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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2103916, member: 2932"]
Yea, how will Georgetown ever have a white basketball coach?  It's been exactly one coach since the last time they did that.  I'm not sure where your desire to make this a racial issue comes from, but it's not a good look.

And this Ivy League stuff is also overstated.  Duke, Notre Dame, Stanford - all compete at a high level athletically while maintaining very high academic standards for their non-basketball student body.  Same for UVa, Berkley, UT, etc., though I would agree the state schools face a different dynamic.

This also ignores that JT3 was able to bring in big-time talent to Georgetown - Greg Monroe was arguably the top recruit in the country, coming in a year after Thompson brought in two McD A-As in Chris Wright and Austin Freeman.  Even two years ago, the Copeland, White, Peak class was an excellent one on paper.

Look, Georgetown is in a tough spot, as I've said before.  But they aren't going to voluntarily downgrade to a Patriot League/Ivy League program.  That's not one of the options.  They have to deal with the constraints they have, just as every other program does.

In general, I think people vastly overreact to short-term results in college basketball.  If Syracuse had missed the tournament last year (which easily could have happened), the clamor to push Boeheim out this January would have been extremely loud.  Ten years ago, there was a widespread view in the Syracuse fanbase that Boeheim was done, and questions whether Syracuse was being passed for good by Georgetown.  Then Syracuse ripped off the best 5-year stretch in its history.  College basketball is 80% talent, and that talent is mostly about recruiting but also in a very significant part about luck.  Teams can turn around incredibly quick.
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