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Post by Elvado on Mar 23, 2023 11:15:57 GMT -5
Why do we want or need him? What value does he add? If your argument is qualifications, then that's a different discussion than saying he is not wanted because he called out fans... It can be both. Here, I would like to know the rationale for having him other than his last name.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 23, 2023 10:14:10 GMT -5
His dad has long coattails ….and Ronnie has ridden them his entire life. Have to feel badly for him. I feel bad for anyone who had to work with him and be undercut, backstabbed, etc
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Post by Elvado on Mar 23, 2023 10:10:17 GMT -5
So what PE Jr called out fans. Can any of us say we haven't done something irrational in defense of a loved one. It's funny how so e of you were willing to give Patino a past for his past transgressions, but are willing to hold PE Jr account table for calling out fans... Give me a break... Why do we want or need him? What value does he add?
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Post by Elvado on Mar 23, 2023 10:01:53 GMT -5
Dear Lord, why? To lecture the fan base? The Ewing family has made out like bandits over the last 6 years; the last thing we need is to pay another Ewing we don’t need.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 23, 2023 9:42:22 GMT -5
I hope so! The contempt for Ronnie Thompson by many on this is dispicable! So many new names on the board echoing the sentiments of a select few, I think. Patrick's gone! Cooley is here! He needs someone with institutional memory and a variety skills to hit the ground running. Why not Ronnie? This board is often pretty ugly. So little good spewing out of the mouths of many. Best of luck to Coach Cooley! DC, talk to any basketball alum. Nobody likes the guy. There is no need for institutional knowledge when that knowledge has been the source of years of back stabbing and contempt. Just look at what Reggie Williams said. That isn't all Ronnie, but a big part of it is. He must go. He is an alum and former player so he should be treated like any other in those roles but no longer should have any keys to the proverbial kingdom. Treat him like Kevin Millen…
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Post by Elvado on Mar 23, 2023 9:20:50 GMT -5
So a POS was COS…
Shocking that we failed so spectacularly
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Post by Elvado on Mar 22, 2023 18:39:34 GMT -5
I hope Ronnie is gone from the program we need a fresh start anyone know if he will still be her? I hope not. I hope the whole Thompson era is over it’s time to start with coach Cooley. He doesn’t need Ronnie Thompson hanging around. No one anywhere needs Ronny hanging around.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 22, 2023 14:18:56 GMT -5
You can go back to game one, and Murray simply didn't defend. Cooley won't -- and shouldn't -- stand for it. Yes, he has talent, but I don't know that Cooley can change someone that much. I expect everyone to play better under Cooley ... but I'm not sure this particular issue had anything to do with Ewing. I thought Spears stayed engaged as long as anyone really had a right to ask, but his game is all ballhog. I don't mean that in a perjorative sense -- he's just only really good at one on one and hit a mid-range. It was super useful for us this year when we were terrible but I don't think it fits and I find it hard to see him taking a bench role (would be a great second team scorer) or changing his game. I'd rather have a team that plays team ball and defends than worry about mediocre talent because it's the only talent we have. The player with the most talent that actually wins games on this team is Akok Akok anyway. The other dude we should be working hard to keep is Jordan Riley. We may not have an elite offense next year, but grab them and a couple more guys and with Cooley, we will actually defend. EDIT: I like Bass in this set up, too. I don't think he's a star, but putting Bass, Akok and Riley on the floor with a capable coach will make it hard on people. That's a start. If listing Spears' qualities you'd have to also say he's a really good ball handler. Below average court vision and decision making, average passer, but a good man to bring the ball up court against pressure. Just get your money down early that wherever Spears ends up, the record will suffer. He is a losing player.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 22, 2023 13:25:20 GMT -5
Hope he’s there reassuring the fellow athletics staff that there won’t be a hostile work environment anymore and his own staff won’t act like they own the building lol Here’s hoping Cooley’s program can sniff the success of Wiese and Nolan, as well as Warne.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 22, 2023 13:03:44 GMT -5
A half measure. Fredo needs to be unloaded from 37th and O permanently. There is no salary, not even minimum wage, that Ronny Thompson deserves after the damage he has done to the basketball program and the University. In a perfect world that would be the solution but I doubt that Jack D has the cajones to do it. So if it takes a half measure to avoid RT's toxicity infecting the basketball program, I'll take the half measure. Sadly, you are probably right. What do you suppose explains Jack’s servile devotion to Big John’s ghost (and by extension his albatross son)?
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Post by Elvado on Mar 22, 2023 12:43:10 GMT -5
It is not Coach I worry about; DeGioia on the other hand has still not gotten off the Thompson pipe… Move RT out of the Athletic Department, put him Jack D's staff as Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs & Outreach. Problem solved. If Jack see's any utility in maintaining his grossly-inflated salary, let him deal with him. A half measure. Fredo needs to be unloaded from 37th and O permanently. There is no salary, not even minimum wage, that Ronny Thompson deserves after the damage he has done to the basketball program and the University.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 22, 2023 12:35:19 GMT -5
Our new Coach hit it out of the park today. A little too much Thompson worship for my taste but I am hopeful that was lip service for the moment and that he will chart his own course unfettered. The only way the day would have gotten better is if it were announced that Ronnie has been future endeavored. I guess that will be good news for a later day. Coach set high goals; hope he exceeds them all. Hoya Saxa!!! You think THAT guy would allow Ronny to leach off his program? THAT guy?!?! He’d strangle him with his bare hands first…And if he does I’ll be right there giving him the Rudy clap. It is not Coach I worry about; DeGioia on the other hand has still not gotten off the Thompson pipe…
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Post by Elvado on Mar 22, 2023 12:25:07 GMT -5
Our new Coach hit it out of the park today.
A little too much Thompson worship for my taste but I am hopeful that was lip service for the moment and that he will chart his own course unfettered.
The only way the day would have gotten better is if it were announced that Ronnie has been future endeavored.
I guess that will be good news for a later day.
Coach set high goals; hope he exceeds them all.
Hoya Saxa!!!
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Post by Elvado on Mar 21, 2023 15:34:51 GMT -5
I would have given Ronny the benefit of the doubt and assumed that he would us a shredder ... but if you want to be certain ... burn it. Fire investigators reporting they have found the charred remains of the Georgetown University Code of Ethics and Anti-Nepotism Policy. In unrelated news, Ronny is now in line for a promotion…..
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Post by Elvado on Mar 21, 2023 10:39:42 GMT -5
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Post by Elvado on Mar 21, 2023 9:49:19 GMT -5
Yes, I missed him, I edited it and added him above, thanks. Still, that's only 6 scholarship players, so lots of room for new guys. And, frankly, it would shock me if Murray stayed. Murray would shock me as well unless Nicklebagger has been somehow spared…
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Post by Elvado on Mar 21, 2023 9:44:37 GMT -5
I had watched or listened to every Georgetown men's basketball game since the 1987 exhibition when David Edwards when went off for double-digit assists until this year when I just couldn't follow the program anymore. I completely checked out sometime after New Year's Day. Ewing was truly in over his head. Either he couldn't get those players to do what he wanted to do or what he wanted them to do was a really bad idea. I have never disliked Hoya players always finding a redeeming quality until this year when I couldn't stand some for their selfish, boneheaded, and lazy play. For everything Ewing did for the Georgetown program, he absolutely and unequivocally ran it into the ground. There is one word I would use to describe the Cooley hire - competent. It is not an unexpected reaction to the last two years. Ewing never demonstrated competence in so many aspects of the job. Cooley is the exact opposite. He has demonstrated he is capable in every dimension of running a big-time program. Hopefully, the thesis that the Georgetown platform provides Cooley the resources to have even greater success proves true. He has certainly paid his dues and is ready for perhaps the biggest spotlight in the conference. Edwards must have been great to get double digit assists 2 years before he arrived…
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Post by Elvado on Mar 20, 2023 17:59:23 GMT -5
So you're saying the patient will die? Remains to be seen. If Ronnie and the affiliated hangers on/leeches are swiftly sent packing there is a chance.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 20, 2023 17:53:02 GMT -5
Regardless how we do in his first year, I think this was an excellent hire. A little bit of a throwback to John Thompson, while having a softer style. Love it! We need to throw out John Thompson, not throw back to him. He got a building, a court and a statue. The tab is paid many times over. No Thompsonectomy means patient dies.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 20, 2023 14:38:03 GMT -5
Congrats, Coach Ed! Congrats Hoyas! We can hope again. Even though this one had me for about a quarter of a second... Yes! Assistent Coach Emeritus! You mean E-Meritless
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