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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2423543, member: 780"]
I agree this is a good game for local SU fans. But there are local SU fans in Philly and NYC and Boston and even places like Chicago.

Georgetown is in a bind on fan support. Many of their older alumni don't support the BB program. They didn't like Thompson or the Thompson era team vibes. The younger alumni are from somewhere else and went back there after graduation. Even the once large GU base in the AA community seems to have waned.

And the team has never captured the interest of the local fans. Even with the support of the broadcast media and the Washington Post, who would commit hari-kari before saying anything negative about the GU program.

But as JB seemed to reflect, the Pearl and Andre Hawkins vs. Ewing and Graham era isn't ever coming back. This game versus those old Big East game was like "a fire cracker vs. a bomb".

When a died-in-the-wool, decades-long Hoya hater like me starts viewing this as just another game you know things have changed.

When I first moved to DC in the early 1980's, some of my neighbors, who were GU grads and casual fans, suggested we all go together as a group to watch the GU v. SU game. "Oh, sure, " said, knowing that this was never going to happen.

I had a mental picture of their reaction to me yelling at JT Jr, calling him a C.S.-er.

It wouldn't have been pretty.
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