Memphis Letting Their Feeling Known...

UNTLifer · July 10

About where their future commitment lies.

https://www.athleticbusiness.com/operations/personnel/article/15679157/memphis-ads-contract-awards-250k-bonus-if-tigers-enter-power-conference

southsideguy · July 10

good luck with that, the big guys are not looking for new teams. they want to dump some teams.

Mean Green 93-98 · July 10

It's very conceivable that Memphis gets invited to the ACC once Florida State, Clemson, and co. bail. But will it really be a power conference at that point?

NT80 · July 10

Memphis is a small market and probation-central with their coaches/athletes. Nobody invites a Thug-U intentionally...unless it's Florida State, lol.

Mean Green 93-98 · July 10

20 minutes ago, NT80 said:

Memphis is a small market and probation-central with their coaches/athletes. Nobody invites a Thug-U intentionally...unless it's Florida State, lol.

If the Big 12 or ACC need a couple of replacements, who are the next schools up?

NT80 · July 10

35 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

If the Big 12 or ACC need a couple of replacements, who are the next schools up?

Both recently overloaded in expansion...just in case they lost some schools. I think both can be happy with no replacements. 16 is too many in a conference in my opinion. 14 or 12 is better.

wardly · July 10

3 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

It's very conceivable that Memphis gets invited to the ACC once Florida State, Clemson, and co. bail. But will it really be a power conference at that point?

Similar to the BIG 12 when they added Cincy,UCF,Houston and BYU after losing Texas and OU.

RBP79 · July 10

I don't think they got enough money to buy their way into a P4 conference they way Smut did.

Cougar King · July 10

Nobody likes Memphis, they still claim we played Texas politics and stole their Big 12 spot. They deserve the current AAC.

DeepGreen · July 10

Screw Memphis! Who do they think they are? I still think of them as Missouri Valley Conference material like the old days.

DentonStang · July 10

Memphis is a post-apocalyptic wasteland city. No market at all. They add nothing to a conference, unless you think that giant AI data center Elon is about to build will flip the whole city.

Invest in slums today.

Cougar King · July 11

1 hour ago, DentonStang said:

Memphis is a post-apocalyptic wasteland city. No market at all. They add nothing to a conference, unless you think that giant AI data center Elon is about to build will flip the whole city.

Invest in slums today.

And that's why they're rotting in the AAC with USF.

Matt from A700 · July 11

7 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

It's very conceivable that Memphis gets invited to the ACC once Florida State, Clemson, and co. bail. But will it really be a power conference at that point?

Not a power conference but it will still be, as many SMU fans have reminded us, better than The American.

MrAlien · July 11

Joining a power conference is about money, BIG money... The fact they they are only offering $250K as a bonus for getting into one shows that they are not ready.

NT80 · July 11

19 minutes ago, MrAlien said:

Joining a power conference is about money, BIG money... The fact they they are only offering $250K as a bonus for getting into one shows that they are not ready.

The Memphis AD has a better chance of getting AD job in P4 than collecting that bonus.

golfingomez · July 11

22 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

About where their future commitment lies.

https://www.athleticbusiness.com/operations/personnel/article/15679157/memphis-ads-contract-awards-250k-bonus-if-tigers-enter-power-conference

yeah... i would assume this is on most G5 contracts... why not? the bump in revenue would make this small potatoes...