Memphis Tigers & BCS Membership

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Big Slick

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For those of us that have had less than pleasant things to say about UT's administration in recent years...it could be worse.

Check out Memphis' latest attempt to spit on the dumpster fire that is their BCS conference membership drive. Some of the fans here are a 3-TD loss to Arkansas State (which could happen tomorrow!) away from storming the UofM athletic offices with torches and pitchforks.

University of Memphis pursuing a move to BCS conference
 
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It is pretty bad. They have a president who could give a rat's ass about athletics and an incompetent AD. If the university wants to have any hopes of digging the football program up from the dead they need to start at the top and at least fire RC Johnson, possibly even let Pres. Raines go.
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in basketball only. their football team should get demoted to 1AA
 
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Lol @ some of the comments


If many of its members weren't scared, the Tigers would become the 14th team in the $EC. But schools like Ole Siss know that we would be dominating them within 3-5 years. Bye bye fertile recruiting grounds, TV market, etc..
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The whole Memphis to a BCS thing has just been a complete comedy of errors since the Big East's latest expansion. The Memphis AD actually printed up a pamphlet (a physical, tri-fold pamphlet) to exhibit the advantages of Memphis in the Big East. The Big East opted for DePaul and USF instead, despite the 7th grade science fair-esque marketing ploy by Memphis. Go figure.

Now, for the latest round of expansion talks, RC Johnson (Memphis AD) has managed to field the WORST football program in recent D1a history. It's truly pathetic to be a 17 point dog to Arkansas State.

Our only hope is tro try to throw our lot in with Kansas and hope that we can both ride basketball success into a new BCS league.
 
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As an aside, Southern Miss probably deserves a look from a reconfigured Big 12, assuming that there is a reconfigured Big 12 and that it retains an automatic BCS bid.

MTSU has a better chance of getting into a BCS conference than Memphis.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
As an aside, Southern Miss probably deserves a look from a reconfigured Big 12, assuming that there is a reconfigured Big 12 and that it retains an automatic BCS bid.

MTSU has a better chance of getting into a BCS conference than Memphis.
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Whow whoa, let's not go crazy.

Southern is screwed when it comes to other conferences because they're third man on the totem pole in a state that already has a small TV market.

Hell, if Ole Miss and State weren't already lifers in the SEC, you think any conferences would be looking their way right now?
 
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MemphisCanes said:
The whole Memphis to a BCS thing has just been a complete comedy of errors since the Big East's latest expansion. The Memphis AD actually printed up a pamphlet (a physical, tri-fold pamphlet) to exhibit the advantages of Memphis in the Big East. The Big East opted for DePaul and USF instead, despite the 7th grade science fair-esque marketing ploy by Memphis. Go figure.

Now, for the latest round of expansion talks, RC Johnson (Memphis AD) has managed to field the WORST football program in recent D1a history. It's truly pathetic to be a 17 point dog to Arkansas State.

Our only hope is tro try to throw our lot in with Kansas and hope that we can both ride basketball success into a new BCS league.
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An interesting take on this is that some Memphis fans are placing a good bit of the blame on Calipari's tenure...specifically how he seemed to have R.C. in his back pocket. Most of the athletics budget went towards basketball, when all of the conference realignment momentum, TV deals, etc. were being driven by football.

Louisville, Cincinnati, TCU, South Florida, UCF, and even SMU now had no trouble grasping this, and built winning football programs. Memphis's administration went to Kinko's and printed off some pamphlets.
 
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Hell, a couple more good years out of e carolina and they might get a look.
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MemphisCanes said:
Whow whoa, let's not go crazy.

Southern is screwed when it comes to other conferences because they're third man on the totem pole in a state that already has a small TV market.

Hell, if Ole Miss and State weren't already lifers in the SEC, you think any conferences would be looking their way right now?
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Football is driving the bus in this realignment process. USM has the football chops to get a look. A revised Big 12 might enjoy planting a flag in SEC country. If Memphis wants a chance they need to start selling out the Liberty Bowl beginning with the Austin Peay game next week and they need to break ground on a new on/adjacent to campus football stadium ASAP. Winning C-USA this year might help as well. I agree with what Big Slick posted. U of M put all their chips on basketball because that is what the locals support in Big Shelby and they though Coach Cal would take them to the promised land. If the endgame was to get into a BCS conference, it was a gross miscalculation all the way around.

edit: I also think that Miss State and/or Ole Miss could join the Big 12 tomorrow if either wanted to.
 
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Funny how the Big East chose DePaul, a basketball-only school with a currently awful basketball program, over Memphis. They picked the Chicago TV market over everything in UM's pamphlet.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
Football is driving the bus in this realignment process. USM has the football chops to get a look. A revised Big 12 might enjoy planting a flag in SEC country. If Memphis wants a chance they need to start selling out the Liberty Bowl beginning with the Austin Peay game next week and they need to break ground on a new on/adjacent to campus football stadium ASAP. Winning C-USA this year might help as well. I agree with what Big Slick posted. U of M put all their chips on basketball because that is what the locals support in Big Shelby and they though Coach Cal would take them to the promised land. If the endgame was to get into a BCS conference, it was a gross miscalculation all the way around.

edit: I also think that Miss State and/or Ole Miss could join the Big 12 tomorrow if either wanted to.
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I would put my money on USM being part of a weaker, rebuilt Big XII.
 
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And, if they need one more team, I think they'd changed their minds about adding another Texas school before they'd expand into Hattiesburg, MS.
 
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If all these newbie programs can get from non existent to where they are in a decade, memphis could as well. Tiger high sucks
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