Story By: Erin Zollars
Photos By: Sol Tucker
Washington, D.C–
Just weeks before the start of the 2024-25 season, the Georgetown Hoyas season, news has been swirling around that Head Coach Ed Cooley would be leaving the program to take the spot at UVA to replace Head Coach Tony Bennett who retired this past week.
While we have talked to a couple people close to the program in former players that said the move was all but done and several sources at ESPN also believe the deal to be done, no one has commented on the official deal. Some of our folks think it could be announced by the end of the week.
While the job at UVA would be a very lucrative deal, why not stay at Georgetown and fill out that promise he delivered of bringing back the pride of Hoyas basketball?
We will stay on top of this for the remainder of the week and hope that the deal falls through, but with the few people we have spoken with, the NIL landscape may have played a part in a possible deal for him to leave.
Was the deal in talks weeks ago when no one knew that Bennett was leaving UVA? Certainly, these types of talks just don’t happen in a matter of days, or do they?
“What I think this whole portal thing has done, it hasn’t taught people how to have resilience and resolve. Anything that’s easy, they give up,” Cooley said. “Failure is good sometimes. Failure brings about an internal drive, and I don’t think our kids know how to fail today. . .sometimes you just got to figure the s**t out.”
Georgetown’s men’s basketball team has over a dozen new players this season and just 5 days ago he met with the student community about the state of the team and talked to students and some fans in attendance about the challenges of adapting to the modern game. Could he have thought about the changes and decided that the modern game was far past what Georgetown could produce? Only the next few days will tell.
Stay tuned. We will stay on top of this and deliver news as it comes via our Instagram page.