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This weekend, Georgetown heads to Rhode Island.<\/p>\n
Yeah, so that happened. And to be honest, I\u2019m not analyzing it. After a few weeks of progress, albeit with no results, your Georgetown Hoyas<\/a> put up a dud against Butler and loses by a lot to a little at home. We could go through the motions of trying to grade each player\u2019s performance and what the numbers say, but let\u2019s be honest, you don\u2019t want to read that. I definitely don\u2019t want to write that. <\/p>\n My grade for everything is F – SOFT.<\/strong> <\/p>\n Everyone was soft in that game. Everyone. The players, both offensively and defensively, the coaches, the refs, the fans, Hoya Twitter. All, soft as Charmin. Look, everyone throws up a dud every so often. And yes, what is so frustrating about this team is that the duds far outnumber the good performances for the past three years and counting. I didn\u2019t think with Cooley at the helm, we would go dud-less. I also didn\u2019t necessarily think we\u2019d have as many soft-as-soft-can-be performances this year. That\u2019s been disappointing\u2026for everyone. <\/p>\n But it\u2019s time to forget all that. All of the bickering about this coach vs. that coach, this player vs. that player, foot in bounds until he was pushed vs. foot so clearly out of bounds, and are you serious, Jamie Dixon, you slimy sleaze, you\u2019re seriously going to say THAT\u2026 Sorry.<\/p>\n It\u2019s time for all of that to be thrown out the window or, at the very least, put on hold. We as a program, university, city and global fanbase need to take all of the frustration and negativity and tsuris (look it up) and channel for what I think we can all agree is THE ONLY GAME THAT MATTERS THIS YEAR.<\/p>\n Is that hyperbolic? Yes. But, if ever a program needed something, it is this Georgetown program needing a win at Providence. In lieu of grades for this monstrosity of a game, I have a simple call for unity in delivering Providence the blow it most certainly deserves.<\/p>\n Providence and Georgetown certainly share a connection through Big John. But the Providence\/Georgetown relationships did not only recently sour, thanks to Coach Cooley. Even dating back to 1983, the Friar Faithful have shown us who they are. As reported by the Washington Post<\/a>, \u201cAt Providence\u2026 a fan under one basket raised a sign that read, \u201cEwing Can\u2019t Read,\u201d and Coach John Thompson pulled his Georgetown basketball team off the court until the sign was taken down.\u201d<\/p>\n You\u2019d be forgiven if you hadn\u2019t considered Providence a hated rival. In JT3\u2019s first 10 years at the helm, Georgetown went 8-1 against Providence while averaging a Kenpom rating of 23.7 to Providence\u2019s 79.3. The two never met in the Big East Tournament<\/a>. To put it simply, the programs were not in the same league.<\/p>\n Since then, Georgetown has gone 3-14 against Providence (the schedule changed with the restructuring of the Big East from playing Providence once a year at most to twice a year). In his final three seasons at Georgetown, JT3 went 0-6 against Providence. For some (certainly me), the inability to beat Providence signaled the necessary end of the JT3 era as much as anything because it was, you know\u2026Providence.<\/p>\n Despite Providence\u2019s undeniable dominance over Georgetown recently, the two programs are historically in entirely different weight classes. <\/p>\n Of course, Georgetown has a National Championship. <\/p>\n Georgetown also has 11 Big East regular season and conference tournament titles. That\u2019s more BE titles than Providence has winning seasons (six in 32 years without Ed Cooley, 12 total)!<\/p>\n When the tea leaves indicated Cooley was moving to Georgetown last spring, Friar fans were understandably devastated. Here was Providence\u2019s own, savior of the Friar program, Ed Cooley, giving up a statue-deserving legacy to move to a conference foe, if not rival. Almost all of us on the Georgetown side could feel for that fanbase. They deserved to be upset. <\/p>\n What they did, however, was lose their damn minds\u2026<\/p>\n They argued vociferously that Providence was a better job than Georgetown despite the objective reality clear to everyone but them, it\u2019s not. <\/p>\n They attacked Ed Cooley in basically every way imaginable, impugning more than just his basketball success (Providence\u2019s basketball success) but his personal character.<\/p>\n They have attacked Georgetown fans on social media in some of the most unnecessary, racist, homophobic and heinous ways. <\/p>\n They aligned themselves with Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports before recently excommunicating him because he also chose<\/a> a better engagement than being in Providence for a Friars game.<\/p>\n On top of all this, they have consistently sniped at Georgetown\u2019s basketball team in ways that range from probably fair but mean to ridiculous and over-the-top while willfully ignoring that their team has taken a nosedive in offensive efficiency under their new coach. A coach who, oh, by the way, has, like his predecessor, expressed his admiration and desire for the Georgetown head coaching job. <\/p>\n