Let me pose this question: If we got a big name such as knight or amaker (howaever you spell it) or another BIG name coach - you think the attendance would increase? or is htat just wishful thinking?

 I'd say that the wishful thinking is thinking that Amaker or Knight would come here...

 please. i grew up with coach knight as my coach, my god...this is not the place for him. he needs a bass boat and a 100 acre farm where he can shoot game (not to mention $5 mill a year at least)...not sure the mall has those amenities. 

the fascination with sociopath Bobby Knight.  If by some reason he came to GW, I'd start rooting for any other team.

No.  No chance.

You might see a temporary spike initially, but GW will never (NEVER) have a motivated student base unless the team either makes a run into the top 25 or....no, that's it.

For GW students, winning must come first (significant winning), and the names of any coaches or players mean nothing without that.

Don't mean to sound cynical, but I've spent too many years at the Charles E. (when I worked for the Athletic Dep't) dealing with students, predicting their numbers, anticipating crowd issues.  It's only about winning.

Kids don't come to GW for basketball...they come for other (great) reasons...like a great education in an amazing environment...and basketball only affects their quality of life when the team is either ranked or the President comes to a game.

Of course, there was that 103-77 win over UMass to make us 1-14.  That was a great student crowd that night.

I think having a name coach would bring folks to the Smitty in droves -- and not just students, but paying customers. GW has a huge alumni base that hasn't left the metro area. With a bigger coach comes bigger buzz, not only from the Post, but from national press as well. People will want to see what it's all about -- and they certainly can't watch on TV given the A-10's wretched TV coverage.  So, it's time for GW to shell out for a name coach and bring some energy back into the program. If we want to compete with Xavier on a year-in-year-out basis, Nero needs to continue his good leadership so far and attract proven talent to GW's coaching bench.

Let's say GW wants Bobby Knight----why would Bobby Knight want GW?

It's not happening. As BGF says no chance. And BGF is about 99% right on his assessment of GW students. You can deny it all you want but as sure as the sun rises in the east, it will take something like another 27-3 season for the bandwagon to get rolling.

 Draft Bobby see "Tom Penders".

if gw was ever desperate enough for a winner to hire bobby knight i would turn in my tickets and renounce my alumni-ship.  hobbs' screaming, foot-stomping antics were bad enough for one century.

If GW ever had enough money to hire Bobby Knight, I would be very confident that the school's long-term aspirations would eventually be met once he imploded and left. But hey, as long as we're pretending, why not just lure Coach K to Foggy Bottom?

Does "Draft Bobby" understand that Bobby Knight CHOKED HIS OWN STUDENTS?  That he literally threw a folding chair at another?

Who in their right mind would want that kind of sociopathic asshole here at GW even if he *could* guarantee a 30-win season?

Jesus. 

 We can go on forever cataloguing Bob Knight's sins: he also shot (a birdgun) at a homeowner who accused him of trespassing on his farmland during a hunt. On the other hand, he supposedly was nice to his Momma (Though he is a well known "women hater.")

I went to an Army basketball game years ago, largely to get a sense as to how the guy coached. My guess is that over the past 40 years, thousands of us doofusses have gone to see Knight's teams play, largely to see how he coaches. But hundreds of thousands have gone to watch Army, then Indiana, then Texas Tech, and they would have gone to those games no matter who was playing the role of "Coach."

Bob Knight is worse than yesterday's news. He's yesterday's Skeezix, or Little Abner, or Dick Tracy. A cartoon character that may once have held your interest, because you were a kid, unsophisticated, immature, unwordly, and uninformed. He does not play to adult audiences any more, though,  and he would not draw anybody other than a few more doofuses and yahoos than usual to the Smith Center. We want fans who want to be proud of GW, and proud of its coach, not the occasional oddball who would show up at this stage of his career just to see Bob be Bob.

You want a coach who can recruit  today's college players, coach them, and put on a show based on the genuine emotions of the game, Mentzinger is right on. Bring Back Joe Dooley. Assuming, of course, GW can offer him more pay than he's currently earning as an assistant at Kansas. 

other Andrew get your own name