Memphis Letting Their Feeling Known...

[UNTLifer]

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]

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

[Mean Green 93-98]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Cougar King]

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

[DeepGreen]

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

[DentonStang]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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...