Ed Cooley’s Return to Providence with the Georgetown Team is a Case Study of Breakups

On the walls of McPhail’s bar in the center of Slavin at Providence College, there is a collage of basketball team photos from past years, adorned with pink sticky notes. Each note features the face of former coach Ed Cooley. For students who visit the bar on Fridays, Cooley’s return on Saturday with his new team, the Georgetown Hoyas, playing against the Friars led by coach Kim English, signifies the return of a great traitor.

We have a breakup: Ed Cooley’s return to Providence with the Georgetown team is a case study of breakups.

“This is coming in an atmosphere,” says Avant. On the day after the announcement that Cooley was leaving, sticky notes were placed on player photos featuring Cooley. Cooley can’t fathom the level of pain that Friars fans are experiencing, and Avant claims that he will enter the Amica Mutual Pavilion with boiling venom. Senior Patrick Cambria from New York says it feels like Cooley “walked away from us to die.” “He appealed to our emotions, and then it all became a business matter,” Cambria said. Cambria was studying abroad when Cooley left, which softened the blow. But when Cambria returned to campus, instead of sadness, anger surfaced. “This is personal,” he said. “He made it personal.” While working on the upper floor of the center, Sophomore Caroline Austin also grew up with the Friars, just like her father Tom Austin, who took her to games from their home in Sudbury, Massachusetts, when she was little. While she will be recording the game to capture the silence, her father, a longtime fan and alumnus of Providence College in 1989, will be in the stands. Her father, long-time fans, students—they all feel betrayed and abandoned, he said. It won’t be a pleasant environment for Cooley.

Shannon Kelly and Meghan Barker initially dismissed the idea of going to the game because the tickets were expensive and only available through third-party sites for $150 each. For Kelly and Barker, the basketball team led by Cooley and the culture and community it represented were the main reasons they wanted to attend Providence College. Kelly grew up watching the Friars. “We’re excited to see the game,” Barker said. “The atmosphere in AMP is just incredible.”

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