Perspective: To preserve John Thompson’s legacy, Georgetown must finally move past it
For some reason — perhaps nostalgia, perhaps finances, perhaps troubling laxity — the Hoyas brought Ewing back after they lost all 19 of their Big East games last season.On Wednesday, the worst Georgetown season since the previous one ended with an 80-48 loss to old rival Villanova in the conference tournament. For certain, this was not 1985. As Ewing took in his final game from the sideline, looking disappointed and bewildered, there wasn’t much anger left for fans to feel.
Make it stop. Please. Georgetown doesn’t have to worry about breaking from tradition anymore; there’s nothing but memories holding it together anyway. The merciful thing, for Ewing and everyone who loves him unconditionally, was to let go. The Hoyas were a year too late already. The longer they waited, the more of a joke they became. President John J. DeGioia and athletic director Lee Reed were neither honoring Big John nor respecting Ewing’s importance by holding on.
There isn’t enough good, familiar blood left to sustain Georgetown. The Hoyas need help from the outside, and they need it desperately. The best way to honor Thompson’s legacy is to create something new. It won’t be easy: The college landscape is dominated more than ever by athletic departments with ascendant, money-printing football programs.
But the administration must have the vision and desire to find that person. In that sense, the next few days aren’t about moving on from Ewing. They are about acknowledging that Georgetown basketball is in the gutter, abandoning the haughty mind-set that the 1980s and ’90s were just an eye-blink ago and committing to both an aggressive national coaching search
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