Talk:Georgetown Hoyas

First Nomination
This article was nominated on WP:GA/N, but I did not promote it, because some of the prose is not encyclopaedic. The section 'What is a Hoya' is a prime example, using the second person inappropriately and also lacking sources. Section headings need normal sentence capitalisation (WP:MOS) and the lead section needs to summarise all of the article content (WP:LEAD). Worldtraveller 00:39, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Second Nomination
Lead still needs to be expanded per WP:LEAD but everything else is ok. Thanks --Jaranda wat's sup 23:44, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Contradictory descriptions of the term "Hoya"
The first sentence of the "What is a Hoya" section notes that the origin of the term "Hoya" is unknown. But a parenthetical note in the second sentence of the article declares that "the name means 'what' or 'which'". So do we know or don't we? Because one of those ought to go. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.158.252.156 (talk) 02:23, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I hate to butt in, but this has sort of thrust itself upon me: Something seems not exactly right with that "Greek" theory — it's a relative pronoun — badly-transliterated, btw — i.e., it resembles the Greek relative pronoun οἷα 'which', 'such as' (neuter plural), which would normally be transliterated hoia, but under only the most bizarre circumstances imaginable would be joined to a Latin neuter plural noun such as saxa 'rocks'; as far as I know, that simply is not done. Furthermore, the phrase would be incomplete: 'such rocks as...' — ... as what? It doesn't make sense to me. I would suggest further research; can this be documented, or is it perhaps some kind of Georgetown apocryphal story?


 * Meanwhile, in perhaps another bizarre juxtaposition, I've run into this very short article on Angria, an area in medieval Saxony (German Sachsen 'Saxony'; an inhabitant was a Saxon, i.e. Sachse, = Old English Seaxe, in the dominant southern dialect, but Saxe or even Saxa in more northerly dialects). This bit of German Saxony later became the county of Hoya. Are these connections of no connection to the mysterious Georgetown "Hoya Saxa"? — I'll never tell, alas, because I do not know. But it might bear some research, I would think. — To me, this latter lead makes as much sense as, or maybe a tiny bit more than, an oddly-spelled incomplete bilingual relative clause.


 * Just passing through and thought I'd further confuse the situation, er, try to help... :~> Good luck. DevilInTheDetails (talk) 10:49, 23 September 2008 (UTC)


 * This problem has been solved about as well as anyone could solve it, without a history PhD devoting a couple of years to the task. The article acknowledges that the "official story" is not "precise".  And rightly so -- it would be hard enough to explain the hijinks that occured back when I was in college, let alone the ones that happened 100 years ago and lead to the school's nickname.  But the Latin/Greek story is by no means "the most bizarre circumstances imaginable."  Let me walk you through it: a bunch of 20-year old men are living away from their parents, and away from the moderating influence of women students.  School rules require them to study Latin and Greek, despite their limited utility in the off-campus world.  So the kids do what any bored kids do -- they play around, in this case by combining the two languages to get funny expressions.  That's an eminently plausible story, and it matches the scant historical data available, which is why the University endorses the story even as it admits its imperfections.  --M @ r ē ino 17:29, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Nikita Mescheriakov
Can anyone assess this article: Nikita Mescheriakov?

Is he a notable basketball player?

Thanks in advance. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:12, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * He's not notable, in my opinion. I've upgraded the notable tag to a proposed deletion.  --M @ r ē ino 19:36, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

I mean Chris Wright
Is he a one of the Hoyas basketball player? I thought he was in Princeton and Is he a famous in Big East? Please answer my questions. Hoya94th (talk) 10:36, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, Chris Wright wears #4 and is a a guard entering his junior year at Georgetown. He missed much of his freshman year with an injury.-- Patrick {o Ѻ ∞} 13:53, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Porterfield
Dan Porterfield valiantly stepped in as interim Athletics Director last year when Muir quit abruptly, but does he belong in the table with the other historic ADs? Does he go in italics? Or with an asterisk? Maybe without a number, as I have it now?-- Patrick {o Ѻ ∞} 17:19, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Add Bayi Rockets incident? Some sources ...

 * Georgetown Basketball Brawl In China: Hoyas, Bayi Rockets Fight During Heated Exhibition on SBNation.com
 * Georgetown basketball exhibition in China ends in brawl in Washington Post by Gene Wang, published: August 18
 * Basketball Brawl Makes Georgetown Hoyas a Hot Ticket in China by Karson Yiu in Shanghai, China, Aug. 21, 2011 for ABC News.
 * Georgetown basketball game ends in brawl in China posted By Joshua Keating August 18, 2011 on Foreign Policy. 99.35.12.88 (talk) 00:03, 27 August 2011 (UTC)


 * It's pretty rare for one game to be worth mentioning in an article about a team with a 100-year history. Maybe a sentence at most.  --M @ r ē ino 19:08, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Varsity Sports Section
It currently says that Patrick Henner is the coach of the women's cross country and track teams, while he is the director of men's and women's track and field, according to GUHoyas.com the head women's cross country coach is Chris Miltenberg. Also, Coach Miltenberg recently won the NCAA coach of the year for women's cross country as he lead his team to an NCAA national championship in Terre Haute this past November. I think there should be some mention of him under the coach category for women's cross country. Furthermore, the NCAA national championship that the women won was only the second national championship for any sport in school history yet there is no mention of it anywhere in this article. The article should be updated to include an accomplishment as prestigious as that.Springaling17 (talk) 01:30, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Tony Johnson is the Men's Crew Team Head Coach and the woman are currently coached by Miranda Paris, who is in her first year of coaching for the Hoyas. Also, another notable alum of the Georgetown Men's Crew team is Bradley Cooper.TstreetG (talk) 03:47, 10 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks guys for the suggestions. I've updated the article with a section for Track and field and cross country, noting the recent NCAA championship. I've also added the coaches you mentioned to the sections on each sport, but removed the big list of coaches from the top of the Varsity section, since it will be difficult to keep current. Also feel free to make your own edits to the article if you see other places it can be updated!-- Patrick, o Ѻ ∞ 03:21, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Broken external link
The link for Georgetown Rowing Association is broken. Pox202 (talk) 14:06, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I removed it. There's a rowing section on the GUHoyas.com page, which we link to already, so we don't need ones for the specific teams.-- Patrick, o Ѻ ∞ 03:48, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

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