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Post by 2ndRyan on May 4, 2005 9:10:59 GMT -5
I recall maid service my freshman year- '71-72.
Do not recall it the next two years when I lived in New South. I think you went to the laundry room at designated times for clean sheets.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Nov 4, 2007 6:55:27 GMT -5
What a great thread. As has been noted by all, Georgetown is a basketball school. We're never going to win the Orange Bowl (Yes I know we were there once in another age). I grew up in New England watching what is now 1-AA football. It can be entertaining and competitive and does engender the kind of community of which DFW spoke. It may be a little harder in that there's more to do on Autumn Saturdays in DC perhaps than in Worcester or Hanover, but that can be managed. I think we deserve, should work for, and can have a team that can play with Holy Cross and Dartmouth. LBPop, I've enjoyed your posts and I'm sorry your son and those of his class have not seen the turn in fortune we hoped for. Thank you to you and to him. I hope when this thing gets going in the right direction, you and he can feel you were part of the foundation.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Sept 24, 2007 7:56:11 GMT -5
The team that pasted us on Saturday was itself 1-10 in 2003. (guess who their lone win was against). How did they turn it around? I can't believe their practice facilities etc. are much better. Fitton Field does have a certain old school charm and there probably is less to do in Worcester on an autumn Saturday than in metropolitan DC. Still, I find it hard to believe they can consistently out-recruit us.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Aug 6, 2007 10:40:46 GMT -5
I think scholarships would result in a general uplift in PL talent.
If you look at the 1980's records of schools like Holy Cross, which pre-PL did offer scholarships, against the Ivies, I think you'll find a marked difference to the 90's and the current decade.
With an athletic scholarship, a Holy Cross or a Lehigh competes with Penn. If the playing field is level ie grants-in-aid for both, the Ivies win.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Nov 16, 2007 8:36:01 GMT -5
The game flew by. There was one free throw in the first half -ONE. Georgetown didn't shoot its first free throw until there were less than four minutes in the game. The game was almost over by 9.
Michigan looked young and scared. By the time they established any semblance of an offensive rythmn the game was over. Great job of putting away an inferior opponent early.
Perimeter shooting was great- we missed a lot around the breakfast.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Nov 1, 2007 23:52:18 GMT -5
Recall the '83 team losing to Nova at the Palestra. I think it was the last time we played them there- moved to the Spectrum next year. An ugly game in which an inexperienced team couldn't hold a second half lead against the surging home team. Patrick in foul trouble in the second half gave way to Dunn.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Oct 13, 2007 5:51:20 GMT -5
Mr Sixer-
I'd never question Jimmy's coaching talent- his record speaks for itself.
I thinnk what you saw in '06 with UConn was an ego-filled coach giving up on a talented but troubled team.
Perhaps JImmy has earned the right to say "screw ypu bums. I wash my hands". On the other hand, the result was a team that never got where it might have.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Oct 9, 2007 20:44:22 GMT -5
I attended the 2006 NCAA tournament game at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia at which highly ranked UConn played upstart Univ of Albany. Calhoun sulked throughout the first half. From the mid-point of the half he turned the coaching over to George Blaney, ex-Holy Cross coach and now Husky bench coach. At timeouts he stood with arms crossed and said nothing nothing to this team. I have no doubt he reamed out his under-performing charges at halftime who proceeded to eventually overwhelm the opponent late in the second half. Next year when you watch UConn play, watch what happens when one of his players screws up. Like curs who have been beaten too much, their instinctive first look is to the bench. They see a sneering Jim Calhoun. Contrast his bench demeanor with that of JTIII. Coaching is a tough business. You can only put 5 of 12 players on the court at a time and those five must share one ball. That being said, you just don't see the histrionics and the upstaging of players that Jimmy does out of JTIII.
I do like some things about Calhoun. He bleeds Big East Basketball. His decision not to play traitor BC resonates with me. He spent his early career at UConn trying to compete with GU, and he seems pleased we are back.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jul 24, 2007 16:36:00 GMT -5
I believe Victor Page also attended The Winchendon School
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jul 8, 2007 5:57:12 GMT -5
Thank you, osthoya. great story. And thank you SirSaxa for again reminding us that the Thompson era did not begin in 1981. (No disrespect intended to the greatest player in Georgetown's history).
In 1978 I was in exile in Charlottesville. In December I think we played and defeated Indiana, I got an excited call from a friend after the game about a skinny freshman from North Carolina. My friend said something like " he's absolutely fearlless looking for his shot and Thompson lets him shoot".
Godspeed, Sleepy and I hope your mom feels better.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jun 28, 2007 7:06:01 GMT -5
"most fundamentally sound player in the draft". I believe it. Good PR for Georgetown and its coach and its offense.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jul 24, 2007 8:31:59 GMT -5
After several years of contemplating a visit to the Kenner League, I am planning a visit to this year's final on Sunday.
Would anyone have advice on
1. route to McDonough from 95 South 2. where to park (my last visit to campus was 2000) 3. is the final likely to be crowded or seating unavailable?
Many thanks Out-of-town fan
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jun 28, 2007 7:18:22 GMT -5
Great list. Thank you, MCI I hope it was as much fun to prepare as it was to read.
Watching last year's team (after the home loss to Nova) was the most fun I've had as a fan, perhaps ever.
I was at #6 UNC and #3 Nova on your list. The one thing that absolutely impressed me was the confidence of this Jeff Green-lead team. In the Nova game Georgetown scored the last seven points of the first half and the last nine of the second. The second half comeback and overtime pasting of a more athletic UNC is legend.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jun 18, 2007 23:45:57 GMT -5
#1 without question.
I loved exorcising the ghosts of '82.
Having spent 2 years of graduate school at Virginia, I have a healthy disrespect for the ACC.
The ACC rose to prominence in the fifties and sixties by draining talent out of the Northeast. I loved the rise of our league in the eighties that staunched that flow.
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Post by 2ndRyan on May 31, 2007 10:52:26 GMT -5
Pickle ball- having seen it but never done it, I'd describe it as platform tennis with a whiffle ball or what you play when you can no longer move fast or far enough to play tennis doubles.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jun 2, 2007 23:53:43 GMT -5
I understand there was a Coaches Breakfast Q & A as part of this weekend's alumni festivites.
Did anyone attend or otherwise know if anything interesting came up?
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 14, 2007 5:53:36 GMT -5
Early in his tenure, say '74, JT2 used go into the dorms and talk basketball at scheduled events.
I enjoyed the one I attended in New South.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 14, 2007 9:03:59 GMT -5
Saxa, SawIt,
appreciate the memories of Merlin Wilson and Jon Smith. I sometimes wonder if people realize that by the time the greatest basketball player in Georgetown's history arrived in the fall of '81, JT2 had been coaching for NINE seasons.
Derrick Jackson, Craig Shelton, John Duren and of course Sleepy Floyd get their due, but the guys from St. Anthony's seemed to get lost.
I know at one point they seemed disaffected and unconnected with the program. Were they around for the Centennial festivities?
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 13, 2007 7:56:13 GMT -5
I think the 5th starter was Mark Gallagher in 72-73. He was injured and then didn't play for several years before coming back in 75-76.
Of the five freshmen recruited in 72- Stokes played little after his first year and faded away. Greg Brooks did not play his senior year though he graduated.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 12, 2007 16:35:22 GMT -5
For the even older than that Ron "Hollywood " Lyons
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