OT: Georgetown is tired of seeing its students rooting for other schools
Trade in a Michigan or Syracuse shirt and get a Georgetown shirt celebrating a UNC player that made the winning shot to beat them for a national title.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/03/31/shirt-s…
Don't love the Jordan aspect, but otherwise, good stuff. Get people wearing the right gear for your campus.
Of course Georgetown is going to pull people from all over the country / world with different sports & school allegiances, but college is the time to cement the team you're going to support for the rest of your life.
Not that a shirt will change things much, but might as well give it a shot...
Kinda painful to see your inferiority complex quantified like that.
on the Illinois campus in Urbana and/or Champaign. But they wouldn't dare ask the kids to trade in their Bulls or Blackhawks shirts.
The nashville predators had a "turn in a blackhawks hat or shirt & get a Preds Jersey" game recently.
in other parts of the country, law enforcement is trying to catch predators.
In Nashville, they're heroes. WTF?
So many transplants in the area and they don't give up their lifelong allegiances. Before Ovechkin, Caps tickets were cheap. Philly fans would own that place. Red Wing fans would take over large sections of the arena. Same for Knick fans when they played the Wizards.
Maryland can pack the Verizon Center in basketball, but they have a larger student/alumni population.
Georgetown plays away games at home against Syracuse. Their fanbase is pitiful, and getting worse now that they're basically a mid-major.
My wife went to Elon - we went to an Elon game against G'town two years ago and there were at least as many Elon fans as G'town fans.
I'm not sure if there's any space left in Georgetown, but those kids have the worst commute to a game I've ever seen. For a 7PM tip, they have to navigate through DC rush hour traffic which is awful. Even if they want to take the train, there's no station within walking distance. I would guess the visiting fans have a better gameday commute.
The fact that there is no Georgetown metro stop is the best thing ever. Pretty much when Metro was getting built old rich white people were worried that having a stop would let "crime" (i.e. poor people) get to them easier so they blocked it. Now everyone from G'town bitches about not having a stop. It is glorious.
Ah yes. Glorious institutionalized discrimination.
/s (b/c some people are gullible)
Having to go to Georgetown is a fate I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies. I bike all over the city and its even a pain in the ass to bike to because the traffic is so gnarly over there. Most of the time, if I have to go to Georgetown for something I just don't go . Its like its own stupid little world over there. The only place worse is Dulles.
It's a great story, but that's an urban legend. Look at a map of DC- there's no way you could have a Georgetown Metro stop without building a whole new line, or at least a stub.
The Georgetown area is expensive as hell and there is no space to build an on-campus arena. At least the Verizon center is a step up from the old Cap center.
But yeah, Georgetown does not have very good fan support these days. Maryland gets more buzz in the DC area than Georgetown does. And even that's not very much since DC is a Pro sports town.
Sounds like Georgetown is to the East what USC is to the West. When they're doing awesome, everyone in the world is wearing Georgetown/USC gear. When they're not, you wonder where all those fans went
Yeah, they were to the mid-80s what Michigan was in the '90s.
I think Villanova would like to be part of that conversation as well. ;-)
That Villanova v. Georgetown national championship game in 1985 was one of the most stunning things I'd ever seen. David vs. Goliath ... nobody expected Villanova to hang with Georgetown.
Nobody outside Philly wore Villanova gear though. GU--like the Fab 5 Michigan teams--had serious street cred.
I wanted to attend Georgetown because of Hoya Paranoia. Loved that team.
That game and the Tyson Douglas fight were the two most stunning upsets Ive seen in my life.
Having trouble with the double posts it seems
their cocaine dealer
Not gonna lie, I used to have a Georgetown Starter jacket in elementary school. Not sure why, seeing as I had no association with the Hoyas and wasn't even an Allen Iverson fan (my 2nd favorite college bball team those days behind U of M was Marcus Camby's Minutemen...).
I guess rocking Georgetown was the cool thing to do in the mid-90s.
They were fairly popular when they had Iverson. But when they had Ewing a decade before that, they were absolutely huge. Ewing basically started the trend of wearing a t-shirt under a basketball jersey.
Thought this was already posted, guess I read on Washington Post. There were a ton of Georgetown people complaining that the guy in charge was from FSU a football school and just didn't understand them.
Basically, "We're diverse they're trying to make us conformists". "This is so high school".
*rolls eyes*
I find complaining about conformity "So High School", personally.
I see no issue there, but I do find it hilarious that they made a points system. For some reason they are more threatend by a Purdue shirt than say an Oregon shirt.
There are a lot more big ten alums than pac-12 alums in the DC area
Lots of "Go Blue" when you wear Michigan gear in the area on football Saturdays.
This is extremely pathetic. This isn't North Korea. People can be fans of whomever they choose.
I remember when CMU had an article about students there being annoyed at other students for wearing green and white when state came to play at Mt. Pleasant in 2012 because they were already state fans before going to CMU.
Tough shit. Nobody grows up a fan of MAC schools. People around here where I go at least know their place and don't whine about people being fans of other schools before they came here.
This isn't an April Fools joke?
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