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Post by kbones17 on Apr 14, 2023 12:54:20 GMT -5
Alexis Yetna from Seton Hall. Solid rebounder and 24(!!) years old. Went to Putnam in high school a long time ago, so probably overlapped with Akok a little.
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Post by kbones17 on Apr 13, 2023 21:29:37 GMT -5
I’m surprised how little chatter is on here regarding this news. This is necessary and important.
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Post by kbones17 on Apr 13, 2023 16:09:27 GMT -5
We have the coach he originally committed to and should be a much more attractive destination than Providence. You can't lose recruiting battles to the Friars and expect people to take you seriously. Pretty clear that Dual was not impressed with our NIL offers: Too bad. A high schooler with an intact free transfer is not the person that we should be spending our NIL money on at the point where we are doing a complete roster rebuild. Providence is going to get one year out of him, and it'll be his inexperienced freshman year, and then he's going to jet. They have a competitive roster at this point, so maybe it makes some sense for them to offer a bunch of NIL, but we do not. Locking in Epps / Brumbaugh / Styles types who have both experience and future eligibility and use up their free transfer coming over is a much better use of scholarship / NIL. I agree. I think Dual is much more raw than some on here realize. Not worried about not getting him. Let’s wait and see who we add in the next few weeks.
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Post by kbones17 on Apr 12, 2023 11:48:18 GMT -5
Does anyone know if NCAA rules expressly prohibit the school, or a 3rd party NIL provider, from contracting with the athlete to stay at the school for a specified number of years? I mean, I know that NCAA rules theoretically prohibit NIL as "pay for play", but we are well past that now, aren't we? My understanding/sense is that there could be an agreement between NIL collective or company and that could be multi year in theory. But because it can’t be tied to actually playing for the university you could risk paying the player for appearances (etc) after they’re gone to another school or pros. I’m sure we’ll have court cases and trials eventually as this brave new world develops. NIL could probably tie it to in person appearances in a certain area which could try to keep a person physically there for the appearance or something like that. But we’ll see. It’s a brave new world.
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Post by kbones17 on Apr 12, 2023 11:45:51 GMT -5
Does anyone know if NCAA rules expressly prohibit the school, or a 3rd party NIL provider, from contracting with the athlete to stay at the school for a specified number of years? I mean, I know that NCAA rules theoretically prohibit NIL as "pay for play", but we are well past that now, aren't we? My understanding/sense is that there could be an agreement between NIL collective or company and that could be multi year in theory. But because it can’t be tied to actually playing for the university you could risk paying the player for appearances (etc) after they’re gone to another school or pros. I’m sure we’ll have court cases and trials eventually as this brave new world develops.
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Post by kbones17 on Apr 9, 2023 23:03:46 GMT -5
I don’t know much about Epps and Styles but glad I agree with looking for first time transfers with 2-3 years left of eligibility. These guys should come in with good experience, and clearly Ed has history of recruiting them and know their games. I’m just glad to have confidence that our coach knows what he is doing for the first time in a long while.
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Post by kbones17 on Apr 2, 2023 13:07:45 GMT -5
UConn has a great final four/tournament record. But odd to bring up an injury that happened two months before trounament; how is that relevant?
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Post by kbones17 on Mar 31, 2023 18:46:50 GMT -5
I trust Coach Cooley, but I hope if there’s finite NIL resources that we don’t blow it all on Dickinson. We need a whole lot more than one piece, so I think it starts with installing a culture and finding a number of hard nosed guys that want to start something (not just cash in for a year and move on). But, like I said, I trust Coach Cooley so we’ll see what he can cook up. Hoya Saxa.
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Post by kbones17 on Mar 20, 2023 14:25:43 GMT -5
Welcome Coach Cooley! I’ve respected him from afar for years (probably the one BE head coach that didn’t annoy me pre-Shaka smart joining Marquette). All things considered I think it’s a good fit, and I’m just glad I can start looking at the recruiting page again and obsess over Gtown basketball again. The last 6 years have basically been a nightmare so glad to at least have a fighting shot again. Hoya Saxa.
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Post by kbones17 on Mar 20, 2023 12:39:36 GMT -5
Is it wrong to prefer being the bad guys for "stealing" another coach in-conference rather than being viewed as the patsy that Georgetown basketball has become and an object of pity?? I'll take the former, not the latter, thank you very much. Yeah, I don’t really get the handwringing or concerns about “poaching” or when exactly we contacted the Providence AD. The same people wanted us to announce the firing of Ewing weeks/months ago so we could start on the search. So, that’s basically what we did behind the scenes, and clearly there is already a relationship with Cooley and his agent. You can argue about preferring Pitino or another choice over Cooley, but I’ not bothered about how it went down. This is big boy basketball and Cooley clearly was interested so it was a two way street.
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Post by kbones17 on Feb 19, 2023 0:07:44 GMT -5
Congrats to Mac. I have no idea if Mac will ever work his way into a NBA long term player but regardless, tonight he made himself a bunch of fans/money. He showed out of the biggest stage available to him and one that perfectly matches his skill set. He’ll be back next year in the contest.
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Post by kbones17 on Jan 21, 2023 14:36:09 GMT -5
At my 7 year old’s rec league game last night, and I couldn’t help but yelling at my son to “MOVE” and “REBOUND”. This is his first time playing basketball. I’m not coaching, just a parent on the sidelines. I’m not sure if I’m yelling that because of PTSD, but it’s actually appropriate for my 7 year old who has no idea what he’s doing out there.
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Post by kbones17 on Jan 10, 2023 22:43:07 GMT -5
Last year, we had a thread to discuss the race to a winless season in league play. I had resisted the urge to create one for this year, but I think it is time. As we entered this season, I did not see any chance we would go winless again. It’s actually hard to do — a team basically has to become proficient at losing. Well, this team has gotten really good at losing. This team doesn’t do anything especially well. It doesn’t defend. On offense, we turn the ball over. We take poor shots. Plus, we haven’t taken advantage of our opportunities. Occasionally, we have gotten hot. We have lost. Some nights like tonight the other team has shot poorly. We still lost. Maybe this team will win a game. I really hope so. But for now, I do think it’s fitting to have a discussion about the unthinkable — the possibility of back-to-back winless seasons in league play. Let’s go for it!!
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Post by kbones17 on Dec 30, 2022 13:30:00 GMT -5
Also, what is Ewing's huge fixation on rebounding? No matter what happens in a game and what the rebounding results are, that's always where he seems to go. Rebounds are great, but when you can't convert them into points or stop the other team from scoring at will.....they aren't the most important thing to be worried about. It’s pretty clear he gets a sheet of the stats postgame and his responses lean heavily on whatever the sheet says. Rebounds and turnovers are usually the ones he talks about.
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Post by kbones17 on Dec 18, 2022 20:49:49 GMT -5
Congrats to Dante. Always will be a huge fan of his. Best of luck and Im happy for him that he’ll part of a winning program and great university.
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Post by kbones17 on Dec 18, 2022 12:39:16 GMT -5
This is the kind of thing that will hopefully put more pressure on Jack and the board. We will likely luck into a couple of wins and may very well burst a bubble or two and reduce the conference take for the tournament.
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Post by kbones17 on Dec 16, 2022 22:45:12 GMT -5
Just when you think that our basketball program can’t get any more depressing, Friday 12/16/2022. Wow.
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Post by kbones17 on Dec 16, 2022 11:26:18 GMT -5
…and calling the non-conference schedule “preseason”?!!!! We are screwed…
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Post by kbones17 on Dec 8, 2022 11:21:58 GMT -5
Announced attendance for last night 3526, which per story front page here after American game would make it 4th lowest in history at the downtown arena of many names over 25 seasons for Hoyas. And as someone who was there, I can assure you the actual people in the building maybe half that — even with free tix for DC residents. Especially in light of story on front page today about beautiful new arena on campus at Fairfield, just thought it worth noting… Just a heads up for everyone on attendance numbers: Pro and college sports almost always report paid attendance figures as “attendance.” So when fixating on counting bodies in seats you are missing the point. We could have 10 people in the stands and report 3500 because with season tickets, etc and no shows that is how many were sold. Conversely, if we gave 500 tickets to DC residents and no money was exchanged these wouldn’t be reported as attendance even if they attended. Now, to be sure, there are some ways around this where you could have a sponsor pay for some heavily discounted tickets, give those away and count those as paid attendance. So, anyway, I say that to say that counting bodies is never going to get you to the announced number and as long as we have a couple thousand season tickets (including some students tickets which can technically be paid if they come out of some student fees) we are probably never going to have an announced attendance number less than about 3,000. For now!!
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Post by kbones17 on Dec 6, 2022 12:29:12 GMT -5
Every time I think we can’t sink lower I’m proven wrong. It’s one thing if you want to do a charity thing and give tickets away to schools, community programs (Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club etc.), or the like—absolutely no issues there. But when you’re at the point of basically begging people with a pulse to come in, it’s pathetic beyond belief. It’s only going to be compounded when attendance is still poor and Cap One continues to feel like a morgue. I truly feel bad for the sales and marketing people that’s it’s gotten this bad—Don Draper couldn’t find a way to sell this product. It’s near finals, so students will probably be studying or making a pretty easy value calculation that their time is better spent doing almost anything else. I’m sure a good amount of season ticket holders have work, family responsibilities, or just don’t care at this point. Over/under on MLK day before people are being paid to go? If Qatar can import soccer fans for its World Cup matches, I’m sure Georgetown could pay for a cheering section. I’m just glad they’re almost certainly too cheap to do that. Sigh. I was just thinking that these “buy” games should flip and we can have mid/low major teams pay to play us!! For a fee, play in an NBA arena and have a good chance to beat a power 6 team! Boom, new revenue stream!
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