Patrick Ewing, former Nick's Great, former Georgetown Great, national champion with the Georgetown Hoyas, has been named the new head coach of the Georgetown basketball team. And I gotta tell you something, this is a long time coming for Patrick Ewing. Fifteen years spent as an NBA assistant, never really got a chance. A lot of people are saying that his intellect, his basketball intellect, has been underestimated for a number of reasons.
Some of them saying because the Ewing was just bad with the media, that nobody wanted to give him a job because of the pr of it the media training. Other people are saying, you know, there's this narrative that when former players become coaches that they're only like point guards, that the big man. To be quite honest, the narrative out there is that they're not smart enough, that they're too dumb. And I don't think that's the case with Patrick Ewing. Okay, what I want to see is will
Patrick Ewing be able to recruit? Being a coach in the NBA and being a coach in college are two very different things. In college, it's really all about recruiting. Is he gonna be able to get in to those families living rooms and tell people and sell why they should come to Georgetown and stay. I don't know. On the con side of this, Youing teaches a defensive and rebounding and tough kind of style that he had at Georgetown that he had with the Knicks. That's not the
way the game is going. The way it's going the u c l A Golden State Warriors spread and shoot. But I do think you and will be able to recruit whoever the best big men are in the country. Who better to learn from if you are trying to get to the NBA as a big man then going to Georgetown having the tutelage of Patrick Youing