SI.com: Latest Thamel Hoya Hit Piece

It's obviously all hearsay at this point, but other than that, there's nothing wrong with Thamel's reporting of it. It seemed strange that Marquette seemed to be doing so much of the heavy lifting and suddenly Georgetown was front and center (maybe Father Pilarz is on the conspiracy too!).

I don't really care much about the feelings of PC, SHU, St Johns, or DePaul at all. They're irrelavent. They're being gifted with a free $4 million/yr they've done nothing to earn. If they're angry it's because there's still a stigma to being on welfare.

That is an utterly shameless, transparent hit piece, running over with anonymous sources and such illogic as 'Cuse and Pitt would have left regardless of the ESPN deal, so the BE should have signed the ESPN deal.

What?!

1. It was pretty obvious to me that that Georgetown piece was in response to Feinstein's "there's no one effectively running the C7!" piece.

2. I am trying to reconcile the idea the other members of the Catholic 7 both think Georgetown does nothing and thinks that Georgetown controls the league too much. What? Either we're involved or not.

3. There's a lot of anonymous sources for a freaking sports article. It would not surprise me to know that his "TV" source is someone not in the room, his C7 sources are people not in the room, etc.

4. Thamel is a joke professionally. He's been the hitman for college basketball corruption, but despite obviously knowing a lot of people in Syracuse's athletic department, did and broke nothing on Bernie Fine, on the failed drug tests, on Fab Melo's arrest and assault, etc. He should have excellent Cuse sources and refuses to go after them. And his piece on the ACC in MSG screams a plant by the Syracuse AD.

The dude abuses his position -- that's incredibly obvious. I don't expect people from Syracuse to have integrity, but I do expect people to call them on it.

Just another lame attempt at a hatchet job from an effin' Cuse guy. So, there is a lot of concern that Georgetown is wielding too much power, yet Georgetown is not really doing anything (they're not doing the work to earn it).

A lot of this sounds like sour grapes from the departing schools - got a much better deal from Fox than any of them imagined.

And Thamel must read Hoya Talk to come up with that ridiculous VCU-as-a-recruiting threat theme.

What a turd.

Quick check the NYTimes archives, has he ever used the phrase "500-lb gorilla" in his writing?

If the school official who called GU reprehensible for taking too much credit is from any school other than Marquette or Villanova, I just can't even...

What a clown.

I suppose on the up-side, this kind of Hoyas-are-evil reporting could raise our national profile back to where it was in the 1980s. Hated, but watched by all!

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