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Post by 2ndRyan on Mar 15, 2006 11:06:55 GMT -5
PHILADELPHIA
RE where to watch-
I'm thinking a Dave and Buster's type operation (there's one on Delaware Ave), somebody with a lot of screens is the way to go if you're going to try and watch.
I'll do some digging and try to post again later today. If anyone else has a better suggestion, chime in.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Mar 10, 2006 8:50:57 GMT -5
I was at the 2/25 game. I thought we shredded their zone and had good shot selection against it.
Their 2-3 relies on good wing players and Hakim and Carmello ain't in the house.
I hope the common sentiment about their tank being empty is right, but fatigue cuts both ways and after all, this is Syracuse-Georgetown. They'd like to pin a loss on us as much as we would them.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Mar 1, 2006 14:51:47 GMT -5
I agree this article is old news. Catholic (actually urban schools) have been losing out to State U for years. NYU was a national power thru the fifties.
Marquette won in '77 but the last Catholic school before that was Loyola of Chicago 24 years earlier.
The new threat is the BCS use of football revenue to subsidize everything else. If the Big East does split along Football/non-Football lines how Georgetown, Villanova St john's and others find a way to field nationally competitive teams will be the issue. I think as Gonzaga is showing us, it can be done.
Interesting trivia- with the exception of Villanova in '85 I think all the post-WWII Catholic NCAA champions are Jesuit schools.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Mar 1, 2006 7:25:00 GMT -5
I was in New Orleans last week on business. The devastation is far worse than television captures it.
The Ninth Ward is truly unworldly, but East New Orleans where the flooding ranged from feet of water to inches is staggering. One sees block after block of deserted homes. Here and there one can see a trailer in the driveway where family members live as they try to get their house gutted (moldy sheetrock and insulation removed).
In the French Quarter I would say that 30% of the businesses are still not open. Bourbon Street was not flooded, but months of no tourism have clearly taken their toll. Every native you speak to has a story. Even those who weren't flooded out have close relatives who were. Recovery will take years.
As we turn from Mardi Gras to Lent, have a thought (prayer) for New Orleanians.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Feb 8, 2006 22:24:08 GMT -5
Thanks, Massholya. One hopes that as Jack suggests a clearly articulated policy might eventuually come out of this. I think a number of us would advocate that.
IversonCtHoya, I was told today that the Hoop Club was no longer even accepting BET ticket requests. My thought, given my fresh disappointment, would be to get an official on the phone and inquire explicitly about your ticket request. I would leave nothing to chance or an assumption that our shared Georgetown identity will produce a favorable outcome.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Feb 8, 2006 21:25:43 GMT -5
Add me to that list!
It was great to have to explain to my two sons tonight to whom I'd given a ticket each at Christmas that we were out.
I guess I knew the bandwagon would get crowded quickly but this really leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
My supposition is that they held all the ticket requests and then recently parcelled out the tickets to the better friend$$$ of the program.
Perhaps that's the way to handle the BET, but I would suggest that single away games out to be first come, first served.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Feb 7, 2006 10:31:40 GMT -5
The first game I ever saw at McDonough was vs, St John's in Dec of '71. That was the disastrous pre-Thompson year. I think Louie was still in his ABA hiatus. I recall the Redmen being up twenty at the half.
I think as the Big East was forming Syracuse supplanted other rivals like Fordham, Holy Cross, and St Joseph's.
Pre- Big East I'd always had a visceral dislike of Syracuse who seemed year after year to charge out of the snows of upstate New York in early March with a bunch of wins over the likes of Cornell, Colgate and Siena.
I think the "last game at Manley" win in 1980 along with the early Eighties Pearl Washington-Pat Ewing etc BET games with Syracuse cemented them as our biggest BE rival to me.
I'll always fondly remember the '87 BET title game with Reggie Williams and 6'4'' center Perry McDonald (great to see the benefit for him and best wishes to him)against Coleman, Seikaly and Sherman Douglas.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jan 11, 2006 10:46:43 GMT -5
Vanderbilt beat Kentucky in Rupp Arena last night for the first time since 1974. I hope that says more about how good Vandy is as opposed to how bad the Wildcats are.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jan 10, 2006 11:22:36 GMT -5
I recall that Georgetown's first trip to the NCAA's in the Thompson (the elder) Era went thru Morgantown.
In March, 1975 on successive nights the Hoyas beat GW and WVU (who had beaten Pitt the prior night) to win what I think was called the ECAC South.
Good memories.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Dec 23, 2005 8:35:38 GMT -5
Thanks for the notation on Craig Shelton, HoyaChris. I don't remember much about Shelton in 76-77 either, but I recall him having a great game in December of 77 in the Holiday Festival Tournament in the Garden against Holy Cross that seemed to be his coming out.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Dec 26, 2005 10:37:17 GMT -5
I haven't seen their pictures but the reason for the height/weight discrepancy between the Chones twins would perhaps be that they are fraternal twins.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Nov 17, 2005 9:04:15 GMT -5
I noted the threes late in the game as well. Their fans on their feet "disrupting" the Hall's free throws when they're up 50 points was an interesting display of sportsmanship as well. Don't these people have a shred of empathy?
At least we now have the Sports Illustrated jinx going for us. Can anyone stop Duke, indeed.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Nov 9, 2005 14:04:10 GMT -5
I moved to Philadelphia in the early eighties and people from Nova were driven crazy by Georgetown. I recall their students rushing the floor of the Palestra in a frenzy when they beat us there in '83. I used to always get Nova fans' goat when I said I'd be happy to lose to Nova twice if we could sweep St John's and Syracuse, whom I considered along with Georgetown to be the triumvirate rulers of the Big East. '85 changed how I felt about Nova. I don't think they're our rivals but I always want to beat them and unfortunately it will never make up for 1985.
In upstate New york, I would agree they hate Georgetown. The tried and true way to get any old Orange fan to spout in helpless rage is to ask them who closed Manley.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Nov 9, 2005 7:39:16 GMT -5
the picture is definitely St John's- that's Chris Mullin with his back to the camera. Hard to say exactly where they are but it looks like the Garden to me.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Sept 27, 2005 22:49:29 GMT -5
Rutgers has been of no importance to college basketball since the time of Jammin James Bailey a player who did his time before most Rutgers students were born.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Sept 26, 2005 13:32:16 GMT -5
Thanks, HoyaChris. You ruined what was supposed to be a productive morning work-wise. I would echo NTAMM's and others' comments. This work is encyclopedic- I hope it was a labor of love.
Great to see 3 of John's original recruits on the list. My god, you even had willowy Billy Lynn, the sometime cartoonist from Springarn. Nice to see that for everyone Hoya basketball didn't begin with the arrival of Ewing or at the earliest Sleepy Floyd.
Thanks again for a great effort.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Sept 10, 2005 19:49:38 GMT -5
'71-72 was my freshman year. If you think the '03-04 season was bad, try losses to D-II Assumption College at home and a loss to Penn State on a length of the court inbounds pass as time expired.
By the end of that nightmare, neither Sigholtz nor Magee had much credibility left. The feud between the two seemed well-known. Magee, I recall seemed to think scheduling which included a number of road games over the semester break and was engineered by Sigholtz was to blame for the team's lack of success. It was a sad team- one senior Mike Laughna from the NIT year and a number of unproven sophomores and juniors (freshman were ineligible until '72).
Rienzo who was the track coach when he as hired as AD came on the scene at the same time John was hired. I don't recall the exact quote from Fr. Henle, but from the nadir of March of '72, getting to the post-season every few years or so seemed a bit optimistic.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Aug 28, 2005 6:16:12 GMT -5
what a great thread.
Frank Deford did a bio of JTII in SI and I guess it was in the late eighties. Anyone else recall it?
I've done a search and come up empty. Deford's SI archive online only goes back to '93 .
Deford also did a great piece on Al McGuire which I'd love to find.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Aug 22, 2005 11:46:32 GMT -5
Anti Georgetown t-shirt
Seen at the BET in the early Nineties worn by a contingent of Redmen (as I think they were still known in those pre-PC days)
Syracuse Sucks, Georgetown Swallows
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Post by 2ndRyan on Aug 11, 2005 13:59:50 GMT -5
I have not been to the BET since the early 90's (roughly coinciding with the arrival of kids). Has the Board ever tried a gathering there? I am a sometime poster and constant lurker and I'd be interested in meeting some of the personalities on this Board.
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