I hate Memphis
by ville 606 on Mar 3, 2009 12:26 PM EST
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PrintIt turns my stomach to see Memphis ranked ahead of Louisville, Pittsburgh, and Oklahoma. That really go's to show you rankings really don't mean anything! But if you are going to have rankings, than do them right. Memphis "key wins", Gonzaga and Tennessee, yee haw, watch out world!, two of their 3 losses came by Big East teams, G-Town, and Syracuse. Gonzaga has under achieved, and Tennessee, well it's not Chris Lofton's Tennessee anymore, man do they sure miss him. Anyway Memphis has not lost a CUSA game since The 'Ville, Cincy, Marquette, DePaul, and USF has left them behind. They were talking that CUSA is a one bid conferance, and yet that one bid team is #3 in the country pa-lease! I say lets kick DePaul out of the Big East and bring in Memphis, and than lets see what they got. Sure last year they were good, but this aint last year, and all those guys are gone. Lets renew that rivalry, it would undoubtly solitify our b-ball dominance, but it would give us another football team also. Let's also tell Notre Dame either get in or get out. It aint right how they just get to do whatever they want to do. They reap the benefits of being Independant with their fat TV contract with NBC, and they pick the best basketball conferance to join. If all your other sports programs are in a conferance, than so should your football.
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yup
A memphis 1 seed is becoming dangerously close to being a reality. awful.
I’d love to get them in the BE but aren’t we in the process of learning that having too many good teams starts to work against you. Memphis is sitting pretty precisely because they are in no danger of losing. Evidently they don’t have to actually beat anyone important, and they can even take a couple of losses from teams in the middle of the pack of an actual conference. Unreal.
We should kick ND out. They belong in the Big Ten. Both sports. But the Big Ten is being smart and not letting them in a la carte.
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The new commish should tell ND to **** or get off of the pot
No football? No thanks.
by BR7 on Mar 3, 2009 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
I love Memphis
with it peanut butter center and chocolately coating and the way it comes in those cute little brown paper cups. … no wait, that’s Reese’s cups. I love Reese’s cups. I hate Memphis
Then Think Of Memphis As a Mallow Cup
You remember those, Florida guy? Put out by the Boyer Company. Brittle, sub standard chocolate enrobing something vaguely approaching marshmallow. Had a half-life of thirty-eight hundred years. And here’s the topper….inside every wrapper were paper coins of different denominations…pennies…dimes…quarters. Once I even got The Dollar. If you could save up 500 points you could win ten candy bars. I did save up for months and months and finally reached my goal and sent away. Here’s the Downer that even my fine mind couldn’t guess……The ten candy bars you won turned out to be MORE FREAKING Mallow Cups!!
And all recommended by the American Dental Association.
by Roz on Mar 3, 2009 5:40 PM EST up reply actions
Sounds about right. Memphis is a Mallow Cup.
I had actually never heard of those, but that might be because I’m not as old as some of you fellows on here (Ha ha). I grew up in Kentucky and we had Moon Pies, but Memphis is no Moon Pie.
by sarasota-card on Mar 3, 2009 10:25 PM EST up reply actions
Indeed.
A Moon Pie Memphis State is not.
But Mallow Cup they most certainly are. Those things are terrible.
Sorry guys
East Coast bias on those Mallow Cups.
Did you guys have Sugar Daddy’s? Petrified caramel on a stick. All-week sucker.
Reach into your pocket four months later, and it’s still there.
Lint covered and everything…I swear I had a lick.
basement dwellers in the BE
should consider moving to conf USA and challenging. they would have a better shot at going to the tourney.
Come on, gentlemen (and gentlewomen). It is Memphis State.
I think the 1 seed hype for Memphis State is overstated. I could be wrong, and often am, but we were in a similar situation in 2005 – our record was strong and we were highly ranked in a better C-USA than the one they are playing in. We got a 4 seed. There’s no chance Memphis State sinks that low, but I can’t see them getting a 1 seed without being in the top 4 in either RPI or some other computer index.
Also, I don’t want Memphis State in the BE no matter what. They are a terrible football addition, and we don’t need any basketball upgrade. Notre Dame’s contribution to the football conference is best reserved for another thread, but I’ll just say that we do benefit by their presence in our league, even in football.
I don't understand using "Memphis State" pejoratively
They were Memphis State, then changed their name. We don’t call UK “Kentucky State College” even though that was their name when we first played them. Why insist on calling Memphis “Memphis State?”
yup. drives them crazy
Im all for it. In my eyes-they will always be a CUSA caliber team. Memphis St fits.
The local "Neo ivy at a discount college" near where I live
was originally called, “Harpur College,” then the name was changed to State University College at Binghamton, and most recently to the oh so tony “Binghamton University.”
Next year in order to promote the total cache, and creeping ostentation inherent in this fine institution, the name will be changed simply to “Dartmouth.”
Hey, Dais…is that Asimovian enough for you?!
Have a great night, kind sir.
by Roz on Mar 3, 2009 5:26 PM EST up reply actions
For Frank And Theoldman
“The grocery store’s the supermarket now.”
——Post modernist philospher, Sonny Bono
Lada la de de,
Lada la de da.
And the beat goes on.
by Roz on Mar 3, 2009 5:45 PM EST up reply actions
It was Memphis State back in the Penny Hardaway days.....
Now it is just Memphis. I beg to differ with the football aspect. They are in a prime region for recruiting. Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Louisiana are all states in that recruiting region. You get a good coach to come there ( I remember those days ), he could steal some of that talent that wants to play right away, that would otherwise get redshirted, or have to wait a couple years at an SEC or Big 12 school.
Memphis might be able to step up their football if given an invite to a BCS conference, but in the meantime, they stink. Our conference, meanwhile, would have to agree to split up football revenues 1 additional slice while adding a team that will universally be mocked by the football elite and lower our rankings in the estimation of those teams. While I’m not sweating our BCS inclusion based upon this past year too much, there’s no need to dilute the pool even more.
Not to mention that it ties up an additional football game giving TJ 4 OOC games rather than 5. That’s a hit to the home game total every other year, and it limits TJ’s ability to schedule more favorable games. Granted, we just did a home and away with Memphis, but I don’t think we’d be willing to lock ourselves into a permanent commitment to play that game every year (like with UK).
Our football has taken a nose dive anyway, and the entire Big East conferance will be down this year. Louisville Football anymore, I hate to say, looks like a JUCO depot. I’m not trying to promote just Memphis, like I said, if you could get Notre Dame in that would make 10 football teams, you could be like the Big 10, they don’t play everybody in the conferance in a season. I don’t see too many more teams that would be a better option. I don’t think they could lure a big time football team from a football conferance, to take an ass beating in basketball every year.
Unchallenged Factoid #1014
While directing the 1974 “women’s movie” entitled “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” Martin Scorsese turned to the Brit glam, Bowie influenced, Mott The Hoople, for some musical punch at a place in the movie that needed to be sparked with an old fashioned rock ’n roller. Group leader, Ian Hunter, had such a chestnut in his musical bag, but would allow Scorsese to use it only if the director ommitted the somewhat common “State” tag.
Thus, “All The Way From Memphis.”
Everybody except people that do rankings hate Memphis State.
Cincinnati, DePaul, and South Florida should go back to Conference USA. Let’s see how long Memphis State’s undefeated run lasts then.
I honestly hate how everyone points to their three year undefeated run in the conference, that just so happened to start a season after Louisville, Marquette, South Florida, DePaul, and Cincinnati fled for the Big East. Coincidence? I think not.
I drive through Memphis about
3 times a year and I always put up the UofL car flag just before I hit Memphis. You should see the looks I get. Priceless. I’ll always hate their school, their town, and pretty much the entire state because of them. Close 2nd to UK and all its minions. Very close 2nd.
Nice...
One of my undergrad classes was at UK. & for 4 yrs I abrasively displayed Cardinal stickers/plates/etc…all over my car…No matter how coy I became with parking illegaly when I was running late, they always got my ass. My car got towed so many times, the campus police started calling me Chris Rix.
/worth it
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 4, 2009 1:48 PM EST up reply actions
Remember Darious Washington (think that was his name)
Playing against us for the CUSA Championship? Missed the 3 free throws at the end to win and wept like a little girl? That was glorious.
Go Cards!
I think he made the first, did the throat slit gesture...
…and missed the last two. But yes-karma was in full effect that game.
Exactly. I was there to hear the (really) screams of agony from the Memphis fans
very sweet music to my crusty old ears
almost made me feel sorry
almost
“But the Tigers have played much, much better than their Conference USA opponents nearly every time they’ve taken the court. Since their winning streak started with a 69-62 victory over Houston in the final game of the 2005-06 regular season, only 10 of Memphis’ 56 games against league foes have been decided by fewer than 10 points.”
How is that pro Memphis being ranked so high? If anything that’s a reason to keep them lower. They’re miles above their C-USA opponents because the conference has been garbage since the good teams left. Memphis shouldn’t have any games decided by fewer than 10 points. I hope they get a 1 seed and lose to a 16 for the first time in tournament history.
Here’s the article: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=3950309
I'm the only one?
I think they go to the Sweet 16 or Elite Eight…unless of course they play Lousville prior.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 5, 2009 2:41 PM EST up reply actions
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