Tennessee - Memphis cancelled

#352
#352
Aladywhovolunteer said:
Mo, although I don't currently live in Tennessee and haven't for fifty years. I have multiply family who are graduates of UM and UT. From talking with them, my sensing is winning this game is much more important to UM than UT. Since UM is not part of the state university system beating them is very important to UM. That is why I truly believe if the game was playable it would have been played.

There is an argument now that someone from UM told news sources they may have been able to get four or five players on the floor that were not compromised if pushed. Really? Surely, no one wants to play UM with four players and maybe five. We are bigger than that. I would hope.
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Another Memphis news source and another "contradictory" answer. We have asymptomatic players, we have players who are sick, we could have fielded a partial team, etc, etc, etc. At some point, Memphis has a coach that has been caught cheating in AAU, in middle school, in high school, at Memphis. He hired an assistant (Larry Brown) who might have cheated more than he did. At some point, they don't get the benefit of the doubt. Between Wolken, Parrish, Cobb, and Ciaciolla, they have 4 former beat writers who could do some PR from a national perspective (which they need right now). Those guys aren't touching this story. The other biggest media players in Memphis aren't touching it. They are running their PR through some low level guy at the Commercial Appeal.
 
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#353
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Aladywhovolunteer said:
Mo, although I don't currently live in Tennessee and haven't for fifty years. I have multiply family who are graduates of UM and UT. From talking with them, my sensing is winning this game is much more important to UM than UT. Since UM is not part of the state university system beating them is very important to UM. That is why I truly believe if the game was playable it would have been played.

There is an argument now that someone from UM told news sources they may have been able to get four or five players on the floor that were not compromised if pushed. Really? Surely, no one wants to play UM with four players and maybe five. We are bigger than that. I would hope.
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Obviously Memphis needed this game a lot more than TN. Their only other chances for quality wins this season are the 2 conference games vs. Houston. If, and that’s a big if, they are able to get into the NCAAT, their resume will not have enough “ quality” wins to be a decent seed.
 
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Aladywhovolunteer said:
Mo, although I don't currently live in Tennessee and haven't for fifty years. I have multiply family who are graduates of UM and UT. From talking with them, my sensing is winning this game is much more important to UM than UT. Since UM is not part of the state university system beating them is very important to UM. That is why I truly believe if the game was playable it would have been played.

There is an argument now that someone from UM told news sources they may have been able to get four or five players on the floor that were not compromised if pushed. Really? Surely, no one wants to play UM with four players and maybe five. We are bigger than that. I would hope.
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Obviously UM is part of the state of Tennessee schools. What I should have said was it's not part of the University of Tennesse Sytems of schools.
 
#355
#355
Aladywhovolunteer said:
I understand your point, but the issue is not testing... the issue is exposure to positive COVID-19 patents. That puts you into a controlled environment until cleared. Right?
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Before commenting as the expert, you might want to make yourself familiar with all the updated rules concerning COVID and ensuing competition guidelines.
 
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Hardaway probably knew his team wasn't ready to compete and used the Covid excuse to dodge the game entirely. It is just another reason to end any relationship with that school. It's bad medicine to schedule games with them. When you consider all the people this affected, the travel time and reservations gone to waste, and the fact that they notified us shortly before the scheduled start time, I think it would be foolish to ever trust Tiger High to keep any future scheduling commitment. Let this serve as a lesson learned.
 
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In the long run and with clarified information, this may keep Memphis out of the NCAA and even the NIT. My guess is that they end up in the NIT.
It is quite obvious that Penny is not the Answer for Memphis and is a total disgrace to that Program.
What he pulled today is a AAU type gimmick, I don't think the Coaches or writers will give a break and see right through his Circus.
I maybe wrong but how I would deal with it.
 
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GiveHim6InSC said:
I’d say this is more believable than covid. Nobody’s gonna question it
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Well, after hearing what she (cheer/dance team member) said, I’m more inclined to think there is more to it than breaking covid protocol. An hour before tipoff? This isn’t 2020 where players were symptomatic and the disease was new with much uncertainty. I’m not saying it’s not a bad disease, yet that most of the players are vaccinated and the others are tested the night before.
Now I have to figure out how to get my $350 back as I must have gone thru a third party site instead of Ticketmaster.
 
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#370
Aladywhovolunteer said:
Having to cancel this game is a blow to all of us that so desperately want to get back to some semblance of normal. However, having said that, both schools' fans' hot takes are concerning. As I understand it University of Memphis had a student athele wake up this morning in his hotel room sick. That student tested positive for COVID-19 as well as his room mate. No one tested positive from a party last night...thats silly. Incubation is three to five days. Because the team traveled together all players must go into COVID-19 protocol. Therefore UM had no team to put on the court. In a country where over 800 000 have died from COVID-19 no sane person would have tried to play this game. That's just crazy talk.
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My statements were around the players and others partying all night. I’m not saying anyone tested positive from a party but there is more to play his story. I’m not a conspiracy theorist; however, something I don’t think this is covid related. Even Barnes commented that other teams play thru it. Most are vaccinated and tested negative last night.
 
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Aladywhovolunteer said:
Point is UM didn't have 5 players. The entire team went into COVID-19 protocol because of exposure. Unfortunate situation and terrible timing but to have ignored the positive tests and played would have been criminal.
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I am sure IF they were positive they would have been positive last night. Awfully fishy that you test the morning of the game and they are positive 2 hours before the game. I am sure they didn’t get up 2 hours before the game. Why not test as soon as they got up?
 
#374
#374
Aladywhovolunteer said:
Understand your frustration. I was really looking forward to this game. But in fairness, no one contracted COVID-19 on Friday night and tested positive on Saturday morning. Incubation is a minimum of three to five days. The alleged infamous "party" was a gathering of UM alumni and boosters...doubt if there were many attendees unvaccinated.
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And that is NOT true. It may have started that way & first but didn’t end that way.
 
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