Penny Hardaway admits he regrets the Rick Barnes incident

[Tman44]

This has certainly taken some time to develop. I thought he looked like a complete @$$ at the time, and he obviously recognizes that in retrospect. He discusses this in a recent interview that also touches on him being one of the two most hated coaches in NCAAM basketball. Hardaway also says he would love to play the rubber match that seems never to get played due to COVID.

Penny Hardaway's biggest regret as Memphis basketball coach? Start with Rick Barnes

 

[kyvol98]

irrelevant coach of an irrelevant program

 

[butchna]

It's almost impossible to reach the "high road" when you bury yourself in your own sewer's muck.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

 

[Chris4Vols22]

I always enjoyed the Memphis-UT rivalry. I hope the series gets back on track someday.

 

[Special Ed]

It won't be long before someone bruises his over-inflated ego and he spouts off again.
Anfernee gonna Anfernee.

 

[HypeVol2020]

He disrespected our players and coach… then pulled the BS he did an hour before tip off in Nashville. That game will not be rescheduled as long as Barnes and/or Penny are the coaches, and rightfully so.

 

[Delmar]

This has certainly taken some time to develop. I thought he looked like a complete @$$ at the time, and he obviously recognizes that in retrospect. He discusses this in a recent interview that also touches on him being one of the two most hated coaches in NCAAM basketball. Hardaway also says he would love to play the rubber match that seems never to get played due to COVID.

Penny Hardaway's biggest regret as Memphis basketball coach? Start with Rick Barnes

Yeah, nobody cares. The moral to this story is if you say stupid , you generally don’t make a ton of friends. Never play them in any sport. We gain nothing from it.

 

[movinonup]

He disrespected our players and coach… then pulled the BS he did an hour before tip off in Nashville. That game will not be rescheduled as long as Barnes and/or Penny are the coaches, and rightfully so.

As someone that spent 2 hours driving to this game only to see signs saying it was cancelled after we got in the building, paid for parking and then drove 2 hours back home (after thankfully at least getting to see an intra-squad scrimmage), I hope we never play them again.

 

[TnVol!]

Don't care. We dont need him or the university of tiger high

 

[Voltopia]

I'm putting a bounty out on Memphis and Penny: free likes for anyone who tells them just how much they suck. Everyone gets a like. No questions asked.

Seriously though, Hardaway's "at the time, people overplayed it" and his other comment about how coaches were a network and he wasn't playing "nice" with the network, those are two good examples of his immature attitude. He doesn't think he did anything wrong, he just thinks he got singled out because he didn't conform -- when the reality is he got singled out because he was acting like an immature ass. He'll never apologize. Just say "oh, I regret it." Uh huh. Sure.

Also, I love how Memphis sports writers always talk about Rick Barnes "mocking" Memphis with a joke like it somehow justified Hardaway's cursing out Barnes to the media. The joke was a single throwaway comment during an entire Vol Calls radio show. It was about as nothing a comment as you could imagine, three seconds and they moved on, but oh, gosh, look out, mean old Rick hurt our poor little Tiggers' fee-fees. Morons.

 

[sonofUT62]

As someone that spent 2 hours driving to this game only to see signs saying it was cancelled after we got in the building, paid for parking and then drove 2 hours back home (after thankfully at least getting to see an intra-squad scrimmage), I hope we never play them again.

I was reading the comments thinking ….damn the man said he was sorry. Then I got to your comment and I remembered why people are still mad.

 

[tennrich1]

Makes me soooo proud Rick Barnes is the Vols head coach. AH, unfortunately for Memphis, will have to commit murder before UM could ever fire him. So glad we don’t have someone of his moral ineptness running our program.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

I always enjoyed the Memphis-UT rivalry. I hope the series gets back on track someday.

Won’t happen until Penny is gone

 

[Voltopia]

As someone that spent 2 hours driving to this game only to see signs saying it was cancelled after we got in the building, paid for parking and then drove 2 hours back home (after thankfully at least getting to see an intra-squad scrimmage), I hope we never play them again.

Which you can thank Memphis for, because their team went to a party the night before, knowing they were supposed to isolate prior to the game as part of whatever was being done to protect players at the time. And then, icing on the cake, some of the Memphis players went on Twitter and took shots at Rick Barnes the next day for saying it wouldn't be made up. Classless. Utterly classless. The lot of them.

You won't convince me to this day that Memphis didn't intentionally sabotage that game. I can't imagine they were interested in getting punked by both Barnes and Kennedy Chandler.

 

[VolsFan-TX]

I was reading the comments thinking ….damn the man said he was sorry. Then I got to your comment and I remembered why people are still mad.

He never apologized for lying about our players rushing the court with clenched fists ready to fight. With the BS he pulled canceling the scheduled Nashville game, I hope we never play them again until Penny is fired. Our program does not need to schedule Memphis and we are better off not subjecting our players to that clown.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

“Balled up fists”

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Funny. Wasn’t it a few years ago that UT wanted a basketball series but Memphis State wouldn’t do it unless football home and homes were included?

 

[walkenvol]

I was reading the comments thinking ….damn the man said he was sorry. Then I got to your comment and I remembered why people are still mad.

Did he say he takes responsibility for his actions and apologize or did he say he’s sorry it happened? Huge difference in my opinion.

If we’re voting I’m on the side of never schedule Memphis State again while $0.01 is coach. They play in a crap conference - we have nothing to gain and everything to lose playing them. Play Chattanooga, ETSU, or Middle TN State if we want a decent in state team on our OOC schedule.

 

[OrangeInKy]

He doesn't regret it. He regrets the result of his stupidity. If he regretted it, he would have admitted he lied and our players didn't have clenched fists, ready to fight. You can't say you egret something you won't even admit you did. He has admitted and expressed regret over what he said about Barnes but not the stuff that started the whole thing, which was his dirty lies in spite of actual. video evidence.

 

[VolMarine1371]

I always enjoyed the Memphis-UT rivalry. I hope the series gets back on track someday.

It will get started back once Hardaway is fired.

 

[Orange.]

I'm more than OK with it never happening again, and let Penny (and the administration that supported him) be the reason forever. Many other teams in the world to play.

 

[volball57]

“Balled up fists”

DJ Burns was the only player that came close to fitting that description, from what I remember.

 

[supersmo18]

I want the UT-Memphis rivalry game back, but forget Penny. Still a grade A jackwagon in my book. Apologies or not.

 

[savannahfan]

He disrespected our players and coach… then pulled the BS he did an hour before tip off in Nashville. That game will not be rescheduled as long as Barnes and/or Penny are the coaches, and rightfully so.

It took a loooong time for UT-UCONN women to start playing again. That would not be a long enough time to restart UT- Memphis St.