“Manley Field House is officially closed.”
John Thompson, February 13, 1980
With those five words, Georgetown elevated itself from frequent Syracuse antagonist to a contemporary equivalent of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Hoyas became true incubators of evil, sporting a cast of characters that have run the gambit from ridiculous (“Who wants to sex Mutombo?”), to the outwardly incompetent (Craig Esherick). Throughout this entire period, however, one thing has remained constant: Syracuse is the light of truth and wisdom, and Georgetown is the American incubator for human villainy.
It is this underlying theme that drives this notebook. Georgetown is a vile institution of higher education and the world needs further elucidation of this fact.
This is not to say that other colleges and universities should be ignored. As any proud and credit-worthy Syracuse supporter knows, evil manifests itself in many mascot heads and campuses. Johns Hopkins University — long a bastion for dastardly deeds — is almost the equal to Georgetown in distrust and insipidness. The University of Connecticut — home to future threats to contemporary society — also houses its fair share of outright bastards. The gruesome twosome of chicanery — Pennsylvania State University and Boston College — will not be spared, even if their enconters with Syracuse are less frequent than the troika of terror that have preceded them.
In effect, there are many targets of Orange ire, and all should be exposed for their absolute shortfalls and misgivings. Whether the method employed is unabashed fabrications of truth or the reiteration of humorous reality, the pursuit of this space is to punctuate these rivalries and reinforce the fact that Syracuse University is the greatest university in the history of everything. Its opponents, to the contrary, are gleeful murderers of adorable kittens and feed gasoline to infants.
