-ESPN SMU game day
-Winning AAC conference game against UC - football
-Lynch win against Ole Miss and BYU
-Winning NIT convincingly against Miss State - hoops
-Beating Houston for the conference title in hoops
-Penny recruiting Precious, Nolley, Duren, Kendrick, DeAndre, Quinerly, Lester, Tomlin, David Jones……
Gameday on Beale
Cotton Bowl
Winning AAC Championship Game
Beating #1 Houston to win AAC conference tournament
Ole Miss win with Lynch
Liberty Bowl win against Iowa State
Winning NIT was just a reminder of an opportunity lost; as are good recruiting classes that do not result in conference titles & tournament wins.
Good lord dude. We get it. You hate Penny and think he's going to somehow destroy Tiger basketball. You and Nascar Guy can go to a dirt track and entertain each other with stories about how much Penny sucks. Fact is he inherited a program on life support after Tubby and still somehow managed to bring in high major recruits and make the tournament. If you're pissed it hasn't been more successful then I get it but damn, you'd think we have a losing record and signing 1* star guys. There's no way you can argue that the program is in worse shape then it was when he took it over.
2 players & a great coach can rebuild a basketball program.
Says who? You? Who is this mystery coach and that a) has that much success recruiting and coaching and b) would take the Memphis job?
-ESPN SMU game day
-Winning AAC conference game against UC - football
-Lynch win against Ole Miss and BYU
-Winning NIT convincingly against Miss State - hoops
-Beating Houston for the conference title in hoops
-Penny recruiting Precious, Nolley, Duren, Kendrick, DeAndre, Quinerly, Lester, Tomlin, David Jones……
Gameday on Beale
Cotton Bowl
Winning AAC Championship Game
Beating #1 Houston to win AAC conference tournament
Ole Miss win with Lynch
Liberty Bowl win against Iowa State
Winning NIT was just a reminder of an opportunity lost; as are good recruiting classes that do not result in conference titles & tournament wins.
Good lord dude. We get it. You hate Penny and think he's going to somehow destroy Tiger basketball. You and Nascar Guy can go to a dirt track and entertain each other with stories about how much Penny sucks. Fact is he inherited a program on life support after Tubby and still somehow managed to bring in high major recruits and make the tournament. If you're pissed it hasn't been more successful then I get it but damn, you'd think we have a losing record and signing 1* star guys. There's no way you can argue that the program is in worse shape then it was when he took it over.
2 players & a great coach can rebuild a basketball program.
Says who? You? Who is this mystery coach and that a) has that much success recruiting and coaching and b) would take the Memphis job?
Some of our fans don’t get that the local recruiting has dried up. The best kids don’t even want to stay here for high school much less college. Who else is going to stay here and recruit nationally in this crap league we are in? Yall seem to think Will Wade is the answer but he’s got a show cause. Our boosters wouldn’t even talk to Freeze or Pearl much less him. You better hope that A. Penny realizes that Ashton isn’t a starter and then maybe we can get where we need to get which is to a sweet 16. But the fallacy that we can just got recruit locally and get there ain’t happening. Nascars buddy Josh found that out
-ESPN SMU game day
-Winning AAC conference game against UC - football
-Lynch win against Ole Miss and BYU
-Winning NIT convincingly against Miss State - hoops
-Beating Houston for the conference title in hoops
-Penny recruiting Precious, Nolley, Duren, Kendrick, DeAndre, Quinerly, Lester, Tomlin, David Jones……
Gameday on Beale
Cotton Bowl
Winning AAC Championship Game
Beating #1 Houston to win AAC conference tournament
Ole Miss win with Lynch
Liberty Bowl win against Iowa State
Winning NIT was just a reminder of an opportunity lost; as are good recruiting classes that do not result in conference titles & tournament wins.
Good lord dude. We get it. You hate Penny and think he's going to somehow destroy Tiger basketball. You and Nascar Guy can go to a dirt track and entertain each other with stories about how much Penny sucks. Fact is he inherited a program on life support after Tubby and still somehow managed to bring in high major recruits and make the tournament. If you're pissed it hasn't been more successful then I get it but damn, you'd think we have a losing record and signing 1* star guys. There's no way you can argue that the program is in worse shape then it was when he took it over.
Yeah. To have a Liberty Bowl exhibition game win (against a team with a ton of players sitting out), above the first NCAA tourney win in 8 years (and then going on to take the best team in the country down to the wire) speaks volumes.
Our basketball program is truly in the dumps if a 1st round win over #8 seed Boise & a close 2nd round loss is an athletic department high point over the past decade.
(This post was last modified: 03-08-2024 11:45 AM by Marc Mensa.)
-ESPN SMU game day
-Winning AAC conference game against UC - football
-Lynch win against Ole Miss and BYU
-Winning NIT convincingly against Miss State - hoops
-Beating Houston for the conference title in hoops
-Penny recruiting Precious, Nolley, Duren, Kendrick, DeAndre, Quinerly, Lester, Tomlin, David Jones……
Gameday on Beale
Cotton Bowl
Winning AAC Championship Game
Beating #1 Houston to win AAC conference tournament
Ole Miss win with Lynch
Liberty Bowl win against Iowa State
Winning NIT was just a reminder of an opportunity lost; as are good recruiting classes that do not result in conference titles & tournament wins.
Good lord dude. We get it. You hate Penny and think he's going to somehow destroy Tiger basketball. You and Nascar Guy can go to a dirt track and entertain each other with stories about how much Penny sucks. Fact is he inherited a program on life support after Tubby and still somehow managed to bring in high major recruits and make the tournament. If you're pissed it hasn't been more successful then I get it but damn, you'd think we have a losing record and signing 1* star guys. There's no way you can argue that the program is in worse shape then it was when he took it over.
Yeah. To have a Liberty Bowl exhibition game win (against a team with a ton of players sitting out), above the first NCAA tourney win in 8 years (and then going on to take the best team in the country down to the wire) speaks volumes.
Our basketball program is truly in the dumps if a 1st round win over #8 seed Boise & a close 2nd round loss is an athletic department high point over the past decade.
Pastner and Tubby in that time period were complete disasters, so yes, Penny has all the highlights of the last 10 years. Sorry that upset you so
(03-08-2024 08:22 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote: Gameday on Beale
Cotton Bowl
Winning AAC Championship Game
Beating #1 Houston to win AAC conference tournament
Ole Miss win with Lynch
Liberty Bowl win against Iowa State
Winning NIT was just a reminder of an opportunity lost; as are good recruiting classes that do not result in conference titles & tournament wins.
Good lord dude. We get it. You hate Penny and think he's going to somehow destroy Tiger basketball. You and Nascar Guy can go to a dirt track and entertain each other with stories about how much Penny sucks. Fact is he inherited a program on life support after Tubby and still somehow managed to bring in high major recruits and make the tournament. If you're pissed it hasn't been more successful then I get it but damn, you'd think we have a losing record and signing 1* star guys. There's no way you can argue that the program is in worse shape then it was when he took it over.
Yeah. To have a Liberty Bowl exhibition game win (against a team with a ton of players sitting out), above the first NCAA tourney win in 8 years (and then going on to take the best team in the country down to the wire) speaks volumes.
Our basketball program is truly in the dumps if a 1st round win over #8 seed Boise & a close 2nd round loss is an athletic department high point over the past decade.
Pastner and Tubby in that time period were complete disasters, so yes, Penny has all the highlights of the last 10 years. Sorry that upset you so
(03-08-2024 08:22 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote: Gameday on Beale
Cotton Bowl
Winning AAC Championship Game
Beating #1 Houston to win AAC conference tournament
Ole Miss win with Lynch
Liberty Bowl win against Iowa State
Winning NIT was just a reminder of an opportunity lost; as are good recruiting classes that do not result in conference titles & tournament wins.
Good lord dude. We get it. You hate Penny and think he's going to somehow destroy Tiger basketball. You and Nascar Guy can go to a dirt track and entertain each other with stories about how much Penny sucks. Fact is he inherited a program on life support after Tubby and still somehow managed to bring in high major recruits and make the tournament. If you're pissed it hasn't been more successful then I get it but damn, you'd think we have a losing record and signing 1* star guys. There's no way you can argue that the program is in worse shape then it was when he took it over.
Yeah. To have a Liberty Bowl exhibition game win (against a team with a ton of players sitting out), above the first NCAA tourney win in 8 years (and then going on to take the best team in the country down to the wire) speaks volumes.
Our basketball program is truly in the dumps if a 1st round win over #8 seed Boise & a close 2nd round loss is an athletic department high point over the past decade.
Pastner and Tubby in that time period were complete disasters, so yes, Penny has all the highlights of the last 10 years. Sorry that upset you so
It's not upsetting that we won the 1st round. Losing that 2nd round game was a bit upsetting.
But, yes... regardless of who's the coach, the lack of tournament success is very disappointing.
We should be winning at least 2 tourney games every 3 out of 5 years... and that should be the bare minimum.
Again, regardless of the coach. I'm a Penny fan and it's really hard for me to give up on him. I don't want to. And I see play like the few games and I'm hyped all over again.
(03-08-2024 10:15 AM)true_blue_thru_and_thru Wrote: Good lord dude. We get it. You hate Penny and think he's going to somehow destroy Tiger basketball. You and Nascar Guy can go to a dirt track and entertain each other with stories about how much Penny sucks. Fact is he inherited a program on life support after Tubby and still somehow managed to bring in high major recruits and make the tournament. If you're pissed it hasn't been more successful then I get it but damn, you'd think we have a losing record and signing 1* star guys. There's no way you can argue that the program is in worse shape then it was when he took it over.
Yeah. To have a Liberty Bowl exhibition game win (against a team with a ton of players sitting out), above the first NCAA tourney win in 8 years (and then going on to take the best team in the country down to the wire) speaks volumes.
Our basketball program is truly in the dumps if a 1st round win over #8 seed Boise & a close 2nd round loss is an athletic department high point over the past decade.
Pastner and Tubby in that time period were complete disasters, so yes, Penny has all the highlights of the last 10 years. Sorry that upset you so
Pastner & Penny are equally accomplished.
Not in the last 10 years - which is the topic of this thread
(03-08-2024 10:44 AM)Tiger87 Wrote: Yeah. To have a Liberty Bowl exhibition game win (against a team with a ton of players sitting out), above the first NCAA tourney win in 8 years (and then going on to take the best team in the country down to the wire) speaks volumes.
Our basketball program is truly in the dumps if a 1st round win over #8 seed Boise & a close 2nd round loss is an athletic department high point over the past decade.
Pastner and Tubby in that time period were complete disasters, so yes, Penny has all the highlights of the last 10 years. Sorry that upset you so
Pastner & Penny are equally accomplished.
Not in the last 10 years - which is the topic of this thread
So, if the time frame were 11 years… then Pastner’s not so bad?
(03-08-2024 11:43 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote: Our basketball program is truly in the dumps if a 1st round win over #8 seed Boise & a close 2nd round loss is an athletic department high point over the past decade.
Pastner and Tubby in that time period were complete disasters, so yes, Penny has all the highlights of the last 10 years. Sorry that upset you so
Pastner & Penny are equally accomplished.
Not in the last 10 years - which is the topic of this thread
So, if the time frame were 11 years… then Pastner’s not so bad?
Nope, if the time frame were 11 years, there would be more non-Penny highlights. No more, no less. That was the point of this post I thought.
(03-08-2024 10:15 AM)true_blue_thru_and_thru Wrote: Good lord dude. We get it. You hate Penny and think he's going to somehow destroy Tiger basketball. You and Nascar Guy can go to a dirt track and entertain each other with stories about how much Penny sucks. Fact is he inherited a program on life support after Tubby and still somehow managed to bring in high major recruits and make the tournament. If you're pissed it hasn't been more successful then I get it but damn, you'd think we have a losing record and signing 1* star guys. There's no way you can argue that the program is in worse shape then it was when he took it over.
Yeah. To have a Liberty Bowl exhibition game win (against a team with a ton of players sitting out), above the first NCAA tourney win in 8 years (and then going on to take the best team in the country down to the wire) speaks volumes.
Our basketball program is truly in the dumps if a 1st round win over #8 seed Boise & a close 2nd round loss is an athletic department high point over the past decade.
Pastner and Tubby in that time period were complete disasters, so yes, Penny has all the highlights of the last 10 years. Sorry that upset you so
Pastner & Penny are equally accomplished.
I think that's a fair statement in a vacuum but now take into account the status of the program each inherited. I'd say Penny had to pretty much start from rock bottom whereas Pastner was given the reins to an insanely successful program.
(03-08-2024 01:29 PM)aardWolf Wrote: If winning bowl games was so easy, everyone would do it. ;-)
And everybody would have a streak of qualifying for 10 consecutive bowl games.
Quote:Memphis has earned berths to 17 bowl games, including 10-consecutive bowl games from 2014-23, the longest active streak in the American Athletic Conference and best among all Group of Five programs.
Making the Cotton Bowl has to be #1. Can you imagine someone coming to you in 2014 and telling you that we would make the Cotton Bowl? It would be asinine to even imagine it, let alone actually doing it. That has to be the biggest moment in the last 10 years for the sports program as a whole.
(03-08-2024 08:22 PM)memphis mania Wrote: Making the Cotton Bowl has to be #1. Can you imagine someone coming to you in 2014 and telling you that we would make the Cotton Bowl? It would be asinine to even imagine it, let alone actually doing it. That has to be the biggest moment in the last 10 years for the sports program as a whole.
(03-08-2024 08:22 PM)memphis mania Wrote: Making the Cotton Bowl has to be #1. Can you imagine someone coming to you in 2014 and telling you that we would make the Cotton Bowl? It would be asinine to even imagine it, let alone actually doing it. That has to be the biggest moment in the last 10 years for the sports program as a whole.
I totally agree. This was an experience that lasted several days. We flew out on the Bank of Bartlett charter. Had a fantastic experience at the pre-game venue the day before the game, then the experience of the game itself. Of course the post-game experience was extended when the charter had “mechanical problems” and we had to hang around the airport for hours and hours.
It was “the best of times” in my experience as a Tiger fan.
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Best Tiger moments last 10 years
