(10-24-2015 05:36 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 04:17 PM)FUT Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 03:56 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 03:27 PM)passat25 Wrote:  

Terrible... As a former alumni, this is just sad... Memphis is full of fair weather fans... It's always been that way... I am not surprised a bit.

Memphis is the most apathetic city in the entire US. Look at the Red Birds. When Autozone was new and the team playing well they challenged Sacramento for the attendance title of minor league baseball. After the newness wore off and it was no longer the "in thing" the city ended up having to buy the stadium and the Cardinal had to buy the team to keep it afloat.

Maybe one day memphis can be as cool as horn lake.

Expect such a comment from you since you cannot counter the facts.

Other than the "fact" minor league baseball attendance is low (shocking) in Memphis what other facts did you provide? Like i said, maybe one day Memphis will get rid of all the apathy and achieve the level of greatness horn lake has reached.

Not trying to be a conspiracy theorist or anything but, it's pretty obvious that part of the plan to make Memphis a "football school" involved insuring that basketball took a back seat. No other rational way to explain it. I don't think Pastner could win anyway but ... I think there have been talks to ease the fan base on the basketball team so they could more easily focus on the football team. I don't think anybody could have predicted to what extreme the football team would rise or to what extreme the basketball team could fall but I do think there was an intentional shift that began on Normal.

We will be at every game.

And we get many will not.

Those are facts.

All the rest...enjoy.

(10-24-2015 07:24 PM)F200 Tiger Wrote:  Not trying to be a conspiracy theorist or anything but, it's pretty obvious that part of the plan to make Memphis a "football school" involved insuring that basketball took a back seat. No other rational way to explain it. I don't think Pastner could win anyway but ... I think there have been talks to ease the fan base on the basketball team so they could more easily focus on the football team. I don't think anybody could have predicted to what extreme the football team would rise or to what extreme the basketball team could fall but I do think there was an intentional shift that began on Normal.

No, You can have both. It was a poorly handle event.....that's all

(10-24-2015 06:02 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  Y'all are being stupid...

This was only a practice...1st practice of the year...There was no Memphis Maddness

Same thing that most schools do

This.

I love Tiger basketball. I can't wait for the season to start.

(08-29-2015 12:54 PM)tigerscane Wrote:  NO WAY was Austin Getting more Minutes than Dedric Lawson, Not enough talent to do that.....The World Is Ours Memphis....

Was ok with your post until this.....you should be better than that. Austin was on the verge of being an All-American.

Oh sh!t...I thought Memphis Madness was cancelled? Did it really happen or was this an open practice of some sort?

We were told that over 2000 people are on the Josh Pastner Facebook page and that was the 1 true measuring stick of fan support. Were all of them sitting on the opposite side in that picture?

(10-24-2015 08:33 PM)MemphisTiger15 Wrote:  We were told that over 2000 people are on the Josh Pastner Facebook page and that was the 1 true measuring stick of fan support. Were all of them sitting on the opposite side in that picture?

This has very little to do with fans disgruntled with the coach. A lot of people didn't even know about it and the timing of it was a poor decisions. Even some of those that want the coach gone probably would have gone just to meet the players who have nothing to do with their angst about the decline of the basketball program

I'll bet the one blaming the fans wasn't even there today.

I still find it interesting that the coach won't allow his players to say "n*gga", yet he gets rick ross to rap "elvis presley blvd" last year where he repeatedly states he has heroin, crack, cocaine, and white prostitutes for sale. About that same time, rick ross rapped in another song about drugging women and raping them without their knowledge. It was so bad that other rappers and the entire rap industry was giving him grief about it.

(10-24-2015 07:10 PM)FUT Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 05:36 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 04:17 PM)FUT Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 03:56 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 03:27 PM)passat25 Wrote:  

Terrible... As a former alumni, this is just sad... Memphis is full of fair weather fans... It's always been that way... I am not surprised a bit.

Memphis is the most apathetic city in the entire US. Look at the Red Birds. When Autozone was new and the team playing well they challenged Sacramento for the attendance title of minor league baseball. After the newness wore off and it was no longer the "in thing" the city ended up having to buy the stadium and the Cardinal had to buy the team to keep it afloat.

Maybe one day memphis can be as cool as horn lake.

Expect such a comment from you since you cannot counter the facts.

Other than the "fact" minor league baseball attendance is low (shocking) in Memphis what other facts did you provide? Like i said, maybe one day Memphis will get rid of all the apathy and achieve the level of greatness horn lake has reached.

No major attendance drop in Sacramento. But nice try to divert the real subject. Memphians are apathetic in nature and follows the "in thing: until it's time has passed and then moves on. You have not provided anything except smartass remarks to counter that fact. Which for the most part is your M.O.

(10-24-2015 06:02 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  Y'all are being stupid...

This was only a practice...1st practice of the year...There was no Memphis Maddness

Same thing that most schools do

"Nothing's being taken away. The only aspect of the Memphis Madness being taken away is that entertainment," Alnutt said.

One of you's wrong.

(10-24-2015 09:08 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 07:10 PM)FUT Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 05:36 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 04:17 PM)FUT Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 03:56 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  Memphis is the most apathetic city in the entire US. Look at the Red Birds. When Autozone was new and the team playing well they challenged Sacramento for the attendance title of minor league baseball. After the newness wore off and it was no longer the "in thing" the city ended up having to buy the stadium and the Cardinal had to buy the team to keep it afloat.

Maybe one day memphis can be as cool as horn lake.

Expect such a comment from you since you cannot counter the facts.

Other than the "fact" minor league baseball attendance is low (shocking) in Memphis what other facts did you provide? Like i said, maybe one day Memphis will get rid of all the apathy and achieve the level of greatness horn lake has reached.

No major attendance drop in Sacramento. But nice try to divert the real subject. Memphians are apathetic in nature and follows the "in thing: until it's time has passed and then moves on. You have not provided anything except smartass remarks to counter that fact. Which for the most part is your M.O.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramen...Attendance

Thanks for playing.

Additionally they have been really good for the past decade. People like winners. Put a good product out there and Memphians will support it. Doesnt make us any different than almost every other city out there. Clearly the exception is horn lake.

You read Josh's comments in the CA story? He sounds like a defeated man saying he knows a lot of people don't want them to do well.

(10-25-2015 05:40 AM)batman Wrote:  You read Josh's comments in the CA story? He sounds like a defeated man saying he knows a lot of people don't want them to do well.

(10-24-2015 11:20 PM)MTigerBlue Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 06:02 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  Y'all are being stupid...

This was only a practice...1st practice of the year...There was no Memphis Maddness

Same thing that most schools do

"Nothing's being taken away. The only aspect of the Memphis Madness being taken away is that entertainment," Alnutt said.

One of you's wrong.

Without the rap I did not expect many there. Most of the people came to see the rappers because it was free. We do have to way many fair weather fans.

(10-25-2015 06:57 AM)2tigers Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 11:20 PM)MTigerBlue Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 06:02 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  Y'all are being stupid...

This was only a practice...1st practice of the year...There was no Memphis Maddness

Same thing that most schools do

"Nothing's being taken away. The only aspect of the Memphis Madness being taken away is that entertainment," Alnutt said.

One of you's wrong.

Without the rap I did not expect many there. Most of the people came to see the rappers because it was free. We do have to way many fair weather fans.

Bunch of BS.
When I was a student, we didn't have rappers come to Madness and we still drew huge crowds.
This was not well organized and heck many of us, including myself, thought madness was cancelled. The school has a responsibility to publicize this well. They wanted to keep it low key and that's what ended up happening.

(10-24-2015 05:39 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(10-24-2015 05:36 PM)Maiamire Wrote:  So let me get this straight...

They tell people it's cancelled. Then they 'un-cancel' it. Don't publicize it, hold it in the middle of the day, on a Saturday, on the same day as the Bandmaster's Championship...


and people on here want to complain about the attendance?

When you try and do things on the cheap and on top of that send out mis leading information what do you expect. AD office screwed the pooch on this deal

I'm sure your buddy RC would have handled it differently. Surly with RC still in place as our AD, we'd probably be in either the SEC, Big 12, or possibly the ACC and I'm sure our football team would be in the top 10 instead of the paltry #18 in the country. Amazing how Bowen, his staff and President Rudd has ruined our athletic program. Get rid of Bowen and bring back RC, yep that's the ticket.

(10-24-2015 07:24 PM)F200 Tiger Wrote:  Not trying to be a conspiracy theorist or anything but, it's pretty obvious that part of the plan to make Memphis a "football school" involved insuring that basketball took a back seat. No other rational way to explain it. I don't think Pastner could win anyway but ... I think there have been talks to ease the fan base on the basketball team so they could more easily focus on the football team. I don't think anybody could have predicted to what extreme the football team would rise or to what extreme the basketball team could fall but I do think there was an intentional shift that began on Normal.

C'mon ,basketball's problems lay squarely on the baskeball program. They have had every advantage and opportunity to be good and have failed. This kind of crap is just sad. I don't see how you can correlate the two. The basketball program was sinking (2010)long before Fuente got here(2012).
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I blame the new i269 opening up between 385 and 302. People were testing out the new road and forgot about the Memphis Madness



Why not it sounds just as good as the rest