Georgetown is the next Duke
October 14, 2007 10:57 am by donaldYes, that’s my thesis.
Over at the G’town blog Van Buren Boys, they break news that Number 1 high school recruit Greg Monroe has verbally committed to Georgetown. The story is that he visited during Midnight madness and, right then and there, gave a verbal commitment to JTIII. He had scheduled visits to Duke, LSU and was also considering UConn, but must have gotten swept up in the weekend’s events.
It still boggles my mind a bit that the number 1 recruit in the nation would want to play in the Princeton offense. Of course, it boggled my mind last year when Austin Freeman and Chris Wright (two McDonalds All-americans last year) signed with the Hoyas. But now it’s all clear to me.
JTIII is transforming Georgetown into the next Duke. It is the next school where you play “the right way” and the media continuously speaks about the upstanding young men. The similarity between the schools is already there — both private, upper middle class universities where basketball is the sport that students follow. And now Georgetown is the Duke of recruiting — besides Greg Monroe, JTIII has also successfully recruited Jason Clark, center Henry Sims and power forward Chris Braswell — all top 100 recruits.
I used to wonder how someone could be a Duke fan — the uppityness and being the perennial favorite because of recruiting…how can it be fun rooting for Goliath? But now, I sort of understand.
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3 Responses to “Georgetown is the next Duke”
yes maybe soon theyll be calling teams the NEXT GEORGETOWN great coach great kids 2008 will be great gohoyas
AMAZING GRACE!!! GO DO IT AGAIN JTIII AND COMPANY!! THEY KNOW I’VE ALWAYS HAD LOVE FOR THEM HOYAS! I WATCH THE 80′s HERE IN D.C., BALTIMORE AREA…WOW, VERY TALENTED TEAM, BUT ARE VERY INTELLIGENT, PRECISE AND EXCITING! fIRST AND FOREMOST THEY ARE BECOMING MEN UNDER THE HELM OF JTIII, LOOK AT JEFF. JEFF LISTENED AND RAN WITH IT (WORK ETHIC) WOW, MAN, DON’T LET ME GO ON AND ON CAUSE I CAN…I WATCHED ALL OF THAT UP UNTIL NOWWWW, MAN MY BOY BIG ROYYYYYYYYYYY!!! GIVE ROY THE BALL AND JUST OPEN EVERYTHING UP FROM THERE…ALL DAY GOOD SMART PASSES INSIDE TO BIG ROYYYY…MIDNIGHT MADNESS WAS A BLAST, JERRY RICE, AND PE JR. TRYING TO TEACH JERRY RICE HOW DO THE “CRANK THAT” SONG, LOL…ROY ROY ROY, ROY ROY ROYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY…EYE OF THE TIGER ON THE GUITAR BEAT! BIG ROYYY HOPPING STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN WITH THE STUDENTS” I THOUGHT THAT WAS GOOD STUDENT SPIRIT AND LEADERSHIP THAT BIG ROY DISPLAYED AS A STUDENT!!!…I’LL TELL YOU WHAT WHEN THOSE FELLAS ACT LIKE SOLDIERS AND GET EACH OTHERS BACK LOOKKKKKKKKKK OUTTTTTTTTTTT MAN…BELIEVE ME, I KNOW…THEM COOKIES WITH THE “G” ON EM WAS CRUCIAL, PUNISHED AT LEAST 3 TO 4 WERE CRUCIAL AT MIDNIGHT MADNESS ! DAJUAN, JONATHAN, JESSIE, PE JR, VERNON, THE ALL AMERICANS CHRIS AND AUSTIN, RIVERS, MEZ, AND CO…
JTIII’s Princeton is unique in that it is modified to play either fast pace or slow pace. See Final Four run for Hoyas and see how they won both the slow down games, and the UNC fast pace game.
Thats why everyone want to play in it. They also see pro teams using the offense.