someone get JGD a beer (but not too many)

Georgetown Hoyas (17-4)

The Hoyas are possibly the most difficult team to rank in the entire country. You watch the Duke game on Saturday, when the Wright-Freeman-Monroe trio is on fire, and you think they might just be a Final Four team. You watch the South Florida game on Wednesday — a 72-64 loss at home when Georgetown comes in favored by 13! — and you think the Hoyas might only be a .500 team in the Big East. They’re about as bipolar as it gets. While I think Georgetown is capable of playing as well as teams that will make it to Indianapolis, there’s no way I would feel comfortable putting JTIII’s boys there in my bracket. They just haven’t been capable of being the Good Hoyas for four games in a row. Every couple of stellar offensive performances (such as against Pitt and Rutgers last month) is followed by at least one massive dud (such as the 17-point loss at Syracuse).

I sense their own fans are being driven mad by the inconsistency. Jeff Green’s Dad (not the real Jeff Green’s Dad, but a good blogger with that handle) over at Casual Hoya went into ranting mode, even calling out the (many) students who failed make the Hilltop-to-Chinatown trek on Wednesday and left the Verizon Center way too empty: “The reason these games turn into trap games is because not only the players are resting on their laurels, but the fans are as well,” he wrote. “Three of the four classes on Georgetown’s campus lived through last year, know how much it sucked, and still couldn’t show up for one of the last five games they could see in person.”

Ouch.

Next three: 2/6 vs. Villanova, 2/9 at Providence, 2/14 at Rutgers

Not only did we have our fearless lead-blogger looking ahead to Nova, but we also had Luke Winn giving us credit for a victory before we played the game.

Props, JGD.

Why the change from the casual chicken fingers of years past to the horrid ones they offer this year? 2009-2010 chicken fingers are heavily processed and lack any of the crispy ridges found on a proper chicken finger/tender/strip. Diagnosis – awful.

I like that THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON now has a ‘team doctor’ that is offering diagnoses on various things, especially when it comes to food items and concessions.

Keep ‘em comin’.

http://www.collegehoopsjournal.com/2010/02/04/dominique-jones-isnt-creeping-hes-stomping-toward-stealing-player-of-the-year-in-the-big-east/

GLOBAL

All of this talk about the student section really has become overkill. We get it, you’re pissed that there weren’t enough students. What surprises me, though, is how surprised you all are to begin with. I’m currently a student in the college, and while I consider myself a pretty good fan (I’ve been to all of the home games this year except for ODU, for which I was already home for break, and this tragic USF debacle, for which I was sick and bedridden), however there is absolutely no solid fandom on campus.

The vast majority of my peers have a very lukewarm interest in our team. They like when we’re winning and they’ll come to big games, but they don’t really care all that much and they’re quick to disown and forget the team as soon as we’re losing.

On some level, though, I don’t really think it’s entirely the students’ faults. Sure, the self-centered, only-out-for-myself mentality of our largely Northeastern suburbanite student body doesn’t help to foster a great sense of loyalty to our team; but the school doesn’t do a great job of buoying such support either.

The school should make its affiliation and support for the basketball team much more noticeable. HoyaBlue should probably try and change its image from “that weird group of kids cheering with face paint at women’s volleyball games” to one of fan-leadership and school pride (also, their main members probably shouldn’t include R.A. who write sophomores up during the first week of school when they have approximately 5 kids in their apartment). Flyering and hyping should be prevalent before ALL games, not just against duke. And all games should be grey outs.

And most importantly, the school needs to start busing us to the games. I’m sick of listening to you old farts tell us about how “back in [your day], kids used to the walk uphill both ways on shards of glass and HIV infected syringes” to get to the basketball games. It’s a fucking hassle to take both a bus and a train to go watch us play against Rutgers, and Yahweh knows I don’t have enough dough to be paying for DC cabs.

And with that said- Let’s go Hoyas. Beat ‘Nova. Make Reynolds wish he’d gone pro.

how difficult it is to go in a gatorade bottle in the back of a moving schoolbus?

*Probably shouldn’t have drank a dozen beers before boarding.