drquigley
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Post by drquigley on Sept 2, 2020 20:22:34 GMT -5
Even in the heyday of the deflated basketball, there were Thompson-recruited Hoyas who didn't dedicate themselves to schoolwork. There were more examples of basketball athletes who'd never have gained admission to GU and ended up with Georgetown degrees. There are an impossible to count, or know, number of non-athletes from some of the same high schools, especially in DC, PG County and Baltimore, that didn't stand a chance at admission and might likewise have succeeded. So, without claiming perfection in recruiting of student athletes, the term was widely recognized as less of an oxymoron at John Thompson's GU than almost anywhere else in the country. I hate to tell you this but in the pre-Thompson era a lot of our basketball players were less than star students. Owen Gillan anyone?
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Post by hsaxon on Sept 5, 2020 20:37:18 GMT -5
Pre-Thompson era, a lot of Georgetown students were "less than star students."
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hoya73
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Post by hoya73 on Sept 6, 2020 0:37:50 GMT -5
Agreed. Since my post from June was being quoted, let me clarify that I wasn't criticizing the few Thompson recruits who didn't want to do school, or Thompson for recruiting them. How do you know that a kid won't do scholastic's until you work with the young man? I was, in fact, making the opposite point: that Thompson's recruits included lots of guys who would have been assumed not to be capable of earning a GU degree and nonetheless did. And that lots of non-athletes from the same public high schools in DC, PG and B-more were probably also capable of earning GU degrees but never given that chance. To the extent that the proof by Thompson's athletes that kids from Spingarn or Suitland could succeed at GU it may have opened the door for admission of a broader overall student base. Probably didn't open it much, but every crack in the admissions wall that exists for a kid from DuVal or Dunbar and doesn't' exist for a kid from a prep school helps.
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