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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 18, 2010 20:39:23 GMT -5
I feel that this is the worst loss in the history of the program.
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 18, 2010 19:19:55 GMT -5
Please guard somebody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 15, 2010 17:27:10 GMT -5
Has an African guy ever showed up in the US and made an impact his freshman year? None that I can think of, at Georgetown or anywhere else. Not even Dikembe at 7'3". Boubacar Aw had a nice freshman year maybe, but he was actually a skill player I thought and not too raw. Boumtje-Boumtje (and Ya Ya?) had a much better resume than Moses at this point if memory serves. So I'm not going to get too excited either way. Yes, Akeem Olajuwon. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 8, 2010 9:27:42 GMT -5
Flying in Tuesday a.m. for my 29th BET with 7 friends from the classes of 78-81 and my sophomore son and seven of his friends.
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 5, 2010 10:25:26 GMT -5
Question for the tie-breaker gurus: 3 teams are in a mini-conference and have the same record in the mini-conference (say 1-1). So you then start going down the standings. The question is, what happens if one of the teams drops out? Say, for example, Team A and Team B are 1-0 against the top team, but Team C is 0-1. Do you continue down the standings with Team A and B - or after Team C has dropped out, do you then just flip to the two-team procedures (i.e. head to head)? I hope that you just keep going down the standings because I believe that would be the only way we can still get the 7 seed with a loss (based on my post above). So I disagree with the sentiment that who cares what seed we are if we lose Saturday. I think the draw is still much better as the 6/7 over the 8/9 (and I would much prefer night games!). HoyaChris - this was the same issue you commented on the other day, but I am not sure you had it right. In Step 1 of the mini-conference rules, the last sentence would clearly bring this scenario (three teams with identical records in mini-conference) to Step 2. In Step 2, it says to continue down the standings "until one team gains an advantage" [emphasis added] - once you get to Step 2, it never says if you get down to 2 teams, revert back to the two-team procedures - I don't think? I have reread the procedures about 10 times and I am forced to conclude that they are completely ambiguous. I think if this was litigated it would end up with a hung jury. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 3, 2010 11:23:51 GMT -5
i think its a lesson for all of us. A lesson for Chris, the fans, etc. For Chris, he has to realize there will be criticism. Harsh criticism that is over the top, way passed the line of decency. And he has to learn how to deal with that, ignore it, and move forward without acknowledging it. Yes, its tough, and the first inclination is to react. But, the growth process of adulthood you learn that in life there will be criticism, justified and unjustified, and to not understand that will lead to a life of agitation and unrest. For the Fans, wasn't too long ago we were a basketball program that was just on life support. JTIII's problem is that he had success way too early, sweet sixteen in his 2nd year, final four in his 3rd year, Big East regular season champs again his 4th year. Folks have gotten spoiled. And now we are struggling a little bit, and impatience is growing. The nature of college basketball is tough. Look at UCLA, UCONN, and UNC and even Florida. Powerhouses that have hit bottom or below standards that they are accustomed too. Being a fan is a lifetime thing. Its like a marriage. You are in it for the long-term and there will be ups and downs. After all, We are Georgetown. Where our legendery coach, Pops, he had a deflated basketball in his office. Which meant, there was more to life than basketball. thats is what this program has been about. We are struggling, we have flaws as a team. JTIII has made mistakes along the way. And the criticism in that regard is fair. But sometimes, we all need to take a step back, in realize where we have been as a program over the years, who we have been as a program over the years, and then maybe we will realize we are getting annoyed for no reason. We are Georgetown. We argue, we debate, we bicker, we celebrate, we laugh, we cheer, we are all family in this. The Hoya family. Let's not lose sight of that in times like these. I a stunning development, I am in complete agreement with the_way. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 3, 2010 8:39:25 GMT -5
Dan. I am not sure that I agree that a noon Wednesday game is the most likely spot for the Hoyas. If Georgetown beats Cincy, isn't a 7 seed and a 7 o' clock game on Wednesday more likely? I think that is right. Based on my calculations, if we win Saturday, we will be the 7 unless ND wins twice this week (in which case we would be the 8) or Lville loses twice (in which case we would be the 6). If both those things happen, I think we stay at the 7 (I think all three teams would be 1-1 in mini-conference, Lville would be the 6 based on the win over Cuse, we would be the 7 based on our win over Nova - unless of course WVU passes Nova, in which case we would be the 8 because ND beat WVU). If we lose Saturday, things could (but not necessarily) get really ugly in terms of BET seeding and having to play a game on the dreaded Tuesday. There is no worse feeling that being drunk at 4 p.m. on a Tuesday with your team just knocked out of the BET (and by definition beaten by a bad team) and $350 worth of basketball tickets in your pocket for games that you no longer have any interest in attending and that your idiotic GU roomate will only let you sell to someone the group knows so as not to cause problems for his boss who is a fat cat SJU booster that scored the great seats for the group. I just don't want to go there again. Beating Cincy is so important on so many levels. I don't think you are correct as to the outcome if Louisville loses to Syracuse and ND wins twice. In that scenario, Louisville wins the mini-conference because of their prior win over Syracuse, and we lose the tiebreaker to ND because of head to head. In that scenario we end up 8. www.bigeast.org/fls/19400/pdfs/mensbball/tiebreaker09.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=19400&KEY=&SPID=11228&SPSID=94715 We really need ND to lose tonight. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 24, 2010 8:37:08 GMT -5
For the golfers out there, the game at National is well worth it whatever IT is. The natural beauty of the place alone will knock your socks off. My '78 classmates and I bought this at last years auction. It was not cheap but is mostly deductible and goes to - obviously - a very good cause. Buddy Stuart, who donates the event, is a great guy and pretty much "The Most Interesting Man in the World." |
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 24, 2010 8:25:23 GMT -5
That was a LONG time ago Dan. How about Iverson and Page I think I agree with Dan. Both A.I. and Victor were volume shooters who wore you down with their physicality. They always had the ball in their hands. At his best, Austin is 1980 Sleepy Floyd - although not defensively. Playing on a team with other reasonable scoring threats - Floyd had Duren and Shelton - Sleepy would get 25 in a smooth, almost matter of fact manner and he wouldn't need a lot of touches to do it. |
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 9, 2010 15:27:43 GMT -5
To be fair, the actual Pomeroy predictions are
Georgetown 11.41 - 6.59
Pittsburgh 11.17 - 6.83
Marquette 11.04 - 6.96
So we've got that going for us.
After we beat Providence tonight, our Pomeroy projection will round up to 12-6.
Problem solved.
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 8, 2010 12:06:11 GMT -5
Nova, which gives us the best chance at a #3 seed with Syracuse winning the league and Nova on our side of the bracket.
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 8, 2010 10:01:07 GMT -5
Among the best stories I have heard so far.
The students who got to Verizon real early. They were standing outside shivering when the ESPN TV crew opened the doors and said that they were shorthanded, and if the students would like to help lay cable that the students could:
a.) come inside and get warm
b.) get paid and
c.) get front row seats behind the announcers.
My friend from Alexandria rented an F-150 4WD, parked it at the top of the hill above his house and made the trip into Verizon twice, once to make sure he could make it and then for the game.
My sophomore son was on the Metro with the Nova players and struck up a conversation with Antonio Pena. When asked what he was doing on the Metro, Pena's response ....S**t happens.
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 8, 2010 9:43:32 GMT -5
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 8, 2010 4:11:46 GMT -5
Great game/player analysis as always.
I think that the referees played a bigger part in the game than indicated in that they didn't automatically award defensive fouls to the Hoyas as the Nova guards barged into the lane in the first half. If John Cahill had been the ref, both Greg and Julian would have fouled out 10 minutes into the game.
Thank god for Metro and the Verizon center, as this could never have happened in Landover. The fans were amazing.
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 5, 2010 5:57:58 GMT -5
As of right now, my flight into DCA - arrives 11:30 am - and the 1:35 return on Sunday are still OK, although the earlier returns to Dallas have been cancelled.
At this point, I am regarding this trip as an adventure.
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 4, 2010 13:27:10 GMT -5
Oh for the good old days on HoyaTalk in which students bitched about alum attendance and why don't alums cheer harder.
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 4, 2010 12:19:47 GMT -5
Directly from Metro's Twitter feed: "If snow accumulations are 8" or higher, above ground service will be suspended. Metro will operate below ground only." If above ground Metro service is suspended, will that stop the Metro between Rosslyn and Verizon? |
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 3, 2010 13:35:01 GMT -5
An additional factor that Greg will need to consider will be the effect on potential compensation of any changes in the collective bargaining agreement which expires at the end of the 2010-2011 season. Basically, if he leaves after this year, his (assumed) first round compensation will be governed by the old agreement which may be a better contract structure for rookies. In addition, he will have a chance to earn a large salary before a potential lock out year.
I am not optimistic that it will make sense for him to stay.
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 1, 2010 7:17:35 GMT -5
There is a pretty good chance that the Marquette loss will look better at season's end than it does now. Like us, they have played a very difficult starting Big East schedule - Nova twice, us, at Syracuse and at West Virginia. Unlike us, they are done with their tough games. Although Marquette is 4-5 in conference, Pomeroy projects them as a favorite in each of their 9 remaining games and has them finishing at 11-7 in conference which would certainly get them an NCAA bid.
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 1, 2010 7:03:27 GMT -5
NON-GAME OBSERVATIONSLet’s break this down into categories: Not for my section—118 Row B has already been forwarded to Steve Alleva for the transgression of selling all four tickets to Duke fans, likely via StubHub (two bf/gf pairs, incidentally). Would it shock you if I informed you that one of those four was in tears at the end of the game? I would assume that the one who was crying was male? |
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