Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 30, 2009 16:56:08 GMT -5
Pardon my French (Connection U.K.), but What the FCUK?
From today's issue of The Hoya - I couldn't find an online version anywhere on their site:
Thieves' Recklessness Robs GU Soccer of Hoya Spirit
TO THE EDITOR:
Dave and I write to you today with a real sense of disappointment. I've coached the men's soccer program here at Georgetown for the past four years, and Dave has coached the women's soccer program for six years. We've always appreciated the support shown for our teams. The Georgetown students have been great - vocal, enthusiastic, and involved - and it has been a major factor in the success we've enjoyed. So why are we disappointed?
Within two weeks of decorating North Kehoe, three banners have been stolen from the field. Two 6-by-10 banners (displaying Jack the Bulldog and the Georgetown "G") were stolen, as well as an 8-by-68 foot windscreen proclaiming "North Kehoe Field, Home of the Hoyas."
Dave and I and the members of both our teams were involved in fundraising to pay for those banners in order to dress up our home field, hoping to both make a better environment for competition and to give recruits a better impression of Georgetown. We hoped to capitalize upon and add to student spirit.
Now somebody has taken them. I don't know if it was meant to be a joke, but nobody's laughing. I don't know if it was a prank, but nobody here is enjoying it. I don't know if it was supposed to be cool, but it is not.
Initially, our reaction was one of shock and outrage. We had started enhancing the fan experience by decording the field, and some unthinking individual or individuals took the banners for themselves. Then came frustration and anger. Any momentum we were building was suddenly stopped by somebody who had no conception of our efforts, and now we're back to showing recruits a field devoid of any Georgetown identity. Now we're just disappointed. Are there some Georgetown students who secretly want us to fail or do they just not care what impact their actions have?
We've never done anything like this before, but we want your help to get those banners back. Somebody took them. Somebody knows who has them. Somebody has talked about stealing them or has tried to display then (though where you can hang a 68-foot windscreen is a mystery). Bring them back. Tell whoever took them it's not cool and to bring them back. Please. It was stupid and hurtful to take them, and it makes the school look cheap and tawdry. Have some pride in your classmates and your athletic teams. Show that you understand what "We are Georgetown" means. Bring the banners back.
DAVE NOLAN, WOMEN'S SOCCER HEAD COACH
BRIAN WIESE, MEN'S SOCCER HEAD COACH
OCT. 28, 2009
From today's issue of The Hoya - I couldn't find an online version anywhere on their site:
Thieves' Recklessness Robs GU Soccer of Hoya Spirit
TO THE EDITOR:
Dave and I write to you today with a real sense of disappointment. I've coached the men's soccer program here at Georgetown for the past four years, and Dave has coached the women's soccer program for six years. We've always appreciated the support shown for our teams. The Georgetown students have been great - vocal, enthusiastic, and involved - and it has been a major factor in the success we've enjoyed. So why are we disappointed?
Within two weeks of decorating North Kehoe, three banners have been stolen from the field. Two 6-by-10 banners (displaying Jack the Bulldog and the Georgetown "G") were stolen, as well as an 8-by-68 foot windscreen proclaiming "North Kehoe Field, Home of the Hoyas."
Dave and I and the members of both our teams were involved in fundraising to pay for those banners in order to dress up our home field, hoping to both make a better environment for competition and to give recruits a better impression of Georgetown. We hoped to capitalize upon and add to student spirit.
Now somebody has taken them. I don't know if it was meant to be a joke, but nobody's laughing. I don't know if it was a prank, but nobody here is enjoying it. I don't know if it was supposed to be cool, but it is not.
Initially, our reaction was one of shock and outrage. We had started enhancing the fan experience by decording the field, and some unthinking individual or individuals took the banners for themselves. Then came frustration and anger. Any momentum we were building was suddenly stopped by somebody who had no conception of our efforts, and now we're back to showing recruits a field devoid of any Georgetown identity. Now we're just disappointed. Are there some Georgetown students who secretly want us to fail or do they just not care what impact their actions have?
We've never done anything like this before, but we want your help to get those banners back. Somebody took them. Somebody knows who has them. Somebody has talked about stealing them or has tried to display then (though where you can hang a 68-foot windscreen is a mystery). Bring them back. Tell whoever took them it's not cool and to bring them back. Please. It was stupid and hurtful to take them, and it makes the school look cheap and tawdry. Have some pride in your classmates and your athletic teams. Show that you understand what "We are Georgetown" means. Bring the banners back.
DAVE NOLAN, WOMEN'S SOCCER HEAD COACH
BRIAN WIESE, MEN'S SOCCER HEAD COACH
OCT. 28, 2009
