A Rivalry Halted

I bet if you ask any Hoya who came to Georgetown during the JT3 era, the answer is no one cares.

3 Reasons:
- “Georgetown Bubble”: A cross-metro rivalry doesn’t appeal to most of the student body, who are mainly non-DC residents. More often than not, the two most detested games for the student body are Syracuse (obvious) Villanova (because everyone has friends who go there). A vast majority of the students don’t have a tie to UMCP or friends who go there. So there’s no one at Georgetown, except for program die-hards who know their history, really upset about the lack of a GU-UMCP game.
- Program perception: Most students, when asked for the reason as to why there is no game between GU and UMCP are inevitably pointed back to the USAir debacle. The main takeaway for GU fans is “Gary Williams and UMCP were classless and were petulant about what counts as a home game”. Anderson’s approach here just reinforces the “classless reputation” (whether deserved or not) that Georgetown has of UMCP. Further, you don’t punch down to a petulant irritant, which leads me to my last point…
- Quality begets quality: The last game we had against you was a thrashing. No one left the Old Spice Classic thinking “man, we should play Maryland more often; what a close, awesome game!”

Would it be a fun game? Maybe. Do I have a list of about 15 non-conference foes I would rather play than UMCP? Absolutely, with Kansas topping it (I remember in ‘08 there was talk of that game occurring, which would have been awesome).
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As far as Boeheim is concerned, don’t play him in the state of New York. Otherwise, officials will forget basic rules (ask Bob Huggins) or pull out ridiculously obscure ones (ask Hollis Thompson). Though, he’ll inevitably get sick of being the team in the north that no one in the Carolina league respects and leave Syracuse sooner rather than later, so you won’t have to deal with him that much.

until we play them in men’s basketball. Then, we play eachother in EVERY sport.

He knows we’re not in their conference right?

And it’s Georgetown’s problem to fix UMD’s financial problems. UMD Kick Rocks!!!

Playing UMD does not hurt or help us which means you are not relevant to us

but having grown up with the Texas-OU and Texas-Texas A&M rivalries, I am pretty sure that to have a real rivalry both teams/fan bases have to despise each other.

And we are really just indifferent to UMCP. It’s like Coastal Carolina pitching a fit that Duke won’t play them annually. Or CCNY or Manhattan bitching at Syracuse.