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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2020 18:25:28 GMT -5
I think it comes down to whether you can criticize the basketball shortcomings of a college student, as they are not professionals. Some on the board did not attend the university, thereby making it even easier to be critical. Then there’s the anonymity of being on a talk board and different degrees of sensitivity. You may be right.
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Post by centercourt400s on Jun 15, 2020 10:07:36 GMT -5
Since the thread name has magically changed I guess it is open season for recounting Hoya player memories.
Merlin Wilson has a major place in my heart when thinking about favorite Hoyas. He joined the team as freshman when Coach Thompson started in 1973. At the time my father had just taken a job as an english professor at Georgetown and he taught freshman and sophomore English. He had most of the players come through his classes and because of this he met monthly with Thompson to keep him abreast of how the players were doing. As a young white liberal english professor fresh off his PhD from Cal Davis, he was awed and deeply impressed by Thompson as a man and by how he ran his team, and also by the evident personal concern he had for his players.
In February of 1975 I was turning nine and already a huge Hoya basketball fan. I kept a handwritten schedule on my bedroom wall with areas for game results and a running season record. I saved all the newspaper clippings about the team, and my father and I attended most home games at McDonough. For my 9th birthday we hosted a couple of my friends at the game vs Manhattan and my father had gotten permission from Thompson to visit the locker room after the game so I could meet the players (Thompson stipulated that it could only happen if we won because his losing locker room would be no place for kids). We crushed Manhattan that night and scored over 100 points, so the visit was on. We were led into the locker room for a brief hello and while Thompson wasn't there at the moment, right when we walked in my dad waved at Merlin Wilson and he walked over. He was 6-9 or 6-10 and clearly the largest human being I had ever met in my young life. He came straight over to me, leaned down for a handshake and said "We won it for you, kid".
I was in a happy daze after that and don't remember much else about the evening. Its funny how small gestures done well and at the right moment can have a long standing impact on someone. I'm clearly a Hoya fan for life.
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Post by beenaround on Jun 15, 2020 10:21:12 GMT -5
Since the thread name has magically changed I guess it is open season for recounting Hoya player memories. Merlin Wilson has a major place in my heart when thinking about favorite Hoyas. He joined the team as freshman when Coach Thompson started in 1973. At the time my father had just taken a job as an english professor at Georgetown and he taught freshman and sophomore English. He had most of the players come through his classes and because of this he met monthly with Thompson to keep him abreast of how the players were doing. As a young white liberal english professor fresh off his PhD from Cal Davis, he was awed and deeply impressed by Thompson as a man and by how he ran his team, and also by the evident personal concern he had for his players. In February of 1975 I was turning nine and already a huge Hoya basketball fan. I kept a handwritten schedule on my bedroom wall with areas for game results and a running season record. I saved all the newspaper clippings about the team, and my father and I attended most home games at McDonough. For my 9th birthday we hosted a couple of my friends at the game vs Manhattan and my father had gotten permission from Thompson to visit the locker room after the game so I could meet the players (Thompson stipulated that it could only happen if we won because his losing locker room would be no place for kids). We crushed Manhattan that night and scored over 100 points, so the visit was on. We were led into the locker room for a brief hello and while Thompson wasn't there at the moment, right when we walked in my dad waved at Merlin Wilson and he walked over. He was 6-9 or 6-10 and clearly the largest human being I had ever met in my young life. He came straight over to me, leaned down for a handshake and said "We won it for you, kid". I was in a happy daze after that and don't remember much else about the evening. Its funny how small gestures done well and at the right moment can have a long standing impact on someone. I'm clearly a Hoya fan for life. In these stressful times, in real life and as a Hoya fan, that is a nice, uplifting story. thanks for sharing.
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Post by SirSaxa on Jun 17, 2020 11:50:51 GMT -5
Since the thread name has magically changed I guess it is open season for recounting Hoya player memories. Merlin Wilson has a major place in my heart when thinking about favorite Hoyas. He joined the team as freshman when Coach Thompson started in 1973. ....He came straight over to me, leaned down for a handshake and said "We won it for you, kid". I was in a happy daze after that and don't remember much else about the evening. Its funny how small gestures done well and at the right moment can have a long standing impact on someone. I'm clearly a Hoya fan for life. CenterCourt -- Thanks for sharing your experience. I was a student at GU when Merlin "the Magician" Wilson arrived. He was an outstanding player and the first in a long line of great 5 men who gave us the moniker, "Big Man U". Had Wilson not suffered back injuries that seriously impeded his play, it was and is my belief he would have been our first NBA player of the JT2 era.
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 17, 2020 12:01:24 GMT -5
Felix Yeoman. End of the bench but a great guy. I believe he was a year behind me in the class of '78. I ran into him in a bar in DC twenty(?) years later and had nice chat with him. He was at that time working at the Industrial Bank of Washington an historican African American-owned bank. I think I still have his business card he gave me.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jun 17, 2020 12:23:26 GMT -5
I've had very nice conversations with Ed Spriggs, JYD, and "Chico" Church. All great gentlemen.
Of course, my classmates Jimmy Brown and Jake Gibbons were a lot of fun.
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Post by tashoya on Jun 19, 2020 23:52:58 GMT -5
I'm going with Church and Churchwell. Not for basketball reasons. Because they were just great guys.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2020 8:39:27 GMT -5
I'm going with Church and Churchwell. Not for basketball reasons. Because they were just great guys. Co-sign. And LaMont.
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Post by s4hoyas on Jun 20, 2020 10:51:13 GMT -5
A few others...Derrick Jackson...Steve Martin...Al Dutch...Dwayne Bryant...Bill Martin..."Bay Bay" Duren...and my main man, Craig "the Big Sky" Shelton...and I'm sure many others will come to mind...
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Post by s4hoyas on Jun 20, 2020 12:06:50 GMT -5
Jesse Sapp...Tyler Crawford...and of course, Jonathan Wallace (never forget that clutch, must make shot he hit against UNC with time running out)...
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Post by DanMcQ on Jun 20, 2020 18:26:19 GMT -5
Felix Yeoman. End of the bench but a great guy. I believe he was a year behind me in the class of '78. I ran into him in a bar in DC twenty(?) years later and had nice chat with him. He was at that time working at the Industrial Bank of Washington an historican African American-owned bank. I think I still have his business card he gave me. Ha - I was going to say the same thing. Felix was in a single on 4th Ryan when he was a senior and I was a freshman on 4th Healy. Great guy is an understatement - also has a great sense of humor, most recently embodied when I went up to him at the 100th anniversary banquet.
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Post by blueandgray on Jun 20, 2020 18:49:51 GMT -5
Since the thread name has magically changed I guess it is open season for recounting Hoya player memories. Merlin Wilson has a major place in my heart when thinking about favorite Hoyas. He joined the team as freshman when Coach Thompson started in 1973. At the time my father had just taken a job as an english professor at Georgetown and he taught freshman and sophomore English. He had most of the players come through his classes and because of this he met monthly with Thompson to keep him abreast of how the players were doing. As a young white liberal english professor fresh off his PhD from Cal Davis, he was awed and deeply impressed by Thompson as a man and by how he ran his team, and also by the evident personal concern he had for his players. In February of 1975 I was turning nine and already a huge Hoya basketball fan. I kept a handwritten schedule on my bedroom wall with areas for game results and a running season record. I saved all the newspaper clippings about the team, and my father and I attended most home games at McDonough. For my 9th birthday we hosted a couple of my friends at the game vs Manhattan and my father had gotten permission from Thompson to visit the locker room after the game so I could meet the players (Thompson stipulated that it could only happen if we won because his losing locker room would be no place for kids). We crushed Manhattan that night and scored over 100 points, so the visit was on. We were led into the locker room for a brief hello and while Thompson wasn't there at the moment, right when we walked in my dad waved at Merlin Wilson and he walked over. He was 6-9 or 6-10 and clearly the largest human being I had ever met in my young life. He came straight over to me, leaned down for a handshake and said "We won it for you, kid". I was in a happy daze after that and don't remember much else about the evening. Its funny how small gestures done well and at the right moment can have a long standing impact on someone. I'm clearly a Hoya fan for life. Simply awesome!
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Post by DanMcQ on Oct 30, 2020 20:16:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2020 20:38:39 GMT -5
I'm late to the party on this conversation but my all time favorite Hoya and basketball player period is obviously Patrick Ewing. However, besides Patrick Ewing, I have met Mutombo, Hibbert, Reggie Williams, Michael Jackson, Fred Brown, Perry McDonald, Jaren Jackson Sarge, Zo and Yurt. The only ones that I spoken to at length were Ewing, Fred Brown, Michael Jackson, Sarge and Yurt. The others were a hi and a bye.
Michael Jackson and Sarge were very pleasent people...great guys. Yurt is super duper cool. Ewing is down to earth and you can talk to him like you and he are buddies. Reggie was quiet back during those days so he hardly talked. Zo is to himself and Mutombo was a happy go luck guy. Fred was a down to earth guy like Ewing. You can have a conversation with Fred. Perry McDonald was a cool dude a fly guy and so was Jaren. One of them was a GQ dude. I can't remember which one is was but one of them you to dress fly all the time, Kangol hat and dapper.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Nov 20, 2020 19:42:19 GMT -5
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Post by paranoia2 on Nov 20, 2020 23:46:06 GMT -5
I will say Eric Smith was a helluva ball player. The ultimate glue guy, never seemed to make a mistake & at the end of the epic 1982 Final had the presence of mind & speed to track down Worthy and force him to the free throw line.
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Post by hoyazeke on Nov 21, 2020 10:57:57 GMT -5
I'm late to the party on this conversation but my all time favorite Hoya and basketball player period is obviously Patrick Ewing. However, besides Patrick Ewing, I have met Mutombo, Hibbert, Reggie Williams, Michael Jackson, Fred Brown, Perry McDonald, Jaren Jackson Sarge, Zo and Yurt. The only ones that I spoken to at length were Ewing, Fred Brown, Michael Jackson, Sarge and Yurt. The others were a hi and a bye. Michael Jackson and Sarge were very pleasent people...great guys. Yurt is super duper cool. Ewing is down to earth and you can talk to him like you and he are buddies. Reggie was quiet back during those days so he hardly talked. Zo is to himself and Mutombo was a happy go luck guy. Fred was a down to earth guy like Ewing. You can have a conversation with Fred. Perry McDonald was a cool dude a fly guy and so was Jaren. One of them was a GQ dude. I can't remember which one is was but one of them you to dress fly all the time, Kangol hat and dapper. For me it will always be Charles Smith. I will never forget the mad dash at the Dome. The late 80s is when I became a true GTown fan.(Not just because my pops was a fan). I still remember the goatee....lol
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Post by mapei on Nov 21, 2020 11:50:18 GMT -5
I've been a fan since Sleepy was a junior, and he was definitely an early favorite. But I like the recent guys, too, especially those who represent the school well in multiple ways. Right now my favorites are Jonathan Wallace and Jagan Mosely.
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Post by michaelgrahmstylie on Nov 21, 2020 13:09:53 GMT -5
It’s just so, so hard not to go with Ewing. But my thread name sake had the most raw talent and potential.
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Post by paranoia2 on Nov 21, 2020 23:45:24 GMT -5
If Michael Graham played 4 years with the Hoyas is it crazy to think one more NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP, an additional FINAL 4 (or 2) and a more lasting feeling of “dominance”?
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