OT: Georgetown Practice Facility
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I give them credit for trying, but they will never be a national power again. They can have some good teams when they have the right coach and be a good program (they are not that right now) like a John Chaney Temple or Memphis or Xavier. Nothing wrong with that. But they'll never be one of the big boys again.
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Well, except the whole Georgetown part of it...
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I agree, I can't see them being a power like Villanova again.
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The GU athletic facilities by any measure are pretty bad.
Building this seems to me to be fear-driven. They sense the BB program, which hasn't had a lot of success lately --- might be slipping down in National relevance. So this is part of an effort to regain some visibility and momentum.
I think this will be a losing effort. The smart, but geeky, student body doesn't really care about basketball or any other sport. A large proportion of the older alumni have always felt the JT Jr hi-jacked the GU BB program to make it into something else. And the locals just don't care about GU basketball as the half-empty Verizon Center clearly demonstrates.
Why SU continues to throw them a life-line mystifies me. Except that it's an event that will sell a lot of ticket and draw eyes to the TV for those that haven't figured out that this is not a very important game for SU to schedule.
Building this seems to me to be fear-driven. They sense the BB program, which hasn't had a lot of success lately --- might be slipping down in National relevance. So this is part of an effort to regain some visibility and momentum.
I think this will be a losing effort. The smart, but geeky, student body doesn't really care about basketball or any other sport. A large proportion of the older alumni have always felt the JT Jr hi-jacked the GU BB program to make it into something else. And the locals just don't care about GU basketball as the half-empty Verizon Center clearly demonstrates.
Why SU continues to throw them a life-line mystifies me. Except that it's an event that will sell a lot of ticket and draw eyes to the TV for those that haven't figured out that this is not a very important game for SU to schedule.
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One of the more expensive features was the "Charles Smith Driving Academy."
