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RE: NY Times Article ... Memphis Pins Hopes Of Revival On Tubby Smith
(04-14-2016 08:32 PM)oldmangrizz Wrote:  The attendance average was 11,800 this year?

Tickets sold yup.

We averaged 5k no-shows a game. That's outrageous. 5k people a game decided that the tickets they had paid for werent worth using. LOL.
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(04-15-2016 01:11 AM)TigerTitan Wrote:  
(04-14-2016 08:37 PM)AtlantaTiger Wrote:  Amazing the New York Times writes an article about Memphis basketball and it's new coach, but The Tennessean in Nashville, the capital city does not even mention it. Not a word. Nashville as hard as it tries will never have the class of Memphis.
Hilarious comment based on whether a newspaper not owned or controlled by anyone from Nashville with an even more minute readership than The Commercial Appeal. (Haven't subscribed to it in over ten years.)

You judge 'class' of an entire city on that???

Why not judge us on our weather or buildings or some other arbitrary measurement? How about our local bus service? That would make as much sense!! LOL.

I couldn't care less if The Tennesseean carried a story about my alma mater or not, because I never read it. Why should people from another city care?

Ok man, don't take this personal but Nashville is a bunch of douche bags. The a$$hats are getting a museum dedicated to black music. Anyone with 2 iq points knows this is a complete load of ****.That museum belongs here and 90 percent of the people in it would be from this area . The had to get to defcon one after Memphis announced the ikea store so they could announce theirs . This is nothing to say of all the other **** they try to claim as theirs that Memphis is better at hands down. They should rename that town Xerox because all they do is copy ****.
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RE: NY Times Article ... Memphis Pins Hopes Of Revival On Tubby Smith
(04-14-2016 09:35 PM)SpiderMan79x Wrote:  
(04-14-2016 08:32 PM)oldmangrizz Wrote:  The attendance average was 11,800 this year?

That's the part that stood out to me too. Where did that number come from?

I can think of an answer or two.
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(04-14-2016 08:37 PM)AtlantaTiger Wrote:  Amazing the New York Times writes an article about Memphis basketball and it's new coach, but The Tennessean in Nashville, the capital city does not even mention it. Not a word. Nashville as hard as it tries will never have the class of Memphis.

In the next couple month, expect the Tennessean to have lots of Memphis stories. The CA is owned by the same parent company (Gannett) so you better believe they'll be putting CA articles in the Tennessean as much as they can to save money.
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RE: NY Times Article ... Memphis Pins Hopes Of Revival On Tubby Smith
(04-15-2016 09:45 AM)FUB Wrote:  
(04-15-2016 01:11 AM)TigerTitan Wrote:  
(04-14-2016 08:37 PM)AtlantaTiger Wrote:  Amazing the New York Times writes an article about Memphis basketball and it's new coach, but The Tennessean in Nashville, the capital city does not even mention it. Not a word. Nashville as hard as it tries will never have the class of Memphis.
Hilarious comment based on whether a newspaper not owned or controlled by anyone from Nashville with an even more minute readership than The Commercial Appeal. (Haven't subscribed to it in over ten years.)

You judge 'class' of an entire city on that???

Why not judge us on our weather or buildings or some other arbitrary measurement? How about our local bus service? That would make as much sense!! LOL.

I couldn't care less if The Tennesseean carried a story about my alma mater or not, because I never read it. Why should people from another city care?

Ok man, don't take this personal but Nashville is a bunch of douche bags. The a$$hats are getting a museum dedicated to black music. Anyone with 2 iq points knows this is a complete load of ****.That museum belongs here and 90 percent of the people in it would be from this area . The had to get to defcon one after Memphis announced the ikea store so they could announce theirs . This is nothing to say of all the other **** they try to claim as theirs that Memphis is better at hands down. They should rename that town Xerox because all they do is copy ****.

They try so hard to be Austin. And they just never will be. All the things that I loved about Austin when I moved there(eccentricity, the ambition, etc), Nashville will never have. They will only have what Austin has become(yuppie filing cabinets and traffic).
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Like the article. And not sure how this became a Nashville referendum, but my 2 cents...

I just moved to the Nashville area about a year and half ago. I've always disliked the Nashville/Memphis rivalry thing, and been a little skeptical about the state government favoritism. (At the same time, I know that Memphis has not helped themselves over the years by the people they elect and send to Nashville to represent.) I can say that most Nashville people just don't think about Memphis. They just don't. It's not so much a rivalry on this end, as plain old apathy. I would love to see more Memphis coverage on the news, but there's just not broad interest. (At least two of the local networks did carry our football scrimmage last weekend, thankfully.) No more interest here, than there is any broad interest in Memphis about how Vandy or MTSU are doing. I am actually surprised at the number of people I talk to who have never even been to Memphis. I don't hear a ton of negatives about Memphis - I just don't hear anything about Memphis. Would like for it to change, but don't see that happening.

As for the city, I have to admit that I love it. Moving here I felt like a lot of you. The city didn't have soul. There was nothing to it. Just a bunch of buildings. I laughed at their "music heritage". But I was wrong. The city definitely has personality and soul. The music is real. There is so much industry thriving here on music. Musicians are moving here from all over and setting up their own studios. Not just country - as I thought. Just this week, I was on Broadway and heard Peter Frampton was down the block. So I went outside and sure enough, there he was. Then I googled and found out he lived here and was doing a charity event. Just an example. Then there are the eclectic neighborhoods all over town. Imagine Midtown x10. Great food and entertainment. Dozens of apartment buildings are being built and renovated in Downtown. People want the urban commute (foot, bike, public) living experience. There is a real reason it's one of the top 3 boomtowns in the country.

I still love Memphis. But you guys need to really spend some time here before totally dismissing Nashville. And that's the same thing I tell them about Memphis.
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But JLB says nobody cares nationally ?
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(04-15-2016 10:17 AM)Tanyaskees Wrote:  
(04-14-2016 09:35 PM)SpiderMan79x Wrote:  
(04-14-2016 08:32 PM)oldmangrizz Wrote:  The attendance average was 11,800 this year?

That's the part that stood out to me too. Where did that number come from?

I can think of an answer or two.

Here's a Bleacher Report article from yesterday quoting the Commercial Appeal on 11,721 attendance (close to 11,800). Obviously, we all know that number isn't butts in seats.

"The Tigers missed out on the Big Dance altogether the last two seasons, and their on-court struggles were creating bigger issues. The average attendance during the 2014-15 season (13,915) fell 13.7 percent from the year before, and the Commercial Appeal's Phil Stukenborg reported in February that the team was on pace to average even fewer fans (11,721) in 2015-16."
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