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Post by Elvado on Feb 14, 2023 19:29:40 GMT -5
This is just hideous.
Maybe New Mexico State had the right idea. They suspended the season for hazing.
Can’t we suspend for irreparable harm to the University’s image?
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Post by Elvado on Feb 14, 2023 9:54:26 GMT -5
"He is 63. He is 10-15 this year, 22-10 last year, 11-15 the year before. This would be the most uninspiring hire of all time" Agreed.....but it may well already be a done deal. The only way Brey makes sense is if he were an assistant to a younger head coach. Like the Gene Keady/Lavin deal at St. Johns Or Howard/Martelli at Michigan. There is no way Brey makes sense ever. He was an overrated Count Chocula disciple from the door.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 12, 2023 22:18:47 GMT -5
Andy Reid is an offensive genius.
Thank you for sparing me the idiocy of an Eagles parade.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 12, 2023 11:49:18 GMT -5
Sad day when Sleepy is referred to as the “guy in the red jacket” Between the cap, glasses and 40 years (both his and mine) just didn’t recognize him — and I tried… But it is sad…. No criticism intended. It took me a bunch of looks. The sadness is the passage of time and youth, his and ours….
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Post by Elvado on Feb 12, 2023 8:48:42 GMT -5
Graham is pictured just over the right shoulder of the former player in the red jacket in the photo above. He is at every game these days, in row AA section 110 he cheers up a storm (and provides lots of coaching, especially when team is on defense in front of him in the first half). The guy in the red jacket is Eric Floyd. Sad day when Sleepy is referred to as the “guy in the red jacket”
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Post by Elvado on Feb 12, 2023 8:36:52 GMT -5
Non-game observation - I am reasonably certain that I saw Michael Graham, Mike Hancock, and Michael Jackson at the game chatting at the baseline near the Hoya bench during halftime. Anyone who can confirm this? No mention from the Cap One announcer and camera on them for the video screen as typically happens with former players. Graham is pictured just over the right shoulder of the former player in the red jacket in the photo above. He is at every game these days, in row AA section 110 he cheers up a storm (and provides lots of coaching, especially when team is on defense in front of him in the first half). Off topic, but why is MJ not in the Hoya Hall of Fame?
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Post by Elvado on Feb 11, 2023 19:44:58 GMT -5
Have to confess I was pleased to be able to watch an effective ball moving offense. A beauty to behold. Only wish it was our team. Offense always looks great against traffic cones, or Georgetown…
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Post by Elvado on Feb 11, 2023 19:21:43 GMT -5
We’ve followed 0-20 with 1-14 so far. What institution tolerates this level of failure and why? Only GTown. And we will end up with a 2-18 record after going 0-20. So Jack can say, with a straight face, that Pat kept his word and 0-20 didn’t happen again on his watch.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 11, 2023 15:08:14 GMT -5
Is it wrong to envy New Mexico State fans?
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Post by Elvado on Feb 11, 2023 13:56:12 GMT -5
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Post by Elvado on Feb 11, 2023 12:55:16 GMT -5
No Jack D at HOF halftime ceremony. Coward.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 11, 2023 12:44:59 GMT -5
It just looks like Marquette can do anything it wants and get any shot it wants.
Put another way, they are toying with the Hoyas and their CYO level defense.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 11, 2023 11:42:55 GMT -5
Whatever will we do if he leaves? Lose all the time?
This trainwreck can’t end soon enough..
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Post by Elvado on Feb 11, 2023 10:44:38 GMT -5
I believe the GU Athletic HOF inductees (including Mary Fenlon, posthumously) will be honored at halftime. Jack D should be there today for the ceremony. “Big HOF ceremony in D.C. on February 11th. Be there, will be wild!” The hundreds in attendance today are in for a real treat.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 11, 2023 8:44:59 GMT -5
ADs are bureaucrats, administrators They do what asked, no more. All the talk about coaching, and players is meaningless, until the school, namely the President and Board of Directors state their vision for the program. Frankly, it requires an organizational transformation, almost impossible when there is such a lack of urgency, Not unlike many organizations who fail Welcome to Georgetown becoming complacent! The single greatest force at GU is, sadly, inertia.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 10, 2023 19:36:44 GMT -5
So much for the instant impact of the Traveling Nickelberrys. Their impact reminds me of Ralph Kiner going to Branch Rickey and demanding a salary increase after hitting 50 HR’s. Branch told him”we came in last with you, we can come in last without you” and traded him. Kevin better hope he leased rather than bought a home. Are you 125 years old? No. I just read a lot and Ralph Kiner was always a favorite of mine, as was Branch Rickey.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 10, 2023 10:35:53 GMT -5
"College basketball's most disappointing transfer portal hauls from 2022 cycle... GEORGETOWN The Hoyas added way too much talent out of the transfer portal to be 6-19 overall and 1-13 in Big East play. Georgetown’s seven-highest scorers are all transfers. Primo Spears, Brandon Murray and Jay Heath have teamed up to be double-digit scorers in the backcourt. Murray, one of the jewels of the 2022 transfer portal cycle out of LSU, has had some enormous dunks and eye-popping highlights. But it hasn’t translated to winning at all. It seems like only a matter of time until Georgetown makes a coaching change." 247sports.com/LongFormArticle/College-basketballs-most-disappointing-transfer-portal-hauls-from-2022-cycle-204489942/#204489942_6So much for the instant impact of the Traveling Nickelberrys. Their impact reminds me of Ralph Kiner going to Branch Rickey and demanding a salary increase after hitting 50 HR’s. Branch told him”we came in last with you, we can come in last without you” and traded him. Kevin better hope he leased rather than bought a home.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 9, 2023 10:51:01 GMT -5
I know that you're highlighting this year's records in red in the final section, but it's notable that some of the others on the list also belong to Ewing. Also, I think they said on the broadcast last night that we have a mighty-long road losing streak going on right now. I didn't catch the number and don't recall whether it was BE-only or overall. I think it was 17 going into last night. No road wins in BE since 2021. It is, frankly, unfathomable how badly we suck.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 9, 2023 10:49:03 GMT -5
I think the point of coach98's post, which I agree with, is that there doesn't seem to be an obvious "brand" for the soccer program that is distinguishable from winning. And that's fine! I want the soccer team to keep winning. That's what competitive sports are for. Let's just get back to winning in basketball, too! I think that "winning" is probably the ceiling from a "brand" perspective for most college basketball programs, including the 2020s version of ours. If anything, our "brand" is hurting us right now. The powers that be seem stuck in the 1980s, which is when we had a brand that was meaningful beyond just wins and losses. That stuck-in-the-eighties mindset has to go, but I suspect that part of the reason that people like Jack have clung to it for so long is because they want Hoya Hoops to "mean something." But they're taking it backwards. The plan shouldn't be "it was great that we had this awesome brand and influence back in the 1980s, so sticking with the 1980s playbook should bring us back to prominence (on and off the court)." It should be "let's adopt a competent-for-the-2020s approach, which will lead to on-court success, and if that leads to a meaningful off-court brand, great!" Absolutely. The brand and meaning that Georgetown basketball had in the 1980s was incredibly unique and will never be achieved again, even if we win. It was the perfect combination of personalities, players, and the historical moment. That moment has passed. For all the talk about our 1980s brand, too, it's noteworthy that even that brand would have never existed, or at least not to the extent it did, without winning. Had John Thompson helmed the Georgetown program but never made it to a Final Four, for example, and instead had been a medicore but okay coach, I doubt the brand would have ever become what it was in the 1980s. Winning is the key to anybody's success as a brand or program. There are very, very, few programs that manage to carry forward a successful brand even while they are losing. Take Duke for example - there is nothing inherently special about Duke that made them prominent for years. It's because Coach K (love him or hate him) was a great coach with an amazing record. That's why they became so well known and so notable. If we brought in another coach that could win, have good regular seasons, and make waves in the NCAA tournament, we'd be in much better shape. But, we will never occupy the space we did in the 1980s. That mmoment is in the past, and we need to build a new future that hopefully pays homage to that past while building something new. It does not need to, nor ever should again, pay homage to that past. Respect it; honor it and remember it. However, blind worship is why we are where we are.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 9, 2023 9:49:44 GMT -5
As someone once said “Soccer is the sport of America’s future and always will be”. Sadly at Georgetown, basketball is now the sport of our past and its future is dubious at best.
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