Quote from: Shaka Shart on January 22, 2026, 08:38:25 PMTien is fun but his let ups are a bit frustrating. Hope he gets a little more comfortable on the attack

For sure. I guess I attribute that to age but it's something to watch

Quote from: JWags85 on January 22, 2026, 08:35:11 PMHe's not all that short, no more than an inch shorter than Alcaraz, but the stats on players under 6' winning majors, even at 5'11 like Tien, is crazy over the last 25 years.  Though Ive seen numerous people say Nadal is barely 6'.  But how fast things changed...Borg, McEnroe, Connors, Agassi were all under 6'

Laver was 5'7.  Now he's probably closer to 5'5. 

Quote from: Warriors4ever on January 22, 2026, 05:37:09 PMAfter my mom died I took  in her cat. Cat had been a stray that someone had rescued. I did not let the cat out but outside found us, one Thanksgiving morning I came home from
church and was sitting on my couch reading while the cat played with a stuffed animal - until it occurred to me that I didn't own a grey stuffed animal.
Squirrel had gotten into the basement ( we surmised through the chimney or something) and they had a royal battle down there, by the looks of it.. until the cat prevailed.... My neighbor kindly came over to assist me, I tried very hard to be an independent woman but was not prepared to deal with disposing of a dead squirrel....

Cats are often fearless.  Mine on the other hand is just an eating machine.   

Quote from: Pakuni on January 22, 2026, 03:36:13 PMMy beagle-lab ended two chipmunks this summer. He was a very good boy.

This is unfortunate.  Although your dog has a set of skills that are pretty rare. 

Thank you for your response. Wow! This is really eye-opening, an autopsy of a school's team's self-inflicted destruction. One thing that I cannot understand...why bother hiring a guy like Cooley at his salary if there is no plan or willingness to turn things around? It seems to me that a coach from a mid-major would have been all that was needed.

Quote from: MU82 on January 22, 2026, 06:28:07 PMOver the last 13 games, Nigel James is averaging 19 ppg, 5 apg and 3 rpg while shooting .462 from 3.

Over those 13 games, the only players (count 'em, four guys) with a PRPG! of > 1.0 all started the season on the bench. SMH.

Quote from: Warriors4ever on January 22, 2026, 05:37:09 PMAfter my mom died I took  in her cat. Cat had been a stray that someone had rescued. I did not let the cat out but outside found us, one Thanksgiving morning I came home from
church and was sitting on my couch reading while the cat played with a stuffed animal - until it occurred to me that I didn't own a grey stuffed animal.
Squirrel had gotten into the basement ( we surmised through the chimney or something) and they had a royal battle down there, by the looks of it.. until the cat prevailed.... My neighbor kindly came over to assist me, I tried very hard to be an independent woman but was not prepared to deal with disposing of a dead squirrel....

My parents lived in a townhouse when I was born across from a park.  Their next door neighbors had a former barn/farm cat named Cleetus.  Cleetus would get let out for a few hours each day, as he still had claws, to indulge his inherent wild streak and then make his way home to lounge and be a friendly house cat.  He was a great cat and really loved my parents for some reason from the moment they moved in and pet him.  So at least once or twice a week, they would open the door to find a mouse or toad or some other small creature that Cleetus had dispatched and happily left on their porch as a gift and token of his adoration. 

Quote from: Scoop Snoop on January 22, 2026, 01:05:29 PMJust a guess, but does DFW stand for Dallas Ft. Worth?
I'm curious as to whether you are in or near DC and attend the games. Not trying to be difficult-just asking.
What is it that Georgetown needs to do IF they want to revitalize the fan base? What are the "structural" issues?

I am a Georgetown alumnus, but grew up and live in Dallas-Ft. Worth. I attend a couple of  football and basketball games a year. If you think basketball games are frustrating, try FCS football.

The structural issues are varied but revolve around three orbits:

Organizational
1. Men's basketball does not report through the Georgetown athletic department and thus is not directly managed by the athletic director. The head coach gets a lot of leverage to do what he wants before there is pushback.

Financial
1. Georgetown's $17 million men's basketball budget is overweight. Georgetown's new president may have other ideas about this in 2026-27.
2. There are no significant ties to the private sector in Washington in the way of corporate promotions and sponsorships and they simply don't support the team as is the case at other schools.
3. Donor giving is way down, and the response was to institute surge pricing. A midcourt seat costs $67 to see DePaul next week,  and as much as $262 for Villanova. Alumni see prices like this and walk away.

Experiential
1. The University does not promote basketball as a priority among its alumni, students, or the local area. Its official social media and web site give it no attention, and away games are not marketed to out of town alumni. How many Georgetown fans do you see gathering at Fiserv every year?

2. The fan experience is as poor as any in the Big East, including Wintrust. Its relationship with Capital One Arena is a challenging one. Georgetown gets no revenue back from parking, from concessions, or suites--it is simply a six-figure rental for four hours, nothing more. Some games have drawn less than 2,000 actual people in the building, but the rent is fixed either way.  However, there are no other facilities in Washington (outside of playing at other schools' arenas such as George Mason or the Univ. of Maryland) which could reasonably host Big East games, short of moving back on campus to a 2,000 seat gym built in 1951, essentially forfeiting revenue for better attended games. Georgetown is 10th of 11 in the Big East in attendance and would be 11th of 11th playing at home, given that the Georgetown campus has fewer than 40 surface parking spaces and relies on two underground garages of roughly 400 cars each. Think of it this way: the Al McGuire Center is roughly twice as large.

3. Georgetown increasingly attracts what I call an "angular" student, as opposed to being "well rounded". They are high-income, high SAT students (1480 to 1580) who are there primarily for internships and well paid job opportunities, and less about community and lifetime memories. If basketball is not a part of their college experience in 2026, they won't suddenly get interested in it at age 30 or 40, they're gone.

Basketball was a big part of my college experience as the sports editor of the campus newspaper and it's a priority all these years today. The fact is that Georgetown has lost probably 15-20 years of graduating classes who have no positive experience, either on their own or through the University itself. That manifests itself in fewer gifts to the University, fewer attendees at reunions, and far fewer people who are worried about a 15 point loss at Villanova. Many students, I would suspect, have no idea what Georgetown's record is this year, and fewer young alumni.

None of these problems are specific to Ed Cooley, and no one hates him. (This seems to be a Providence thing.) If Georgetown brings in another coach but does not address these problems, nothing changes and high level recruits do not want to come to places where nothing changes. That's Temple University football, playing every season before tens of thousands of empty seats at Lincoln Financial Field. Right now, that is where Georgetown University is.

https://brobible.com/sports/article/temple-football-lincoln-financial-field-crowd-fans/

Quote from: MU82 on January 22, 2026, 08:08:43 PMThirty years ago, there was little if any gap in the share of U.S. consumer spending between the richest 20% of Americans and the poorest 80%. But that gap has widening significantly over the decades, and that's not good for a consumer-based economy.

They should get better jobs

Tien is fun but his let ups are a bit frustrating. Hope he gets a little more comfortable on the attack