Jack Evans is now my favorite D.C. councilman ever. The Ward 2 rep wrote a great article in the Post calling for a GW-Georgetown matchup. I feel like I may have sent him an email urging Evans to support GW-Georgetown, but I forget, I send a lot of those letters.
But in any case, he makes all the right arguments - the teams have played against each other more than any other teams, they haven't played since 1980-81, mentions the history, and mentions Philly's Big Five. Last year he also proposed a Ward 2 championship game (GW and GU both being in Ward 2).
Maybe there's a groundswell for this, as the Post's Mark Plotkin mentions it a lot in his online chats, and there was even a question on it at a Univ. of Minnesota blog. Let's cross our fingers.
But in any case, he makes all the right arguments - the teams have played against each other more than any other teams, they haven't played since 1980-81, mentions the history, and mentions Philly's Big Five. Last year he also proposed a Ward 2 championship game (GW and GU both being in Ward 2).
Maybe there's a groundswell for this, as the Post's Mark Plotkin mentions it a lot in his online chats, and there was even a question on it at a Univ. of Minnesota blog. Let's cross our fingers.
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Apart from the "we'd likely get crushed" aspect of the game, GW could stand another high exposure game to replace one of our UMES or UMBC games. Georgetown's program pre-signing the arena deal 20 some odd years ago looked a lot like GW, and with exposure and money more important today then ever before GW needs to take more big game opportunities. There is, after all, no place to put a new basketball arena and it isn't as if Georgetown is going to share their peach of a deal with Verizon (although, maybe they should be made to).
Great work on the blog btw.
Oh, and I got my A-10 champs shirt today!
And I have to get one of those shirts!