Georgetown's indecision might lead to Dear John
It'll get done, eventually.
Off the record, that's what everybody keeps telling me. Just wait. Don't worry. Calm my nerves, hold my horses -- or Hoyas, in this case -- and find something else to write about because the moment I make a big deal out of the strange situation surrounding John Thompson III's contract is the same moment he'll agree to a new contract, and I'll look silly for ever wasting words on the subject.
Those folks might be right.
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And I'm guessing good old JT3 is too.
So now is the time to ask: What's up at Georgetown?
"The students and alumni are really concerned," Raymond Borgone, a Georgetown student, told me by phone Thursday night. "Everybody is afraid the administration is sleeping on this and coach is feeling disrespected. You know, he says all the right things because that's always the way he's quoted about everything. But everybody is worried they're not going to get it done and the school is going to lose him.
"He's done so much in so little time," Borgone added, "and if the school were to lose him everything would just go back to where it was a few years ago."
If you're wondering what led me to call Borgone, it's a simple story, really. I was reading and researching, utilizing Google like every self-respecting writer should, and I found a column he penned for the campus newspaper detailing the need for Thompson to get a new contract.
It was written Nov. 17, 2006.
Otherwise known as seven months ago.
Britney Spears has gone from having long brown hair to absolutely no hair to long blonde hair, divorced Kevin Federline and done two stints in rehab in the past seven months. She's a busy gal, that Britney. But in that same time span -- since Borgone's column -- the Georgetown administration has managed to accomplish very little despite obviously needing to extend the contract of arguably the hottest coach in the nation not named Billy Donovan.
I know things take time, but this is silly.
