DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Dec 24, 2022 15:30:28 GMT -5
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prhoya
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Post by prhoya on Dec 24, 2022 15:40:54 GMT -5
Let's derail the thread for Christmas!! Merry Christmas!! Well, now, because of the dreaded incentives of social media, we force debate upon ourselves all the time, even at the most wonderful time of the year. And we do so even when our arguments hold no promise of a resolution. By which I mean that, once again, people are logging on for a holiday argument they have had many times before: Is the 1988 action movie Die Hard, in which Bruce Willis fights terrorists in a Los Angeles skyscraper on Christmas Eve, a Christmas movie? Once again, tweets and Facebook posts about whether Die Hard is actually a Christmas movie are spiking. Posts about whether it’s original or cool to talk about Die Hard’s status as a Christmas movie are also spiking. An influencer family with 4.8 million Facebook followers recently shared a horrific musical “parody” in which they claimed to be addressing “a heated debate” that they have “every year” and asked viewers to take sides in the comments. (Oh boy, did they!) www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/12/is-die-hard-christmas-movie/620926/The D Bag office co worker, Hart Botchner Plays the D Bag fraternity alpha cyclist in Breaking Away: Prof, are you saying that he is our Ronny T.?
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tgo
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Post by tgo on Dec 24, 2022 16:49:34 GMT -5
Can we start a gofundme to actually pay students to start causing an uproar about this on campus? I know the apathy is so great that most don’t even care. But maybe we can form a team of “brand ambassadors” to start making some noise on campus. You know signs and protests and the like. They don’t have to really care at all about basketball. We can just tell them what to write and say. I figure if we can raise like $20k, we can pay 200 students $100 each to protest on Healy lawn for a while. Show up to games with paper bags on their heads. That kind of stuff. This is actually a great idea. People, especially young people, love to protest and yearn to feel like they are part of something big and meaningful. I would donate to this. I have experience in grassroots activism and marketing and would gladly volunteer some time to help plan and execute the campaign. Anyone interested in possibly making this happen DM me.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 24, 2022 16:53:42 GMT -5
Can we start a gofundme to actually pay students to start causing an uproar about this on campus? I know the apathy is so great that most don’t even care. But maybe we can form a team of “brand ambassadors” to start making some noise on campus. You know signs and protests and the like. They don’t have to really care at all about basketball. We can just tell them what to write and say. I figure if we can raise like $20k, we can pay 200 students $100 each to protest on Healy lawn for a while. Show up to games with paper bags on their heads. That kind of stuff. This is actually a great idea. People, especially young people, love to protest and yearn to feel like they are part of something big and meaningful. I would donate to this. I have experience in grassroots activism and marketing and would gladly volunteer some time to help plan and execute the campaign. Anyone interested in possibly making this happen DM me. And as soon as an intrepid reporter for the Hoya or the Voice interviews said paid demonstrator, the paid demonstrator indicates that he or she has no actual interest in Hoya basketball but was paid by some alums to demonstrate for easy money. And if there is a Hoya or Voice reporter covering the program, do you think he or she might check to see what's going on in HoyaTalk now and then??? I don't think this is a viable idea. Nor is it really grassroots activism, is it? Doesn't that imply an actual sincere belief in what you are demonstrating for?? EDIT: E-mail Jack D's VP & COS Jos. Ferrara with your thoughts on the Hoya Basketball program. president.georgetown.edu/
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Post by professorhoya on Dec 24, 2022 18:35:18 GMT -5
This is actually a great idea. People, especially young people, love to protest and yearn to feel like they are part of something big and meaningful. I would donate to this. I have experience in grassroots activism and marketing and would gladly volunteer some time to help plan and execute the campaign. Anyone interested in possibly making this happen DM me. And as soon as an intrepid reporter for the Hoya or the Voice interviews said paid demonstrator, the paid demonstrator indicates that he or she has no actual interest in Hoya basketball but was paid by some alums to demonstrate for easy money. And if there is a Hoya or Voice reporter covering the program, do you think he or she might check to see what's going on in HoyaTalk now and then??? I don't think this is a viable idea. Nor is it really grassroots activism, is it? Doesn't that imply an actual sincere belief in what you are demonstrating for?? EDIT: E-mail Jack D's VP & COS Jos. Ferrara with your thoughts on the Hoya Basketball program. president.georgetown.edu/It’s not a good idea. And in someways is really messed up NIL. I’m all for the right to publicly protest but one should do it themselves and put themselves out there with their John Hancock instead of hiring some child soldiers to do it for them. We already saw what happened to that one child reporter who goaded by grown ups put himself out there and got shadow banned and is all depressed now. Let them enjoy college life instead of putting the burden on them and putting them at risk.
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Post by johnnysnowplow on Dec 24, 2022 21:13:58 GMT -5
And as soon as an intrepid reporter for the Hoya or the Voice interviews said paid demonstrator, the paid demonstrator indicates that he or she has no actual interest in Hoya basketball but was paid by some alums to demonstrate for easy money. And if there is a Hoya or Voice reporter covering the program, do you think he or she might check to see what's going on in HoyaTalk now and then??? I don't think this is a viable idea. Nor is it really grassroots activism, is it? Doesn't that imply an actual sincere belief in what you are demonstrating for?? EDIT: E-mail Jack D's VP & COS Jos. Ferrara with your thoughts on the Hoya Basketball program. president.georgetown.edu/It’s not a good idea. And in someways is really messed up NIL. I’m all for the right to publicly protest but one should do it themselves and put themselves out there with their John Hancock instead of hiring some child soldiers to do it for them. We already saw what happened to that one child reporter who goaded by grown ups put himself out there and got shadow banned and is all depressed now. Let them enjoy college life instead of putting the burden on them and putting them at risk. Child soldiers? They’re legal adults who can vote for the president lol
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hoyaboya
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Post by hoyaboya on Dec 28, 2022 15:38:28 GMT -5
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hoyaboya
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Post by hoyaboya on Dec 30, 2022 9:03:25 GMT -5
Add not being accountable and speaking to the press post-game to the list…
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Dec 30, 2022 9:06:46 GMT -5
What is wrong about that quote? I thought the Hoyas did compete last night and showed good effort. The turnovers were a major issue. We did well on the boards but did not convert.
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calhoya
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Post by calhoya on Dec 30, 2022 9:07:28 GMT -5
Hard to understand the Ewing love for Wahab. Ewing could shoot more than 50% from within the lane. Wahab plays hard on the boards but is shooting 10% worse than he did 2 years ago and about 7% below last year. His FT shooting, once a strength, has failed more often and he is a liability on defense anywhere outside the lane. There is a role for this kid, but not one so great that Ryan should never see the floor.
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EtomicB
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Post by EtomicB on Dec 30, 2022 10:40:03 GMT -5
Dauster is nuts to talk about Cooley... Childress is just clueless
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TC
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Post by TC on Dec 30, 2022 11:02:59 GMT -5
Dauster is nuts to talk about Cooley... Childress is just clueless I don't think he'd take it but Dauster's suggestions of Pitino and Cooley are my dream candidates. It hurts thinking about it, but I'm pretty sure if the search committee had gotten JT2 on that page, we could have had Ed Cooley for the last 6 years. Childress is obviously pushing the DMV connections here but no one cares or should care if Allen Iverson signs off on the Georgetown hire. Provided that you clean house, I don't think the politics are as complicated as Childress suggests, but I think he's trying to make the case that Ronny is an issue without saying his name and I think he's trying to make the point that the DMV connections are broken (which they are).
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alleninxis
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Post by alleninxis on Dec 30, 2022 11:05:49 GMT -5
I can't imagine giving a quote on last night's game as the head coach and not once referencing the defense.
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Highsmith
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Post by Highsmith on Dec 30, 2022 11:09:01 GMT -5
Dauster is nuts to talk about Cooley... Childress is just clueless I don't think he'd take it but Dauster's suggestions of Pitino and Cooley are my dream candidates. It hurts thinking about it, but I'm pretty sure if the search committee had gotten JT2 on that page, we could have had Ed Cooley for the last 6 years. Childress is obviously pushing the DMV connections here but no one cares or should care if Allen Iverson signs off on the Georgetown hire. Provided that you clean house, I don't think the politics are as complicated as Childress suggests, but I think he's trying to make the case that Ronny is an issue without saying his name and I think he's trying to make the point that the DMV connections are broken (which they are). I have to think the program is at the point where if someone is brought in that can get things back on track, it doesn't matter who it is. Just get the job done. Didn't DaJuan Summers tweet something like that recently? Have to think former players want a program they can be proud of....a team that wins and has meaningful games in March. Things have gone beyond the idea of needing to "keep it in the family" and anyone who thinks differently at this point doesn't have the best interests of the basketball program and can step aside as well.
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Highsmith
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Post by Highsmith on Dec 30, 2022 11:11:13 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.
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CTHoya08
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Post by CTHoya08 on Dec 30, 2022 12:56:18 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. I suppose the other option would be a press conference focused on MOVING.
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Post by hoyadestroya on Dec 30, 2022 13:27:27 GMT -5
I thought bringing Ewing in would mean the best of big man U. Every time I see Wahab touch the ball now I cringe. If Ewing can't coach up the big men, there is no hope for this staff. I am as diehard a fan as they come though I never attended Gtown and I am really struggling to find a reason to watch them. I really like the kids he brought in but there is no cohesion. Burn it all down and start over ASAP.
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kbones17
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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 hoyatransfer on Dec 30, 2022 13:40:08 GMT -5
Couple of random thoughts: 1) It’s an absolute joke for the team to have had more than a week off between games and to come out and play as sloppy as they did. That can’t be 100% on the coaching, because there were a ton of outright bad and lazy passes, but it’s been a recurring problem. 2) The offense in the half-court continues to be a disorganized dumpster fire. That no one else aside from Primo had an assist seems impossible, but here we are. 3) That there hasn’t been any sort of video of the press conference (if there was one) is embarrassing. We all know this program avoids accountability and responsibility like the Plague, but it just compounds the clown show that’s being produced in TAC. 4) Wahab might be addicted to bringing the ball back down after an offensive board. He’s experienced enough where one of the following has to be true: he’s being coached to not do that and just isn’t executing or it’s not being coached.
Ultimately, you’re either coaching it or allowing it to happen. Either is a perpetual indictment on Ewing, this staff, and those who put them in this position—and all must go.
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Post by trillesthoya on Dec 30, 2022 14:48:45 GMT -5
Our opponents have the easiest game plan of all time against us. Colorado cracked the code and basically everyone since then has followed some version of it to the T. It’s the reason why Georgetown can’t win a game - their game plan is fool proof and will always work as Ewing has shown he is completely unable to adjust or evolve his team’s defensive philosophy. The only way Georgetown can win a game is if our players play a completely perfect offensive game on crazy high efficiency, and even then that is only possible against a team with significantly lower talent, of which there are none currently in the BE. I do not expect another win this season, the game and team is broken.
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