ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Georgetown University’s alumni may have found out something about themselves while they secretly worked to force the school to fire John Thompson III as head basketball coach.
They’re no different than the Louisville alumni who protected basketball coach Rick Pitino during the school’s recruiting sex scandal, where basketball officials helped organize sex parties for recruits. Or the Syracuse alumni who did all they could in the midst of that school’s academic and drug testing scandal to make sure that Jim Boeheim would not be forced out.
I’m sure Hoya nation doesn’t want to think of themselves that way, but they live by the same code that every other program in college sports today seems to live by — the Al Davis school of education, “Just Win, Baby.