John Thompson Jr., Jim Boeheim and the end of the Georgetown-Syracuse rivalry

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11 жыл бұрын

Over the past 33 years, Georgetown and Syracuse have been one of the most contentious rivalries in college basketball, but as Syracuse prepares to leave the Big East conference for the ACC, former players, coaches, journalists and alumni recall the history of the rivalry. Read the full oral history here: wapo.st/WwDVuq

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@andrewjones2133 3 жыл бұрын

RIP MR. THOMPSON 🙏🏾

@samuelmagnum6047 8 жыл бұрын

That was so intense to watch as a kid living in Central New York. Nothing like it

@hjohnson2413 4 жыл бұрын

My wife and I will alway bleed orange. What a great rivalry. The Big East was college basketball in the 80s.

@ig6894 4 жыл бұрын

The beasts of Big East, Patrick Ewing, Pearl Washington, Chris Mullin, Ed Pickney, John Bargley, Walter Berry,

@andrewjones2133 3 жыл бұрын

I wish they would reinstall the original Big East Conference

@juliansmith4352 3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewjones2133 Big East basketball in the 80s plus this rivalry made this conference with st John's Villanova plus the loveable coaches

@MalcolmDesigns 10 жыл бұрын

I went to Syracuse U from '82 -'88 and it was an incredible time for the Big East and college basketball. I'll always bleed orange. I really miss Syracuse in the Big East and the rivalry with Georgetown and the other teams. GO Cuse!

@donaldsanders7234 Ай бұрын

I was there from 1980 until 1990. Saw the very first football game in the dome. And all the Great Big East basketball! I was a freshman in 1980. That was an Amazing Decade for SU. How I miss that time..30+ years ago!

@BuddhaLove77 10 жыл бұрын

As someone who almost went to Georgetown to play basketball the truth is the Big East as described in this video was as good as it GETS!!! Thank you ... Wow what basketball!!

@adrianezzo1696 5 жыл бұрын

Where did you end up playing & why didn't you end up with Georgetown?

@Labowski2569 3 жыл бұрын

As a kid growing up in Central NY in the 80's, there was no sporting event that came even close to Syracuse & Big East basketball especially the games against the Hoyas in the Dome, hated it when Cuse moved to the ACC. Used to go to a lot of the games back in the day, can remember that game when JT got ejected like it was yesterday, the Dome went absolutely nuts! What they said about Cuse fans hating JT is absolutely true. Mike Francesa said it best "The thing that made the Big East Magic was when Patrick Ewing came to the Carrier Dome." Will never be the same. RIP JT, you gave us some great memories...

@juliansmith1951 3 жыл бұрын

Back in the day Syracuse vs Georgetown on ESPN or CBS in the 80s ironic it was the Big East version of Lakers vs Celtics

@tovarestwhite7866 Жыл бұрын

Big Monday, ESPN... Big East Basketball, Wow...

@mikegonzales3286 Жыл бұрын

Syracuse vs Georgetown has always been exciting to watch. One of sports greatest rivalry games.

@maryhlad5277 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve always respected Coach Thompson, Sr.

@jonathanhains814 3 жыл бұрын

He was Jr. The next coach was JT III.

@juliansmith9503 7 жыл бұрын

Syracuse Georgetown rivalry made the Big East basketball landscape in the early days of the conference with St John's & Villanova with Big John Thompson and Jim Boeheim coaching both teams

@mauricehughes9188 3 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. John Thompson!! Great rivalry Georgetown-Syracuse! The Big East was big time!

@cuse445 5 жыл бұрын

Favorite slang in upstate N.Y. from 80' to 89'..."Your Mother's a Hoya!" Hilarious.

@nickkruger4011 10 жыл бұрын

I wish I grew up in the 80s and went through all the titanic clashes. The 00's weren't nearly as heated

@cfoster81 8 жыл бұрын

You missed out on some of the games that were classics and growing up in the DC area in the mid 80's and watching Big East Basketball on WTTG mainly waiting for when Georgetown played (Although I was also an ACC fan as well and had a cousin who was attending the University of Maryland in College Park). The great players on both the Orangemen and Hoyas as well as Jim Boeheim and John Thompson, Jr. (a.k.a. Big John) made the rivalry so great back then.

@richardcarrier8551 3 жыл бұрын

There was nothing like it. Every game was an epic event.

@dme1016 5 жыл бұрын

Those were the days. Big East bball was the joint.

@pendrew Жыл бұрын

I was a freshman at that Manley Field House game. One of the worst days of my life.

@Tombacuse1 5 жыл бұрын

What a great piece. I think one of the biggest things to stoke the rivalry was players stayed 3 or 4 years, added to everything discussed. There will be no more new instant rivalries anymore.

@lavance4615 5 жыл бұрын

"CLASSIC" "LEGENDARY"

@cuse445 5 жыл бұрын

It was all a PR stunt...JT wanted G'Town to be a significant program, he directly went after "the bully on the block" in Eastern regional basketball, and in 1979 that was the Cuse. John Thompson was, and is a very, very smart man. But most Cuse fans chuckle at the history and know G'Town started smack with us, to ride a rising star, and they did, and it was a smart move, and they were the "bullies on the block" ... for a little while, lol. But a Hoya is a Hoya! Go Cuse!

@jordanmalecki2006 3 жыл бұрын

What a great video

@walterbrown9079 3 жыл бұрын

Back in the day before the Big East conference g-town closed down manly fieldhouse to break Syracuse 57 game home winning streak !👼 There's a Halo for big angel rest in peace coach John Thompson !

@kevinlewis7547 3 жыл бұрын

Manley field house is officially closed

@thomastripp9002 3 жыл бұрын

I was born in the late 1980's, but I wouldn't mind owning some copies of the Syracuse/Georgetown games from the 1980's and the early 1990's. These seemed to be great battles of Big East Basketball.

@bshatzky1 5 жыл бұрын

Central New York SHUT DOWN in the 80's when Georgetown came to the Dome.

@cfoster81 4 жыл бұрын

And when Syracuse came down to the DC area cause Georgetown played it's bigger games in Landover at the Capital Centre instead of it's smaller on-campus arena, McDonough Arena, the Cap Centre would be sold out and full to it's capacity

@selsam7064 3 жыл бұрын

Such a cool rivalry!

@stevengrvp Жыл бұрын

R.i.p to big east basketball 🏀

@KODOUBLE24 11 жыл бұрын

John Thompson got honored in Syracuse a couple years back

@tovarestwhite7866 Жыл бұрын

John Thompson = Mr. BIG EAST...

@lazerlazer 8 жыл бұрын

The episode 30 for 30 that is the full hour and 30 minutes- Requiem for the Big East. Is it about these 2 teams? If it is, how do you pay to watch it?

@BAYAREA-kd1ig 3 жыл бұрын

You can pay for ESPN+ or google search or see if its on youtube.

@chrisuncleahmad 9 жыл бұрын

The best Georgetown-Syracuse game that never was: they almost met in the 1980 NCAA Tournament had it not been for Iowa. They were paired up in the same region.

@mikesaintonge5308 9 жыл бұрын

Chris Kreager yep! Both fell prey to the great LUTE OLSON, then Iowa gets drubbed by Champ to be Louisville and a meaningless consolation game against Big Ten foe, Purdue. Those games were pivotal in raising Lute's stock and ultimately got him out of the fishbowl in Iowa City and got him to build one of the best programs of the last 30 years in Arizona! BEAR DOWN!!!

@jonathanhains814 3 жыл бұрын

I was at the Iowa game in Philly....I guess it was at The Spectrum.

@jimhicks584 Жыл бұрын

Great basketball. Pitt finished with best record in conference.

@denisebartoszewski8625 3 жыл бұрын

Rip big John 🙏

@nickt1295 6 жыл бұрын

Syracuse leads the all time rivalry

@richardcarrier9536 Жыл бұрын

Embrace the hatred - it's real....

@carlafischer2699 6 жыл бұрын

Of all things, why is JTIII sitting next to a "runner up" trophy???

@joey3627 6 жыл бұрын

Carla Fischer cause he'll always be runner up to his dad. Lol

@robertdudley3398 Жыл бұрын

It was a Great HEATED RIVIALS That in the 1980'Some fans or People Threw some ORANGES🍊🍊🍊 at the BACK BOARD & hardwood floor Coach Jim B had to get on THE MIKE 📢& scould the DOME FANS or forefit the Game. That was how HEAT🔥the Gtown & SU really was...

@shovelhead7821 5 жыл бұрын

What the hell is a Hoya ?

@Cuseball121 5 жыл бұрын

gixxer fixxer I believe it is Latin for “loser” GO ORANGE 🍊🍊🍊

@rahsaanvenable8902 3 жыл бұрын

@@Cuseball121 Ya'll named after a fruit tho.......

@Cuseball121 3 жыл бұрын

rahsaan venable we were named after the Onondaga “Orangemen” tribe but that was too offensive so we changed to a fruit

@garynelson9738 3 жыл бұрын

Still a rivalry

@juliansmith1951 3 жыл бұрын

Yes it still a rivalry although Syracuse moved to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) but the memories of their battles in the 80s will last forever

@gregorymungo3084 10 жыл бұрын

im still upset he left Sherman Douglas off that 1988 Olympic squad, in favor of his own guy, Charles Smith, and he also had Bimbo Coles.. i know for a fact, it was bcuz he was playin at Syracuse.. he aslo couldve chose Tim Hardaway, Mookie Blaylock, Dana Barros, and/or Rod Strickland.. so wat happens? they lose, and 4 yrs later, we have the 1st Dream Team.. lol.. maybe it wasnt so bad after all... but im still pissed!

@MrDomo365 2 жыл бұрын

HOYAS!!!

@jefferybuettgens4849 3 жыл бұрын

Money

@commanderg.l.r8689 9 жыл бұрын

Cmon PAB,how many good white players even exist in the D.C area?Besides,Thompson named Escherick as his successor who is white and former player.Brian Kelly started alongside Mourning in the early 90's,he was white.