Craig Esherick has been a disaster as head coach at Georgetown. Yet he had survived, and looked like he made it through another year. Not only survived, but was arrogant about it. As Gregg Doyel at his CBS blog put it on March 11 (no permalinks):

Georgetown was right to give Esherick the chance to succeed John Thompson in 1998-99, and now Georgetown would be right to give someone else the chance to succeed Esherick, who has taken the Hoyas to 30-year lows.
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Esherick remains defiant, crazily demanding kudos for Georgetown’s 30-year postseason run instead of apologizing that it ended under his watch.

“That’s a pretty incredible streak that I don’t think our school got credit for — that I don’t think I got any credit for,” he said Wednesday.

Kind of like Duke football after Steve Spurrier left in 1989, Georgetown basketball has become relevant only for its irrelevance. The difference is, from an athletics point of view, Duke doesn’t need football to matter. It has basketball.

Georgetown has nothing but basketball, which means that, under Esherick, Georgetown has nothing.

Well, it looks like the situation has changed. Georgetown fired him — in a released statement. If you’re counting at home, that makes two storied Big East programs looking for new head basketball coaches.