Tennessee in talks with Hoyas for a series

[Grandpa]

Not sure if this is "new" news or not, but don't recall seeing anything about this on the board:

In addition to the Memphis trip, the Vols will face Xavier in Cincinnati. Ohio State will come to Knoxville, and the Vols are also talking to Georgetown about starting a series with the Hoyas.

www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070613/SPORTS0601/706130437

[HeartAttackHoya]

Bring on Duke Crews!!!

[nashvillehoyas]

I prefer to renew the series with Memphis. Georgetown have always had a fan base in Memphis. I don't see any benefit with UT. JT II and Larry Finch had some interesting games.
Go Hoyas.

[HoyaSinceBirth]

Would love to see us play Tennesse next year. They've got the potential to be a top 10 team. That'd be sweet!

[aggypryd]

Wouldn't be a bad series to start...

Play a home and home, and see how it goes.

[Boz]

Memo to Bruce Pearl:

No shirt.... No shoes.... No Dice!

Assuming he can follow those rules, I'd love to see this series happen.

[chep3]

This would be fantastic. An interesting style of play with the presure and excessive 3 point shooting. Would be a good experience to adapt. We should play everyone we can, we're going to need that experience in April.

[hoyarooter]

We have the history with Memphis, but I'm not too keen about playing Calipari's team. Bring on UT.

[nashvillehoya]

Rocky Top is an awesome song. this would be a great match-up i think

[hoyasexy]

This would be a great OOC pickup. I wouldn't want it too early in the schedule, but it would give us a fantastic measuring stick against another Top 10 quality team.

[haydenmac]

road trip to see my sister!

hoya saxa!

[tennesseehoya]

considering I bleed UT orange as much as hoya blue...it'd be a fantastic match up... haha

[prhoya]

I don't know about the two blood colors. Who would you root for if GU and UT end up playing the series?

[TigerHoya]

prhoya said:

I don't know about the two blood colors. Who would you root for if GU and UT end up playing the series?

It's a lot tougher than people think. I had to deal with it in Hawaii with the GU win over Clemson.

[prhoya]

Bt, who did you want to win? (watch your answer... possible 10-day posting suspension! ;D)

[hoyasexy]

The school where you received your undergraduate degree (or are currently attending in pursuit of an undergraduate degree) holds the trump card for any conflict. If you have other reasons for an allegiance (grew up a fan, graduate school, etc.), those allegiances have to be considered secondary to the alma mater.

[StPetersburgHoya (Inactive)]

Let's make them sweat!

[DudeSlade]

I always thought that people who posted on message boards were a little dorky, then I realized the only thing dorkier than posting on a message board is reading one without posting. I've been coming here since my undergrad years looking for recruiting and inside info, but realized that there is less of that than speculation on the boards. I figured I was as good at that as anyone, especially StPetersburgHoya, TBird41, nyr32 (or whatever that uptight Rangers fan's name is), CaliHoya85, Hoya2007, and the rest of the bumbling, fumbling, no longer rumbling gang of Team Ice Cold and Hoya Blue quack jobs call themselves. So I decided to join and this is my first post. Thanks for the warm reception.

Anyway, I wanted to comment on this "torn" loyalty as this was always an issue the great philosopher and Hoya FANatic Murph and I would discuss as we would watch otherwise attractive coeds waltz by in some hideous t-shirt/sweatshirt of a lesser school. It's a bunch of bologna! If you attended Georgetown at any point, especially undergrad, you are a Hoya and bleed Hoya blue! Don't you realize that God is on our side! He might throw the other lesser mortals a bone once a while, but he has clearly and definitively stated that Jack the Bulldog is the boddhisatva of dogs, JTIII is a living saint in the crusade of good against evil (Syracuse/Maryland/Duke), and the Georgetown/Princeton Offense is the tao of basketball. John Carroll is conveniently perched next to St. Peter's at the pearly gates and demands denunciation of loyalty to the evil colors of other universities, colleges, or JCs masquerading as colleges (Syracuse/Maryland/Duke) or else face flagellation at the hands of the great Jesuits of the Inquisition. Needless to say, God IS on our side and you already bleed Hoya blue as the movie "Georgetown Forever" made clear.

On another note, I grew up in a family of Trojans and was the first in a century not to attend the real USC (the west coast one, not Steve Spurrier's fake southern institution). I hold strong loyalties to that school due to family connections and will probably attend grad school there someday, but I would never put the Cardinal & Gold above the Hoya Blue. Secondly, there is the convenient, though tragic, reality that I can root for both in their premiere sports without betraying the other. I love USC football almost as much as I love Gtown basketball and being that we have a football team my high school team could beat, I see no conflict in interest in pulling for USC during football season and Gtown during basketball season. If USC does well in any other sport at any other time, particularly basketball, that's nice and I root them on, but it remains secondary to Gtown's success. I see no reason why fans of Clemson and Tennessee, which are, let's be honest, really football schools that might be Florida wannabes, cannot do the same thing. In fact, John Carroll will insist on it when you reach the pearly gates, so make it easy on yourself and follow the tao of Georgetown now.

That being said, a Gtown-Tennessee series would be awesome, as it allows us to trounce them on our way to #1! But I'm not biased or anything.

[Coast2CoastHoya]

Welcome to the posting side of the Board, dudeslade, and as a fellow Hoya in a circle of Trojans (my uncle is the guy who came up with "Leave No Doubt") -- and with scarily similar loyalties and thoughts on loyalties -- GO HOYAS and GO TROJANS.

It would be pretty sweet to play Tennessee. Looks like our OOC could be pretty challenging in upcoming seasons.

[DudeSlade]

Thanks Coast2Coast. It's always good to hear about more west coast (dare I say, Cali?) Hoyas. I have nothing but love for everyone on this board (the Hoyas at least) and definitely had to take a swing at some of my old roommates/friends/student section cheering mates and make some outrageous comments. After all, you can't join HoyaTalk with a whimper. I've learned over the years that this is where the big boys play. And as my favorite saying out here in the Aloha State goes, "Go Big or Go Home!"

But on the basketball side, anytime we can play more Top 25 teams, I'm all for it. You can call this the Pete Carroll mentality: "Anybody, Anytime, Anywhere." (That's for you Coast2Coast) Fresno State has the same mentality with football and it has gained them a lot of respect. For USC, it's established their dominance and whittled away the competition at the end of the year. I can't fully understand why there aren't more teams like this in basketball, where it's not one loss and you're out, but where around 30 at-large teams are invited to the Big Dance every year. Of course, you can't always play the top teams every game (after all, how many want to play us), but I see no reason why we shouldn't play at least 3-4 top 25 nonconference games every year now that we have reestablished ourselves. It will give us great exposure in the national media, great experience in big time and pressure-packed games (especially going into the Big East), and add to a strong resume for Tourney invites in the years that we don't win the Big East. We can't rely on the strength of the conference schedule to carry us into the Tourney, as West Virginia and Florida State learned last year, since more and more teams are ramping up their nonconference schedules. Besides these games bring in greater ticket sales and revenue, national recognition, and help recruiting. A big time recruit wants big time exposure (look at OJ Mayo going to USC for the media exposure like Reggie Bush got) and wants scouts and GMs to see them or at least to prove themselves against the best. For example, as great as Jeff is, he wasn't in the lottery as a lock until the Tourney, when we played some big time competition. And who doesn't think Roy's battles against Aaron Gray, the UNC big men, and Greg Oden didn't help his stock? And one loss against top 25 competition doesn't hurt as much as one win against top 25 competition helps. I've just always thought to be the best, you have to play and beat the best. I would love to see Gtown and JTIII adopt the Pete Carroll/Fresno St. mentality.