MUTS & ASU Get Home-Homes with Memphis

MeanGreen61 · August 10, 2005

The University of Memphis and Middle Tennessee State, two football programs who have not played since 1954, will resume their series beginning in 2007.

Johnson also said the Tigers will resume another Mid-South series, bringing back Arkansas State. ASU is not on the 2005 Memphis schedule, but the Indians and Tigers played in 2000, 2003 and 2004 and throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Memphis leads the series, 27-20-5.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/tigers...3992090,00.html

Arkstfan · August 10, 2005

Most played series in ASU history. Third most played for Memphis (just behind Ole Miss and Southern Miss).

Especially sweet for me. I was in a big war on the Memphis board earlier in the summer where they were saying the only way ASU and Memphis would play again would be if it were Memphis only, or a 2 for 1 or 3 for 1 series and I let them know Dean Lee wouldn't sign a contract with them unless it was home/home (of course it helped that I already knew we were close to signing this deal )

MeanGreen61 · August 10, 2005

Memphis fans are mixin' up a big batch of kool-aide

http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/memphis/invi...10&t=32181&st=0

ntmeangreen11 · August 11, 2005

Good greif,they sign series with sun belt teams,and act like its the end of the world. Were they this bad when they were on our forum leading up to the New Orleans Bowl?

Baby Arm! · August 11, 2005

Good greif,they sign series with sun belt teams,and act like its the end of the world. Were they this bad when they were on our forum leading up to the New Orleans Bowl?
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Traditionally Memphis hasn't had too much to brag about football-wise. 2003 was their first bowl team in like 30 years, a second bowl worthy team last year and now their fans feel slighted not to be in the BCS.

Their running back Deangleo Williams is getting some Heisman talk, but he only came back for his senior season this year because his NFL draft stock dropped due to two consecutive years with season ending injuries. He's been tabbed "injury prone". Time will tell if he's durable enough to finish an entire NCAA season let alone a NFL one.

Edited August 11, 2005 by Baby Arm!