(10-04-2019 12:23 AM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote: (10-03-2019 09:01 PM)bill dazzle Wrote: (10-03-2019 08:42 PM)I_LUV_MEMPHISTIGERS Wrote: (10-03-2019 08:36 PM)bill dazzle Wrote: I've been a Tiger fan since the late 1960s. I thought Hardaway came across as a buffoon with his comment.
Why not Memphis? Explain your logic.
Penny predicted Memphis will win, which looks: 1. contrived (as if he knows it will rankle some folks or as if he thinks it's what Memphis fans "want" to hear) or 2. risky (can we fathom how Tiger fans will feel if this team loses 10 game or more and fizzles in the tourney due to lack of experience?) or 3. clueless (as if he is blinded by his excitement for his team).
I'll always remember the day that former Tiger football coach Larry Porter looked me in the eye, at some point in 2010, after I expressed concern about Memphis losing running back Curtis Steele and said, with a straight face, "We'll have a running back as good."
I just shook my head and said to myself, "He either thinks I'm a clueless idiot who will believe this or he actually believes that."
Most coaches are hard-working men who motivate their players (to become better people) and probably give a lot more to charity and do more for society than I do. I give them credit. But most also are either simpletons or walking cliches. To hear them talk ... I cringe.
Sure guy. Your shtick is getting old. There's nothing wrong with being a NBE homer,just stop "faking the funk" (an old Memphis phrase when we detect bs) while backhanding the AAC ever chance ya get. 
If you want to label my fanship of the UofM as "fake," that's fine. You don't know me and would not know the full story. I understand.
My parents attended the University of Memphis in the 1950s (then known as Memphis State College) and my father served for years as a trainer with the athletics program. He bleeds Tiger blue. I attended my first Tiger football game in 1968. I was born in Memphis and love the city. I always pull for the Tigers and do so with a degree of emotion, passion and humility. I'm probably not as rabid a fan as you and other Tiger fans and I realize that might rankle some when I post things that are not rah-rah Memphis.
I post some on the Big East board because when I moved to Chicago in 1987, I adopted DePaul as my “home away from home college team.” I lived about 1.5 miles from the campus and attended some sports and non-sports events there (including a few scrimmages and intra-squad games in the now-gone Alumni Hall). Watched lots of Blue Demon games on WGN back in the day. Relatedly, I wrote some DePaul basketball articles for Athlon Sports when I loosely covered (along with Cincy, Memphis and Marquette) the Great Midwest Conference and C-USA. I have since done some online DU coursework and financially supported (modestly, admittedly) DePaul. I respect the work of Catholic school/universities, hospitals and charitable organizations — and DePaul represents the best of that for me.
Now, of course, there are Big East fans who will say that because I'm not as rabid a DePaul fan as they are of their respective teams, I am a "fake" Big East fan. That's fine.
The truth is ... I'm not a "fan" of either the Big East or the American. But I wish both conferences well and want them to do well as that will help Memphis, DePaul, Cincy (which my brother attended) and a second Big East university with which I've developed somewhat of a personal connection the past few years.
I've been called many names over the years — and often those criticisms were valid. But I am no "Big East homer," as you note. If we ever met, you would probably find many characteristics of me off-putting. But we'd probably have some good talk about Tiger sports history. And you'd come away knowing I'm no homer. No Tiger homer. No AAC homer. No Big East homer.
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Memphis Tigers, is Hardeway Arrogant or Foolish
