Potential Head Coach Candidates for the Georgetown Hoyas

The situation surrounding the basketball team at 3700 O St. has reached an inevitable conclusion. With each passing loss in the Big East, the hole Patrick Ewing and staff have dug for themselves becomes more and more insurmountable. It seems a certainty that a national coaching search is on deck for Hoyas brass, although it is anybody’s guess who will be making the final decision on the school’s next head basketball coach.

The coming weeks and months will certainly serve as a hotbed for debate amongst fans and alumni regarding what we should be looking for in a new coach. If it was up to me, I’d have my sights set on a coach with a proven track record at the highest level of college basketball. Simply put, with the program on the brink of irrelevance and the school seemingly still willing to pay top dollar (According to reports, Patrick Ewing’s buyout money is not a concern), the next hire absolutely cannot be a swing and a miss.

Georgetown, however, is a very unique job that carries weight in African-American communities and in the eyes of many alumni, has been a moral pillar in the ever changing college hoops landscape. It’s debatable how true or important that is. The Hoyas have slowly lost their significance in African-American culture, especially among the youth, in the years since Big Coach, Ewing the player, and Iverson in Kente. And, the current regime has cherry-picked staff from LSU, has encouraged fourth year players to transfer (Ighoefe), and has pushed scholarship players to a managerial role (Wilson) all in the name of winning. Not only has the team failed in this department, it has failed in graduating players. In the Ewing era, Patrick has brought in 22 high school and junior college players that have played more than 1 year in college. Of those 22, only 2 players – Jamorko Pickett and Jahvon Blair – finished school.4 players – Wahab, Wilson, Riley, Mutombo – are still at the school. 17 players, including Qudus Wahab’s original departure, chose to leave school and not finish their education at Georgetown.

Things have to change. Georgetown has to find a candidate that can return the Hoyas to the upper echelon of the Big East and college basketball. It’s too good of a job, in too good of an area, at too good of a school for this rendition of the Hoyas to become normal.

The following are the significant (and insignificant) candidates in the inevitable coaching search:

THE RESPECTABLE CANDIDATES