Patrick Ewing named Georgetown coach

[FFWhite]

Antigua would be a great assistant

 

[Midway Cat]

Being an assistant in the NBA for 15 years and being a top assistant/associate head coach in NBA for years outweighs any college coaching experience. It's not like he has no coaching experience. If he can get some great assistants/recruiters it will do great.

What do I care? I'm just an actual Georgetown graduate who has followed the program closely for 15 years.

 

[anon_013cn8yrfncx2]

Coaching is 70% recruiting. Won't take long to see what he can do!

 

[kev69]

Georgetown is really reaching with this hire.

Was Iverson not available?

 

[kev69]

Coaching is 70% recruiting. Won't take long to see what he can do!

Might be closer to 80%

 

[coolioo1]

Good hire, not an attractive job at all. No facilities, no sports program no real commitment to big time athletics. Ewing at least brings back some history and who knows.

 

[Mike-D]

Bump this thread in 3 years

 

[CatPhight]

Wonder if he learned to read.

 

[MakinMusic]

Seems to be a very strange hire to me. I would be willing to bet he wanted the job more than they wanted him initially.

 

[BBNinSC]

Not a strange hire at all. Ewing has been a great NBA assistant for 15 years. I think he wanted an pro job but got tired of waiting.

I have personal affinity for Patrick Ewing. I remember the 1984 final four game and really disliked Ewing, John Thompson and Georgetown for beating us in the worst performance in a half the Cats have probably ever played. Then, Patrick was drafted by the Knicks who are second only to Kentucky in my sports world. He always gave his best as a Knick and ended his career as the all-time leading scorer for New York. Good luck Patrick Ewing. I'm pulling for you.

 

[spotter34]

I don't follow this logic at all. You want someone with zero coaching experience rather than someone who has been an NBA assistant/assoc. head coach for 15 years? Why do you think Zo would relate better to today's players?

The logic is pretty simple, Mourning, imo, would represent the Georgetown program better than Ewing. As for coaching experience, it's overrated; especially at a program like GU. You play professionally as long as he did at a high level and you know the game well enough to coach. Jason Kidd retired and stepped into a head coaching job in the NBA practically the same day. Coaching success in college centers around recruiting and Zo should be able to do that quiet well. He can hire experienced assistants to teach him the ropes the first few years.

Now you clearly can't take this approach at a school like Kentucky, but at a school like Georgetown? Sure, why not? Ewing's not a bad choice, I've just never been impressed with him in interviews or in speeches I've seen him give. That's not his forte and that is an important part of a college coaches job; promoting your product.

 

[jguynn]

No head coaching experience of any kind.

No college coaching experience of any kind.

No recruiting experience of any kind.

Sure, great hire.

Yea just like the president we have now of the united states no experience at his job

 

[SaguaroCat]

This should make a lot of dmv high school coaches happy. If he can build a base there and pull just one four star from NY or Pa he can have them challenging in the Big East. Someone mentioned Orlando. That would be a great hire, but I think we have first dibs. Slice as well.