You Know Georgetown is in Trouble When…

[knicksin7]

Spike Lee? He is such an opportunist. Where was he during the Johnnies' great years?

Let's be fair to Spike. He sat through 20 years of total Knicks BS. Every. Single. Game. As did I.

 

[JLW]

Isaiah Abraham starts

 

[boog204]

Makes you appreciate what UConn has accomplished even with the Ollie years.

Oh, it's incredible. I first got into basketball watching Nova beat GTown and thought it was so freakin' cool to watch the "giant" get slayed. Then "Never Nervous Pervis" beating some rat-faced looking . Then, Indiana beating Cuse on a last-second bucket, Danny and the miracles, vintage cool uniform Michigan, and the spectacle of Tark and UNLV. UConn was the little engine that was getting sorta better at that point, with a NIT title being this enormous accomplishment.

But GTown and UNLV are basically completely irrelevant now. Indiana, while still a big name, hasn't been good in a while. It's sad for me, rivalry or not, to see Cuse becoming what they are. Nova has sustained and hopefully is on the rebound. Michigan is the greatest team ever assembled, according to Ruff Ruff (I keed, I keed). It's just crazy how far some of those seminal teams (for me) have fallen and yet, we have maintained mostly dominance since breaking through in 89-90.

 

[Flipside]

1) Georgetown needs to schedule us in the evening ... love the rivalry, but not the usual Noon start time - skipping this year

2) Georgetown's biggest home game this season is 2/21 (and they're not playing!) - see some of you there, or for the after party session (TBA)

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[Nameless]

You Know Georgetown is in Trouble When…​

... they pay Ed Cooley $6 million a year in the hopes of making their team relevant again.

What did Coley actually achieve at Providence? Basically, his reputation is that Providence didn't completely suck while he was there. There really isn't a lot of material postseason success, just "not sucking" that was always a head scratcher to me.

I think people were infatuated with the fact he had gotten Providence into the top 10 a couple different seasons, won a conference tournament and regular season Big East title. As you said, he took a team that regularly sucked and made it a competitive program. Georgetown was probably looking at it like, "well, if he can do that there, he can certainly do that and more here."

I think there were some things they overlooked. Cooley had a reputation as a solid recruiter at Providence but a lot of that was because he was seen as a genuinely good guy and coach players could get behind. He preached wholesome messages, inspired confidence in his team and they would rally behind him. But he left Providence due to an affair, and hid it from his team that he was leaving mid season (even though there were rumors he signed his lease in like February before the season was over.) A couple red flags that hinted the guy they thought they were hiring wasn't and isn't who Cooley actually is.

He's recruited decently well there but probably nowhere near the level they expected him to when they brought him in. He seems to be regressing not improving.

 

[JwittersPAC]

You Know Georgetown is in Trouble When…​

... they pay Ed Cooley $6 million a year in the hopes of making their team relevant again.

What did Coley actually achieve at Providence? Basically, his reputation is that Providence didn't completely suck while he was there. There really isn't a lot of material postseason success, just "not sucking" that was always a head scratcher to me.

Actual salary is $3.89 million and not $6 million per year. But still Ed Cooley has underperformed and Georgetown needs to bring in a coach who can win.

 

[CL82]

Actual salary is $3.89 million and not $6 million per year. But still Ed Cooley has underperformed and Georgetown needs to bring in a coach who can win.

 

[freescooter]

Not sucking is probably the goal of 14 out of the 18 teams in the ACC. With BC, winning one conference game seems to be the goal.

I wouldn’t put it that low but I totally agree on BC. But really there are only a handful of programs who have as an honest goal winning national championships. Most of the others see getting to the Tournament as their goal. In our league it’s us and maybe Villanova though I’m not impressed with their hires since Jay Wright retired. Willard to me seems like a taller Mick Cronin

 

[JwittersPAC]

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Actual tax docs disprove that amount.

 

[FightOnCT]

Y’all think Cooley could go to UMass or URI after he gets canned from Georgetown?

 

[JwittersPAC]

Y’all think Cooley could go to UMass or URI after he gets canned from Georgetown?

Both two close to his ex mistress.

 

[gsmooth]

I wouldn’t put it that low but I totally agree on BC. But really there are only a handful of programs who have as an honest goal winning national championships. Most of the others see getting to the Tournament as their goal. In our league it’s us and maybe Villanova though I’m not impressed with their hires since Jay Wright retired. Willard to me seems like a taller Mick Cronin

A taller Mick Cronin is a 100x better than Kyle Neptune.

 

[freescooter]

A taller Mick Cronin is a 100x better than Kyle Neptune.

Agreed.

 

[upstater]

You get nice people and jerks from all schools, but the two most insufferable groups I've dealt with in sports and life are Duke and Georgetown. I don't know if the schools attract jerks or turns good kids into jerks, but it's consistent.

Plenty of other schools turn out grads that over inflate the importance of their alma mater, but they tend to mellow over time. BC and Villanova stand out. But, the Duke and Georgetown alums hold on to their arrogance. I will say, the Duke grads have all impressed me at work whereas I've seen a handful of unimpressive Georgetown grads.

Regarding Upstater's fan ranking of the Big East, it's only Georgetown fans that I think are unlikeable on the whole. I also find most Providence grads to be unlikeable and they have less reason to be arrogant about their school (academically and athletically) than the others mentioned. The others BE schools have a loud minority of jerks, or are a bit rough during games, but are otherwise fine one-on-one. To be clear, that includes are own fans. We have plenty of fans that embarrass us.

My brothers and I used to go to the BET every year for a couple decades (me from Buffalo, one from Florida, one from Conn). None of us graduated from UConn. But we were all fans. That annual event was broken when we joined the AAC and so none of us have been back.

So I don't know how the fanbases act. My sense of the best and worst fanbases was made pre-2013. Pitt really was the worst back then. By far.

 

[SubbaBub]

It just sucks because GTown was such a cool team back in the day. The uniforms, John Thompson stalking the sidelines, the rep for being tough as hell. Just sad to see them and so many other classic 80s/90s teams just become this.

Sure, but that was 40 years ago. Same level of nostalgia as John Wooden's UCLA teams or the Brooklyn Dodgers.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

This thread got super lame.