Interesting timing...

John Martin @JohnMartin929
Memphis releases a statement saying it's firmly in negotiations with Justin Fuente, will put out formal announcement at appropriate time.

Darn. I thought this was something else.

(12-02-2014 09:31 PM)80sTiger Wrote:  Darn. I thought this was something else.

haha, I was hoping it was something else.

Dude. Why did you not put a football icon?

(12-02-2014 09:31 PM)80sTiger Wrote:  Darn. I thought this was something else.

Maybe CJF is going to coach basketball as well…….I would bet we would be much better.

Sorry, guys.

It was funnier before. Ha Ha.

(12-02-2014 09:32 PM)KendallC Wrote:  Dude. Why did you not put a football icon?

I'm guessing the word "Fuente" in the title gave most people a clue.

(12-02-2014 09:50 PM)selleg1 Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 09:32 PM)KendallC Wrote:  Dude. Why did you not put a football icon?

I'm guessing the word "Fuente" in the title gave most people a clue.

I didn't have his name in the original post. I edited it later. I didn't mean to cause stir although it was pretty funny.

(12-02-2014 09:50 PM)selleg1 Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 09:32 PM)KendallC Wrote:  Dude. Why did you not put a football icon?

I'm guessing the word "Fuente" in the title gave most people a clue.

He changed the title later ...

(12-02-2014 09:50 PM)selleg1 Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 09:32 PM)KendallC Wrote:  Dude. Why did you not put a football icon?

I'm guessing the word "Fuente" in the title gave most people a clue.

At first his name wasn't IN the title..... Later, when people started to complain and/or comment that they had opened this thread in error, he decided it would be more polite to add Fuente's name to the thread.

(12-02-2014 09:33 PM)SNF6 Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 09:31 PM)80sTiger Wrote:  Darn. I thought this was something else.

Maybe CJF is going to coach basketball as well…….I would bet we would be much better.

it's so funny how the "football types" post stuff like this

I guess it's been a few years

bang the chest now

(12-02-2014 09:31 PM)anothertigerfan Wrote:  Interesting timing...

John Martin @JohnMartin929
Memphis releases a statement saying it's firmly in negotiations with Justin Fuente, will put out formal announcement at appropriate time.

Reworking the contract according to the Bleacher Report. Never would have guessed that

(12-02-2014 10:41 PM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 09:31 PM)anothertigerfan Wrote:  Interesting timing...

John Martin @JohnMartin929
Memphis releases a statement saying it's firmly in negotiations with Justin Fuente, will put out formal announcement at appropriate time.

Reworking the contract according to the Bleacher Report. Never would have guessed that

Don't forget about the assistants....

How great would it be to lock Fuente up and fire Pastner in the same night??? #wishfulthinking

(12-02-2014 10:51 PM)FCBE TIGER Wrote:  How great would it be to lock Fuente up and fire Pastner in the same night??? #wishfulthinking

It would be stupid.

(12-02-2014 10:07 PM)k2tigers Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 09:33 PM)SNF6 Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 09:31 PM)80sTiger Wrote:  Darn. I thought this was something else.

Maybe CJF is going to coach basketball as well…….I would bet we would be much better.

it's so funny how the "football types" post stuff like this

I guess it's been a few years

bang the chest now

Per the bolded, please explain. Us so called football types also happen to buy basketball season tix along with our season football tix and support Tiger basketball with great passion. It's just a shame our basketball coach can't do in 6 years what our football coach has done in 3 in a much tougher job. And for the record, I for one, as you said, am not banging my chest. It makes me sick and disgusted to see our proud basketball program turn into the train wreck that it has become under Pastner.

(12-02-2014 10:42 PM)midtowncowboy Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 10:41 PM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 09:31 PM)anothertigerfan Wrote:  Interesting timing...

John Martin @JohnMartin929
Memphis releases a statement saying it's firmly in negotiations with Justin Fuente, will put out formal announcement at appropriate time.

Reworking the contract according to the Bleacher Report. Never would have guessed that

Don't forget about the assistants....

...The Commercial Appeal reports Memphis is in the final stages of the renegotiation process, and the timing of it all should not be overlooked. With job openings at Michigan and Nebraska and a coaching search already aggressively underway at Florida, Fuente is an attractive coaching option. If you can win at Memphis, let alone win at least a share of the conference championship, bigger programs with deeper pockets are going to take notice.

If Fuente is renegotiating with Memphis now, then it could be a sign that Fuente is happy where he is, at least for now. Fuente is in the third year of his contract at Memphis. He took over a program that had won just two games before his first season, and he quickly doubled that win total in his first season. Fuente’s Tigers won just three games in his second season, but the building blocks were put in place for a promising 2014 season. Memphis went 9-3 this season and clinched at least a share of the AAC title and is going to a bowl game for the first time since 2008.

Please get this done! I'm already tired of hearing his name being brought up for coaching vacancies.

(12-02-2014 10:55 PM)wylioats Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 10:07 PM)k2tigers Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 09:33 PM)SNF6 Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 09:31 PM)80sTiger Wrote:  Darn. I thought this was something else.

Maybe CJF is going to coach basketball as well…….I would bet we would be much better.

it's so funny how the "football types" post stuff like this

I guess it's been a few years

bang the chest now

Per the bolded, please explain. Us so called football types also happen to buy basketball season tix along with our season football tix and support Tiger basketball with great passion. It's just a shame our basketball coach can't do in 6 years what our football coach has done in 3 in a much tougher job. And for the record, I for one, as you said, am not banging my chest. It makes me sick and disgusted to see our proud basketball program turn into the train wreck that it has become under Pastner.

holy S wyli

I typed that without knowing what happened tonight.