FTR, the P5 is watching our commitment to a Football Program NOT who are Coach is. We are demonstrating a commitment to try and retain Fuente and will demonstrate a commitment if he stays (by our offer) or if he leaves (by our next hire). Losing Fuente is NOT a blow to our P5 chances, Bb sucking does not affect our chances. Crowd for SMU and actually getting started on the IPF ( we are still short money and TBR will not let us start without ALL the money) are much more important for the P5. Incidentally the IPF lack of construction did not help us with Fuente.

(11-24-2015 09:47 PM)George CantStandYa Wrote:  FTR, the P5 is watching our commitment to a Football Program NOT who are Coach is. We are demonstrating a commitment to try and retain Fuente and will demonstrate a commitment if he stays (by our offer) or if he leaves (by our next hire). Losing Fuente is NOT a blow to our P5 chances, Bb sucking does not affect our chances. Crowd for SMU and actually getting started on the IPF ( we are still short money and TBR will not let us start without ALL the money) are much more important for the P5. Incidentally the IPF lack of construction did not help us with Fuente.

I got a real bad feeling about the crowd on Saturday. That being said, one game ain't gonna make a difference.

Our Next Coach Will be Barry Odom and He will bring in a Aggressive OC with him as well as Some of his Defensive Staff from Mizzou....Donate to the TSF Pack The LBS, Because We MUST succeed in FB our it won't be pretty down the Road....The World Is Ours Memphis.....

(11-24-2015 09:59 PM)tigerscane Wrote:  Our Next Coach Will be Barry Odom and He will bring in a Aggressive OC with him as well as Some of his Defensive Staff from Mizzou....Donate to the TSF Pack The LBS, Because We MUST succeed in FB our it won't be pretty down the Road....The World Is Ours Memphis.....

So, if you were to chart the tigerscane position on the Tiger football program it would go something like this:

Memphis & Cincy are absolute locks for the B12 as of last year. Look for the announcement around March Madness.

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Memphis & Cincy are absolute locks for the B12 as of this year, look for them to add 2 more teams afterwards

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We must succeed in FB our (sic) it won't be pretty down the Road

It's always nice to get the insider's perspective.

I thought they kept saying that construction will start after the football season is over. I don't remember how much the IPF costs but it seems like they would direct all funds to pay for it first before they pay for the basketball facility. When they announced it was happening, they already had $24 million raised and needed another $16 million. Surely they would make sure they could fund the IPF completely before they would fund the basketball facility

(11-24-2015 10:07 PM)Bathtub Gin Wrote:  I thought they kept saying that construction will start after the football season is over. I don't remember how much the IPF costs but it seems like they would direct all funds to pay for it first before they pay for the basketball facility. When they announced it was happening, they already had $24 million raised and needed another $16 million. Surely they would make sure they could fund the IPF completely before they would fund the basketball facility

...before they announced that construction would commence at a particular time.

The last thing we need to do is hire a defensive guy as head coach....that includes Odom.

(11-24-2015 09:47 PM)George CantStandYa Wrote:  FTR, the P5 is watching our commitment to a Football Program NOT who are Coach is. We are demonstrating a commitment to try and retain Fuente and will demonstrate a commitment if he stays (by our offer) or if he leaves (by our next hire). Losing Fuente is NOT a blow to our P5 chances, Bb sucking does not affect our chances. Crowd for SMU and actually getting started on the IPF ( we are still short money and TBR will not let us start without ALL the money) are much more important for the P5. Incidentally the IPF lack of construction did not help us with Fuente.

They are probably reading this board to see what the fans are like too...we're doomed.

(11-24-2015 09:56 PM)3601 Wrote:  

(11-24-2015 09:47 PM)George CantStandYa Wrote:  FTR, the P5 is watching our commitment to a Football Program NOT who are Coach is. We are demonstrating a commitment to try and retain Fuente and will demonstrate a commitment if he stays (by our offer) or if he leaves (by our next hire). Losing Fuente is NOT a blow to our P5 chances, Bb sucking does not affect our chances. Crowd for SMU and actually getting started on the IPF ( we are still short money and TBR will not let us start without ALL the money) are much more important for the P5. Incidentally the IPF lack of construction did not help us with Fuente.

I got a real bad feeling about the crowd on Saturday. That being said, one game ain't gonna make a difference.

One game won't make a difference but a picture is worth a thousand words.

If he does go to VA TECH, he won't have to worry about butts in the seats.

(11-24-2015 10:32 PM)Bluebeard Wrote:  The last thing we need to do is hire a defensive guy as head coach....that includes Odom.

This is the RIGHT answer........

I'd love to see Matt Campbell as our new head coach - just what we need, a very good head coach with both excellent offense & defense experience & understanding. A tireless worker & great credentials.

I'm not a fan of a def coord as the head coach either, just me.

Tom Bowen will make this hire. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing will be determined

Holy lord, that sounds ominous.

I told yall the IPF money wasn't there...

Congratulations?

(11-24-2015 10:07 PM)Bathtub Gin Wrote:  I thought they kept saying that construction will start after the football season is over. I don't remember how much the IPF costs but it seems like they would direct all funds to pay for it first before they pay for the basketball facility. When they announced it was happening, they already had $24 million raised and needed another $16 million. Surely they would make sure they could fund the IPF completely before they would fund the basketball facility

Folks like GA have been dragging their feet.

(11-25-2015 11:53 AM)3601 Wrote:  

(11-24-2015 10:07 PM)Bathtub Gin Wrote:  I thought they kept saying that construction will start after the football season is over. I don't remember how much the IPF costs but it seems like they would direct all funds to pay for it first before they pay for the basketball facility. When they announced it was happening, they already had $24 million raised and needed another $16 million. Surely they would make sure they could fund the IPF completely before they would fund the basketball facility

Folks like GA have been dragging their feet.

If we had "folks like GA" running things we'd still run the split T and have a one platoon system.

(11-25-2015 12:06 PM)Brother Bluto Wrote:  

(11-25-2015 11:53 AM)3601 Wrote:  

(11-24-2015 10:07 PM)Bathtub Gin Wrote:  I thought they kept saying that construction will start after the football season is over. I don't remember how much the IPF costs but it seems like they would direct all funds to pay for it first before they pay for the basketball facility. When they announced it was happening, they already had $24 million raised and needed another $16 million. Surely they would make sure they could fund the IPF completely before they would fund the basketball facility

Folks like GA have been dragging their feet.

If we had "folks like GA" running things we'd still run the split T and have a one platoon system.

...and only 1 uniform color combination.

Saturday ... Losing streak, coach almost certainly gone, lousy SMU, Thanksgiving weekend, and an 80% chance of cold rain. You tell me what you think that crowd will be like.

(11-25-2015 12:17 PM)80sTiger Wrote:  Saturday ... Losing streak, coach almost certainly gone, lousy SMU, Thanksgiving weekend, and an 80% chance of cold rain. You tell me what you think that crowd will be like.

I'll play - 23,650.