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Sports columnist Chuck Landon, from the [Huntington] Herald-Dispatch:

Quote:There's one in every family.

Maybe it's an obnoxious older brother. Or, perhaps, an over-bearing uncle.

But there always seems to be someone who condescendingly thinks he's better than the rest.

Which leads us to Memphis.

The Tigers are that brother, that uncle in Conference USA.

Memphis believes it is superior to the other 11 members. The Tigers consider themselves a BCS-quality program trapped in a non-BCS league.

That's why Memphis has hired retired Big East Conference commissioner Mike Tranghese as a consultant. He is being paid $5,000 per month on a six-month contract to help the Tigers get into one of the six BCS conferences.

Their chutzpah is stupefying considering the circumstances.

Memphis football has a 1-3 record and is one of the very worst programs in Conference USA. The Tigers were abandoned by the most recognizable figure in C-USA -- basketball coach John Calipari. And Memphis is dealing with an NCAA scandal involving its revered basketball program.

And now -- of all times -- Memphis has the audacity to believe a BCS league would be interested in serving as a porter for all their baggage?

It would be laughable, if it weren't so outrageous.

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/sports/ma...lf-Memphis

Reminds me of the old saying,"He was a legend is his own mind".

A lot of assumption in hi article. You guys know we don't all look down on other conf. members. I don't for one second think we are superior to anybody. But, I WANT us to strive for that superiority.

The trang. hire was others feeling similar.

What turns me off most was R.C. Johnson's "Six BCS conferences, get us in one" comment. I can do nothing but interpret that as Memphis undermining C-USA, and openly.