(04-05-2017 12:27 PM)HoopDreams Wrote:  @mgiannotto 4m4 minutes ago

Talking to folks in basketball circles around Memphis, this move by the Lawsons makes it clear Keelon Lawson wants to be an asst coach again

Today's disaster can be traced - IMO - to the decision made last year to demote Keelon and elevate Tubby's son.

(04-05-2017 12:11 PM)tigersgrizzfan Wrote:  GP waving his raging Pastner boner around again...smh



@Gary Parrish To recap: Memphis paid Josh Pastner $1.25 million to please take the Georgia Tech job. So he did. Then Memphis gave Tubby Smith a five-year, $15.45 million contract. And now here we are.

Didn't Gary Parrish cheer the Tubby hire like all the other idiot hacks in sports media? Anyone with any damn sense knew this was a horrible hire, but hacks like Parrish thought it was great at the time. Now he is Mr. smart guy that knew it was bad all along.

(04-05-2017 12:35 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  

(04-05-2017 12:27 PM)HoopDreams Wrote:  @mgiannotto 4m4 minutes ago

Talking to folks in basketball circles around Memphis, this move by the Lawsons makes it clear Keelon Lawson wants to be an asst coach again

Today's disaster can be traced - IMO - to the decision made last year to demote Keelon and elevate Tubby's son.

Pretty much

Committee should have known

(04-05-2017 12:38 PM)JMSTiger Wrote:  

(04-05-2017 12:11 PM)tigersgrizzfan Wrote:  GP waving his raging Pastner boner around again...smh



@Gary Parrish To recap: Memphis paid Josh Pastner $1.25 million to please take the Georgia Tech job. So he did. Then Memphis gave Tubby Smith a five-year, $15.45 million contract. And now here we are.

Didn't Gary Parrish cheer the Tubby hire like all the other idiot hacks in sports media? Anyone with any damn sense knew this was a horrible hire, but hacks like Parrish thought it was great at the time. Now he is Mr. smart guy that knew it was bad all along.

Sports journalism in a nutshell.

(04-05-2017 12:30 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(04-05-2017 11:28 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  At least we still have Markel.

For now..

Oh he's out of here

Classy tweet by KJ. jeez

(04-05-2017 12:39 PM)HometownTiger Wrote:  

(04-05-2017 12:30 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(04-05-2017 11:28 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  At least we still have Markel.

For now..

Oh he's out of here

I expect him to graduate and transfer.

(04-05-2017 12:27 PM)HoopDreams Wrote:  @mgiannotto 4m4 minutes ago

Talking to folks in basketball circles around Memphis, this move by the Lawsons makes it clear Keelon Lawson wants to be an asst coach again

go d2

players play immediately

(04-05-2017 12:38 PM)JMSTiger Wrote:  

(04-05-2017 12:11 PM)tigersgrizzfan Wrote:  GP waving his raging Pastner boner around again...smh



@Gary Parrish To recap: Memphis paid Josh Pastner $1.25 million to please take the Georgia Tech job. So he did. Then Memphis gave Tubby Smith a five-year, $15.45 million contract. And now here we are.

Didn't Gary Parrish cheer the Tubby hire like all the other idiot hacks in sports media? Anyone with any damn sense knew this was a horrible hire, but hacks like Parrish thought it was great at the time. Now he is Mr. smart guy that knew it was bad all along.

Yes, Parrish is the master at hindsight.

Houston Cougars, DePaul Blue Demons, St. John's 'Red Storm'.....Memphis Tigers?

We cannot possibly sustain this many hits in consecutive years, not with the Grizz slowly taking over the town. We barely averaged more than 6K in the stands....which means about 40% full. And of that, probably half we over the age of 65.

Wow, a hard-nosed coach....who takes NO guff....but takes MANY vacations....and takes a lot of money towards his retirement.

Dumpster fire, indeed.

As the Basketball Turns

(04-05-2017 11:42 AM)HoopDreams Wrote:  @JohnMartin929 Major indictment that Lawson brothers would rather sit out a year (after KJ already redshirted one year) than play another at Memphis.

Have to assume Keelon got a job and they will try to avoid sitting out. Frankly glad the hostage crisis is over. Didn't like it when we signed them nor do I now. Don't wish them ill but I think I would rather go 5 and 27 and not deal with that stuff. Sometimes you have to hit bottom to start climbing. Whether Tubby can do it remains to be seen but this drama is at least over!

(04-05-2017 12:44 PM)ddramone Wrote:  Houston Cougars, DePaul Blue Demons, St. John's 'Red Storm'.....Memphis Tigers?

We cannot possibly sustain this many hits in consecutive years, not with the Grizz slowly taking over the town. We barely averaged more than 6K in the stands....which means about 40% full. And of that, probably half we over the age of 65.

Wow, a hard-nosed coach....who takes NO guff....but takes MANY vacations....and takes a lot of money towards his retirement.

Dumpster fire, indeed.

We will be lucky to have 3K in the stands. Embarrassing.

(04-05-2017 12:51 PM)Coolidge1 Wrote:  

(04-05-2017 12:44 PM)ddramone Wrote:  Houston Cougars, DePaul Blue Demons, St. John's 'Red Storm'.....Memphis Tigers?

We cannot possibly sustain this many hits in consecutive years, not with the Grizz slowly taking over the town. We barely averaged more than 6K in the stands....which means about 40% full. And of that, probably half we over the age of 65.

Wow, a hard-nosed coach....who takes NO guff....but takes MANY vacations....and takes a lot of money towards his retirement.

Dumpster fire, indeed.

We will be lucky to have 3K in the stands. Embarrassing.

will the school come off the calipari ticket/seat prices ?

Tubby should have let Keelon go last year. He's a cancer, but Josh was desperate and Tubby was clueless. You can't win with the posse running the show... which is why Cal stopped recruiting the city. Too many clingers hoping to ride the backs of their teenaged meal ticket.

(04-05-2017 12:30 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(04-05-2017 11:28 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  At least we still have Markel.

For now..

Oh he's out of here

(04-05-2017 12:56 PM)HometownTiger Wrote:  

(04-05-2017 12:30 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(04-05-2017 11:28 AM)salukiblue Wrote:  At least we still have Markel.

For now..

Oh he's out of here

Rumor has it only 3 kids showed for a mandatory team meeting.

Do you think anyone told Tubby yet, or are they waiting on him to make the turn at Southwind?