Big East Expansion: Memphis? Sure, Why Not
by Sean Keeley on Feb 7, 2012 2:40 PM EST
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PrintIn my Mookie Jones' mind, there is already Big East conference that includes the Syracuse Orange and Memphis Tigers. Of course, in my vision the Tigers were added preemptively a decade ago along with other Eastern schools on the rise, but that's why I'm not the commissioner of the Big East.
The Memphis Tigers and the Big East are reportedly in "the final stages of negotiations" to add the Tigers in all sports starting in 2013. The move would complete the conference's need for 12 teams when the dust clears in 2014 and Syracuse, West Virginia and Pittsburgh are officially gone, if not sooner.
The good news for the Big East is that Memphis is a respectable basketball program. They're not what they were under John Calipari but they're a helluva lot better than Houston, SMU and UCF.
The bad news for the Big East is that Memphis might just be the worst football program in the FBS. Five wins in the past three seasons (2-10, 1-11, 2-10).
Like I've said a million times, the Big East should just decide if its a football-first conference or a basketball-first conference and proceed as such. When you add a school like Memphis on the heels of adding Boise State, you're just confirming that you're just throwing darts blindly and praying to God a couple stick.
To which you reply, "But they wouldn't have to if Syracuse, Pitt and West Virginia weren't traitors."
To which I reply, "If the Big East actually had any foresight at some point in the past 20 years, we'd still be here to welcome Memphis (and UCF and whoever else) into the fold."
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Don't give Memphis that much credit...
They haven’t been to the Final Four since 1985.
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
by StrawHatGuy on Feb 7, 2012 2:59 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
Huh?
Memphis played in Championship game vs Kansas, and blew the game in the final seconds just a few years ago, didnt they?
by OrangeinJersey on Feb 7, 2012 3:00 PM EST up reply actions
Just googled it, 2008 Title Game, Memphis vs Kansas
The Derek Rose Memphis Squad
by OrangeinJersey on Feb 7, 2012 3:01 PM EST up reply actions
According to that Article
They weren’t actually in the 85 final four either, those wins were vacated.
But technically wasn't it vacated because Calipari is a cheating greasy slimeball?
Syracuse '13
by OrangeCrush13 on Feb 7, 2012 3:03 PM EST up reply actions
Calipari technically never made it to the Final 4 until last year with Kentucky. And it’s only a matter of time until that one’s vacated.
Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
wow. no one has a sense of humor today.
and yes, Cal is a greasy wop of the first order.
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
My bad, I completely forgot those wins were vacated.
Just goes to show you how worthless the “vacated” wins punishment. So you can’t hang a banner, who cares, the game was still played, and i still remember it as do many others.
by OrangeinJersey on Feb 7, 2012 3:44 PM EST up reply actions
I have an irrational amount of hate for that man
I hate John Calipari with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns. I hate him nearly as much as I hate JTIII. Even more than I hate Pitino even.
Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
I concur
As you can see, he’s the only human being I’m willing to drop racial slurs about with no remorse.
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
Memphis lost to UCF
And Southern Mississippi. They’re on the downswing. Which isn’t a surprise. The Big East is buying high with Boise, Houston, and SMU. Why not buy high with Memphis, too?
Hey
5 wins in three years is not THAT bad.
Sincerely,
Greg Robinson
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by ezcuse on Feb 7, 2012 5:05 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Why wasnt ECU added?
theyd do more in football.
Basketball
And no TV market to add. Memphis has the FedEx thing going for them, too.
if I were to guess
Memphis is backfill for Louisville, and the Big East isn’t sure who Big 12 #12 will be yet (presumably it will be Cinci with an outside shot of Rutgers, but the Big 12 isn’t in love with either). They need another basketball name to have any chance of keeping the non-football schools around if Louisville leaves, but I don’t think it will work.
This Just in...
The Big East has accepted Pyongyang University. With the backing of Kim Jong Un, and his threat of force, the BCS will be unable to revoke the AQ status.
Per some Memphis boards
They are “crying tears of joy” and “can’t understand why BYU and Air Force would turn them down”.
It’s kind of like when some poor sap who’s a pretty nice kid starts dating a friend of yours that’s a gigantic slut. I kind feel like telling them the truth. I don’t think they realize they’re going from Conference USA 1 to Conference USA 2.
Or as someone over at Card Chronicle puts it
You know when you’re alone in an elevator and you pass some stinky gas. And then you get to your floor and get out, but somebody else gets in. And you laugh because you know that person is going to have to smell your stinky gas, even though you’re not there anymore. I call that person Memphis.
Ahaha
by cuse2012 on Feb 7, 2012 8:37 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
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