Georgetown and Management Theory
Old Georgetown motto: Hoya Saxa!
New Georgetown motto: Bibbidy, bobbidy, boo!
Matus is in Vegas, and is in nearly Leaving Las Vegas levels of despondency over Georgetown’s latest NCAA bust. In case you missed it, this year’s Hoya squad became just the sixth #2 seed to lose in the opening round of the tournament. In case you’re keeping score at home, since John Thompson III took Georgetown to the Final Four Georgetown has:
* Lost in the second round
* Lost in the first round
* Lost in the first round
* Lost in the first round
* Lost in the second round
*Lost in the first round
Which isn’t so bad except that in each case Georgetown has drastically underperformed its seed. (Get the motto now? They make Cinderellas.)
But even that isn’t so bad. The big problem for Georgetown, as I’ve mentioned before, is that they violated the management theory version of Robert DeNiro’s Ronin rule: Never walk into a relationship you don’t know how to walk out of.
Georgetown can’t fire Thompson because his father still lives in the area and has too much influence with the school and around town. As long as Old Man Thompson is around, Georgetown is stuck in the JTIII business.
Now, if you want to really revel in the rubbernecking, I suggest this thread. (Funnily enough, it seems that explicitly calling for Thompson to be fired is grounds to banning from the Hoya Saxa forum. It’s basically this:
