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Post by hoyas4life on Jan 28, 2008 21:45:33 GMT -5
khalid el amin. don't know how much of this, or any of this, story is true, but what i heard was that on his visit, JT and el amin are driving to campus in JT's s-class. JT asked him what it would take for him to come to georgetown, and el amin says that he could deal with one of these (the car). jt told him to get out of the car on the key bridge
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Post by jgalt on Jan 28, 2008 21:47:54 GMT -5
DFW do you have anymore info on that elgin baylor story, that sounds wack
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Post by AvantGuardHoya on Jan 29, 2008 3:09:32 GMT -5
If you consider the basketball hotbed that DC has been, there’s so much talent that GU could have had it’s ridiculous, but it was Notre Dame that established a pipeline in the sixties, tapping the WCAC in particular. Thank goodness Big John began to interrupt that flow after arriving at the Hilltop and now, it appears, JT III has the conference and area talent well in hand.
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Post by HoyaFanNY on Jan 29, 2008 7:03:32 GMT -5
IMO, it's kenny anderson. sure, his pro career was less than spectacular, but he was one of the finest college guards i have ever seen play. he SHOULD have been playing for us.
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Post by idhoya on Jan 29, 2008 11:38:59 GMT -5
HoyaFanNy,
I haven't seen them all, but Kenny was the best college point of my era. They way he used to break hurley down was beautiful.
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Post by Dhall on Jan 29, 2008 12:02:27 GMT -5
Rasheed Wallace was leaning toward Georgetown. Then UNC won the national championship and Dean Smith was in his living room THE NEXT DAY to seal the recruiting deal! That was the end of that.
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Post by joey0403p on Jan 29, 2008 12:11:38 GMT -5
I'm very glad JT III has bridged the gap between GU and DeMatha. (I hate Dematha being from another local HS) but the guys can flat out play. Austin was a great improvement - I just hope we keep tapping them.
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Post by hoyasexy on Jan 29, 2008 12:18:14 GMT -5
I may not be remembering it right, but I think Rasheed Wallace, Othella Harrington, and Rashard Griffith were all in the same class, and they all had Georgetown high on their lists. I'm sure that Othella's commitment would likely have affected the other two.
BTW - Griffith, who ended up going to Wisconsin, would have been an absolute beast in blue and gray. He was good to very good at Wisconsin (and obviously didn't do much afterward), but he would have fit the Georgetown mold as a true center. He was the guy I wanted back then.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jan 29, 2008 13:56:09 GMT -5
DFW do you have anymore info on that elgin baylor story, that sounds wack What he wrote. I would definitely like to hear more about this. Elgin remains one of my all time favorite players, as I grew up watching him play for the Lakers.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Jan 29, 2008 14:04:45 GMT -5
DFW do you have anymore info on that elgin baylor story, that sounds wack Disclaimer: This is from Wikipedia, so I don't know how accurate it is. "An inadequate scholastic record kept [Baylor] out of college until a friend arranged a scholarship at the College of Idaho, where he was expected to play basketball and football. After one season, the school dismissed the head basketball coach and restricted the scholarships. A Seattle car dealer interested Baylor in Seattle University, and Baylor sat out a year to play for an amateur team while establishing eligibility at Seattle."
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Post by idhoya on Jan 29, 2008 16:13:09 GMT -5
Griffith had no interest in academics, therefore, Georgetown wouldn't have been a good place for him. Now that I think of it, all of the King High guys had GU on the list: Griffith, Thomas Hamilton and Jamie Brandon. None did spit after HS in college. None were academically inclined at all.
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Post by sleepyjackson21 on Jan 29, 2008 16:53:29 GMT -5
Marcus Liberty and Leon Smith also had interest in Georgetown. King and for that matter Westinghouse are now defunct. King is actually now a college prep school/magnet. It has a basketball team but it's nowhere near the level of the Sonny Cox ballclubs.
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Post by Boz on Jan 29, 2008 16:56:49 GMT -5
Negative waves, negative waves. Too many negative waves. Go away, thread! Go away! (and, yes, I am well aware of the irony )
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Post by idhoya on Jan 29, 2008 18:36:45 GMT -5
Marcus Liberty. Wow! Those were the days. That Illinois team was good with him, Nick Anderson, etc. Michigan with Vaught, Rice, Rumeal and Terry Mills and Higgins was very talented. Shoulda lost to Seton Hall in '89.
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Post by sleepyjackson21 on Jan 29, 2008 20:21:10 GMT -5
All those teams in 89 were loaded. We had Smitty, Jaren, Bryant, Tillmon and Alonzo. Illini had Kendall Gill, Steve Bardo, Nick Anderson, Marcus Liberty and Kenny Battle. Duke, Michigan and Seton Hall were obviously loaded. Syracuse had Stevie Thompson, Coleman, The General, Billy Owens. Damn! Great year for basketball. We coulda won it all that year!
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Post by Highsmith on Jan 29, 2008 20:37:55 GMT -5
HoyaFanNy, I haven't seen them all, but Kenny was the best college point of my era. They way he used to break hurley down was beautiful. I agree (for whatever that's worth!!). I absolutely LOVED watching Kenny work the point and Dennis Scott just shooting from everywhere. That Georgia Tech team that made the good run in the tourney (Brian Oliver was the 3rd of the big trio on that team, correct?) was one of my favorite "non-Hoya" teams of all time.
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Post by idhoya on Jan 29, 2008 21:37:57 GMT -5
Duke, Syracuse, Hoyas, Michigan, Illinois, GTech. The greatest era in college basketball: The 1980's.
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Post by Filo on Jan 29, 2008 21:53:29 GMT -5
HoyaFanNy, I haven't seen them all, but Kenny was the best college point of my era. They way he used to break hurley down was beautiful. I agree (for whatever that's worth!!). I absolutely LOVED watching Kenny work the point and Dennis Scott just shooting from everywhere. That Georgia Tech team that made the good run in the tourney (Brian Oliver was the 3rd of the big trio on that team, correct?) was one of my favorite "non-Hoya" teams of all time. Speaking of Dennis Scott - he was another local player who was definitely interested in GU but did not make the cut. I remember him playing a HS game at McDonough his junior or senior year. He was an absolute stud in HS.
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Post by idhoya on Jan 30, 2008 0:03:12 GMT -5
Someone told me a long time ago that he snuck into one of II's practices and saw all the defense being played and ran to Atlanta.
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Post by SFHoya99 on Jan 30, 2008 17:15:48 GMT -5
If that was Dennis Scott or Kenny Anderson, they should have come to Georgetown. Neither ever became a good defender and it limited both of them, as good as they were.
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