SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 6, 2024 11:21:39 GMT -5
I'm waiting for the Ticket Office to send out season ticket renewal information and the price since you no longer need to make a Hoop Club contribution.
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kghoya
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Post by kghoya on Sept 6, 2024 12:02:22 GMT -5
I'm waiting for the Ticket Office to send out season ticket renewal information and the price since you no longer need to make a Hoop Club contribution. Interesting. I did not know that. Why the change?
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 6, 2024 12:11:36 GMT -5
I'm waiting for the Ticket Office to send out season ticket renewal information and the price since you no longer need to make a Hoop Club contribution. Interesting. I did not know that. Why the change? Unknown. Also the Hoya bench is moving to where the visitor's bench was and I was offered a move from Section 101 to maintain my seats behind the bench. Under the prior system, you contributed to the Hoop Club for a seat license to maintain the same seats every year. I have been sitting with the same Section 101 season ticket holders since the move from the Cap Centre so we are trying to see if the Ticket Office can accomodate us to maintain our proximity.
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prhoya
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Post by prhoya on Sept 6, 2024 12:15:37 GMT -5
And who will fill the recruiting news void he left? Say what you will of boya, but he was the only poster providing regular recruiting news mentioning GU, top 25 kids or top DMV prospects. Now, HoyaTalk looks like a political blog. đ We had YaBoyNYP who was the best ever at it and then you decided to be all "but you've posted 11 times and the rules are only 10 posts" so maybe the answer is go somewhere else for recruiting news. boya didn't really care about Hoya recruiting all that much, he cared about who we missed so he could slam the program about it. Ja! I donât make the rules around here; I just follow them. Among other things, Boya posted recruiting news about high school seniors, juniors and more who hadnât committed, so it wasnât just about missed recruits.
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prhoya
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Post by prhoya on Sept 6, 2024 12:19:03 GMT -5
Iâll say itâŚI miss hoyaboyaâs contributions 𫢠He stirred up interesting conversation and kept the board more active, particularly with his recruiting updates. Iâd hate for boya not to be here when we get this thing turned around. #BoyaComeHome Go to twitter. Follow the people's posts he posted on here. There's the recruiting gap filled. I preferred the one-stop shop boya provided for Hoya and DMV related recruits. Hoping someone fills that voidâŚ
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hoopsmccan
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Post by hoopsmccan on Sept 6, 2024 12:36:59 GMT -5
And who will fill the recruiting news void he left? Say what you will of boya, but he was the only poster providing regular recruiting news mentioning GU, top 25 kids or top DMV prospects. Now, HoyaTalk looks like a political blog. đ We had YaBoyNYP who was the best ever at it and then you decided to be all "but you've posted 11 times and the rules are only 10 posts" so maybe the answer is go somewhere else for recruiting news. boya didn't really care about Hoya recruiting all that much, he cared about who we missed so he could slam the program about it. When boya really started pumping up a recruit, you knew he thought we weren't going to get him. And vice versa. Just wanted to dump on the program. hm
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Post by EtomicB on Sept 6, 2024 12:50:38 GMT -5
The board will be more active when there is more to post about. Itâs still very much the off-season. Agreed but it would be nice to hear from Cooley or at least someone on the staff about the new & old players, summer workouts/practices, team strengths etc... It's very sobering/sad how quickly Cooley & staff assimilated to Gtown's closed off approach to everything fan & media related.
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 6, 2024 13:02:18 GMT -5
Agreed but it would be nice to hear from Cooley or at least someone on the staff about the new & old players, summer workouts/practices, team strengths etc...It's very sobering/sad how quickly Cooley & staff assimilated to Gtown's closed off approach to everything fan & media related. This one is directly on Cooley. There's no Ronny Thompson pulling the strings. La famiglia is gone, but where is the outreach? There have been just five basketball specific press releases since March, three of them confirming upcoming games largely posted elsewhere. No written communications to fans and donors (outside of Hoyas Rising, perhaps) in the off-season. No calls to buy tickets or join the Hoop Club. The head coach has not posted on public social media since January 24. Today is the last day of late registration and there's still no formal roster. Such are not the seeds to plant for sustained student or fan interest. And for those who say, "it's Georgetown's fault"... no, not every sport is behind the wall at the Thompson Center. The soccer coaches send out a weekly e-mail to supporters. The head football coach has a 15 minute talk with its play by play host on YouTube before each game. It doesn't take much in 2024 to reach thousands of viewers with a handful of clicks.
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 6, 2024 13:20:18 GMT -5
I'm waiting for the Ticket Office to send out season ticket renewal information and the price since you no longer need to make a Hoop Club contribution. Interesting. I did not know that. Why the change? There's still a donation required, they are just rolling it into the seat cost instead of it being separate. There's a bit in this thread: hoyatalk2.proboards.com/post/1063453/thread...and here's what I received from the ticket office back on July 11:
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Post by guru on Sept 6, 2024 13:24:46 GMT -5
We had YaBoyNYP who was the best ever at it and then you decided to be all "but you've posted 11 times and the rules are only 10 posts" so maybe the answer is go somewhere else for recruiting news. boya didn't really care about Hoya recruiting all that much, he cared about who we missed so he could slam the program about it. When boya really started pumping up a recruit, you knew he thought we weren't going to get him. And vice versa. Just wanted to dump on the program. hm boya is aggressively not missed
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 6, 2024 13:28:21 GMT -5
Interesting. I did not know that. Why the change? There's still a donation required, they are just rolling it into the seat cost instead of it being separate. There's a bit in this thread: hoyatalk2.proboards.com/post/1063453/thread...and here's what I received from the ticket office back on July 11: Heck, so my tickets are going to cost the same plus a rolled in donation? I guess it saves administrative costs? But the end of August has passed and nada. Zilch information. I guess my question is whether the same pricing structure is going to be in place. I used to pay $1500 per season to the Hoop Club for my 2 seat licenses ($750 each seat). So two tickets cost me about $2500 each season. Is that still going to be the bottom line cost??
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Sept 6, 2024 13:37:39 GMT -5
I think bottom line will be the same but I used to donate some to hoops, some to football and some to general scholarship. I wonder if I'll still have that option.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Sept 6, 2024 13:40:30 GMT -5
And who will fill the recruiting news void he left? Say what you will of boya, but he was the only poster providing regular recruiting news mentioning GU, top 25 kids or top DMV prospects. Now, HoyaTalk looks like a political blog. đ We had YaBoyNYP who was the best ever at it and then you decided to be all "but you've posted 11 times and the rules are only 10 posts" so maybe the answer is go somewhere else for recruiting news. boya didn't really care about Hoya recruiting all that much, he cared about who we missed so he could slam the program about it. And lo and behold, the posters who were the targets of that rule are gone, and nobody misses them. If they had simply been banned in the first place, we would never have lost YaBoyNYP.
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Post by SDHoya on Sept 6, 2024 13:49:32 GMT -5
The board will be more active when there is more to post about. Itâs still very much the off-season. Agreed but it would be nice to hear from Cooley or at least someone on the staff about the new & old players, summer workouts/practices, team strengths etc... It's very sobering/sad how quickly Cooley & staff assimilated to Gtown's closed off approach to everything fan & media related. Don't disagree. My comment was related to another poster seeming to imply that the absence of trolling has made the board too quiet. All I am saying is that when there is real action, there will again be plenty of posts to scroll through on the ol' Hoyatalk.
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EtomicB
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Post by EtomicB on Sept 6, 2024 15:03:17 GMT -5
Agreed but it would be nice to hear from Cooley or at least someone on the staff about the new & old players, summer workouts/practices, team strengths etc...It's very sobering/sad how quickly Cooley & staff assimilated to Gtown's closed off approach to everything fan & media related. This one is directly on Cooley. There's no Ronny Thompson pulling the strings. La famiglia is gone, but where is the outreach? There have been just five basketball specific press releases since March, three of them confirming upcoming games largely posted elsewhere. No written communications to fans and donors (outside of Hoyas Rising, perhaps) in the off-season. No calls to buy tickets or join the Hoop Club. The head coach has not posted on public social media since January 24. Today is the last day of late registration and there's still no formal roster. Such are not the seeds to plant for sustained student or fan interest. And for those who say, "it's Georgetown's fault"... no, not every sport is behind the wall at the Thompson Center. The soccer coaches send out a weekly e-mail to supporters. The head football coach has a 15 minute talk with its play by play host on YouTube before each game. It doesn't take much in 2024 to reach thousands of viewers with a handful of clicks. Some of the blame should be on Cooley(he told us at his 1st off-season presser things would be different under his leadership) but the bulk of it belongs to his bosses at Gtown. it's pretty obvious that he didn't have a choice on engagement at PC.
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Post by hoyazeke on Sept 6, 2024 17:14:32 GMT -5
Iâll say itâŚI miss hoyaboyaâs contributions 𫢠He stirred up interesting conversation and kept the board more active, particularly with his recruiting updates. Iâd hate for boya not to be here when we get this thing turned around. #BoyaComeHome So you miss your abuser? He didn't stir up anything. He trolled the board and as soon as positivity started happening he ghosted the site...just wait to something, anything negative happens he will show up to bash Coach.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 6, 2024 18:01:34 GMT -5
Some of the blame should be on Cooley(he told us at his 1st off-season presser things would be different under his leadership) but the bulk of it belongs to his bosses at Gtown. Ed Cooley has a few bosses at Georgetown; namely, the "President and Directors of Georgetown College" aka the Board of Directors. They are not telling him when to issue an off season tweet. I'm not naive to the Curia-like bureaucracy at Georgetown to which comment is generally discouraged and frequently vetted, but the basketball office is a visible representative of the institution and must be more engaged with its general shareholders: the alumni and supporters of the program, inclusive of, but not exclusive to, NIL. If all we see of Ed Cooley is 10 minutes of one-liners to John Fanta and Friends at Big East Media Day, with no scrimmage, no student engagement, no Midnight Madness, no exhibition games, etc., it is an opportunity lost like so many that have gone before them, redolent of the best and worst of Hoya Paranoia. This is, in no small part, why the program grows more disconnected with its base.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Sept 6, 2024 18:53:42 GMT -5
Except for a little recruiting news with the late commits, basically nothing has happened in months. Kenner League not being at Georgetown and our players not participating made it even worse than normal because there wasn't anything to see or discuss. Usually someone unexpected has a good Kenner game, fans pump the person up, and while it often doesn't pan out to mean anything, it can still be a good source of summer discussion.
I like to view it this way--we are close to the lowest of the low. Not quite Ewing level, but the excitement Cooley had going last year at the beginning of the year was quickly destroyed with the Holy Cross loss and many of the other losses. Unless we perpetually stay a 2-18 Big East team--which would basically mean Cooley forgot how to coach or otherwise somehow cannot suceed anymore--we will definitely be better eventually. Maybe not the level everyone yearns for, but better than we have been the last several years, and with that will come more discussion and interest.
As for the hoyaboya discussion, don't worry. I am sure as soon as Cooley makes a boneheaded move, or we lose a game we should win, he will be back to foist heaps of blame on Ed Cooley or to complain about Epps.
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 6, 2024 19:26:48 GMT -5
I would much rather have YaBoy back. Don't miss boya at all.
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Post by hoyajmw on Sept 6, 2024 21:57:50 GMT -5
There's still a donation required, they are just rolling it into the seat cost instead of it being separate. There's a bit in this thread: hoyatalk2.proboards.com/post/1063453/thread...and here's what I received from the ticket office back on July 11: Heck, so my tickets are going to cost the same plus a rolled in donation? I guess it saves administrative costs? But the end of August has passed and nada. Zilch information. I guess my question is whether the same pricing structure is going to be in place. I used to pay $1500 per season to the Hoop Club for my 2 seat licenses ($750 each seat). So two tickets cost me about $2500 each season. Is that still going to be the bottom line cost?? I haven't heard zip from GU since the July 11 email, and have tix in the sections that should be asked if they want to move AND are occupied by many season ticket holders who I know for certain would end up having to shift non deminimis donations from other places at GU (raising my hand here) to absorb the price of the required "donation" being rolled into the ticket prices. In fact, I have been checking here regularly in hopes of getting an update. Disappointed in it all, including the lack of communication, but can't say I'm surprised. I hope perhaps there has been enough pushback already on the donation element that they are rethinking it, but that is likely wishful thinking. I do know that it will be a tough, tough pill to swallow (bill to foot?) if it is unchanged/support for other aspects of GU athletics no longer counts and the entire required donation ends up simply a direct or indirect subsidy of NIL funds and/or defraying the costs of other elements of the men's basketball program....
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