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Post by bravomailer on Aug 31, 2020 14:43:29 GMT
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Post by DrKrippen on Aug 31, 2020 15:06:52 GMT
Good coach. RIP
That's quite a few good coaches you got to sit in close proximity. Cool stuff.
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Post by millar70 on Aug 31, 2020 19:27:18 GMT
RIP to a legend.
Wonder if he will be buried with the towel on his shoulder?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 31, 2020 19:32:28 GMT
Big Jawn, RIP. The coaches in the Big East were the show. Big Jawn, Lucky Looie, Calhoun, Rollie, Pitino, Boeheim, PJ Carlissimo. I don't think we will ever see that collection of great coaches ever again. Thompson won one title, ight have won another if Fred Brown remembered that James Worthy played for Carolina and not Georgetown Not the best quality, can't find a good one Thompson had a sense of humor  That God awful sweater... |
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Aug 31, 2020 19:37:13 GMT
Good coach. RIP That's quite a few good coaches you got to sit in close proximity. Cool stuff. rip coach. i got tix behind the g'town bench for a game with iverson. i was pumped. tho, when i sat down....since he was standing up the entire game and so big---i could only see about just over a 1/3rd of the court! 
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Post by DrKrippen on Aug 31, 2020 19:59:58 GMT
i got tix behind the g'town bench for a game with iverson. i was pumped. tho, when i sat down....since he was standing up the entire game and so big---i could only see about just over a 1/3rd of the court!  That was a huge man. You didn't scream out "down in front"?
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 1, 2020 2:24:44 GMT
r.i.p.
Ewing Hoyas were my entry into whatever I thought NCAA basketball was. Nike, Hoyas, Madison Square Garden, Coach Thompson... as a kid, it seemed I just kept seeing them on my tv with them plowing through teams at MSG. It's why I (childishly naively) thought the Ewing landed with the Knicks because of course that's how it worked.
I even used to think Georgetown was a NYC school.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Sept 1, 2020 15:38:38 GMT
Great coach, and I thought he was underrated as an announcer.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 1, 2020 16:24:04 GMT
It just came to me that Thompson probably didn't have a reserved parking spot back then (1975)!
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 1, 2020 17:04:45 GMT
Thompson did one of the great turnarounds in CBB history. The Hoyas were dregs before Thompson took over. They had a tournament final trip in 1943 but no bid afterwards. Also, great area talent were going away. Elgin Baylor, Dave Bing all the great DC/Baltimore talent was leaving. Took Thompson a while to make a championship threat but they were an NCAA regular by his 3rd year. By 1979-80, the Hoyas were elite. Won the first Big East tournament, reached a regional final. The Sleepy Floyd/Craig Shelton team. That success got them Ewing.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 1, 2020 17:29:55 GMT
Thompson did one of the great turnarounds in CBB history. The Hoyas were dregs before Thompson took over. They had a tournament final trip in 1943 but no bid afterwards. Also, great area talent were going away. Elgin Baylor, Dave Bing all the great DC/Baltimore talent was leaving. Took Thompson a while to make a championship threat but they were an NCAA regular by his 3rd year. By 1979-80, the Hoyas were elite. Won the first Big East tournament, reached a regional final. The Sleepy Floyd/Craig Shelton team. That success got them Ewing. Most don't remember Sleepy Floyd but he played 13 seasons in the NBA and was on the All Star Team once. I shot hoops with him once outside McDonough gym. Shelton broke his leg freshman (?) year. I used to see him hobbling around campus on crutches.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 1, 2020 17:36:51 GMT
Thompson did one of the great turnarounds in CBB history. The Hoyas were dregs before Thompson took over. They had a tournament final trip in 1943 but no bid afterwards. Also, great area talent were going away. Elgin Baylor, Dave Bing all the great DC/Baltimore talent was leaving. Took Thompson a while to make a championship threat but they were an NCAA regular by his 3rd year. By 1979-80, the Hoyas were elite. Won the first Big East tournament, reached a regional final. The Sleepy Floyd/Craig Shelton team. That success got them Ewing. Most don't remember Sleepy Floyd but he played 13 seasons in the NBA and was on the All Star Team once. I shot hoops with him once outside McDonough gym. Shelton broke his leg freshman (?) year. I used to see him hobbling around campus on crutches. Eric Floyd was a hell of a player. Overshadowed by Ewing. One of the first stars of the Big East
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