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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2097298, member: 2932"]
I think your first point was clearly true before this year.  I'm really not sure it's true any more.

I'm not sure there's an answer to your alumni question.  I think the administration rightfully wants to avoid forcing anyone to choose between Thompsons and the school.  I am not sure there's a ton of allegiance to either from the more recent NBA stars, save Hibbert (who probably isn't a star now).  And ultimately, I'm not sure Patrick Ewing or Alonzo Morning will make the decision.

All of this is not to say this is anything other than a perhaps impossible situation for the administration.  But the school, particularly if the pattern continues next year (and it probably will given what the roster looks like), will be facing an empty Verizon Center, a rapidly deteriorating asset (as you've rightly pointed out, Georgetown's basketball success has been a very valuable sales tool), and a not insignificant number of very angry donors.  I think a face-saving resignation or "promotion" for JTIII under those circumstances is, at a minimum, plausible.
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