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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2093720, member: 780"] "Why does John Thompson, Jr have so much influence at Georgetown?" I'm not sure I have the writing skill and time and energy to explain it to you. Let me start with a few facts to build up your understanding. First, JT Jr is a Black man and D.C. Is a majority's Black city. And Georgetown is run by Jesuit priests who over-think everything and are full of Liberal guilt. They have always seen the basketball program as a bridge to the citizens of D.C. And they never peeped when JT Jr converted the program into a sort on National Black college program. Gangs and thugs across the country adapted Hoya colors and jackets and menacing expressions to the discomfort of older GU alumni. (People in other parts of the country were actually surprised when they discovered that Georgetown wasn't a Historically Black College based on what they saw on TV. Secondly, the rise of Georgetown as a University occurred at the same time as the rise of the basketball program. And nobody is sure just how closely these things are related. Georgetown was just another Jesuit college in the 1970's. Now it and Notre Dame are at the top of the Catholic school heap. (In the 1970's, all you had to do was graduate from Gonzaga High School and you automatically gained admission to Georgetown. So the school thinks they owe at least part of this miraculous rise to the basketball program and they will never want to appear ungrateful. Thirdly, Big John is a ruthless, powerful SOB that many people in DC listen to. And nobody has ever wanted to take him on. Especially not the people at GU or the Liberal toadies at the Washington Post. Or on any of the D.C. Talk radio shows. Nobody said a word when John was bringing in thugs like Michael Graham or wh en the Hoyas were routinely turning Big East games into fist fights. They were petrified of JT and what he might say r the names he might call them. John Thompson III will Be fired when Big John approves of it and not before. [/QUOTE]

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