Rhody15 wrote: ↑5 months ago
Blue Man wrote: ↑5 months ago
Jdrums#3 wrote: ↑5 months ago
While visiting the GU board looking for news on KJ’s hire, I checked out their other topics and read some posts on NIL strategy.
One self proclaimed inside poster said Cooley - anticipating his first year would be a struggle - purposely held back a significant chunk of NIL last year so he could have a $5 mil plus pool available this year to significantly up grade the team for the 24-25 season (I am paraphrasing off memory).
Anyway, I post this because I am starting to wonder if we (Archie - with approval from the administration and key boosters) could be doing the same as Cooley did last year but for multiple years to get us to a solid NIL footing before going all in on higher level talent ?
I really don’t know. I am just searching for clarity.
Well I’d think that’s BS because they lost their best players already from last year.
They made a horrible hire with Cooley. And a worse contract.
Even if their NIL was “held back” they had MILLIONS - significantly more than UConn. UConn lost 3 NBA players and repeated a title. Georgetown will hang a banner that says “beat DePaul twice.”
David Cox was a horrible hire. Gerry D was a horrible hire. Kyle Neptune was a horrible hire.
Please explain how Cooley was a horrible hire. That is a pretty bad take.
Cooley brought PC back from the irrelevance and is 100% responsible for where that program is now with NIL, talent, attendance, etc.
He’s already brought in multiple talented wing players and GT will much better in short order.
In no world was Ed Cooley a horrible hire for Georgetown.
The guy is a pompous arrogant a hole who is as fake as they come but he can coach and win in the Big East. It’s been proven.
*cracks knuckles*
Georgetown paid ~$6M per year. That is the backdrop.
Ed Cooley, who no one at PC would say was a "great" coach, who had 1 NCAA win until his covid year team of 24 year old men went as far as they took themselves to the sweet 16, is the kind of guy that fits in a certain situation and may not work anywhere else.
Ed Cooley at Providence was all of those things. His recruiting style, how he presented himself...it was all a facade. How Georgetown thought that taking a guy who's entire recruiting pitch was "I'm at home" away from his home, and thinking that deserved top 5, top 10 coaching money is hilarious. Scour the tape and find one game that Ed Cooley won with his tactics or approach. He let his players roll the balls out. In regular season college basketball with a rowdy fan base, that's enough.
I'm not saying he wasn't a success at PC - it's an overwhelming fact he was.
But the take is pretty metered out as evidenced by this season's performance and the departures of top players already. You can't say that Georgetown is losing players because they can't pay them.
Yes, at a school like URI - there's a bell curve of a rebuild and funding that you judge a coaching hire on.
At Georgetown, specifically, and all of the BS Cooley spewed about "why" he wanted to go there...that doesn't apply. They have some of the deepest pockets in the nation. With the portal and NIL, getting 4 star HS and transfers from P5 teams, you don't get the luxury of having a "rebuild."
When you pay $6M per year for a coach and $3-$4M PER YEAR to pay your players...you are expected to win right away. Not a couple of games, a lot of them.
When you go to the NET rankings and search "George" you'll find Georgetown lower than George Mason and George Washington.
URI had the same amount of Q2 wins. Georgetown managed to lose a home game to #350 Holy Cross.
Ed Cooley could've gone on to having a "great" career at PC, where he'd probably never again make a Sweet 16, but dance a whole bunch and they would've given him a statue. There's air cover being the kind of coach that can overrecruit for your school and let them make you look good.
Cooley going to Georgetown ripped the mask off of who he really is, and now he's just going for hired guns and he can't even win with them.