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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2147886, member: 780"]
Makes sense.

No one can be sure if this is true, but if it is, here's how things probably played out:

Just like everyplace, the list of candidates the search committee started with was based upon their own assessment of how great an opportunity this was, how great the school was, and how great the tradition was. They couldn't see the inherent problems that candidates could see.

But then they hit reality. Their dream candidates weren't interested. I think, in part, because any coach coming in had the specter of Big John sitting there in his office in the JT Jr Athletic Center with access to the University president and the DC press.

Ewing is a candidate that Big John would support. Ewing is 100% inside the GU "family" and 100% under the control of Big John.

The Tagliabue search effort pretty clearly lost steam when they were continually rebuffed. So faced with a bunch of weaker candidates, they took the path of least resistance.

This is a re-affirmation of the JT Jr years and not a a further rebuff. This is helps soothe the sting of having his son fired.

So GU will have --- if Ewing is named --- someone who has never been even considered for any head coaching job previously.

This isn't the Georgetown University basketball program. This is, and always has been, the John Thompson, Jr. basketball program. He's operating it like a franchise on the GU campus.
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