We have played but haven't beaten Kentucky, Georgia and A&M.

(08-29-2014 12:53 AM)plaidtiger Wrote:  We have played but haven't beaten Kentucky, Georgia and A&M.

2-0 against Auburn!

We fired the coach to had our best record against SEC teams because our fans, "voting with their feet" decided he was "boring", despite 3 consecutive 6-win seasons playing SEC-laden schedules. A sound running game with tough defense wasn't good enough. Same half-assed fans who stay at home when a little rain is predicted.

I heard it was some hanky panky in the office that lead to Stobarts demise.

(08-29-2014 12:53 AM)plaidtiger Wrote:  We have played but haven't beaten Kentucky, Georgia and A&M.

We have beaten Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Ole Miss, Miss State, Mizzou, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Never played LSU.

(08-29-2014 08:21 AM)Mick Light Wrote:  I heard it was some hanky panky in the office that lead to Stobarts demise.

Yep. Ol Chuck was Bobby Petrino before it was cool.

I think some of you missed the point of this thread.

(08-29-2014 08:21 AM)Mick Light Wrote:  I heard it was some hanky panky in the office that lead to Stobarts demise.

If average attendance was 40,000 (as it should have been) instead of 12,000 I doubt that his personal indiscretions would have mattered that much.

(08-29-2014 08:27 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(08-29-2014 08:21 AM)Mick Light Wrote:  I heard it was some hanky panky in the office that lead to Stobarts demise.

If average attendance was 40,000 (as it should have been) instead of 12,000 I doubt that his personal indiscretions would have mattered that much.

Tell that to Bobby Petrino

(08-29-2014 08:27 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(08-29-2014 08:21 AM)Mick Light Wrote:  I heard it was some hanky panky in the office that lead to Stobarts demise.

If average attendance was 40,000 (as it should have been) instead of 12,000 I doubt that his personal indiscretions would have mattered that much.

Maybe our fans had the scruples to not want to go watch a boring team coached by a known womanizer ?

(08-29-2014 08:29 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  

(08-29-2014 08:27 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(08-29-2014 08:21 AM)Mick Light Wrote:  I heard it was some hanky panky in the office that lead to Stobarts demise.

If average attendance was 40,000 (as it should have been) instead of 12,000 I doubt that his personal indiscretions would have mattered that much.

Maybe our fans had the scruples to not want to go watch a boring team coached by a known womanizer ?

Sure they did. Good, winning football isn't boring to me. I don't have to see a pass 75% of the time or lots of touchdowns to enjoy it.

I don't really like the tone of Fuente's quote. To me it says, "We're not able to compete with them and we know it."

(08-29-2014 08:41 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(08-29-2014 08:29 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  

(08-29-2014 08:27 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(08-29-2014 08:21 AM)Mick Light Wrote:  I heard it was some hanky panky in the office that lead to Stobarts demise.

If average attendance was 40,000 (as it should have been) instead of 12,000 I doubt that his personal indiscretions would have mattered that much.

Maybe our fans had the scruples to not want to go watch a boring team coached by a known womanizer ?

Sure they did. Good, winning football isn't boring to me. I don't have to see a pass 75% of the time or lots of touchdowns to enjoy it.

God bless you. You should be a cubs fan too. You'd think after 40 years of boring football we woulda "lucked" up ONCE and hired a Sumlin or Leach type.



Sigh

(08-29-2014 08:25 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  I think some of you missed the point of this thread.

I started this thread and I think you missed the point of this thread.

(08-28-2014 02:44 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(08-28-2014 02:37 PM)MemTiger90 Wrote:  

(08-28-2014 02:35 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(08-28-2014 01:24 PM)3601 Wrote:  From Frank Murtaugh's cover story in the Memphis Flyer this week...

http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/is-t...id=3729163

With Ole Miss back on the schedule, the SEC is again on the Memphis radar after a two-year hiatus. Dating back to 1997 (the year after the Tigers' upset of Tennessee at the Liberty Bowl), the Tigers are 2-25 against the country's most powerful conference. Whether or not the SEC stays on the schedule remains to be seen. "I'm okay with playing one stretch game," says Fuente. "That's what you'll see from us in the future. My concern is the league; where are we in the league? Can we build our facilities and compete in this league? I have no inferiority complex with the Southeastern Conference. Our job is to be Sprite, not Coke and not Pepsi. To build a program that's competitive in our realm." — FM

Why did they conveniently pick 1997 as the milestone? In the early 90s we beat Ole Miss, Florida, Miss State, and Arkansas, some of those multiple victories. I know that doesn't even come close to evening up the W-L, but tell it like it is.

Bc it's the Flyer. The same Flyer that said there was really only 20,000 at the Ut Martin home opener 2 years ago

I miss Dennis Freeland.

Maybe he picked post UT win in 1996 because everyone was hoping that would be some sort of watershed moment.

I'm pretty certain that Frank Murtaugh isn't out to get us.

PS
I miss Freeland too.

(08-29-2014 09:11 AM)3601 Wrote:  

(08-29-2014 08:25 AM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  I think some of you missed the point of this thread.

I started this thread and I think you missed the point of this thread.

The point to me was that we haven't beat an SEC team in 10 years and that the odds are we may not ever beat another one any time soon. Then we got someone who wants to bring up the 80s when we beat Bammer and Florida or the 70s when we beat Auburn twice. Let's just blame RC for everything like we always do.

(08-29-2014 08:19 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  We fired the coach to had our best record against SEC teams because our fans, "voting with their feet" decided he was "boring", despite 3 consecutive 6-win seasons playing SEC-laden schedules. A sound running game with tough defense wasn't good enough. Same half-assed fans who stay at home when a little rain is predicted.

He had the Ground Chuck reputation but Matthews set school records for passing. Can't have it both ways.

This is what boils down the Chuck Stobart era to me. Last game of the season, we have East Carolina at home, we win and probably get the Liberty Bowl invitation. Team shows up flat, crowd is flat and the game turns out to be a disaster. No fire in the belly of coaches, players and the fans as well.

True we beat some SEC teams, but that wasn't the SEC that it is now. Tommy's teams beat some much better Ole Miss teams.

(08-29-2014 09:34 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(08-29-2014 08:19 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  We fired the coach to had our best record against SEC teams because our fans, "voting with their feet" decided he was "boring", despite 3 consecutive 6-win seasons playing SEC-laden schedules. A sound running game with tough defense wasn't good enough. Same half-assed fans who stay at home when a little rain is predicted.

He had the Ground Chuck reputation but Matthews set school records for passing. Can't have it both ways.

This is what boils down the Chuck Stobart era to me. Last game of the season, we have East Carolina at home, we win and probably get the Liberty Bowl invitation. Team shows up flat, crowd is flat and the game turns out to be a disaster. No fire in the belly of coaches, players and the fans as well.

True we beat some SEC teams, but that wasn't the SEC that it is now. Tommy's teams beat some much better Ole Miss teams.

Hell we can't ever beat ECU. Same thing happened to Rip after we beat UT

(08-28-2014 02:35 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(08-28-2014 01:24 PM)3601 Wrote:  From Frank Murtaugh's cover story in the Memphis Flyer this week...

http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/is-t...id=3729163

With Ole Miss back on the schedule, the SEC is again on the Memphis radar after a two-year hiatus. Dating back to 1997 (the year after the Tigers' upset of Tennessee at the Liberty Bowl), the Tigers are 2-25 against the country's most powerful conference. Whether or not the SEC stays on the schedule remains to be seen. "I'm okay with playing one stretch game," says Fuente. "That's what you'll see from us in the future. My concern is the league; where are we in the league? Can we build our facilities and compete in this league? I have no inferiority complex with the Southeastern Conference. Our job is to be Sprite, not Coke and not Pepsi. To build a program that's competitive in our realm." — FM

Why did they conveniently pick 1997 as the milestone? In the early 90s we beat Ole Miss, Miss State, and Arkansas, some of those multiple victories. I know that doesn't even come close to evening up the W-L, but tell it like it is.

I think you forgot Alabama and Florida also, or was that the late 80's?

(08-29-2014 09:34 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(08-29-2014 08:19 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  We fired the coach to had our best record against SEC teams because our fans, "voting with their feet" decided he was "boring", despite 3 consecutive 6-win seasons playing SEC-laden schedules. A sound running game with tough defense wasn't good enough. Same half-assed fans who stay at home when a little rain is predicted.

He had the Ground Chuck reputation but Matthews set school records for passing. Can't have it both ways.

This is what boils down the Chuck Stobart era to me. Last game of the season, we have East Carolina at home, we win and probably get the Liberty Bowl invitation. Team shows up flat, crowd is flat and the game turns out to be a disaster. No fire in the belly of coaches, players and the fans as well.

True we beat some SEC teams, but that wasn't the SEC that it is now. Tommy's teams beat some much better Ole Miss teams.

That ECU game was painful to sit through - was Blake ECU's QB that game, cannot remember.

It was also after a close loss to UT in Knoxville from what I remember; maybe that is why they were flat.