. How can we get to see that? Replay on youtube?
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If you don’t get over the air Fox then this guy has managed to stream almost every game live for years now. FriarTV
 
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