The Tweet: It's Day 1 Of The College Basketball Season And Kim English Is Already Publicly Making Fun Of Georgetown For Having Zero Fans
Today is a glorious day for some of us. The day college basketball practices start. The time we can start convincing ourselves this is our year, the time we get ready for the long regular season only to have our hearts ripped out in the NCAA Tournament. Kim English channeled Allen Iverson because, well, the man loves to use practice quotes. Only problem there is you're talking about Providence's coach talking about a Georgetown player. That's something you can't do with any Big East school let alone the war between Georgetown and Providence the last year+ with Ed Cooley leaving. Naturally someone reminded him about this:
He tried to say that he didn't know Iverson went to Georgetown, which feels like a lie. We're the same age, Kim. We remember Iverson at Georgetown.
Then came the tweet that Georgetown fans all have saved on their phone:
Again, not exactly shocking that a high school kid from the DMV would want to go to Georgetown when he has ties there. He never knew he was going to coach at Providence because Providence's coach left for Georgetown. He played at Missouri, he had no ties to the Big East until he got named head coach. But that won't stop him from engaging in a Twitter war with fans. He reminded Georgetown that they have no fans.
Yep, that'll do it. Georgetown is known for having an empty arena. Nobody shows up to their games, especially when they stink. It's part of the story with Georgetown and quite frankly I love that we have a head coach on day 1 of practice engaging in this stuff. It's what makes the Big East the best conference in college basketball. We need the Big East. We need all the dumb fights, we need the hate, we need the history even if it's not the old Big East. I want the ridiculous stories like Big East twitter members making Marquette put out a statement that Tyler Kolek can in fact read. I want coaches in this league to make fun of other programs. I want Rick Pitino talking about killing himself if he loses a game by 1 in a press conference. It's the beauty of college basketball when people want to bitch about how the sport is ruined.
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