DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Feb 7, 2006 23:32:15 GMT -5
An article in the Dallas Observer plays a great sports game, asking how things would change if moments in sports had changed just so slightly... www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2006-02-02/news/whitt.htmlSo for Georgetown, what if... ...Georgetown had stayed in I-A football? ...Yates had never been built? ...John Thompson takes the Oklahoma offer in 1980? ...Mike Riley becomes head coach in 1999? ...The baseball field remained?
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Feb 8, 2006 13:20:14 GMT -5
Alright DFW, I'll bite on the first one.
February 12, 2001 WASHINGTON, DC (AP) -- Georgetown University, a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, announced today that its football program, a perennial conference doormat, would end competition at the I-A level. Beginning next season, the Hoyas will begin competing in the I-AA Patriot League. Georgetown Coach John Mackovic, brought in two years earlier to resurrect the program, lashed out at the administration in a statement this afternoon. "President O'Donovan and the board of regents have never given this football program the financial support it deserves, and now they've gone and screwed over our players, our fans, and our alumni with this stupid decision. This is a sad day for Georgetown athletics." A high-level Georgetown University employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told AP that the decision came mostly as a result of the University's cripplingly expensive rent deal with RFK Stadium. Georgetown will temporarily play its home football games in its on-campus soccer stadium until a permanent solution is reached. Georgetown students' reactions to the news varied widely. Senior linebacker and star player Dan Morgan said "there's a proud football traditon here at Georgetown, and I just don't see it continuing at the I-AA level." Freshman Joe Hoya showed less concern, saying "This is a basketball school anyway. The football program has been on this track for a while now. When was our last ACC football title, like 1961?" The Georgetown men's basketball team takes on Maryland tonight in ACC action at Cole Field House. The Hoyas, 18-2 (6-1 ACC) have exceled this season under new head coach Rick Pitino.
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Post by FLHoya on Feb 8, 2006 15:13:55 GMT -5
Senior linebacker and star player Dan Morgan said "there's a proud football traditon here at Georgetown, and I just don't see it continuing at the I-AA level." Who knew that Georgetown and Coach Mackovic could out-recruit Butch Davis. Man, that means he probably didn't make that INT at the goal line for Miami at the end of the first half against FSU in 2000, so FSU won 31-27 and went into the Orange Bowl undefeated...and still choked big time. What if indeed...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2006 15:55:14 GMT -5
Alright DFW, I'll bite on the first one. February 12, 2001 WASHINGTON, DC (AP) -- Georgetown University, a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, announced today that its football program, a perennial conference doormat, would end competition at the I-A level. Beginning next season, the Hoyas will begin competing in the I-AA Patriot League. Georgetown Coach John Mackovic, brought in two years earlier to resurrect the program, lashed out at the administration in a statement this afternoon. "President O'Donovan and the board of regents have never given this football program the financial support it deserves, and now they've gone and screwed over our players, our fans, and our alumni with this stupid decision. This is a sad day for Georgetown athletics." A high-level Georgetown University employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told AP that the decision came mostly as a result of the University's cripplingly expensive rent deal with RFK Stadium. Georgetown will temporarily play its home football games in its on-campus soccer stadium until a permanent solution is reached. Georgetown students' reactions to the news varied widely. Senior linebacker and star player Dan Morgan said "there's a proud football traditon here at Georgetown, and I just don't see it continuing at the I-AA level." Freshman Joe Hoya showed less concern, saying "This is a basketball school anyway. The football program has been on this track for a while now. When was our last ACC football title, like 1961?" The Georgetown men's basketball team takes on Maryland tonight in ACC action at Cole Field House. The Hoyas, 18-2 (6-1 ACC) have exceled this season under new head coach Rick Pitino. I think I just threw up a bit in my mouth. Make that "a lot."
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Feb 8, 2006 17:50:54 GMT -5
Senior linebacker and star player Dan Morgan said "there's a proud football traditon here at Georgetown, and I just don't see it continuing at the I-AA level." Who knew that Georgetown and Coach Mackovic could out-recruit Butch Davis. Man, that means he probably didn't make that INT at the goal line for Miami at the end of the first half against FSU in 2000, so FSU won 31-27 and went into the Orange Bowl undefeated...and still choked big time. What if indeed... Haha, yeah that would have been a fine piece of recruiting. I was really just trying to think of a star player from that era to put at GU, and Morgan popped into my head for some reason. I also had to think of an out-of-work coach from that period to be the GU HFC, and Mackovic fit the bill, for obvious reasons that we will not discuss. Buffalo, sorry to make you sick. I encourage everyone else to write "happy endings" to this story. But I'm pretty sure that if GU had kept up football we would a) have joined the ACC b) had the same problems as schools like Dook, Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, etc. in maintaining a solid football program in a BCS conference.
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