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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 19, 2023 17:44:33 GMT -5
This is not good. The competence that was there in the first game looks to be long gone. Could it be because we're not playing LeMoyne? Sure but AU is no good and many of the mistakes here look less about the level of competition and more about preparation.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 19, 2023 17:41:56 GMT -5
This is not good. The competence that was there in the first game looks to be long gone.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 18, 2023 11:50:50 GMT -5
ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl revealed on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that individuals closest to Donald Trump questioned his mental capacity after January 6, 2021. The Republican National Committee and the various Republican campaigns need to sever any relationship with Jonathan Karl until he comes clean with real verified sources. Journalism at the level of national network or a national network that aspires to be a serious outlet cannot rely on inflammatory ghost journalism and be taken seriously. I think Karl and ABC don't even realize how short a leash they are on with the American public after the events of the last several years. You’re voting for Trump again, right?
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 12, 2023 10:22:22 GMT -5
Feels like we overpaid for a new coach Overreacting to small sample sizes is the foundational bedrock of HT.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 12, 2023 10:19:34 GMT -5
It’s the worse loss for Gtown in terms of Cooley’s career as a coach. This is a difficult sentence to parse. Are you saying this is the worst loss for Cooley as GU coach? Or that it’s the worst loss for GU ever. Both may be true (the first is definitely and obviously true).
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 7, 2023 21:05:05 GMT -5
So nice to see the Hoyas blow out a team they are supposed to blow out and (from the admittedly very little I’ve seen) look competent in doing so.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 27, 2023 9:03:21 GMT -5
It’s almost like a $10K fine is completely impotent and meaningless. Shocking
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Post by hoya9797 on Sept 25, 2023 11:22:51 GMT -5
Speculating-I suspect that as a genius Rhodes Scholar Sabato could care less how much his Tesla costs and probably does not go to the store to buy the household groceries, so he may, perhaps, have a perspective problem concerning current events. He also probably took out his mortgage years ago. Couldn’t care less
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Post by hoya9797 on Sept 19, 2023 21:31:06 GMT -5
It’s an athletic arrangement so who the F cares? You don’t have a Georgetown degree, so you wouldn’t understand. 😉 Wrong on every count.
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Post by hoya9797 on Sept 19, 2023 10:02:28 GMT -5
The Big East is a conference of academic misfits. It’s an athletic arrangement so who the F cares?
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Post by hoya9797 on Sept 19, 2023 10:01:19 GMT -5
No mention of Jay Heath, who has always averaged double-digits and who is going into his fifth season. I would be surprised if Jay averages less than 13 ppg this season. The author went with the eye-candy transfers. I'll take the under on Heath and 13 ppg. Heath is easily passed over because he's not been a difference maker in 4 years of college on 3 different teams. It's unlikely he'll all of a sudden be a difference maker in his 5th year of college basketball. Seems like a very good kid and representative of the university, I'm rooting for him, but seems pretty easy to understand why he'd be an afterthought to neutral observers. Remember last year when Heath was granted his eligibility and many here acted as if LeBron was walking though the doors? Hilarious.
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Post by hoya9797 on Sept 7, 2023 7:23:33 GMT -5
If, in the next several years, Georgetown is in a position where it regrets firing Pat Ewing, it should not only shut down the men’s basketball program but just close the entire school. It would not be a place worthy of existing if such a disaster were to come to pass.
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Post by hoya9797 on Sept 1, 2023 14:31:13 GMT -5
And it’s “in all sports”. I’m always in favor of allowing another free transfer after a coaching change. Agreed. Coaching change should allow a free transfer except in the situation where a player actively and intentionally tries to sabotage the team in order to get the coach fired so the player can get more NIL money elsewhere. That should be easy to prove.
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Post by hoya9797 on Sept 1, 2023 9:08:16 GMT -5
This is your quote from an earlier post. "I would, if possible, restrict NIL to...Name, Image, Likeness. This is the hard one. But, it's absurd for someone like Dickinson to get an "NIL" deal, when it's obvious that Dickinson isn't bringing that value through name, image, and likeness." What exactly are you saying here? As you like to state often, we have no idea what the great majority of these deals entail. Here's an article about players from Tennessee. www.wbir.com/article/news/local/over-4-million-in-nil-deals-for-ut-athletes/51-4d47002d-706d-424e-a809-f96aeccc934a"From the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep, you're really on the go from one thing to the next," said Josiah-Jordan James, a UT basketball player. "Any type of money is good money for us."
James said through events, trading cards, billboards and restaurant deals, he is able to bring in more than $50,000 a year.
Brandon Spurlock from Spyre said athletes can earn anything from a free meal to $500,000 per year, depending on the athlete. Is this considered true NIL too in your opinion? I think we are talking past one another a bit. Yes, that sounds like legitimate NIL, at least on its face. For most--not all--players getting $500,000 are by definition getting a salary to play basketball because very few college basketball players would be paid that much to advertise for restaurants, etc. and use their name, image, or likeness to sell goods. Keep in mind that for most of these college players, outside the smallish group of people who follow basketball, nobody has any idea who they are. As you indicate, all of this is hazy because the NIL deals do not need to be disclosed, and we really have no idea who is getting what. I'm resigned to the fact that it is what it is at this point. Why not cut out all the middleman BS and have the school directly pay the players and have the two parties enter into a contract?
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Post by hoya9797 on Aug 16, 2023 10:38:44 GMT -5
Because there seems to be controversy over Mourning's freshman weight, here are a few things I found: Mourning, Senior in High School: - November 19, 1987, The Miami Herald: "'All you can look at is where a person is right now and project,' said assistant coach Dave Odom of Virginia, another finalist in the Mourning sweepstakes. 'Alonzo, right now, is a little further along than Ewing. He is quick off his feet, he plays with great heart and he is the kind of person people want on their team. He isn't as big as Ewing, but there's no question that he will be a terrific college player.' Ewing is 7-1, 260 pounds; Mourning is 6-10, 220 pounds." - April 17, 1998, Associated Press: " Mourning, the 6-10, 230-pound center from Chesapeake, Va., who will attend Georgetown, hit a pair of late second half dunks as the East held off a West rally." - May 20, 1988, Chicago Tribune: "He is attempting to accomplish what no one before him has managed, yet he approaches his task with the alacrity of one about to perform in a pickup game on the playground. His name is Alonzo Mourning, and he is 6-foot-10 and 230 pounds, and he is now an object of attention who could well become the first high schooler to make a United States Olympic basketball team." - May 22, 1988, The San Diego Union-Tribune: "Manning is playing as well here as he did in leading -- no, carrying -- the Jayhawks to the NCAA title. Every notable big man at the Division I level is throwing his body around the three courts at the Olympic Sports Center . . . None, however, is the subject of as much speculation as 6-10, 230-pound Alonzo Mourning." Mourning, Freshman at Georgetown: - November 18, 1988, The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY): "Georgetown signed Mourning, a 6-10, 235-pounder from Virginia and the consensus No. 1 high school player in the nation last year, and Milton Bell, a 6-6 forward from Richmond, Va. The Hoyas also beefed up their frontcourt with the addition of sophomore transfer John Turner, a 6-7, 235-pound forward." - November 20, 1988, Newsday, "In describing Mourning's 235 pounds of well-placed mass, Williams said, 'half of it belongs to God; the other half belongs to Bill Lassiter.'" - March 15, 1989, UPI, "Georgetown has dominated with center Dikembe Mutombo, a 7-foot-2, 235-pound center from Zaire, and Alonzo Mourning, a 6-10, 240-pound forward who was the Big East Defensive Player of the Year." There are many others from Mourning's freshman year where he is listed as 230, 235, or 240. The 235 number seems the most frequently used, so I am guessing that's what Georgetown officially listed him at. I did not see any below 230, other than the one from when he was in high school (the first one above). These are from a private database, so I cannot link to the full articles. Much of this is really beside the point anyway for purposes of our roster this year. Fielder does not need to be as big as Mourning was to be effective. Not as many teams have super-big centers or forwards anymore. It's a different world. Obviously, in an ideal world, with all things equal, you want bigger guys than smaller ones, but skilled big men are more important than hulking ones without skill. Impossible, there is this one guy who watched on TV and remembers differently. He also remembers comic books so it checks out.
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Post by hoya9797 on Aug 15, 2023 9:51:48 GMT -5
You obviously were not around back then, kid. I saw those numbers last night when trying to do some more research and I laughed. Those are practically the weight of Zo and Laettner once going into the NBA. That wasn't what they weighed when coming into college. Heck, Shaq was listed at about 250 pounds when arriving at LSU and he was a MONSTER. Much bigger than Zo and Laettner who arrived a year ahead of him. Even though I was a kid at the time I can clearly recall looking at Alonzo and thinking he looked small compared to Stanley Roberts and not as muscular as Shawn Kemp. In terms of build I was expecting him to look like Ewing did during his first years with the Knicks and that was unfair. He did not even look as strong as JR Reid, another Virginia kid who I was a real fan of. One college writer said that Alonzo, despite his ranking, would have problems with Stacey King. King was an Oklahoma player who would have been a senior I believe during Alonzo's freshman season. King was all muscle and had a wide chest. Anyway I'm pretty certain that Alonzo was not listed any more than 215 to 230 pounds when coming into college. There has always been an inconsistency in terms of listed weight of incoming freshmen, even more than height. 220 to 225 sounds about right. He wasn't exactly Chris Webber in terms of statuesque build when he first hit the college court. Alonzo being listed by these website as 240 when arriving at Gtown is ridiculous. That would make him heavier than Ewing's listed weight when he was a frosh (go to games on YouTube when Ewing's height and weight are announced or listed onscreen) and Ewing was both taller and a little more muscular than Zo. By the time Zo became a junior he had an actual NBA body (the difference in his build between his game against Duke as a frosh and his game against Duke as a junior is startling), but it took some time. Eventually he would get up to 250 during his NBA days, perhaps a tad more, because he really worked on gaining strength, probably in part to make up for his lack of height and overall skill. As for Laettner, he was nowhere near 240 either. I guess the lesson here is don't always trust what you read on the internet. Going back to weight inconsistency I have seen Fielder listed as high as 220 or at least 215. Not a HUGE difference there but that 195 or 205 that I see tossed in this thread is false imo. Don't trust what you read but trust your 30+ year old memories of your observations of people on TV or, at best, at a distance? I know what I'd trust and it's definitely not very old memories.
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Post by hoya9797 on Aug 14, 2023 9:55:49 GMT -5
I really fail like perhaps more than any other player on our roster the last two years, that Ewing really failed Mutombo. Mutombo was obviously not ready to play a ton from day one, but last year, when Mutombo did play, he seemed to make contributions even if he was an imperfect player. For that reason, I never understood why Ewing insisted on keeping him nailed to the bench, or why he played Wilson ahead of Mutombo. It made no sense. I think Mutombo could be a really good player for us, especially with real coaching. Weren’t you saying how awesome Wilson was and how he should be getting PT and not be team manager. I suspect what he actually said was that Wilson should not have been kicked off the team in a desperate and futile effort to save the worst coach in history’s job.
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Post by hoya9797 on Aug 10, 2023 8:55:13 GMT -5
As expected, no one has addressed the substance of my post which is that Americans are paying lots more than they did before Biden took office. The fact inflation is easing doesn't change the figures I listed. Nor does any reference to Trump. Is that the substance of your post or is it that idiots will blame the president for a global macroeconomic situation that was in the works for a very long time before he became president?
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Post by hoya9797 on Jul 31, 2023 15:11:27 GMT -5
If you were Ewing, would you really want other coaches watching?
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Post by hoya9797 on Jul 29, 2023 7:37:31 GMT -5
Does anyone know why Georgetown is not actively pursuing the Roslyn Marriott site for an "on Campus" arena? or are they and I just dont know? It’s owned by a developer who, presumably, has plans for the site. Are they marketing it for sale now? The development climate certainly has changed in the last year so the developer may be looking for a way out but I don’t know if that’s true.
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