TBird41
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Post by TBird41 on Jan 6, 2005 3:03:15 GMT -5
I agree with Hoyaholic-Gtown doesn't really have rivals. It seems like we had rivals in Syracuse and St. Johns but that the hatred has faded for various reasons.
It seems to me that the rivalries were based on being competive and with St. Johns and Gtown's recent fades, they've kinda been pushed to the background. Since neither team is a regional rival (NY state v. DC isn't like an instate rival) regional hatred isn't there to buoy it up. With Syracuse, along with Gtown's fade, it seems that since the two schools don't play in football, it hurt the rivalry, since there are different rivals for each sport (I might be missing the importance of Lacrosse, but I'm from the midwest and I don't really follow it). The last reason is why I kinda hoped that the ACC theft might lead to the all Catholic school league. It would have allowed us to develop rivals with schools that had the same focus as Georgetown's: basketball. Football wouldn't be more than a distraction then. Though, I guess an all Catholic School conference would have made it hard to use my favorite cheer "God's on our side clap clap clapclapclap).
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SaxaCD
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Post by SaxaCD on Jan 6, 2005 8:00:19 GMT -5
I don't think the argument against the idiot writer was that a basketball-only league would be bad, it's that he acts like that league would be an irrelevant one with teams shed from the "real" conference. If he had argued that there should be a split so that the football schools could concentrate on football and the basketball schools could concentrate on basketball, fine.
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Post by BubbleVisionBiff on Jan 6, 2005 8:47:20 GMT -5
...get a load of this one written after the Pitt loss to Bucknell and before the GU game: Ron Cook: Pitt's loss [to Bucknell] not end of worldwww.post-gazette.com/pg/05004/436846.stm"One ugly loss doesn't mean Taft and Chevon Troutman no longer are one of the top inside combinations in America. One ugly loss doesn't mean Carl Krauser isn't still the best point guard in the Big East. One ugly loss doesn't mean Jamie Dixon suddenly has forgotten how to coach or will panic or will allow his team to crumble." "I'm guessing Pitt will play well tomorrow night and make Georgetown pay."...give me a call when you return from Vegas, Ron... Yeah, no kidding. Having lived in the 'Burgh for six years after graduating from GU, I can tell you that Cook and Smizik are both moronic hacks, and ruin what is otherwise one of America's Finest Newspapers, the Post-Gazette. They are probably both still saying Roethlisberger isn't ready to start for the Steelers. John Thompson III is undefeated in the Big East. Say it! What a win! Thank you Ashanti! Where is the FL Hoya recap? I want to hear about our "perfect" offensive execution, as ESPN.com calls it.
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FOTP
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Post by FOTP on Jan 6, 2005 9:30:58 GMT -5
Rivals come from winning...period. Once we're back near the top of the Big East the rivalries will continue.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jan 6, 2005 22:50:23 GMT -5
Email comment I received from Smizik seems to be characteristic of him:
I am grateful to offer any help I can to the downtrodden Georgetown program. -- Bob Smizik
In reply to my email:
Dear Mr. Smizik: I guess you will have to rethink your rearrangement of the Big East. Those little Catholic non-IA football teams sort of beat up on the PUBLIC 1-A FOOTBALL teams, even the one chosen as BE champion to go to the BCS bowl game. I guess the Hoyas are but a remnant of their former selves. I wonder what that makes the Panthers. First Bucknell, now the Hoyas! Seriously, thanks for the article. It was just what Georgetown needed to even be able to stay close to the mighty Pitt Panthers. Oh, they stayed so close to them that they won.
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