(07-14-2017 04:04 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(07-14-2017 11:19 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(07-13-2017 08:21 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  There's no official tiers assigned to basketball program prestige. However, using it's past NCAA Championship, three NCAA Championship runner-ups, Final Fours, Elite Eights, NCAA Tournament appearances, conference tournament championships and conference regular season championships, it is clear that Georgetown is one of the top-20 basketball programs in the nation. Obviously, arguments and statistics can be made as to where it should be placed in that tier, but it cannot be denied that Georgetown's basketball brand is one of the top brands in the country. Utilizing the stretch in the 80's, as well as its association with Jordan Brand, it is clear and identifiable as an elite brand. Brand and program prestige can be viewed a bit differently, but that's where Georgetown is, IMO.

Some people - not you, btw - keep trying to answer questions like this with reams of statistics. But it can't be answered that way. E.g., in football, Notre Dame is still the biggest brand name even though they haven't won a single thing of consequence in almost a quarter-century.

On this issue, everyone who doesn't have an ax to grind knows that Georgetown is a pretty big basketball "brand name". Whether the won-loss or Final 4 or whatever statistical metric floats your boat says we deserve to be or not, the fact remains that we are.

No, we're not in the same category as the Big Six - Kentucky, UCLA, Duke, UNC, Kansas, and Indiana. Those are the the true blue-bloods. But we are in the next group of 10 or so programs after that, the semi- or quasi- blue bloods, or whatever you want to call them.

It's just the way it is, no matter how many haters gonna hate.

First, for the record, I wouldn't put Indiana in the blue blood class.