Georgetown Coach Lights Up Heckler With Blunt Statement About Money

PublishedFebruary 8, 2024 11:46 AM EST|UpdatedFebruary 8, 2024 11:46 AM EST

Don't come at Georgetown basketball coach Ed Cooley unless you want lit up.

Georgetown is having another brutal basketball season, and the Hoyas fell to 8-14 and 1-10 in the Big East after losing to Seton Hall 76-70 on Wednesday.

It feels like it was a different lifetime the last time Georgetown was actually a great program. Cooley was hired to turn things around, but it hasn't happened (or close to it) just yet.

A heckler made sure to let him know about his single conference win Wednesday, and Cooley decided to engage the person with an awesome line.

"You know what, I'm rich as a motherf*cker. I'm rich as sh*t," Cooley responded to some heckling fans, according to the Asbury Park Press.

Ed Cooley responds to heckler.

I'm sure there will be plenty of pearl-clutching over the fact Ed Cooley got into a back and forth with a college heckler, but ignore anyone offended or bothered.

It's stuff like this that makes sports awesome. If you're going to dish it out, then you had better be ready to take it. That's the nature of the beast.

If you want to talk trash - which I'm all for - then you had better be ready to take some incoming fire. That's exactly what happened here.

A student wanted to trash talk Ed Cooley having a single conference win while making big money, and Cooley let him know.

He's rich and the kid almost certainly isn't.

Ed Cooley is off to a slow start at Georgetown. (Credit: Brad Mills-USA TODAY Sports)

After all, what's the point of having "f**k you money" if you don't at least get to dunk on people from time to time? You might as well have fun if you're rich.

Now, I hope the kid was smart enough to at least have a backup line ready to roll. I would have immediately responded, "Yeah, and all that money can't buy you any wins."

It would have immediately switched the dynamics back.