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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2142683, member: 780"]
Georgetown has been down lately. No question. And we have been better.

But there are "Puts and takes" in the comparison between the two. And in my mind, the GU brand and program are roughly equivalent to SU's and the opportunity to do well as an incoming coach isn't drastically better at either school.

If anyone thinks that SU is somehow in a different tier or category as a college basketball program, I'd take general issue with that. We aren't Duke, Kansas or Kentucky and GU isn't Providence or Seton Hall (yet).

Georgetown is still a basketball "name brand" to the average fan. It still garners a lot of media attention. If it didn't we wouldn't be involved in OOC "Home and Home" games with them.

In it's favor, Georgetown is in a major media market, in a location FULL of DI prospects (Maybe the best in the US). There are alot of candidates that are connected to the area (e.g. Mike Brey, Shaka Smart). It's academically superior to SU and it's location in DC offers many more things to see and do, including nearby Howard University which has served as a off-practice hours home for GU BB players for decades. And if you're making a couple of $million a year, your wife is going to prefer DC to Jamesville.  There's many more places here to spend all that money.

I think that if anyone thinks when it comes to shopping for a new coach that we will be looking at a different set of coaches at a different level of accomplishments, I don't buy into that.
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