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Post by tgo on Jan 17, 2023 15:25:45 GMT -5
Fewer people who will know a lot about this train wreck and might not realize the wretched depths Georgetown has sunk to, so maybe this is good news.
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Post by tgo on Dec 27, 2022 9:28:09 GMT -5
We're bad, but Dante isn't making one bit of difference here, both because we're so bad and because he's not particularly good. Before passing judgment, let’s see what a very good coach and staff can do with him vs. what a poor coach and staff did with him. Not making a difference with the current coach who doesn't know what the words "sub" or "bench" mean in basketball so this is true. But, with any other coach it would make a difference to have a back up point guard even if they had much less talent, experience and leadership than what Dante has to offer.
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Post by tgo on Dec 24, 2022 16:49:34 GMT -5
Can we start a gofundme to actually pay students to start causing an uproar about this on campus? I know the apathy is so great that most don’t even care. But maybe we can form a team of “brand ambassadors” to start making some noise on campus. You know signs and protests and the like. They don’t have to really care at all about basketball. We can just tell them what to write and say. I figure if we can raise like $20k, we can pay 200 students $100 each to protest on Healy lawn for a while. Show up to games with paper bags on their heads. That kind of stuff. This is actually a great idea. People, especially young people, love to protest and yearn to feel like they are part of something big and meaningful. I would donate to this. I have experience in grassroots activism and marketing and would gladly volunteer some time to help plan and execute the campaign. Anyone interested in possibly making this happen DM me.
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Post by tgo on Dec 18, 2022 19:58:36 GMT -5
Excited that I can now have a high major team i can support for the next two years. Good luck to Dante, I will be checking out more of their games and cheering for them in the tourney at least as long as he is there.
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Post by tgo on Dec 18, 2022 19:53:37 GMT -5
Getting back to coach Ewing. I think the thing that has bothered me most about him this year (and I'll be honest I really thought up until last year that he could turn our program around) is the fact that this year he hasn't given any of his younger recruits a chance to demonstrate what they can or can't do. Sure you want to win all your games but jeez you would have thought that during the OOC we would have seen more rotations with Bass, Anglin, Bristol, Riley and Motumbo. Right now there is no way you can throw them into BE games with the limited exposure they've had to in game action. Sure a couple are transfers but none I believe faced high level D1 competition they will face the rest of the way this year. And guys like Motumbo, Riley and Anglin were highly recruited and Bristol was a MEAC Rookie of the Year. I really hope they stick around and a new coach gives them some serious pt. it is hard for me to fathom that i would ever think such a thing... but i do because this is how low it has gotten ... if i knew any of these kids personally I would have advised them to transfer before the end of the semester. these young men only get one chance to be a 19 year old with great athletic talent and to play college basketball and it is criminal that he refuses to play any of them. It is bad enough that he has taken from me and many of us the joy and hope and excitement that we had while following our Hoyas but what he has done to the kids on the bench is so beyond that ... I don't have words to express my anger about it and I cant imagine how i would feel if i was the father or brother or uncle of one of these guys.
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Post by tgo on Nov 27, 2022 22:44:32 GMT -5
Akok came ready to go. He was a proven college basketball defensive commodity and a player who couldxstep out and shoot 3s. Pat has had nothing to do with his development. On the other hand, Q and Tim were brought in as freshmen and Pat could not develop their defensive skills. Once again I'm not defending Ewing because I agree with you. I'm stating it isn't hurting Tim playing against weaker competition. If he was on pretty much any power 5 team he wouldn't even get any minutes outside garbage time. You can not say they are getting good numbers because it is against inferior competition because they all have played tougher schedules, thus far, than the Hoyas have. Obviously that will change once conference season starts but right now they have played higher level competition than their replacements have. And they are putting up numbers far better than what they did as Hoyas and better than most of their replacements have thus far this year. No one is saying Tim or many of the others would get rotation level minutes (whether that is the 37 minutes per game Ewing plays the 6 people he deems worthy of play time or the much lower amount on any other team in the country) on a good team, but that when so many layers appear to be better when not playing for the Hoyas, that is indicative of something.
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Post by tgo on Aug 10, 2022 23:54:37 GMT -5
done
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Post by tgo on Jul 28, 2022 12:45:12 GMT -5
Garvey's daughter was class of '96
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Post by tgo on May 23, 2022 15:23:57 GMT -5
When schools recruit players and it turns out that the player is not going to develop into a Big East caliber player ... is it wrong to push them to transfer? yes, unquestionably, completely wrong.
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Post by tgo on May 17, 2022 19:30:00 GMT -5
I would love if someone could explain this to me.
I get that some all league level player or the top player or two on a team where that team is the defacto professional sports team for that area have some value as a spokesperson or by putting their mug on a billboard next to a product, but who in the world is going to pay money for anyone else? Why would a business pay Don Carey or anyone who is just a good or even very good but not NBA level college player at school X or Y anything to use his NIL?
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Post by tgo on Apr 11, 2022 21:07:05 GMT -5
Is it just me, or has every player in the entire portal heard from Georgetown? There must be someone keeping stats on this, I want to know how many people have "heard" from Georgetown vs other schools. I will take any win I can get, for instance, we are currently in first place in the Big East for most players declared for the portal... Winning! According to this list, Georgetown has offered to 119 high school recruits. --Admindocs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DRJed__FndtdPTjTdtKSpuH6qgu7WbSrkT8Z6ZyuruU/edit#gid=455486268
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Post by tgo on Apr 11, 2022 21:02:54 GMT -5
Please, please, please stop engaging with 9797. If you all stop responding to him and quoting him and telling him how much you hate Syracuse fans like him - or whatever team he cheers for - then he will go away, or least be easier to ignore. Yes, we are all annoyed that someone who hates Georgetown comments countless times a day, on every thread, to remind us of that fact but that doesn't mean you have to reply. That only encourages him. He will surely reply to this comment, but i wont engage. Let. It. Be.
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Post by tgo on Mar 16, 2022 9:19:18 GMT -5
We had a disease that attacked the elderly and the state with the most elderly people had the most deaths. Shocking indictment of the Republican governor of that state.
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Post by tgo on Mar 8, 2022 10:56:41 GMT -5
Getting on a flight to JFK today and heading to my 24th BET (How many is this for you MEGAFAN?). Who else will I see there? And who else is shocked that HHC is charging $25 for the pre game reception? These things used to be free with food available and drinks flowing. After this awful season, they should be paying anyone who made a contribution and still opens their emails to attend the reception and giving out free tickets, not the other way around. I think they may have charged once before but historically this was a free event, surprisingly tone deaf even for GU. I definitely will not be attending that function.
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Post by tgo on Feb 1, 2022 11:26:31 GMT -5
On campus arena would be great for the students and most likely lead to a better home court advantage. Also would be great to have a place to host graduation, concerts & other large events. BUT, even if it were possible to clear all the hurdles and make it happen (spoiler alert, not going to happen), it would still be very tough to turn away so many potential supporters. During the JT3 era we were averaging 12K a game, much more for conference games. www.hoyabasketball.com/records/bb_homeatt.htm If we had a 6,000 person arena on campus students would take more of the seats than they do now. When we are good, we would be turning away at least 7,000 on the average night. I am sure the avg ticket cost is over $25 but for arguments sake, at $25 per ticket and 15 home games, that is over $2.6 million in ticket sales. I dont know the details of our rental of the phone booth for games so i am sure that is not pure profit but whatever the break down is, that is a lot of money to leave on the table.
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Post by tgo on Jan 31, 2022 10:25:44 GMT -5
Was Bristol dressed and on the bench for the Butler game? I was pretty sure I saw him on the bench in uniform when the camera panned that direction during the first half but I didn't rewind to be certain.
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Post by tgo on Jan 28, 2022 12:27:55 GMT -5
The press has been excellent, in such depressing contrast to the rest of the defense. The only acceptable reason that we don't use it more, is that we already run out of gas at the end of games and using it more would make that happen earlier. If Bristol getting 15 minutes allows us to run the press for an extra 5 minutes a game, then that is a net positive even if he is invisible on the other end of the floor.
Coach, put him in the game and do it early. While you are at it, give Ryan a lot more minutes. Please!
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Post by tgo on Jan 26, 2022 11:23:48 GMT -5
Any intel on why Mutombo took a DNF against Nova? And only 4 minutes in the previous game?
I think he should be starting. At the very least he should be getting similar minutes to Tim. He has a lot to work on but so does Tim and we have had 3 years of minimal progress from Tim, I dont think anyone expects Tim to suddenly become Roy Hibbert or even rise to the level of Wahab so why hold back Ryan?
Need to give Ryan every chance we can, he has a great attitude, works hard and has a ton of potential. It wont happen for him over night and it also wont happen if he doesn't play. He doesn't have the benefit of practicing against high level big men making it even more important for him to play in the games.
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Post by tgo on Jan 26, 2022 11:13:45 GMT -5
Still no info on Bristol?
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Post by tgo on Jan 13, 2022 15:14:11 GMT -5
2. James Akinjo Point guard | Arizona to Baylor 14.4 PPG, 6.1 APG, 2.2 SPG, 37.9% 3PT After stops at Georgetown and Arizona, Akinjo faced the unenviable task of helping the defending national champions replace three elite guards. He has handled it masterfully, guiding the Bears back to No. 1 in the polls. He entered the week as the team's leading scorer, the Big 12 leader in assists per game and tied for the league lead in steals per game. He's managed to reach those feats while improving his shooting percentage from his previous college stops. Akinjo has been awesome and can still get better as he cuts down on his turnovers. Preseason ranking: 7 www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/court-report-stat-that-proves-kentucky-is-great-why-last-unbeatens-baylor-usc-are-poised-to-thrive-in-march/I told ya'll. Everything I said was true about Akinjo. He was our most effective player and coach had too tight a leash on him. Akinjo should have been our number one option. I believe that Dante is our most effective player on this team and that he should be our number one option. You guys constantly criticizing Dante, just like you constantly criticized Akinjo and eventually ran him out of town, need to have patience with Dante and allow him to make his mistakes as he navigates his game. This board, and just about every hoya fan i talk to, which is a good amount, absolutely loves Dante. Don't know where you are getting the idea that the board doesn't like Dante but it isn't true in the many posts I read. As for Akinjo, he has a higher ceiling than Dante, but I would still rather have Dante on my team. Just like I would rather have Jonathan Wallace than Akinjo. Hopefully, for his sake, Akinjo has matured since he left the hilltop. If he grows up a bit he can go a long way.
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