(07-05-2023 11:12 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 08:48 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  Louisville is our most heated rival. Shame we can't at least play them out of conference in both sports, maybe every other year.

It’s a one way rivalry. They don’t think we are, just like us with UAB

Well Louisville thinks their rival is Kentucky but Kentucky doesn't think so

No doubt Louisville was our rival and we were Louisville's rival for a very long time... but that was a very long time ago and we are no longer rivals.

(07-05-2023 03:23 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 11:12 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 08:48 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  Louisville is our most heated rival. Shame we can't at least play them out of conference in both sports, maybe every other year.

It’s a one way rivalry. They don’t think we are, just like us with UAB

A&M and Texas haven't played in 12 years, does that diminish that rivalry?

Well that rivalry is coming back

(07-05-2023 10:19 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:  Will never forget the old metro hoops tourneys. Watching the 2 fanbases scream at each other was un forgettable. The best part was if we were playing one of yall, the others fan were packed in cheering for us. lol

I remember one of the old Metro Tourneys at the Coliseum, the Metro Conference hired Ted Giannoulas, aka The San Diego Chicken, to entertain. Don't remember who Louisville was playing but The Chicken picked up on how the vast majority of the crowd was pulling against Louisville so his act made them the villian. He was hexing their free throws, listening in on the Louisville huddles and acting like he was telling someone, but when he started putting the whammy on coach Crum you could tell the Cards had had enough. Louisville complained to the Metro brass and the Chicken quietly disappeared.

(07-05-2023 03:23 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 11:12 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 08:48 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  Louisville is our most heated rival. Shame we can't at least play them out of conference in both sports, maybe every other year.

It’s a one way rivalry. They don’t think we are, just like us with UAB

A&M and Texas haven't played in 12 years, does that diminish that rivalry?

That's a pretty bizarre comparison to make given that UT v TAMU have played 109 times when Memphis games vs Louisville and UAB combined is about half of that. Not only are they both in state, but 100mi apart!

I am old enough to know the vitriol towards Louisville, and suspect there are many in Louisville that feel the same towards us, but other than the short stint with them in the AAC there has been too much time away from them to really call it a rivalry. Maybe Penny can get them back on our bball schedule, but I'm just hoping for the ACC to implode and we find ourselves back in a conference with Louisville. UAB I could take or leave.

Let's say the ACC does implode and a league is made with the ACC leftovers like Louisville and Wake Forest, I think I'd personally rather see schools like MTSU, Southern Miss, App St, Temple, and possibly ECU over UAB.

(07-06-2023 10:38 AM)BluffCityBoy Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 03:23 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 11:12 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 08:48 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  Louisville is our most heated rival. Shame we can't at least play them out of conference in both sports, maybe every other year.

It’s a one way rivalry. They don’t think we are, just like us with UAB

A&M and Texas haven't played in 12 years, does that diminish that rivalry?

That's a pretty bizarre comparison to make given that UT v TAMU have played 109 times when Memphis games vs Louisville and UAB combined is about half of that. Not only are they both in state, but 100mi apart!

I am old enough to know the vitriol towards Louisville, and suspect there are many in Louisville that feel the same towards us, but other than the short stint with them in the AAC there has been too much time away from them to really call it a rivalry. Maybe Penny can get them back on our bball schedule, but I'm just hoping for the ACC to implode and we find ourselves back in a conference with Louisville. UAB I could take or leave.

Let's say the ACC does implode and a league is made with the ACC leftovers like Louisville and Wake Forest, I think I'd personally rather see schools like MTSU, Southern Miss, App St, Temple, and possibly ECU over UAB.

I agree about UAB ten years ago. Today's UAB is more competitive than the programs you named. With the possible exceptions of AppSt and ECU?

(07-06-2023 08:32 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 11:12 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 08:48 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  Louisville is our most heated rival. Shame we can't at least play them out of conference in both sports, maybe every other year.

It’s a one way rivalry. They don’t think we are, just like us with UAB

Well Louisville thinks their rival is Kentucky but Kentucky doesn't think so

Yep it’s that way a lot of the time. I’m sure Texas doesn’t consider the Aggies as big a rival as the A&M folks do. Same with Oklahoma and Oklahoma St

(07-07-2023 11:58 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 08:32 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 11:12 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 08:48 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  Louisville is our most heated rival. Shame we can't at least play them out of conference in both sports, maybe every other year.

It’s a one way rivalry. They don’t think we are, just like us with UAB

Well Louisville thinks their rival is Kentucky but Kentucky doesn't think so

Yep it’s that way a lot of the time. I’m sure Texas doesn’t consider the Aggies as big a rival as the A&M folks do. Same with Oklahoma and Oklahoma St

Plus Alabama and Tennessee, Georgia and Georgia Tech, Michigan and Michigan St, etc.

(07-07-2023 11:58 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 08:32 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 11:12 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 08:48 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  Louisville is our most heated rival. Shame we can't at least play them out of conference in both sports, maybe every other year.

It’s a one way rivalry. They don’t think we are, just like us with UAB

Well Louisville thinks their rival is Kentucky but Kentucky doesn't think so

Yep it’s that way a lot of the time. I’m sure Texas doesn’t consider the Aggies as big a rival as the A&M folks do. Same with Oklahoma and Oklahoma St

Lived in Austin for a decade. This would be an incorrect assumption. Yes, Oklahoma is just as big as a rival as Aggie but Texas fans certainly consider them a hated rival.

(07-07-2023 01:11 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  

(07-07-2023 11:58 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(07-06-2023 08:32 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 11:12 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 08:48 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  Louisville is our most heated rival. Shame we can't at least play them out of conference in both sports, maybe every other year.

It’s a one way rivalry. They don’t think we are, just like us with UAB

Well Louisville thinks their rival is Kentucky but Kentucky doesn't think so

Yep it’s that way a lot of the time. I’m sure Texas doesn’t consider the Aggies as big a rival as the A&M folks do. Same with Oklahoma and Oklahoma St

Lived in Austin for a decade. This would be an incorrect assumption. Yes, Oklahoma is just as big as a rival as Aggie but Texas fans certainly consider them a hated rival.

I have to second this. I had a friend whose father attended a&m and his brother Texas. The annual game at that time was played on Thanksgiving and it was a big deal to both of them. They have played 118 times going back to 1894.

While there is no recent or sustained rivalry among the schools below, they would all be instant rivalries if we could schedule them regularly:

UTK
AR
UK (in MBB)
and the MS schools OM, MSU, USM
UL

(07-05-2023 10:19 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 10:29 AM)tigerlands Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 08:41 AM)HardBall Fan Wrote:  Nailed it here with Louisville. That was a rivalry!

As a baseball guy, I look at what Southern Miss has accomplished in baseball and wonder why Memphis can't do the same. It can. I believe it will. We just needed to move past the indifference that plagued us for nearly two decades.

Louisville was a definte rival. Those football games were some of the loudest games I have been to. Evenly matched programs and games that mattered. Ole Miss is a one way rival but still fun and competitive. UT is not a rival game. I would say Lousville and USM, to me, over the years were the best games. Cincinati and Houston were getting there but they quit.

Will never forget the old metro hoops tourneys. Watching the 2 fanbases scream at each other was un forgettable. The best part was if we were playing one of yall, the others fan were packed in cheering for us. lol

The closest i ever came to getting my ass whipped. one year in biloxi LaBradford smith and Felton spencer walked by, i was sitting in the first row in the stands. I had just enough adult beverage in me to stand up and yell at them. I yelled at Spencer, THE ONLY REASON YOUR PLAYING BASKETBALL IS YOUR TOO TALL TO WORK IN THE COLE MINES. Well Labradford thought it was funny

YOUR > YOU’RE
COLE > COAL

USM graduate?

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(07-10-2023 08:44 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  While there is no recent or sustained rivalry among the schools below, they would all be instant rivalries if we could schedule them regularly:

UTK
AR
UK (in MBB)
and the MS schools OM, MSU, USM
UL

Good luck with that.

(07-10-2023 08:44 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  While there is no recent or sustained rivalry among the schools below, they would all be instant rivalries if we could schedule them regularly join their conference:

UTK
AR
UK (in MBB)
and the MS schools OM, MSU, USM
UL

Fixed it

(07-10-2023 09:16 AM)3rdgenerationtiger Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 10:19 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 10:29 AM)tigerlands Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 08:41 AM)HardBall Fan Wrote:  Nailed it here with Louisville. That was a rivalry!

As a baseball guy, I look at what Southern Miss has accomplished in baseball and wonder why Memphis can't do the same. It can. I believe it will. We just needed to move past the indifference that plagued us for nearly two decades.

Louisville was a definte rival. Those football games were some of the loudest games I have been to. Evenly matched programs and games that mattered. Ole Miss is a one way rival but still fun and competitive. UT is not a rival game. I would say Lousville and USM, to me, over the years were the best games. Cincinati and Houston were getting there but they quit.

Will never forget the old metro hoops tourneys. Watching the 2 fanbases scream at each other was un forgettable. The best part was if we were playing one of yall, the others fan were packed in cheering for us. lol

The closest i ever came to getting my ass whipped. one year in biloxi LaBradford smith and Felton spencer walked by, i was sitting in the first row in the stands. I had just enough adult beverage in me to stand up and yell at them. I yelled at Spencer, THE ONLY REASON YOUR PLAYING BASKETBALL IS YOUR TOO TALL TO WORK IN THE COLE MINES. Well Labradford thought it was funny

YOUR > YOU’RE
COLE > COAL

USM graduate?

old man with thick thumbs and predictive text. A dangerous combo

While you don't seem to think they are a rivalry, A-State fans certainly think you are, and I expect a very good game in Jonesboro this year.

I have been looking at your roster talent , and I am really, really impressed with what I'm seeing.

Know you will have to get some very, very talented transfers up to speed fast, but my question is who do you think would win between you and Oklahoma?

Trying to decide who their toughest OOC opponent is, and have it down to you and them, but still undecided.

FYI , know it is hard to be considered a Rivalrie of Memphis without basketball but their new head basketball coach said he and Penny want to play ASAP.

(07-10-2023 04:23 PM)Browning Hall Wrote:  

(07-10-2023 08:44 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  While there is no recent or sustained rivalry among the schools below, they would all be instant rivalries if we could schedule them regularly join their conference:

UTK
AR
UK (in MBB)
and the MS schools OM, MSU, USM
UL

Fixed it

True. But the truth also is that we would have been better than most of those teams in football over the last ten years. Its not like UAB vs Bama, Tulsa vs OU, or AState vs Arkansas. It wouldn't have been our shot at the big boys in the region, we would have been one of the big boys in the region. Just think if we had similar resources and a system that didn't necessarily remove our coach every time we have success

(07-11-2023 01:18 PM)Seminole Indian Wrote:  While you don't seem to think they are a rivalry, A-State fans certainly think you are, and I expect a very good game in Jonesboro this year.

I have been looking at your roster talent , and I am really, really impressed with what I'm seeing.

Know you will have to get some very, very talented transfers up to speed fast, but my question is who do you think would win between you and Oklahoma?

Trying to decide who their toughest OOC opponent is, and have it down to you and them, but still undecided.

FYI , know it is hard to be considered a Rivalrie of Memphis without basketball but their new head basketball coach said he and Penny want to play ASAP.

I am mildly optimistic about the season but I don't see any comparison between us and Oklahoma. Too many 4 and 5 star dudes there.

(07-11-2023 02:57 PM)pmantiger Wrote:  

(07-11-2023 01:18 PM)Seminole Indian Wrote:  While you don't seem to think they are a rivalry, A-State fans certainly think you are, and I expect a very good game in Jonesboro this year.

I have been looking at your roster talent , and I am really, really impressed with what I'm seeing.

Know you will have to get some very, very talented transfers up to speed fast, but my question is who do you think would win between you and Oklahoma?

Trying to decide who their toughest OOC opponent is, and have it down to you and them, but still undecided.

FYI , know it is hard to be considered a Rivalrie of Memphis without basketball but their new head basketball coach said he and Penny want to play ASAP.

I am mildly optimistic about the season but I don't see any comparison between us and Oklahoma. Too many 4 and 5 star dudes there.

Best way to compare is to play. I'm guessing we aren't attempting to schedule UO.