Bizarre. If he did  look at GU would he demand to restore the annual GW/GU game? I don't think he would entertain keeping the anti GW stance created by Thompson.

Has hiring any former star player ever worked out well?

Mullin.  Ewing.   Rough years for Juwan Howard and Hubert Davis (after good NCAA tourney runs)  Danny Manning.    Duke went with Scheyer, Syracuse seems to be going Autry.   

Not sure why this trend seems to be gaining steam, can't think of any examples of big success, I guess Penny has sort of worked out?

 

Gwmayhem wrote:

The Dude wrote:

Has hiring any former star player ever worked out well?

Mullin.  Ewing.   Rough years for Juwan Howard and Hubert Davis (after good NCAA tourney runs)  Danny Manning.    Duke went with Scheyer, Syracuse seems to be going Autry.   

Not sure why this trend seems to be gaining steam, can't think of any examples of big success, I guess Penny has sort of worked out?

 

4 seasons for Juwan at Michigan.  A regular season Big 10 Championship.  An Elite 8 appearance along with a year end national ranking of 4th.  Another Sweet 16 appearance.  

2 seasons for Hubert Davis at UNC.  All he did was coach in the national championship game.

Not working out?  Now you're just trying to sound like a moron, right?
 

Penny has sort of worked out but not Juwan or Hubert? Very interesting take Dude even for you.

Yes. Ewing is gone.

Remember when people thought JTIII was a terrible Coach???  Here's his NCAA Seed history:
  
2006-15:  7 2 2 3 6 3 2 4   Final 4, an Elite 8, 8 NCAA Trips.

Look where things ended up with Ewing.  That decision looks very short sighted, as it did at the time.

Can anyone but a John Thompson win big there? IDK what to make of it as a program.   

The rest of their history is one Eshrick Trip, one miracle Ewing trip, and one appearance at the height of WWII
that's it.  3 NCAAs without one of the JTs.    28 with them. Good program or Good program under one father and one son?  

Mark Fox is out at California.  A good program under Braun and Montgomery 8 Trips 2001-13
3-28 this year.   





 

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Mike Brennan out at American.

Free Quebec wrote:

Mike Brennan out at American.

I saw the JC to Georgetown thread which would I agree would be hilarious but American could be a decent job for him. I remain convinced he would be a good P5 assistant but I get the feeling he might want another head coaching job

Rick Pitino is a name that came up on Georgetown's board, even before Ewing got canned earlier today. He's about 70 right now, so it would be his final chance for BCS/Final 4/National Championship glory that he enjoyed for most of his coaching career. 

I agree with Joel Joseph, the Big East conference, Georgetown's history/name brand (Allen Iverson, Alonzo Mourning, Motumbo etc.) and the tremendous amount of high school talent in the D.C.area makes their coaching job desirable regardless of how far they've sunk. All it would it take is for the next coach to get two classes of Judah Mintz-Dug McDaniel-Hunter Dickinson-Jeremy Roach-Cam Whitmore-Deshawn Harris-Smith type of local players and Georgetown would be back to contending for Big East titles. The right coach should be able to land a number of these players. Someone like Pitino would definitely be able to sign a large number of the 5-star local players whether by hook or by crook! LOL

Thomas wrote:

Rick Pitino is a name that came up on Georgetown's board, even before Ewing got canned earlier today. He's about 70 right now, so it would be his final chance for BCS/Final 4/National Championship glory that he enjoyed for most of his coaching career. 

I agree with Joel Joseph, the Big East conference, Georgetown's history/name brand (Allen Iverson, Alonzo Mourning, Motumbo etc.) and the tremendous amount of high school talent in the D.C.area makes their coaching job desirable regardless of how far they've sunk. All it would it take is for the next coach to get two classes of Judah Mintz-Dug McDaniel-Hunter Dickinson-Jeremy Roach-Cam Whitmore-Deshawn Harris-Smith type of local players and Georgetown would be back to contending for Big East titles. The right coach should be able to land a number of these players. Someone like Pitino would definitely be able to sign a large number of the 5-star local players whether by hook or by crook! LOL

I'm not convinced that Gtown won't hire another JTJR slappy. They still have the same president and AD who hired Ewing. I can see them hiring Ron. He's on the payroll already, is JTJR spawn, and has head coaching experience.

Gtown loves nothing more than cutting off its nose to spite its face and having to hire outside of the JTJR family tree to fill it's men's bball head coaching position will be the worst punsihment ever. It's kind of like that classic Matt Bors cartoon. Except instead MAGA/Nazism, it's Hoya Paranoia.

 

The Dude wrote:

Alum '04 wrote:

The Dude wrote:

So there goes the first chip, as Boeheim is forced out (he made it quite clear the school is forcing him out he's not "retiring" just like with Mike Brey.)

After nearly 50 and 20+ years both guys deserved better, but it is a results business and "what did you do for me today" world


 

Boeheim deserved better? How so? Dude is the biggest a55hole in sports. Paid players. Killed someone and had it covered up. Belittles SU student reporters. One of college basketball's biggest whiners. Thank God SU finally grew some spine and fired him.
 

Irrelevant of what kind of guy he is, I meant that one of the sport's most successful Coaches, 47 years at the same  school  (60 years total)  shoudn't be swept out the door like that.    


 

SU has been terrible for years. He's lucky he didn't get fired sooner.