Free Quebec wrote:

GWRising wrote:

Free Quebec wrote:

Dear GW Administration,

If you want to restore faith and hope in GW basketball, please don’t hire a coach with a career .450 winning percentage as a head coach. He may be one of the best college basketball players or all time, but so is Patrick Ewing and look how well that is working out.

Never ever underestimate GW's apparent need to win the press conference after so much bad publicity.

How do you win a press conference by hiring a losing coach who no one will be excited about?

That's the point. They think name recognition equals big positive spin when in reality you are correct. 

porter71 wrote:

Also a stupid question re Mike Pegues.  If we were looking at him, wouldn't we also want to look at Chris Mack?  Would we completely be out of the running for him?  Am I over-selling our program a little bit?  There are a lot of quality coaches out there, both former P5 coaches (C. Martin, Wojo, Mack, Howland) and solid up and coming coaches from lower majors (Becker, Holloway, Langel), and it doesn't appear we are looking at any of them.

 None of those P5 guys would likely give GW a sniff because of the historical level of investment and dysfunction. You want guys like that to be interested you need to fix the structural issues first.

GWRising wrote:

 Never ever underestimate GW's apparent need to win the press conference after so much bad publicity.

LOL, from phone cards and toilet plungers through to Omar Williams and a vindictive sex predator AD, I have never experienced that.
 

Not sure if it means anything but Mike Pegues started following Brayon Freeman on Twitter.

But for all we know Pegues is about to be hired as an assistant at Maryland and is recruiting Brayon to go there.

Last edited by GW0509 (3/22/2022 1:32 pm)

That could mean a lot, unless Pegues is following Brayon for another position.

A Maryland writer says it could down to Pegues or Caputo

Sounds like the George Washington job could come down to Mike Pegues or Miami assistant Chris Caputo, who's been with Larranaga for 20 years. Delaware coach Martin Ingelsby also in the mix

https://twitter.com/Jeff_Ermann/status/1506345455373934601?s=20&t=EesjokUJ86nN3fL7Im0hPw

Interesting, still think Caputo is at the top of the list given that some people in GW’s admin are Miami connected.  

GWRising wrote:

At this point we should all repeat the following everyday ...

"It is easier for GW to sell hope to their donors and fan base than to spend money while digging in and working with what they have to develop a winning program. As we have seen they wind up in the same spot in a few years only to do the same thing all over again. The donors and fan base just don't realize they are being played."

What do you suggest to fix this?
 

squid wrote:

GWRising wrote:

At this point we should all repeat the following everyday ...

"It is easier for GW to sell hope to their donors and fan base than to spend money while digging in and working with what they have to develop a winning program. As we have seen they wind up in the same spot in a few years only to do the same thing all over again. The donors and fan base just don't realize they are being played."

What do you suggest to fix this?
 

 Simple ... 5-point plan

1. Charter flights so student athletes can return to class quickly and miss less class.(like the rest of the A-10)
2. Academic standards commensurate with the rest of the A-10 (like we used to have)
3. More money for assistants (salaries are below market for other A-10 schools)
4. Practice Facility - start construction ASAP
5. Revamping of Sports Information - when was the last time you saw GW regularly covered in local media? Lack of exposure hurts the program significantly both in terms of attendance and visibility with recruits.

Now this won't be cheap. Charter flights are $35,000 or more a pop. The practice facility will be millions. You need proabaly another $250,000 annually for assistants. 

Last edited by GWRising (3/22/2022 3:41 pm)

GWRising wrote:

squid wrote:

GWRising wrote:

At this point we should all repeat the following everyday ...

"It is easier for GW to sell hope to their donors and fan base than to spend money while digging in and working with what they have to develop a winning program. As we have seen they wind up in the same spot in a few years only to do the same thing all over again. The donors and fan base just don't realize they are being played."

What do you suggest to fix this?
 

 Simple ... 5-point plan

1. Charter flights so student athletes can return to class quickly and miss less class.(like the rest of the A-10)
2. Academic standards commensurate with the rest of the A-10 (like we used to have)
3. More money for assistants (salaries are below market for other A-10 schools)
4. Practice Facility - start construction ASAP
5. Revamping of Sports Information - when was the last time you saw GW regularly covered in local media? Lack of exposure hurts the program significantly both in terms of attendance and visibility with recruits.

Now this won't be cheap. Charter flights are $35,000 or more a pop. The practice facility will be millions. You need proabaly another $250,000 annually for assistants. 

Sounds great. All for it. Although, let's not get carried away with your academic standards point. There is evidence that academic standards weren't all that high in recent years.