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Post by TokyoHoya on Jan 17, 2005 22:58:40 GMT -5
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TBird41
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Post by TBird41 on Jan 17, 2005 23:02:54 GMT -5
It's nice to actually see the Post preview for a Gtown game actually be about Gtown.
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Post by SFHoya99 on Jan 17, 2005 23:15:56 GMT -5
Nice article, even if it is somehwat of a copy, and even if it did not include the word "Dunkosaur."
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Post by SirSaxa on Jan 17, 2005 23:31:39 GMT -5
you're right.. it didn't include Dunkasaur.
But it did include the following quote!
"Green Sr. played high school basketball at Phelps in Northeast Washington, and he figured that his son would one day be a shooting guard, just like he was. But Green, who was 5-11 in eighth grade, sprouted to 6-8 by his senior year. (Doctors have told Green's parents he could eventually reach 6-11.)"
Whoa baby! Can you imagine if this kid grows another 3-4 inches!
We are so fortunate to have Green Jr. on the Hoyas!
Another point, it mentioned how close the 4 freshmen are:
Green, Wallace, Hibbert, Crawford.
Not a word about Guibunda.
Hope he's OK
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Post by TBird41 on Jan 17, 2005 23:34:36 GMT -5
Looks like he was the odd man out-Since the freshman are sharing a suite in Copley, only 4 people can live there. Wonder if he's living w/ upperclassman or he just got a non bball roommate.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Jan 17, 2005 23:45:06 GMT -5
Guibunda lives in Village A. Given that it is a non-frosh dorm, my assumption is that he is living with teammates.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jan 17, 2005 23:56:46 GMT -5
Actually freshmen basketball players live in Village C West and can elect to live in there as either a double or in the big 4 person suite on the top floor of Village C West's X-Wing. BB and AC were roommates on the fourth floor, for example, and decided not to go with the suite.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Jan 17, 2005 23:59:41 GMT -5
Actually freshmen basketball players live in Village C West and can elect to live in there as either a double or in the big 4 person suite on the top floor of Village C West's X-Wing. BB and AC were roommates on the fourth floor, for example, and decided not to go with the suite. I got the info on Guibunda from his profile in Facebook. |
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Post by hoyabinx on Jan 18, 2005 0:02:25 GMT -5
This is almost a carbon copy of the Times article, many of the same quotes and it has the same theme of Wallace the country boy and Green the city boy being good friends. Maybe the article was written before the Times published theirs, or maybe the Post is plagiarizing nowadays.
However, it still was good because of the additional quotes.
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Post by GUHoya07 on Jan 18, 2005 0:05:01 GMT -5
Actually freshmen basketball players live in Village C West and can elect to live in there as either a double or in the big 4 person suite on the top floor of Village C West's X-Wing. BB and AC were roommates on the fourth floor, for example, and decided not to go with the suite. Yeah, I know that the freshmen lived in VCW last year but TBird is right that they live in Copley this year with Cornelio in Village A. |
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jan 18, 2005 0:07:47 GMT -5
I'm guessing the Village A is a roof top ...
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Jan 18, 2005 0:09:26 GMT -5
Not to my knowledge. I think the players are in a 200 level apartment.
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Post by MCIGuy on Jan 18, 2005 0:19:29 GMT -5
This is almost a carbon copy of the Times article, many of the same quotes and it has the same theme of Wallace the country boy and Green the city boy being good friends. But you can be sure Tony Kornheiser will recommend the article on his radio show and praise the work of the WPost staff without realizing that the WTimes beat his co-workers to the punch. |
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Post by Big Dog on Jan 18, 2005 1:16:32 GMT -5
my guess is the players steered them towards this story, having already provided the Times with quotes. Its much easier to just stick to the same schtick rather than think. They've already learned lesson one of being an athlete doing interviews.
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Post by Fan Of The Game on Jan 18, 2005 1:56:36 GMT -5
Strange as it sounds, I didn't think Wallace was allowed to live with the other players. Anyone up on what the restrictions for walk-ons are?
I know you have to buy your own sneakers...
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Post by michiganhoya on Jan 18, 2005 2:01:14 GMT -5
My guess is that Camille Powell and her editors are really lazy and assume that the vast majority of Post readers do not read the Times. This article is a complete and total ripoff of the Times piece. I hope that Camille attended the same interview as Barker did when all these quotes were given. Otherwise it really does appear to be plagarism. That being said, plagarized coverage is better than no coverage. An article like this might also serve as a cue to the columnists to start paying attention ... when was the last time Wilbon or Kornheiser wrote about the Hoyas? Has Mike Wise ever written a column about the program.
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Post by Big Dog on Jan 18, 2005 2:06:26 GMT -5
Now don't be asking for columns. There were columns after we fired Esherick and when we hired Thompson. But before that there were no columns. From the my first day as a student at Gtown until this very day, a span of 7.5 years, there have been columns in the Washington Post on the Hoyas just twice really. Once when JT retired, and then just recently with the Esherick/JT III switch. Aside from that, we shared some column space with Maryland and other tourney events during our 2001 tournament run. That's been it.
There's just too much sports to cover in DC, not to mention that Post coverage tends to be more national in scope than a lot of papers.
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Post by Big Dog on Jan 18, 2005 2:09:15 GMT -5
By the way, would anybody on this board ever read the Times if not for its superior Hoyas coverage? Other than that, it is the worst garbage newspaper (if it even deserves such a neutral word) in the business.
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Post by michiganhoya on Jan 18, 2005 2:14:36 GMT -5
Obviously real Hoya fans must read the WTimes sportspage.
I don't think columns are out of the realm of possibility. Wise wrote one on GW this past Saturday. GW! Do you know how many hardcore or even casual GW fans there are out there? In the entire world? Not that many. Columns on the Hoyas, assuming we continue to win, are a much better use of limited sportspage than GW.
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Post by Big Dog on Jan 18, 2005 2:20:27 GMT -5
yes, Wise is the X factor. Until he arrived last year, Wilbon was basically the only hope for college basketball columns, since Tony K never writes anything and Boswell usually sticks to baseball and golf.
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