Memories that make you feel stupid

[HoyaChris]

I couldn't believe that we had recruited a player named "Sleepy."

[CAHoya07]

After recently re-reading some of my old posts from years ago (I recommend it, it's highly entertaining), I came across some comments I made in the summer of 2006, when I was worried about our three-point shooting. Cook, Bowman, and Owens had just graduated, and I wondered who would step it up. Wallace was just OK at that point, Sapp had been terrible from behind the arc, so I thought Thornton would the guy.

Oops.

(For those who don't remember, Josh Thornton transferred right before the 2006-07 season, which went just fine, from behind the arc and otherwise. ;D)

[Boz]

This pre-dates the board, but I remembered another one, way back when, when I promised people who hadn't seen him yet that Milton Bell had All Big East written all over him.

And some friends of mine and I also had this notion that David Edwards was going to be a superstar, so toward the end of the 1990 season, we decided to make some David Edwards t-shirts that we could sell on campus the next fall.

[lichoya68]

i s it david edwards that transferred to somewhere in texas and then led the country in like assists or something so you mitta been wright yup if i got my facts straight which i frequesntly dont GO HOYAS BEAT ODU SNOW OR NOT STUDENTS MUST COME OUT IN DROVES IF THE OLD GUYS CANT GET THRU THE SNOW FILL OUR HOUSE ON SAT

[MassHoya]

It hurts to type this. Halftime of the '85 championship game in Lexington stting there and saying no way Nova will continue to shoot 65% in the second half. Be careful what you wish for... they shot 90% in the second half. It still even hurts just to think about it.

[hoyaalf]

Some good will come of these confessions.

Boz,

Will you swap David Edwards t-shirts for David Dunn t-shirts?

[Boz]

Dec 18, 2009 11:30:46 GMT -5 hoyaalf said:

Some good will come of these confessions.

Boz,

Will you swap David Edwards t-shirts for David Dunn t-shirts?

Oh, man, I don't have those anymore. I wish I did. I think we gave them all away to The Salvation Army or something.

[blueandgray]

i remember missing a center like ruben boumtje-boumtje the first time i saw roy hibbert play.

[AustinHoya03]

After the UConn win last season, I said last year's team reminded me of the 05-06 Sweet Sixteen team.

Speaking of that team, I'm pretty sure I called Ashanti Cook a West Coast hack at one point. He became one of my favorite Hoyas of all time.

[prhoya]

After the UConn win, I remember thinking we could go undefeated the rest of the BE regular season, with a win at Duke.

[gtownforever]

shouting "roy, no!" as he set to shoot the 3 in the final seconds vs uconn...only to find myself wildly cheering half a second later when he sunk it

[hoyajoker07]

> Anything I chanted at the ODU fans in 2006...

> Not spending more time talking to Julian when we sat a table over from him at a Champp's like three weeks ago, before he started going berzerk in recent games.

[PhillyHoya]

Dec 18, 2009 11:59:11 GMT -5 gtownforever said:

shouting "roy, no!" as he set to shoot the 3 in the final seconds vs uconn...only to find myself wildly cheering half a second later when he sunk it

I think you were far from alone on that one heh.

[DanMcQ]

Dec 18, 2009 9:13:27 GMT -5 HoyaChris said:

I couldn't believe that we had recruited a player named "Sleepy."

Me neither. Then I sat courtside and watched him torch Bob Knight's Indiana team in his fourth college game in Landover and realized the nickname was very inaccurate.

[CAHoya07]

Dec 18, 2009 12:28:42 GMT -5 PhillyHoya said:

Dec 18, 2009 11:59:11 GMT -5 gtownforever said:

shouting "roy, no!" as he set to shoot the 3 in the final seconds vs uconn...only to find myself wildly cheering half a second later when he sunk it

I think you were far from alone on that one heh.

I think for me it was, "Holy , he's actually doing it..."

I actually felt somewhat confident that it was going in. He was wide open, and he had just hit his first career three vs. Fordham a few games earlier.

[grokamok]

Dec 17, 2009 20:36:33 GMT -5 NJHoya95 said:

When I turned to my father during halftime of the Kentucky semifinal game and said, "I can't believe the season is over."

My father quick to look on the bright side in front of his 11 year old said, "Don't worry, Patrick is only a junior."

Boy were we in for a surprise.

Funny, but I remember watching that game with my father, turning to him at exactly the same time and saying that we had them right where we wanted them -- and completely believing it.

Fast forward twenty-three years: I'm flying to Nashville for a wedding, dressed up for a pre-wedding event, planning to watch GU-OSU from the hotel just beforehand. I look across the aisle and see an OSU fan all decked out in gear, look at myself and realise that, in my haste, I had worn black pants, a red shirt and a black/white houndstooth jacket for the event. I totally blame myself for the jinx.

[rconrad92]

When I first heard that JTIII was being hired -- thought it was awful move driven by nepotism. The son of JT - an Ivy League coach with a weird offense - thought we were about to b/c DePaul.

[BeantownHoya]

Strarting a thread a month ago called "Nothing has Changed" after this team beat Temple

Clearly much has changed

[FewFAC]

Thinking no kid who had been to jail could be anything but bad news for Georgetown.

[hoyaalf]

O.K.

everybody gets three and three so far.