SadderBudweiser
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RE: Every team needs to play better
(02-18-2024 03:52 PM)Nugget49er Wrote: (02-18-2024 10:29 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote: (02-18-2024 09:42 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote: This begs the question though… has Memphis run out of Super Bowl trophies yet? Those have to be expensive, and they’ve handed out a lot of them this year.
Attendance Percentage Increase/Decrease Memphis vs rest of schedule by AAC school before 2/18/24 games
UAB: 127.5%
Rest:
Tulane: 146.2%
Tulsa: 72.5%
Temple: 59.8%
North TX: 41.8%
WSU: -6.1%
Overall: 52.4%
Ipso facto ("by the fact itself")
Charlotte plays AT Memphis on Wednesday so we will not get the attendance bounce, therefore ipso facto not our Super Bowl. Still, I really want to win this game because who doesn't get excited about beating the #6 team in the conference?
This game will be Memphis’ Super Bowl.
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ghostofclt!
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RE: Every team needs to play better
clt says we were over capacity for ecu, was that our super bowl?
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maybeimhere
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RE: Every team needs to play better
(02-18-2024 10:11 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote: clt says we were over capacity for ecu, was that our super bowl?
Are you gonna be over capacity for the showdown with USF?
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ghostofclt!
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RE: Every team needs to play better
(02-19-2024 09:30 AM)maybeimhere Wrote: (02-18-2024 10:11 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote: clt says we were over capacity for ecu, was that our super bowl?
Are you gonna be over capacity for the showdown with USF?
clt says the students will be on spring break, this will be interesting
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DowdyPirate
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RE: Every team needs to play better
(02-18-2024 10:11 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote: clt says we were over capacity for ecu, was that our super bowl?
Yeah it was
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Tiger1983
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RE: Every team needs to play better
(02-18-2024 03:52 PM)Nugget49er Wrote: (02-18-2024 10:29 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote: (02-18-2024 09:42 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote: This begs the question though… has Memphis run out of Super Bowl trophies yet? Those have to be expensive, and they’ve handed out a lot of them this year.
Attendance Percentage Increase/Decrease Memphis vs rest of schedule by AAC school before 2/18/24 games
UAB: 127.5%
Rest:
Tulane: 146.2%
Tulsa: 72.5%
Temple: 59.8%
North TX: 41.8%
WSU: -6.1%
Overall: 52.4%
Ipso facto ("by the fact itself")
Charlotte plays AT Memphis on Wednesday so we will not get the attendance bounce, therefore ipso facto not our Super Bowl. Still, I really want to win this game because who doesn't get excited about beating the #6 team in the conference?
Charlotte should easily win with their normal emotional level. I expect very light actual attendance due to the Tiger’s nosedive, disinterest by Tiger fans toward the opponent, and the opponent bringing few of their own fans to Memphis.
(This post was last modified: 02-19-2024 01:18 PM by Tiger1983.)
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ghostofclt!
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RE: Every team needs to play better
clt is interested in visiting the memphis bass pro, and may go to a game in the future
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02-19-2024 12:54 PM |
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Nugget49er
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RE: Every team needs to play better
(02-19-2024 12:28 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote: (02-18-2024 03:52 PM)Nugget49er Wrote: (02-18-2024 10:29 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote: (02-18-2024 09:42 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote: This begs the question though… has Memphis run out of Super Bowl trophies yet? Those have to be expensive, and they’ve handed out a lot of them this year.
Attendance Percentage Increase/Decrease Memphis vs rest of schedule by AAC school before 2/18/24 games
UAB: 127.5%
Rest:
Tulane: 146.2%
Tulsa: 72.5%
Temple: 59.8%
North TX: 41.8%
WSU: -6.1%
Overall: 52.4%
Ipso facto ("by the fact itself")
Charlotte plays AT Memphis on Wednesday so we will not get the attendance bounce, therefore ipso facto not our Super Bowl. Still, I really want to win this game because who doesn't get excited about beating the #6 team in the conference?
Charlotte should easily win with their normal emotional level. I expect very light actual attendance due to the Tiger’s nosedive, disinterest by Tiger fans toward the opponent, and the opponent bringing few of their own fans to Memphis.
Well, I hope you are right, but I am not expecting an easy game at all. In our CUSA 1.0 days Charlotte was 6-7 against Memphis (plus you beat us once back in 1985 as we briefly overlapped in the Metro). The Memphis roster is much deeper than Charlotte's and more highly ranked.
I suspect the Memphis players will pull together and try to make a run at saving the season if for no other reason than to present themselves in the best light as they enter into the As Often as You Like, For any Reason You Like Transfer Portal, AKA The Ruination of College Basketball.
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Tiger1983
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RE: Every team needs to play better
Quote:"It's just too embarrassing to play a game like we did yesterday. We fought in the North Texas game and just couldn't score. But yesterday, it was a lack of effort. And that can't happen. That's unacceptable," he said. "If you see the guys on the floor on Wednesday, those are the guys that are bought in."
Quote:"The guys that are going to play now, there has to be a care factor about the city and the school," he said. "There has to be. There has to be going out there on the court and leaving it on the line. People get up in arms about how many guys I play. Well, the six or seven guys that are in the rotation usually are the guys that aren't rebounding and aren't really the best defenders. So now you've got to choose offense or defense.
"And right now, we want to go to war. We want to fight every possession . . . If these guys aren't doing it, you've got to bring guys in off the bench that are going to do it. And I think that's where the team is."
Tiger fans should be prepared for a blowout by CLT. At least, I hope, we will go down fighting.
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(This post was last modified: 02-20-2024 07:30 AM by Tiger1983.)
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SadderBudweiser
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RE: Every team needs to play better
Ipso Facto to enter transfer portal.
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Tiger1983
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RE: Every team needs to play better
(02-20-2024 08:27 AM)SadderBudweiser Wrote: Ipso Facto to enter transfer portal.
Number of Transfers With Recorded Minutes (as of 2/18/24)
SMU - 11 (78.6%)
Memphis - 11 (78.6%)
2023-24 Record between SMU and Memphis (to date)
1-1
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SadderBudweiser
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RE: Every team needs to play better
(02-20-2024 08:54 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote: (02-20-2024 08:27 AM)SadderBudweiser Wrote: Ipso Facto to enter transfer portal.
Number of Transfers With Recorded Minutes (as of 2/18/24)
SMU - 11 (78.6%)
Memphis - 11 (78.6%)
2023-24 Record between SMU and Memphis (to date)
1-1
That’s a great stat! Very interesting. Probably at least Ipso if not fully Facto.
I guess if you continue to game this out it shows both programs can work the portal with a degree of success. But then it comes down not to the actual “ratings” of the players but more the ability of the coaching staff to make it work on the floor.
At the moment I’d say: edge to Lanier
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RE: Every team needs to play better
apparently, we just did...
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