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Title: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: BLWarrior91 on January 24, 2023, 09:38:26 PM
Georgetown snaps their Big East record 29 game losing streak tonight against DePaul.  They’re hot!

Marquette’s next opponent:  DePaul.  They beat Xavier but lose to Georgetown.  Let’s hope we turn their place into Fiserv South and crush them.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: PointWarrior on January 24, 2023, 09:58:04 PM
But now DePaul is going to be playing with a chip on their shoulder against MU (says the COLE).

Or does this now make Depaul not a double trap game? 
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: mu_hilltopper on January 24, 2023, 10:02:15 PM
I was hoping the 47 fans would have stormed the court after Georgetown's win.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: BLWarrior91 on January 24, 2023, 10:06:38 PM
I was hoping the 47 fans would have stormed the court after Georgetown's win.

There was HUGE crowd of 3,724 on hand in the largest arena in the Big East.  Yet some fool was arguing on Twitter that the Georgetown job is better than the MU job. 
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: MU24 on January 24, 2023, 10:10:30 PM
The ending to that game provided me with brain damage. Yikes.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: Marquette Fan in WI on January 24, 2023, 10:22:33 PM
Ewing hasn’t aged well.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: cheebs09 on January 24, 2023, 10:44:12 PM
Ewing hasn’t aged well.

I’m not sure one can while losing 29 games in a row. He might have one of those Presidential before and after pictures.

Has the sleeping giant in DC awoken? Or has the other sleeping giant awoken due to this loss?
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: DFW HOYA on January 24, 2023, 11:11:50 PM
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Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: TAMU, Knower of Ball on January 24, 2023, 11:31:03 PM
(https://www.hoyasaxa.com/sports/images/attendance_412.jpg)

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I can't claim credit for this but I love it
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: StillAWarrior on January 25, 2023, 05:24:23 AM
Just wait…years from now, hundreds of people will claim that they were at that game.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: Scoop Snoop on January 25, 2023, 07:00:42 AM
There was HUGE crowd of 3,724 on hand in the largest arena in the Big East.  Yet some fool was arguing on Twitter that the Georgetown job is better than the MU job.

When we broke off from the American, that same clown was probably one of the people who said that the new BE should be referred to as "the Georgetown Conference."
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: The Lens on January 25, 2023, 07:22:11 AM
Georgetown is the Dallas Cowboys of college hoops.  Though they may be incredibly incompetent they have a following or a brand so big you can’t even comprehend. 

They warrant mention on ESPN’s ticker for everything they do.  Win or lose, they make news. 

Yes, they are a better job — it’s not a facilities situation, an alignment with the President situation or even a local fan support situation.  It’s the fact it’s a brand, a big old MF’ing brand that the entire country cares about and if they’re rolling, the place will be rocking.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: CTWarrior on January 25, 2023, 07:52:33 AM
Georgetown is the Dallas Cowboys of college hoops.  Though they may be incredibly incompetent they have a following or a brand so big you can’t even comprehend. 

They warrant mention on ESPN’s ticker for everything they do.  Win or lose, they make news. 

Yes, they are a better job — it’s not a facilities situation, an alignment with the President situation or even a local fan support situation.  It’s the fact it’s a brand, a big old MF’ing brand that the entire country cares about and if they’re rolling, the place will be rocking.
Last I checked, people show up for Dallas Cowboy games.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: CTWarrior on January 25, 2023, 07:55:35 AM
Georgetown snaps their Big East record 29 game losing streak tonight against DePaul.  They’re hot!

Marquette’s next opponent:  DePaul.  They beat Xavier but lose to Georgetown.  Let’s hope we turn their place into Fiserv South and crush them.
I am glad for the kids on the team that they got a conference win so they don't have to deal with talking about the streak.

Watching that game, DePaul can give us some trouble at their place, I think.  They can match our quickness and they attack the offensive glass.  We are certainly more skilled, but if they make a few shots, the game could be close at the end.

Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: mugrad_89 on January 25, 2023, 07:59:18 AM
There was HUGE crowd of 3,724 on hand in the largest arena in the Big East.  Yet some fool was arguing on Twitter that the Georgetown job is better than the MU job.

A lot of those 3,700 fans came dressed as empty seats.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: Shooter McGavin on January 25, 2023, 09:37:41 AM
I am glad for the kids on the team that they got a conference win so they don't have to deal with talking about the streak.

Watching that game, DePaul can give us some trouble at their place, I think.  They can match our quickness and they attack the offensive glass.  We are certainly more skilled, but if they make a few shots, the game could be close at the end.

The metrics say DePaul is bad at everything.  Hopefully they are bad at everything on Saturday and it will be a 20 point win. 

Lightning could strike but our team is good enough this year that hopefully it won’t be an issue if they hit a couple shots initially.  I think they come out playing hard with a crowd size they haven’t seen all year at their place but MU will keep punching them in the mouth until their coach looks like Shaheen Holloway in the second half of last Saturday’s game.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: NCMUFan on January 25, 2023, 09:42:19 AM
Best thread in a long time.
Continuous belly busters.
Great work Scoopers! TY!
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: dgies9156 on January 25, 2023, 09:53:03 AM
R-E-L-A-X!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's DePaul.

I know our team and the Winnie don't mix, but I think this year is different. We've yet to lose a game to a team quite like DePaul (though Mississippi State is about as close as we came). What's DePaul have that say UConn didn't?

Coach Shaka has the guys prepared. Plus, as we found in the Notre Dame game, Coach Shaka understands rivalries. We got this one!
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: PointWarrior on January 25, 2023, 10:18:48 AM
R-E-L-A-X!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's DePaul.

I know our team and the Winnie don't mix, but I think this year is different. We've yet to lose a game to a team quite like DePaul (though Mississippi State is about as close as we came). What's DePaul have that say UConn didn't?

Coach Shaka has the guys prepared. Plus, as we found in the Notre Dame game, Coach Shaka understands rivalries. We got this one!


We've yet to lose a game to a team quite like DePaul (though Mississippi State is about as close as we came)

... and Wisconsin
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: MUfan12 on January 25, 2023, 10:29:23 AM
If DePaul goes nuts from three I can see an upset. But I saw a ton of iso from them last night that MU should be able to deal with.

They've averaged 3,400 per game this year and it's sold out. Hopefully that means a huge MU contingent.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: Dr. Blackheart on January 25, 2023, 11:23:14 AM
If DePaul goes nuts from three I can see an upset. But I saw a ton of iso from them last night that MU should be able to deal with.

They've averaged 3,400 per game this year and it's sold out. Hopefully that means a huge MU contingent.

Like the old days at the Horizon.  Busses from MKE.  This is National DePaul Day so it will be more balanced. Will the Ringmaster be brought back to MC?
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: DFW HOYA on January 25, 2023, 12:02:33 PM
Georgetown is the Dallas Cowboys of college hoops.  Though they may be incredibly incompetent they have a following or a brand so big you can’t even comprehend. 

Yes, they are a better job — it’s not a facilities situation, an alignment with the President situation or even a local fan support situation.  It’s the fact it’s a brand, a big old MF’ing brand that the entire country cares about and if they’re rolling, the place will be rocking.

The Dallas Cowboys average 93,465 a game, 1st in the NFL. Georgetown hasn't sold out a game in 10 years. They've eviscerated the fan base.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: JakeBarnes on January 25, 2023, 12:07:51 PM
Like the old days at the Horizon.  Busses from MKE.  This is National DePaul Day so it will be more balanced. Will the Ringmaster be brought back to MC?

There were lots of tickets available when I bought a few weeks ago. Hope it isn't even close to being balanced, and is highly skewed in our favor.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: MU82 on January 25, 2023, 12:11:07 PM
If Georgetown won't pay a coach as much, won't pay assistants as much and won't invest as much capital into the program as a whole, it's not as good a coaching job as Marquette -- and many other places. No matter how good a "brand" it allegedly still is or how often ESPN shows their scores.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: BLWarrior91 on January 25, 2023, 12:57:40 PM
Georgetown is the Dallas Cowboys of college hoops.  Though they may be incredibly incompetent they have a following or a brand so big you can’t even comprehend. 

They warrant mention on ESPN’s ticker for everything they do.  Win or lose, they make news. 

Yes, they are a better job — it’s not a facilities situation, an alignment with the President situation or even a local fan support situation.  It’s the fact it’s a brand, a big old MF’ing brand that the entire country cares about and if they’re rolling, the place will be rocking.

I completely disagree.  Even at the lowest point of the Dukiet era, MU was drawing over 10k a game to the MECCA and then 13k to the Bradley Center.  Georgetown is pulling in less than 5k per game.  That looks like apathy has set in.  That’s the worst thing that can happen to a once great program.  One would think it can be rebuilt; great school, basketball tradition, a huge NBA arena, etc.  Ewing definitely wasn’t the answer.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: barfolomew on January 25, 2023, 01:05:35 PM
I know our team and the Winnie don't mix, but I think this year is different.

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Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: The Lens on January 25, 2023, 01:11:11 PM
Georgetown is still a brand.  Honestly they and UConn (and maybe Villanova) are the only teams from the NBE that ESPN covers.  Their run through the BET in 2021 was probably the most coverage the BET has gotten since the new conference was formed. 

If DePaul had lost the same number of games or won the BET no one would have noticed, certainly not SportsCenter but for some reason Georgetown resonates. 
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: DFW HOYA on January 25, 2023, 01:14:14 PM
Georgetown is still a brand.  Honestly they and UConn (and maybe Villanova) are the only teams from the NBE that ESPN covers.  Their run through the BET in 2021 was probably the most coverage the BET has gotten since the new conference was formed. 

If this continues for the next 5-10 years I can see a scenario where the Big East will show Georgetown the door. Remember, this is a team which hasn't sold out a home game in 10 years, and is losing season ticket holders across the board .
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: tower912 on January 25, 2023, 01:15:05 PM
Have relegation, like the EPL.   
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: Shooter McGavin on January 25, 2023, 01:19:34 PM
Georgetown is still a brand.  Honestly they and UConn (and maybe Villanova) are the only teams from the NBE that ESPN covers.  Their run through the BET in 2021 was probably the most coverage the BET has gotten since the new conference was formed. 

If DePaul had lost the same number of games or won the BET no one would have noticed, certainly not SportsCenter but for some reason Georgetown resonates.

I agree Lens.  They still have a national brand.  I think there is an expiration date on that but it hasn’t arrived yet.  Locally (DC) their brand is failing more than nationally as evidenced by no fans in the stadium.

Both will come back in a heartbeat with a good/great coach and a few wins.  But another tens years of failure, and that will go by quickly, and their national brand will suffer greatly. 
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: ZiggysFryBoy on January 25, 2023, 01:31:50 PM
Have relegation, like the EPL.

To where?  The A10?  Does Dayton get the yo-yo pro/reg role?
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: bilsu on January 25, 2023, 01:46:49 PM

We've yet to lose a game to a team quite like DePaul (though Mississippi State is about as close as we came)

... and Wisconsin
Wisconsin and Mississippi St. were very good teams when we played them. They have not progressed as the season went on.
In the same time period UConn was a great team, but they also failed to progress as the season went on.

i know most of you do not agree with me, but I still believe winning in November should not get you an NCAA bid when you falter down the stretch.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: dgies9156 on January 25, 2023, 01:47:38 PM

We've yet to lose a game to a team quite like DePaul (though Mississippi State is about as close as we came)

... and Wisconsin

Wisconsin is still 12-6 and 4-4 in the BIG.

State is sinking rapidly. The Rodents still have a shot at the NCAA.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on January 25, 2023, 01:49:17 PM
Wisconsin and Mississippi St. were very good teams when we played them. They have not progressed as the season went on.
In the same time period UConn was a great team, but they also failed to progress as the season went on.

i know most of you do not agree with me, but I still believe winning in November should not get you an NCAA bid when you falter down the stretch.


Games in February should count no different than games in November. 
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: The Lens on January 25, 2023, 01:58:38 PM
To where?  The A10?  Does Dayton get the yo-yo pro/reg role?

These are easy...

Big East ----> A 10
Big Ten ----> MAC
Pac-12 ----> WCC

Not so easy...

ACC ----> Big South?
SEC ----> SoCon?
Big 12 ---> CONFUSA?
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: mugrad_89 on January 25, 2023, 02:15:16 PM
Wisconsin and Mississippi St. were very good teams when we played them. They have not progressed as the season went on.
In the same time period UConn was a great team, but they also failed to progress as the season went on.

i know most of you do not agree with me, but I still believe winning in November should not get you an NCAA bid when you falter down the stretch.

Wisconsin was not very good when we played them and still aren’t.  If we played them 10 times, we’d win at least 8 of them.  But we got them on a day when, as Brewcity77 pointed out on a different thread, Chucky Hepburn was pulling and making shots out of his ass.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: 79Warrior on January 25, 2023, 02:19:34 PM
Georgetown is the Dallas Cowboys of college hoops.  Though they may be incredibly incompetent they have a following or a brand so big you can’t even comprehend. 

They warrant mention on ESPN’s ticker for everything they do.  Win or lose, they make news. 

Yes, they are a better job — it’s not a facilities situation, an alignment with the President situation or even a local fan support situation.  It’s the fact it’s a brand, a big old MF’ing brand that the entire country cares about and if they’re rolling, the place will be rocking.

Agree with you about Georgetown. The right coach will get that place going again. Tremendous history as well as a very highly regarded academic institution. They need the right guy.

The Cowboys analogy does not hold water though.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: StillAWarrior on January 25, 2023, 02:20:49 PM
I completely disagree.  Even at the lowest point of the Dukiet era, MU was drawing over 10k a game to the MECCA and the. 13k to the Bradley Center.  Georgetown is pulling in less than 5k per game.  That looks like apathy has set in.  That’s the worst thing that can happen to a once great program.  One would think it can be rebuilt; great school, basketball tradition, a huge NBA arena, etc.  Ewing definitely wasn’t the answer.

It could also be anger. Fans may be pissed so they're not going to games. Georgetown certainly should hope this is the case because I think it's easier to recapture angry fans than apathetic fans. That said, my daughter didn't go to many games when she was there -- and that was probably apathy. If they can get the pissed off season ticket holders back, the students may follow.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: TSmith34, Inc. on January 25, 2023, 02:25:52 PM
If this continues for the next 5-10 years I can see a scenario where the Big East will show Georgetown the door. Remember, this is a team which hasn't sold out a home game in 10 years, and is losing season ticket holders across the board .
Highly unlikely IMO. GTown has a long ways to go to match DePaul's longevity of futility, and even if they were able to achieve those depths, the Hoyas woudl be given a lot more leeway for the brand reasons discussed here.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: StillAWarrior on January 25, 2023, 02:42:47 PM
If Georgetown won't pay a coach as much, won't pay assistants as much and won't invest as much capital into the program as a whole, it's not as good a coaching job as Marquette -- and many other places. No matter how good a "brand" it allegedly still is or how often ESPN shows their scores.

What are you basing this on? I've seen reports (https://hilltophoops.substack.com/p/patrick-ewing-contract-extension-details#:~:text=Ewing%20is%20set%20to%20make,23%20season%2C%20will%20remain%20unchanged.) are that Georgetown pays Ewing nearly $4 million per year. Georgetown's basketball budget is reported (https://www.gobankingrates.com/net-worth/sports/these-25-colleges-spend-the-most-on-mens-basketball/) to be more than $13.5 million (i.e., 12th highest in the country and third in the Big East behind Marquette and Villanova). Not long ago, Georgetown spent $62 million on the Thompson center -- a beautiful new athletics facility that houses the basketball program (and other athletics). They play in an NBA arena, albeit an inconveniently located one.

In short, despite many issues with the Georgetown athletics department (some of which I know first-hand), the school has demonstrated a willingness to spend money on its basketball program. If your argument is that Georgetown isn't a good coaching job because they don't spend money...you're off base. I have no doubt that some of the luster has been lost, but I'm pretty sure that Georgetown is still an attractive job and they could hire someone pretty good. Whether they will or not is an entirely different question because they're incompetent.

That said, it's not as good of a job as Marquette -- even if GU arguably has a better "brand".
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: Galway Eagle on January 25, 2023, 03:04:13 PM
Georgetown is still a brand.  Honestly they and UConn (and maybe Villanova) are the only teams from the NBE that ESPN covers.  Their run through the BET in 2021 was probably the most coverage the BET has gotten since the new conference was formed. 

If DePaul had lost the same number of games or won the BET no one would have noticed, certainly not SportsCenter but for some reason Georgetown resonates.

Never underestimate the power of WGN, it got a crap ton of the country rooting for the cubs.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: Newsdreams on January 25, 2023, 04:33:11 PM
R-E-L-A-X!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's DePaul.

I know our team and the Winnie don't mix, but I think this year is different. We've yet to lose a game to a team quite like DePaul (though Mississippi State is about as close as we came). What's DePaul have that say UConn didn't?

Coach Shaka has the guys prepared. Plus, as we found in the Notre Dame game, Coach Shaka understands rivalries. We got this one!
Good thing you're not going
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: MU82 on January 25, 2023, 06:16:22 PM
What are you basing this on? I've seen reports (https://hilltophoops.substack.com/p/patrick-ewing-contract-extension-details#:~:text=Ewing%20is%20set%20to%20make,23%20season%2C%20will%20remain%20unchanged.) are that Georgetown pays Ewing nearly $4 million per year. Georgetown's basketball budget is reported (https://www.gobankingrates.com/net-worth/sports/these-25-colleges-spend-the-most-on-mens-basketball/) to be more than $13.5 million (i.e., 12th highest in the country and third in the Big East behind Marquette and Villanova). Not long ago, Georgetown spent $62 million on the Thompson center -- a beautiful new athletics facility that houses the basketball program (and other athletics). They play in an NBA arena, albeit an inconveniently located one.

In short, despite many issues with the Georgetown athletics department (some of which I know first-hand), the school has demonstrated a willingness to spend money on its basketball program. If your argument is that Georgetown isn't a good coaching job because they don't spend money...you're off base. I have no doubt that some of the luster has been lost, but I'm pretty sure that Georgetown is still an attractive job and they could hire someone pretty good. Whether they will or not is an entirely different question because they're incompetent.

That said, it's not as good of a job as Marquette -- even if GU arguably has a better "brand".

Thanks for providing those numbers. Obviously, I didn't realize they had put that much scratch into the program. I appreciate it.
Title: Re: Look out for Georgetown!
Post by: We R Final Four on January 27, 2023, 07:59:32 PM
The metrics say DePaul is bad at everything.  Hopefully they are bad at everything on Saturday and it will be a 20 point win. 

Lightning could strike but our team is good enough this year that hopefully it won’t be an issue if they hit a couple shots initially.  I think they come out playing hard with a crowd size they haven’t seen all year at their place but MU will keep punching them in the mouth until their coach looks like Shaheen Holloway in the second half of last Saturday’s game.
Great take Shooter….i think this is dead on.