LINKS: With Patrick Ewing Out, Georgetown Hoyas, Rick Pitino, Ed Cooley and more are in the News Nonstop

This is a new kind of mess for the Georgetown Hoyas but, frankly, we asked for it. With Thursday’s news of Patrick Ewing and Georgetown going their separate ways, the head coaching job is officially available and it feels like everyone and their mother has been linked to it in the last 48 hours. Unfortunately, the consensus appears to be that Georgetown will not even interview Rick Pitino (despite a keen interest in the job) and the school might be preparing to make a run at Providence’s Ed Cooley.

Here is a quick summary of the current news and rumors:

• It sounds like search firm Turnkey ZRG has been retained for the hiring process
• Director of Georgetown Athletics Lee Reed was not involved in the Ewing hiring (hence Ewing’s consistent “until the president or the Board say otherwise” comments), but “Reed and the Georgetown board are much more aligned on the next hire, and that Reed will have more power in the future of the program”
• Dennis Gates was a possibility before got a contract extension from Missouri with a (cost-prohibitive) $25.5MM buyout.
• Penn State’s Micah Shrewsbury is under consideration but Rick Pitino won’t even be interviewed (unless Jack DeGioia changes his mind).
• Georgetown has not made any official contact with Providence about Cooley

Here are the links:

Patrick Ewing out as coach at Georgetown after 6 seasons | apnews

Georgetown went 7-25 this season, including 2-18 in regular-season conference play, a schedule capped by a 40-point loss to Creighton. Ewing presided over a 29-game Big East losing streak that began in March 2021 and ended this January, the most consecutive defeats in league history.

The past two seasons were particularly…