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Post by Elvado on Mar 10, 2023 5:41:12 GMT -5
Bye, Bye, Mediocre Kyle Neptune Neptune lays an egg against Creighton. Villanova from Final Four to no NCAA tournament in 12 months. Hoyaboya, looks like we were right again. Sadly, we have to aspire to mediocrity at this point…
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Post by Elvado on Mar 10, 2023 5:37:43 GMT -5
While I know this won’t be popular….Jonathan Wallace is a name that has popped up. Need the context. I refuse to believe anybody would consider him a candidate for head coach at Georgetown. Here we go. Wallace comes in as GM to satisfy the Thompson fetish in 2nd Healy while someone like Brey gets the HC job for 2-3 years. The prospect is Vomitous.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 10, 2023 5:02:35 GMT -5
As the resurrection of GU basketball is at least a 2 if not 3 step process, we have completed the necessary Ewingectomy.
Now the harder more metastasized, more lethal problem must be handled with a radical Thompsonectomy.
If that requires amputating a 40 year tumor from 2nd Healy, so be it.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 9, 2023 19:32:22 GMT -5
Problem is that, if we get this hire wrong, there may be no coming back for this program. We are on a precipice now. As bad as it has been, we can recover with the right coach. But the wrong coach and another poor or mediocre 4 to 5 years and you can pretty much put a fork in things. You are talking about the same university President and leadership that brought back Ewing after an 0-20 season, something virtually no other leaders would have done (not to mention the negligent extension). A group capable of that decision is easily capable of messing this decision up easily. I don't think DeGioia cares about making us as good as we can be as quickly as possible, I think he wants a figurehead that he can be "proud" of and that fits the Thompson mold (in his mind). I firmly believe Georgetown needs more change at the top other than Ewing. DeGioia has been entrenched too long, but that won't happen soon enough to lead us to a better place in this coaching search. Sadly, I fear the result is baked in and it will not be good. Left to his own devices, JDG will continue to bury his head in the lap of Big John’s ghost and continue 4 decades of idolatry. In short , we are screwed
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Post by Elvado on Mar 9, 2023 17:51:35 GMT -5
There is no selection which could be made, save Ronny, that could be worse than what we have had.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 9, 2023 8:17:43 GMT -5
It's the Big East tournament and MSG. You have had another disastrous season and are again getting blown out in embarrassing fashion. Two regulars are unable to play and there is no chance of catching up. EVERY player on that bench who has contributed and busted his butt throughout this long season should get his moment on the court. EVERY player should have the opportunity to see some court time. Barring some major violation of a team rule there is simply no excuse for a player, including a walk-on, not getting in for the game. It is a disgrace that this did not happen. It is a disgrace that it did not happen on many occasions this year. His failure to give every player a chance to play in this last game is disgusting. He cannot be gone soon enough for me. Amen.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 8, 2023 21:26:49 GMT -5
We have 16 more minutes of garbage time. 24 minutes of garbage time down….
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Post by Elvado on Mar 8, 2023 21:00:14 GMT -5
Wahab just missed a two foot shot by three feet.
It is unfathomable how bad this team truly is.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 8, 2023 20:52:07 GMT -5
Poor shot selection? Check Porous defense? Check Befuddled coach? Check
It is a PE/JDG tour de farce…
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Post by Elvado on Mar 8, 2023 20:35:34 GMT -5
Is Pat wearing a secret Big John amulet to ward off the evil termination spirits?
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Post by Elvado on Mar 7, 2023 7:37:48 GMT -5
Pat didn’t get any votes for Coach of the Year? I am sure all 10 would vote for him if they thought he could stay in place providing each with 2 breathers every season…
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Post by Elvado on Mar 6, 2023 10:32:48 GMT -5
Patrick is truly a record breaking coach.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 6, 2023 5:24:16 GMT -5
Rescuing this program is at the very least a two-step process
1. Radical Thompsonectomy 2. Competent head coach
Without 1, 2 will be meaningless
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Post by Elvado on Mar 5, 2023 10:08:54 GMT -5
Is it really almost here? I’m not sure I can believe at this point that it’ll be possible to feel something resembling optimism about this program again soon. Hope Lucy leaves the football in place…
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Post by Elvado on Mar 4, 2023 18:35:46 GMT -5
I say without exaggeration that we could have hired a person loitering outside of Wawa on Wisconsin Ave., paying them $13M, and they could have done as good a job as Ewing. Not hyperbole. I have already lamented that Sky King was no longer with us. He clearly could have done as well as Pat and been way more entertaining doing it.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 3, 2023 9:56:12 GMT -5
One point that is sometimes missed with Ewing (especially with folks mad at him for his extension), he didn't really want the Georgetown job and said as much after being hired. He specifically said he wouldn't have even entertained going to the college ranks if it weren't for being talked into it by Big John. I hope when all the dust settles, people can step back and see this for what it was. I want to see new leadership for sure. But I also think Pat was set-up to fail by Ronny & the hanger on types. That is the biggest impediment to the next coach. Pat needed someone to help him parse the quickly changing college landscape. He needed someone to bring in new ideas, engage the alumni, and change the antiquated ways the program had been run. Yes, Pat didn't adapt and that is his fault but he also didn't get much help along the way. All of which conveniently overlooks Big John’s megalomaniacal need to control the program. Why did he clear the tracks for Ewing? Because he wanted his own person in place. Big John was entirely too smart to believe Pat could coach well. 15 years an assistant in the NBA without a sniff of a head coaching job tells you everything you need to know about his coaxing acumen. 15 years an assistant then hand selected to Coach Georgetown (Esherick Deja Vu). He put him there so the Thompson family honoraria would continue unabated. Job for Ronny; job for all the affiliated hangers on like Howze, etc. The bad guy here was and remains Big John. He put Pat in place to keep the gravy train rolling knowing full well Pat was not up to the task and that it would be well nigh impossible for GU to fire him. Pat screwed it up by being so awful as to be beyond the pale.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 2, 2023 18:21:53 GMT -5
Pat is not good at any aspect of coaching. Absolutely awful. It starts higher up, Jack is not good at any aspect of leadership. The Board of Directors should relieve him of his duties shortly after he terminated Ewing. He should own this mess then walk off campus with Pat and Ronnie. To the tune of Three Blind Mice or the Three Stooges theme…
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Post by Elvado on Mar 2, 2023 15:02:02 GMT -5
If John Thompson Jr was still around to be involved in the dismissal and hire of the next coach. The top 3 choices would be: Patrick Ewing Jr. Jonathan Wallace JTIII None would be worst than Patrick Ewing if that is goal and keeping the head coaching job as having a past connection to Georgetown. Pick anyone off the street to coach the team and that person couldn’t have a poorer record than Pat. That’s not an exaggeration. If only Sky King were still with us…. Or Pebbles…
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Post by Elvado on Mar 2, 2023 8:30:05 GMT -5
Dribbling out the clock down by 40 hahahah NICE WORK PAT NICE WORK RONNY NICE WORK JACK (not the bulldog, we still love you Jack) I like to think they dribbled it out because they wanted the deficit to be at 40 to embarrass Pat & Ronny Sadly it was their best defensive stop of the game. Run out the clock to avoid having 100 hung on them.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 2, 2023 7:46:42 GMT -5
the best player in BE history is also the worst coach in BE history we can only hope that an announcement is made before or immediately after the nova loss next wednesday my son is almost 15 and loves the hoyas. watching the 2021 BET with him was a great moment but I have to think that we'd be already at least a year into the transition if they didn't win it this is a massive rebuild. hopefully the administration hits a home run with the next coach but I'm not optimistic You sell him short with worst coach in only BE history…. He is much worse than that.
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