(04-20-2017 05:09 PM)MEMPHIS TIGERS Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:07 PM)tigerjamesc Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:03 PM)pmantiger Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 04:57 PM)tigerjamesc Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 03:23 PM)MEMPHIS TIGERS Wrote:  He was never actually offered. But you've already got your mind made up it seems.


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So Tubby was just lazy/incompetent in letting the story hang out there for weeks without denying it?
And the beat writer for Memphis is lying about proof of an offer because______?

Unless rules have changed the staff cannot talk about an unsigned athlete. Since we have signed, committed and/or are recruiting more immediate impact players at his position this whole conversation is a massive waste of time.

While you can't go "on record", you can leak it as an unnamed "source"

Why would they do that


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To avoid becoming another negative national story...for the second straight week

(04-20-2017 05:13 PM)tigerjamesc Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:09 PM)MEMPHIS TIGERS Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:07 PM)tigerjamesc Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:03 PM)pmantiger Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 04:57 PM)tigerjamesc Wrote:  So Tubby was just lazy/incompetent in letting the story hang out there for weeks without denying it?
And the beat writer for Memphis is lying about proof of an offer because______?

Unless rules have changed the staff cannot talk about an unsigned athlete. Since we have signed, committed and/or are recruiting more immediate impact players at his position this whole conversation is a massive waste of time.

While you can't go "on record", you can leak it as an unnamed "source"

Why would they do that


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To avoid becoming another negative national story...for the second straight week

To me, there is no story.


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(04-20-2017 05:15 PM)MEMPHIS TIGERS Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:13 PM)tigerjamesc Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:09 PM)MEMPHIS TIGERS Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:07 PM)tigerjamesc Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:03 PM)pmantiger Wrote:  Unless rules have changed the staff cannot talk about an unsigned athlete. Since we have signed, committed and/or are recruiting more immediate impact players at his position this whole conversation is a massive waste of time.

While you can't go "on record", you can leak it as an unnamed "source"

Why would they do that


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To avoid becoming another negative national story...for the second straight week

To me, there is no story.


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Unfortunately, to USAToday, Yahoo, and our very own GP--national media outlets--there is

The Memphis media, particularly the CA and that horrid radio station (92.9) have got to be the biggest jokes of all media conglomerates. Here's a news flash for you...no one reads newspapers anymore! That would explain your desperate attempt to get readers by bashing a HOF coach. How does that look around the nation? It makes you the laughing stock, small potatoes, will never be on the same playing field as the big boys, no sports ever covering, dying newspaper. There is not one radio host on 92.9 that is worth listening to in my opinion, which is why I don't listen to the GARBAGE!!! Who gives a flying flip about a loud mouth midget. He should be fined and reprimanded by the FCC. Smdh

You guys carry on with this nonsense. Meanwhile, I'm gonna have a nice dinner with some old friends and listen to Ed "Too-Tall" Jones give the keynote speech.

Go Tigers!

(04-20-2017 05:02 PM)roundhouse74 Wrote:  I'm still confused. Did the CA confirm that his father SAID he got an offer or are they saying they've seen the offer. There is a difference. (Deja vu). I'm not saying he did or didn't. I just want to know what they said and not some interpretation.

The CA is saying their confirmation is an email from the dad saying they did in fact get an offer. No real proof yet.

I think that's irrelevant. The only way that was going to be accepted by the staff was if we struck out on all the jucos. He was Plan C. Similar things happen frequently. Usually unreported, thankfully, for the school and the kid. Unfortunately, the media in it's current feeding frenzy got hold of it and chewed up the kid in the name of taking shots at Tubby.

(04-20-2017 05:44 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:02 PM)roundhouse74 Wrote:  I'm still confused. Did the CA confirm that his father SAID he got an offer or are they saying they've seen the offer. There is a difference. (Deja vu). I'm not saying he did or didn't. I just want to know what they said and not some interpretation.

The CA is saying their confirmation is an email from the dad saying they did in fact get an offer. No real proof yet.

I think that's irrelevant. The only way that was going to be accepted by the staff was if we struck out on all the jucos. He was Plan C. Similar things happen frequently. Usually unreported, thankfully, for the school and the kid. Unfortunately, the media in it's current feeding frenzy got hold of it and chewed up the kid in the name of taking shots at Tubby.

Thank you for the clarification. Sometimes people just read what they want to see and a message board isn't always the best place for precise info. I get tired of people saying that the CA (or whomever) "said" this or that when the reality is the source is simply reporting what someone else said.

(04-20-2017 06:00 PM)roundhouse74 Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:44 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:02 PM)roundhouse74 Wrote:  I'm still confused. Did the CA confirm that his father SAID he got an offer or are they saying they've seen the offer. There is a difference. (Deja vu). I'm not saying he did or didn't. I just want to know what they said and not some interpretation.

The CA is saying their confirmation is an email from the dad saying they did in fact get an offer. No real proof yet.

I think that's irrelevant. The only way that was going to be accepted by the staff was if we struck out on all the jucos. He was Plan C. Similar things happen frequently. Usually unreported, thankfully, for the school and the kid. Unfortunately, the media in it's current feeding frenzy got hold of it and chewed up the kid in the name of taking shots at Tubby.

Thank you for the clarification. Sometimes people just read what they want to see and a message board isn't always the best place for precise info. I get tired of people saying that the CA (or whomever) "said" this or that when the reality is the source is simply reporting what someone else said.

Irony... You just did that exact thing... "the CA" from a poster on a message board... I guess if it is what you want, then it is enough.

(04-20-2017 06:25 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 06:00 PM)roundhouse74 Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:44 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 05:02 PM)roundhouse74 Wrote:  I'm still confused. Did the CA confirm that his father SAID he got an offer or are they saying they've seen the offer. There is a difference. (Deja vu). I'm not saying he did or didn't. I just want to know what they said and not some interpretation.

The CA is saying their confirmation is an email from the dad saying they did in fact get an offer. No real proof yet.

I think that's irrelevant. The only way that was going to be accepted by the staff was if we struck out on all the jucos. He was Plan C. Similar things happen frequently. Usually unreported, thankfully, for the school and the kid. Unfortunately, the media in it's current feeding frenzy got hold of it and chewed up the kid in the name of taking shots at Tubby.

Thank you for the clarification. Sometimes people just read what they want to see and a message board isn't always the best place for precise info. I get tired of people saying that the CA (or whomever) "said" this or that when the reality is the source is simply reporting what someone else said.

Irony... You just did that exact thing... "the CA" from a poster on a message board... I guess if it is what you want, then it is enough.

Yeah, I should subscribe but I don't live in Memphis and already subscribe to several papers. Still, I should support them to get facts and not hearsay.

At UK tubby was the master of the "silent verbal".

I'm not making that up. That was a real thing with tubby at UK. The tubbites ate that shat up!!

They didn't actually post it in the CA. Just tweeted it. Here's the tweet from Mark G, verbatim:

Matt Stanley's father Jim emailed this morning to clarify: "Matt was offered a scholarship. We have it in writing. The timing was just bad."

The CA doesn't have the offer. If they did, you can believe they would report it that way and print it. Regardless, became a non-committable offer when the jucos started committing.

(04-20-2017 07:55 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  They didn't actually post it in the CA. Just tweeted it. Here's the tweet from Mark G, verbatim:

Matt Stanley's father Jim emailed this morning to clarify: "Matt was offered a scholarship. We have it in writing. The timing was just bad."

The CA doesn't have the offer. If they did, you can believe they would report it that way and print it. Regardless, became a non-committable offer when the jucos started committing.

What's taking so long, we have this thing called the interwebs.........

(04-20-2017 03:26 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 02:59 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  Everyone knows it. Saul offered the kid a scholarship thinking it would draw some of the heat off his back and it backfired. Tubby had to pull the offer to save face. Saul is a nightmare. He has been a thorn in Tubby's side for years and years but some people can't see fault in their own children.

Do you realize just how pathetic this make the Tigers look. Not only do we recruit against a Div 2 school. It makes it look as if we LOST a recruit head to head against a Div 2 school.

U of Memphis should have pulled a U of Minnesota. Either Saul goes or Orlando goes.

What I realize is how horrible your posts are.

(04-20-2017 08:00 PM)BuccTiger Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 07:55 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  They didn't actually post it in the CA. Just tweeted it. Here's the tweet from Mark G, verbatim:

Matt Stanley's father Jim emailed this morning to clarify: "Matt was offered a scholarship. We have it in writing. The timing was just bad."

The CA doesn't have the offer. If they did, you can believe they would report it that way and print it. Regardless, became a non-committable offer when the jucos started committing.

What's taking so long, we have this thing called the interwebs.........

Honestly just feel bad for Stanley. He could probably beat 99% of the guys on here one-one-one. They continue to talk crap. He got used by the media - GP, Caulkins, and our beat writer at the forefront. Now the staff is in the position of either throwing him under the bus, or absorbing more hits. Right now, they're taking the high road.

So is this the first offer Memphis has pulled from an athlete?

(04-20-2017 08:38 PM)midtowncowboy Wrote:  So is this the first offer Memphis has pulled from an athlete?

Doubt it. I've heard of lots of "offers" over the years to high school freshmen, sophomores. Then when the time came to sign the real offer wasn't there.

Wasn't there an infamous Memphis baller back in the day that was projected like #1 when he was in 8th grade - then he never grew another inch? He had lots of early offers, but none were around by his senior year. Can't remember who that was.

(04-20-2017 08:38 PM)midtowncowboy Wrote:  So is this the first offer Memphis has pulled from an athlete?

Nope

I remember Kendrick Perkins' buddy having an offer. Once Perkins declared for the draft we pulled the offer.

(04-20-2017 08:53 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 08:38 PM)midtowncowboy Wrote:  So is this the first offer Memphis has pulled from an athlete?

Doubt it. I've heard of lots of "offers" over the years to high school freshmen, sophomores. Then when the time came to sign the real offer wasn't there.

Wasn't there an infamous Memphis baller back in the day that was projected like #1 when he was in 8th grade - then he never grew another inch? He had lots of early offers, but none were around by his senior year. Can't remember who that was.

Felix Jones

6'1" mannish in the 6th grade

Never grew another inch

(04-20-2017 09:11 PM)tiger1016 Wrote:  

(04-20-2017 08:38 PM)midtowncowboy Wrote:  So is this the first offer Memphis has pulled from an athlete?

Nope

I remember Kendrick Perkins' buddy having an offer. Once Perkins declared for the draft we pulled the offer.

Keyna Young

(04-20-2017 08:38 PM)midtowncowboy Wrote:  So is this the first offer Memphis has pulled from an athlete?

Josh offered everyone as rising Jrs

Then ignored most after the summer