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Message: [QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2150314, member: 2932"] Right, just two months ago Townie was insisting, based on exactly the same evidence he's now citing, that Georgetown would never fire JT3. Somewhere, in a post I'm too lazy to dig up, I suggested he reconsider his confidence in his own omniscience if that proved incorrect. That does not seem to have happened. Thompson obviously has some very real power at Georgetown, just as JB does at Syracuse. In both cases, this imposes a significant constraint on the school. There's no need to make this any more complicated than that. Thompson was pushed out of his head coaching job, and the school just fired his son. We shouldn't overstate his occult powers here. On balance, I think the right take here is that Ewing is a perfectly fine hire. If you actually took out his name, and you had a 15-year highly regarded NBA assistant who has been a finalist for an NBA head coaching job, that would look like a perfectly decent hire for Georgetown, maybe even a somewhat out-of-the-box and compelling one. I'm not sure the other realistic options were any better - there was a list of people who were never going to leave their existing job (Brey, Shaka, Chris Mack), a retread who Georgetown doesn't seem to have actually had any interest in (Crean), and then a handful of mostly unproven mid- and low-major coaches (of which Hurley was probably the most compelling). Now, if Georgetown had moved faster and been in a position to make a run at a Kevin Keatts, or even an Archie Miller, that may have been a somewhat different analysis. That was really where the failure was at, and that probably is attributable in part to the sensitivities surrounding the Thompsons. But again, this is not that different than the Boeheim related sensitivities that continue to complicate succession planning at SU. It's hard to deal with a living legend. [/QUOTE]

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