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Post by DanMcQ on May 9, 2011 11:49:28 GMT -5
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rosslynhoya
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Post by rosslynhoya on May 9, 2011 12:05:42 GMT -5
What is up with all the pre-announcements (brey, now Turgeon)? Reporting is dead and bloggers killed it. "Osama returned fire and used a woman, possibly his wife, as a human shield...."
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Post by SFHoya99 on May 9, 2011 13:22:40 GMT -5
Whether it is sports or the real news, if you are not an established media outlet, the upside of reporting a scoop first (notoriety and publicity) greatly outweighs the downside of being wrong, since people don't seem to hold it much against individuals anymore.
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Post by wrestlemania on May 9, 2011 17:14:10 GMT -5
ESPN reporting that Turgeon is leaning towards taking MD's offer. Speaking of the World Wide Leader, what's the deal with Pedro Gomez?
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on May 9, 2011 18:07:25 GMT -5
Hopefully HOF Markie will decline.
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Post by MCIGuy on May 9, 2011 18:09:17 GMT -5
What is up with all the pre-announcements (brey, now Turgeon)? Reporting is dead and bloggers killed it. "Osama returned fire and used a woman, possibly his wife, as a human shield...." I was thinking more along the lines of "Mission Accomplished" or misinformation regarding weapons of mass destruction.
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Post by vamosalaplaya on May 9, 2011 20:55:56 GMT -5
Turgeon a done deal according to ESPN.
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Post by LizziebethHoya on May 9, 2011 21:37:21 GMT -5
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on May 9, 2011 21:38:08 GMT -5
He was one of the people I listed as a realistic hire.
Good solid coach. Not the big splash maryland wanted but they could've done a lot worse. He's a safe hire. He'll be solid but probably unspectacular. The full impact of the hire won't fully be known until he announces his assistants. Hopefully he's real tight with his assistants from College Station and brings them with him instead of retaining the good assistants at maryland. Of course that's unlikely.
Still don't think he's going to set the world on fire and make huge trouble for Georgetown. So all in all the search went fine on our end.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on May 9, 2011 21:55:49 GMT -5
FWIW - Turgeon brought two assistants from Witchita to TAMU.
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Post by deacon on May 9, 2011 22:11:37 GMT -5
He'd be smart to keep both Rob Ehsan and Bino on staff.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on May 9, 2011 22:41:56 GMT -5
He'd be smart to keep both Rob Ehsan and Bino on staff. exactly so I hope he doesn't. I'm also hoping Navy Hires Ehsan now that they have an opening.
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Post by deacon on May 9, 2011 23:01:58 GMT -5
For some reason, I don't see Ehsan taking a gig at a service academy, if he had the choice. Choice being remaining at Maryland if Turgeon asks him to stay or go to Navy.
I've had two close friends take assistant jobs at service academies and they both resigned. One of the main reasons for both was that they couldn't deal with the recruiting aspect. No matter how they sold it, most kids don't want to hear anything about a commitment after graduation, but that's the deal. Ehsan is a damn good recruiter and I don't see him handicapping himself by going to a situation where it would be tough to recruit against schools in the Patriot, let alone higher-profile conferences.
Then again, Navy > nothing. If he became available, I'd have a long talk with one of our assistants not named Robert Kirby about what they see as their future at GU.
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Post by DanMcQ on May 10, 2011 5:58:46 GMT -5
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Post by theexorcist on May 10, 2011 7:53:56 GMT -5
For some reason, I don't see Ehsan taking a gig at a service academy, if he had the choice. Choice being remaining at Maryland if Turgeon asks him to stay or go to Navy. I've had two close friends take assistant jobs at service academies and they both resigned. One of the main reasons for both was that they couldn't deal with the recruiting aspect. No matter how they sold it, most kids don't want to hear anything about a commitment after graduation, but that's the deal. Ehsan is a damn good recruiter and I don't see him handicapping himself by going to a situation where it would be tough to recruit against schools in the Patriot, let alone higher-profile conferences. Then again, Navy > nothing. If he became available, I'd have a long talk with one of our assistants not named Robert Kirby about what they see as their future at GU. Service academies are weird. Their priorities are so divorced from most schools, especially in basketball, that they create a different culture. Most people, both players and coaches don't fit. With that said, if you *do* fit, you fit in remarkably well (For more info, google "Maggie Dixon"). Navy's not your usual stepping stone, though it can be.
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Post by rosslynhoya on May 10, 2011 8:23:09 GMT -5
I've had two close friends take assistant jobs at service academies and they both resigned. One of the main reasons for both was that they couldn't deal with the recruiting aspect. No matter how they sold it, most kids don't want to hear anything about a commitment after graduation, but that's the deal. Ehsan is a damn good recruiter and I don't see him handicapping himself by going to a situation where it would be tough to recruit against schools in the Patriot, let alone higher-profile conferences. If you're a high school prospect going to any Patriot League program, you've got to realize that a pro career is probably not in the cards for you. What I imagine is a bigger hurdle for their recruiters is persuading a scholarship athlete to enroll in a school where everyone else attends for "free" anyway. An even bigger obstacle is the fact that the service academies don't graduate any sociology or communications majors. I'm not saying all their recruits have to be geniuses or even above-average, but they've got to survive a crushing academic and extracurricular workload that few Georgetown students could imagine. On topic, I think Turgeon has been solid for Wichita and the Aggies and is the kind of workhorse that Maryland should have been looking for in the first place. If scoring a guy like this disappoints the twerpie fan base, then hopefully he's just using this gig as a stepping stone to a REAL second-tier basketball program.
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Post by HometownHoya on May 10, 2011 8:26:31 GMT -5
On the service academy note...you would get paid to play basketball
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Post by vcjack on May 10, 2011 11:07:05 GMT -5
Since I doubt Turgeon even is aware of Gary's "they owe us a home game" hangup, I vote that Reed and Maryland's AD start talking about a series possibility, a true home and home would be preferable.
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Post by EasyEd on May 10, 2011 12:22:26 GMT -5
Since I doubt Turgeon even is aware of Gary's "they owe us a home game" hangup, I vote that Reed and Maryland's AD start talking about a series possibility, a true home and home would be preferable. I vote no.
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Post by DanMcQ on May 12, 2011 12:52:35 GMT -5
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