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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Aug 21, 2023 14:06:49 GMT -5
Edited. You posted five consecutive Twitter messages. In lieu of comments about them, they are available to readers from the first and can be scrolled down from that site. --Admin
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prhoya
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Post by prhoya on Aug 21, 2023 14:47:08 GMT -5
Edited. You posted five consecutive Twitter messages. In lieu of comments about them, they are available to readers from the first and can be scrolled down from that site. --Admin Dear Admin: Please allow the posting of Twitter/X posts. Those of us without the service can only access the latest one.. Thanks. Here's the trade-off: this is a discussion board and yet it can't simply be a place to upload other sites' content. I'm not adverse to posting from Twitter but people complain when it's simply posting message after message without comment. I think hoyasaxa2003 can add his comments with this in mind. --Admin
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Post by prhoya on Aug 21, 2023 15:08:46 GMT -5
Edited. You posted five consecutive Twitter messages. In lieu of comments about them, they are available to readers from the first and can be scrolled down from that site. --Admin Dear Admin: Please allow the posting of Twitter/X posts. Those of us without the service can only access the latest one.. Thanks. Here's the trade-off: this is a discussion board and yet it can't simply be a place to upload other sites' content. I'm not adverse to posting from Twitter but people complain when it's simply posting message after message without comment. I think hoyasaxa2003 can add his comments with this in mind. --Admin2003, pls pm the X posts. Thanks.
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Aug 21, 2023 16:30:44 GMT -5
2003 please PM me also.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Aug 21, 2023 19:09:16 GMT -5
Dear Admin: Please allow the posting of Twitter/X posts. Those of us without the service can only access the latest one.. Thanks. Here's the trade-off: this is a discussion board and yet it can't simply be a place to upload other sites' content. I'm not adverse to posting from Twitter but people complain when it's simply posting message after message without comment. I think hoyasaxa2003 can add his comments with this in mind. --Admin2003, pls pm the X posts. Thanks. I did not realize this was against the rules. In short, I saw that Hilltop Hoops posted transcript excerpts of an interview that I listened to (in part), and I figured others here would be interested in the content. Georgetown has rarely, if ever, allowed such interviews before, so I thought it was noteworthy. I had no intent to violate the rules, so I apologize for that. In the future, I suppose I'll add commentary.
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BigmanU
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Post by BigmanU on Aug 22, 2023 7:44:09 GMT -5
I don't have twitter and would love to see the content posted on this board. What is the issue with this?
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Post by hoyaboya on Aug 22, 2023 8:28:54 GMT -5
I don't have twitter and would love to see the content posted on this board. What is the issue with this? There's nothing out of the ordinary in the content, I think the moderator just didn't want like 10 different tweets in the same thread cluttering up the board, when it's very easy to just click on a single tweet and see the whole conversation via Twitter (or X or whatever we're supposed to be calling this stuff now).
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Post by prhoya on Aug 22, 2023 9:10:50 GMT -5
I don't have twitter and would love to see the content posted on this board. What is the issue with this? There's nothing out of the ordinary in the content, I think the moderator just didn't want like 10 different tweets in the same thread cluttering up the board, when it's very easy to just click on a single tweet and see the whole conversation via Twitter (or X or whatever we're supposed to be calling this stuff now). That’s not how it works. I don’t have an account and cannot see the whole conversation.
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Post by kghoya on Aug 22, 2023 9:29:22 GMT -5
There's nothing out of the ordinary in the content, I think the moderator just didn't want like 10 different tweets in the same thread cluttering up the board, when it's very easy to just click on a single tweet and see the whole conversation via Twitter (or X or whatever we're supposed to be calling this stuff now). That’s not how it works. I don’t have an account and cannot see the whole conversation. you can watch it
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Post by bills on Aug 22, 2023 10:54:31 GMT -5
There was a lot of discussion when Akok Akok left about how hard it was to graduate from Georgetown in 4 years when playing on a varsity level team all 4 years. Ryan is graduating at the end of this upcoming academic year, after just 3 years. While he did not get the playing time in his first two years, he was at all the practices and had all of the travel, but still took an academic load to graduate in just 3 years. He is very serious about his education and values a Georgetown degree highly. He plans to get an MBA in the 24-25 academic year while playing his 4th year of Basketball. He is clearly not the spoiled son of a rich, celebrity dad. He is the kind of athlete and person that Georgetown can be very proud of. Coach Cooley made him one promise - he will have a chance to play. That is all he wants, no other commitments. I hope his experience this year with Coach Cooley convinces him that his MBA should also come from Georgetown.
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Post by mapei on Aug 22, 2023 11:22:05 GMT -5
There was a lot of discussion when Akok Akok left about how hard it was to graduate from Georgetown in 4 years when playing on a varsity level team all 4 years. Ryan is graduating at the end of this upcoming academic year, after just 3 years. While he did not get the playing time in his first two years, he was at all the practices and had all of the travel, but still took an academic load to graduate in just 3 years. He is very serious about his education and values a Georgetown degree highly. He plans to get an MBA in the 24-25 academic year while playing his 4th year of Basketball. He is clearly not the spoiled son of a rich, celebrity dad. He is the kind of athlete and person that Georgetown can be very proud of. Coach Cooley made him one promise - he will have a chance to play. That is all he wants, no other commitments. I hope his experience this year with Coach Cooley convinces him that his MBA should also come from Georgetown. Amen. Ryan should be considered for a captain.
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Post by prhoya on Aug 22, 2023 12:08:07 GMT -5
That’s not how it works. I don’t have an account and cannot see the whole conversation. you can watch it I did, as I wrote 6 posts back. But, if there are other Hoya-related Twitter/X threads that are not a transcript of an available recording, shouldn’t it be posted so that everyone here can read it?
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Aug 22, 2023 19:03:58 GMT -5
There was a lot of discussion when Akok Akok left about how hard it was to graduate from Georgetown in 4 years when playing on a varsity level team all 4 years. Ryan is graduating at the end of this upcoming academic year, after just 3 years. While he did not get the playing time in his first two years, he was at all the practices and had all of the travel, but still took an academic load to graduate in just 3 years. He is very serious about his education and values a Georgetown degree highly. He plans to get an MBA in the 24-25 academic year while playing his 4th year of Basketball. He is clearly not the spoiled son of a rich, celebrity dad. He is the kind of athlete and person that Georgetown can be very proud of. Coach Cooley made him one promise - he will have a chance to play. That is all he wants, no other commitments. I hope his experience this year with Coach Cooley convinces him that his MBA should also come from Georgetown. By all accounts, Ryan is a very smart kid and good academically. I assume he likely went to an excellent high school, as well, and he likely had a number of AP credits. That's really the only way you can graduate in three years. I don't think it would be feasible for someone, with no credits, to come in as a freshman and graduate in 3 years at Georgetown without killing him/herself academically, which would be nearly impossible for any Division I athlete. Of course, good for him. It's great to see that, but I also think in that way, Ryan is very atypical of a Division I basketball player.
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Aug 23, 2023 1:20:23 GMT -5
There was a lot of discussion when Akok Akok left about how hard it was to graduate from Georgetown in 4 years when playing on a varsity level team all 4 years. Ryan is graduating at the end of this upcoming academic year, after just 3 years. While he did not get the playing time in his first two years, he was at all the practices and had all of the travel, but still took an academic load to graduate in just 3 years. He is very serious about his education and values a Georgetown degree highly. He plans to get an MBA in the 24-25 academic year while playing his 4th year of Basketball. He is clearly not the spoiled son of a rich, celebrity dad. He is the kind of athlete and person that Georgetown can be very proud of. Coach Cooley made him one promise - he will have a chance to play. That is all he wants, no other commitments. I hope his experience this year with Coach Cooley convinces him that his MBA should also come from Georgetown. By all accounts, Ryan is a very smart kid and good academically. I assume he likely went to an excellent high school, as well, and he likely had a number of AP credits. That's really the only way you can graduate in three years. I don't think it would be feasible for someone, with no credits, to come in as a freshman and graduate in 3 years at Georgetown without killing him/herself academically, which would be nearly impossible for any Division I athlete. Of course, good for him. It's great to see that, but I also think in that way, Ryan is very atypical of a Division I basketball player. If you took summer classes it may be possible. Still very difficult to graduate in three. Only certain APs are accepted and with high scores.
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Post by BigmanU on Aug 23, 2023 13:48:05 GMT -5
There's nothing out of the ordinary in the content, I think the moderator just didn't want like 10 different tweets in the same thread cluttering up the board, when it's very easy to just click on a single tweet and see the whole conversation via Twitter (or X or whatever we're supposed to be calling this stuff now). That’s not how it works. I don’t have an account and cannot see the whole conversation. Exactly, that's what people without an account don't realize.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Aug 23, 2023 16:01:18 GMT -5
That’s not how it works. I don’t have an account and cannot see the whole conversation. Exactly, that's what people without an account don't realize. If anybody wants the Mutombo tweets in full, let me know and I will PM them, as I already have to a few folks.
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Post by jpj on Aug 23, 2023 16:41:20 GMT -5
By all accounts, Ryan is a very smart kid and good academically. I assume he likely went to an excellent high school, as well, and he likely had a number of AP credits. That's really the only way you can graduate in three years. I don't think it would be feasible for someone, with no credits, to come in as a freshman and graduate in 3 years at Georgetown without killing him/herself academically, which would be nearly impossible for any Division I athlete. Of course, good for him. It's great to see that, but I also think in that way, Ryan is very atypical of a Division I basketball player. If you took summer classes it may be possible. Still very difficult to graduate in three. Only certain APs are accepted and with high scores. Many, many years ago I was a graduate student at Stanford University. Some students and student athletes graduate in 3 years, probably the 2 most famous are HoFer Mike Mussina and maybe HoFer Andrew Luck. One of the Keys is that the summer school curriculum is aligned with the athletes. Scholarship football players show up on campus in June and have a summer school option which then allows them to take 1 or 2 courses during the summer, then take 1 or 2 courses less during the playing season and still graduate on time. Some athletes do the summer school and still maintain a regular schedule during the regular school year and graduate early. With approval some players can redshirt and get 4 years of eligibility to use over 5 years. The bad part is that Stanford's Graduate school admission standards have increased since i was a graduate student and many of the athletes are not able to gain admittance into the graduate programs and end up as grad transfers with 2 years of eligibility remaining. BTW - Andrew Luck, with spouse and children, is back at Stanford doing a Graduate degree in Architecture/Planning.
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Post by tashoya on Aug 23, 2023 19:36:40 GMT -5
By all accounts, Ryan has always been an excellent student and we know that his family greatly values education. I'm not at all surprised that Ryan is making the most of his time in school and getting multiple degrees under his belt. His family must be incredibly proud.
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Bigs"R"Us
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Aug 23, 2023 19:47:01 GMT -5
If you took summer classes it may be possible. Still very difficult to graduate in three. Only certain APs are accepted and with high scores. Many, many years ago I was a graduate student at Stanford University. Some students and student athletes graduate in 3 years, probably the 2 most famous are HoFer Mike Mussina and maybe HoFer Andrew Luck. One of the Keys is that the summer school curriculum is aligned with the athletes. Scholarship football players show up on campus in June and have a summer school option which then allows them to take 1 or 2 courses during the summer, then take 1 or 2 courses less during the playing season and still graduate on time. Some athletes do the summer school and still maintain a regular schedule during the regular school year and graduate early. With approval some players can redshirt and get 4 years of eligibility to use over 5 years. The bad part is that Stanford's Graduate school admission standards have increased since i was a graduate student and many of the athletes are not able to gain admittance into the graduate programs and end up as grad transfers with 2 years of eligibility remaining. BTW - Andrew Luck, with spouse and children, is back at Stanford doing a Graduate degree in Architecture/Planning. Increasing admissions standards aren’t a bad thing. I’m never for lowering the bar for anyone, including athletes. The world is going in a different direction though.
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Post by oldhoyafan3 on Aug 31, 2023 9:40:55 GMT -5
I've missed this place! (took a summer break if you will). Perhaps my memory isn't as good as it once was, but I seem to remember quite a lot of excitement about him coming out of high school. Seemed to disappear down on the bench most of the games I watched, which were admittedly few but no reason to rehash THAT. Hope he gets an opportunity this year.
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