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Post by FrazierFanatic on Jan 26, 2021 19:26:29 GMT -5
15 years as a head coach, 1 NCAA Tournament victory - Cooley is probably the most overrated coach in college basketball. Georgetown has been his B**ch over the past 6-7 years or so, and I think that's part of what makes this board overrate him. But he's accomplished very little at a basketball school, particularly for how much he gets paid. Sounds familiar, actually... Hard to believe he's been there 15 years. He hasn't. This is his 10th season at Providence. His first 5 were at Fairfield - one of the smallest schools in the MAAC, which he took from a 7 win season the year before he arrived, to a 20+ win team in his 4th and 5th years, a great coaching job. But of course boya just lumps it all together. There was a local radio sports talk guy up here in Albany back in the 80's and 90's who just blasted Pops every chance he got for years, as a terrible game coach, a racist, recruited "thugs" who should never have gotten into Georgetown, etc. etc. Then some newspaper reporter discovered that the radio host's son had once applied to GU and been rejected. Maybe Cooley was given a restaurant table ahead of boya one time? Or ran over boya's dog in a snowstorm? Or broke up with boya's mom or sister with the old "it's not you, it's me" line. Who knows?
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Post by hsaxon on Jan 26, 2021 20:14:40 GMT -5
Hard to believe he's been there 15 years. He hasn't. This is his 10th season at Providence. His first 5 were at Fairfield - one of the smallest schools in the MAAC, which he took from a 7 win season the year before he arrived, to a 20+ win team in his 4th and 5th years, a great coaching job. But of course boya just lumps it all together. There was a local radio sports talk guy up here in Albany back in the 80's and 90's who just blasted Pops every chance he got for years, as a terrible game coach, a racist, recruited "thugs" who should never have gotten into Georgetown, etc. etc. Then some newspaper reporter discovered that the radio host's son had once applied to GU and been rejected. Maybe Cooley was given a restaurant table ahead of boya one time? Or ran over boya's dog in a snowstorm? Or broke up with boya's mom or sister with the old "it's not you, it's me" line. Who knows? Providence is regarded by some as the toughest job in the Big East.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Jan 26, 2021 23:36:33 GMT -5
He hasn't. This is his 10th season at Providence. His first 5 were at Fairfield - one of the smallest schools in the MAAC, which he took from a 7 win season the year before he arrived, to a 20+ win team in his 4th and 5th years, a great coaching job. But of course boya just lumps it all together. There was a local radio sports talk guy up here in Albany back in the 80's and 90's who just blasted Pops every chance he got for years, as a terrible game coach, a racist, recruited "thugs" who should never have gotten into Georgetown, etc. etc. Then some newspaper reporter discovered that the radio host's son had once applied to GU and been rejected. Maybe Cooley was given a restaurant table ahead of boya one time? Or ran over boya's dog in a snowstorm? Or broke up with boya's mom or sister with the old "it's not you, it's me" line. Who knows? Providence is regarded by some as the toughest job in the Big East. The other factor hoyaboya continually ignores is how bad Providence was before Cooley arrived. In 9 full seasons, Cooley has 5 tournament appearances, and he likely would have had another last season without COVID. I would say given the structural headwinds that Providence faces, that getting 6 tournament appearances in 9 completed seasons is extremely good. For contrast, in three seasons Keno Davis had 0 tournament appearances, and and Tim Welsh had 2 appearances in 10 years. So, say what you will, but Cooley was a vast improvement over his immediate predecessors. The problem teams like Providence face (and even Georgetown, though to a lesser degree) is that they are not a prime coaching locale, even within the Big East. So, getting top level coaching talent there is not going to be easy. Instead, they have Cooley, who regularly gets them to the tournament, and who is likely to stay as long as Providence will have him. I actually think if Cooley moved up to a more prestige-level school, he would probably land better talent, and have better results than he already has.
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Jan 31, 2021 13:02:28 GMT -5
I probably missed the answer somewhere - is the conference going to try to reschedule any of the missed games?
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Post by LCPolo18 on Feb 1, 2021 15:58:52 GMT -5
I probably missed the answer somewhere - is the conference going to try to reschedule any of the missed games? Nothing has been announced yet. It'll be interesting if the Big East changes the existing schedule, tries to fit the missed games into the existing schedule, or just cancel the missed games and go into the BET with uneven schedules. RockawayHoya and I just looked at Georgetown's schedule, and here's the most feasible approach to fitting the four missed games into the schedule without any teams having games in back to back games: 2/5 at Xavier 2/11 at Marquette 2/15 vs DePaul 3/8 at Providence That would be a rough schedule over the next 5 weeks, but without moving any currently scheduled games it would be the least painful way to fit all 20 conference games in for Georgetown. So if I had to guess, Georgetown will end up playing less than 20 conference games. The schedule would look like this overall: 2/3 at Creighton [2/5 at Xavier] 2/9 vs Creighton [2/11 at Marquette] 2/13 vs Butler [2/15 vs DePaul] 2/17 at Villanova 2/20 vs Seton Hall 2/23 vs UConn 2/27 at DePaul 3/2 vs Xavier 3/6 at UConn [3/8 at Providence]
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Post by RockawayHoya on Feb 1, 2021 16:09:39 GMT -5
I probably missed the answer somewhere - is the conference going to try to reschedule any of the missed games? Nothing has been announced yet. It'll be interesting if the Big East changes the existing schedule, tries to fit the missed games into the existing schedule, or just cancel the missed games and go into the BET with uneven schedules. RockawayHoya and I just looked at Georgetown's schedule, and here's the most feasible approach to fitting the four missed games into the schedule without any teams having games in back to back games: 2/5 at Xavier 2/11 at Marquette 2/15 vs DePaul 3/8 at Providence That would be a rough schedule over the next 5 weeks, but without moving any currently scheduled games it would be the least painful way to fit all 20 conference games in for Georgetown. So if I had to guess, Georgetown will end up playing less than 20 conference games. The schedule would look like this overall: 2/3 at Creighton [2/5 at Xavier] 2/9 vs Creighton [2/11 at Marquette] 2/13 vs Butler [2/15 vs DePaul] 2/17 at Villanova 2/20 vs Seton Hall 2/23 vs UConn 2/27 at DePaul 3/2 vs Xavier 3/6 at UConn [3/8 at Providence] From solely a GU perspective, adding in those games could have been a lot worse from a travel standpoint. Xavier is on the way home from Creighton. We're already home for Butler and adding Depaul 2 days later doesn't inconvenience a short road trip to Philly. Providence is a short trip away from UConn prior to the BET. Really, the only tough travel scenario is having to head out to Marquette mid-week.
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Post by HometownHoya on Feb 2, 2021 12:16:17 GMT -5
Xavier is going on a COVID break of their own so that one is out. Unfortunately, everyone else that we need to reschedule has a game scheduled for Saturday but I'd love to squeeze some more games in.
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Post by professorhoya on Feb 2, 2021 12:33:32 GMT -5
Xavier is going on a COVID break of their own so that one is out. Unfortunately, everyone else that we need to reschedule has a game scheduled for Saturday but I'd love to squeeze some more games in. I was thinking that the Kansas City Chiefs would go on COVID break if Mahmomes was ruled out due to concussion protocol a couple weeks ago. Just keep a covid positive guy on your Taxi Squad and viola.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Feb 2, 2021 12:47:00 GMT -5
Xavier is going on a COVID break of their own so that one is out. Unfortunately, everyone else that we need to reschedule has a game scheduled for Saturday but I'd love to squeeze some more games in. The Marquette game is no longer possible either, as Nova-Marquette has been rescheduled to Feb. 10.
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