(02-05-2018 02:31 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  Someone needs to tell Tubby that most Tiger fans are not idiots, fools, or easily manipulated.

In Tubby's mind, what he does is right and if you don't like it, leave.


It looks like he told Nickleberry's parents to expect more of the same when they came to see their son play. I'm wondering if this meant that Nickleberry hadn't been toeing the line....? Or maybe Tubbs just went on a pat answer rant....?

"Memphis men’s basketball coach Tubby Smith stood in front of freshman David Nickelberry’s parents on Wednesday night engaged in a lengthy conversation once the Tigers finished off their 86-74 WIN at South Florida.

So Nickelberry’s parents drove down from his hometown of Orlando, Fla., and, once the 6-foot-6 wing logged nine minutes and scored his first field goal in more than three weeks, discussed what was happening with Smith.

'I’m one of those guys, I am who I am,' Smith said minutes later. 'You’re going to toe the line, you’re going to play the right way, or you just leave. I hate to say it.'"

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/s...300220002/

(02-05-2018 03:50 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 01:04 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  Mark Giannotto‏ @mgiannotto

Memphis leading scorer Jeremiah Martin on @Sports56WHBQ: "I don't really know what [Tubby Smith] means by 'we need psychological help.' ... We're fine."

What the hell is happening when we go to Tampa...

Second year in a row that after Tampa we began to have a disaster.

ECU is in Tampa?

(02-05-2018 04:16 PM)NigelTufnel Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 03:50 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 01:04 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  Mark Giannotto‏ @mgiannotto

Memphis leading scorer Jeremiah Martin on @Sports56WHBQ: "I don't really know what [Tubby Smith] means by 'we need psychological help.' ... We're fine."

What the hell is happening when we go to Tampa...

Second year in a row that after Tampa we began to have a disaster.

ECU is in Tampa?

I think it's in the upside down.

(02-05-2018 04:16 PM)NigelTufnel Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 03:50 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 01:04 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  Mark Giannotto‏ @mgiannotto

Memphis leading scorer Jeremiah Martin on @Sports56WHBQ: "I don't really know what [Tubby Smith] means by 'we need psychological help.' ... We're fine."

What the hell is happening when we go to Tampa...

Second year in a row that after Tampa we began to have a disaster.

ECU is in Tampa?

And UCF is in Tampa, too. Since that's where Clergeot took the boys out on the town.

Tubby has lost it. Not a chance we make the NCAA.

(02-05-2018 04:03 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 02:31 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  Someone needs to tell Tubby that most Tiger fans are not idiots, fools, or easily manipulated.

In Tubby's mind, what he does is right and if you don't like it, leave.


It looks like he told Nickleberry's parents to expect more of the same when they came to see their son play. I'm wondering if this meant that Nickleberry hadn't been toeing the line....? Or maybe Tubbs just went on a pat answer rant....?

"Memphis men’s basketball coach Tubby Smith stood in front of freshman David Nickelberry’s parents on Wednesday night engaged in a lengthy conversation once the Tigers finished off their 86-74 WIN at South Florida.

So Nickelberry’s parents drove down from his hometown of Orlando, Fla., and, once the 6-foot-6 wing logged nine minutes and scored his first field goal in more than three weeks, discussed what was happening with Smith.

'I’m one of those guys, I am who I am,' Smith said minutes later. 'You’re going to toe the line, you’re going to play the right way, or you just leave. I hate to say it.'"

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/s...300220002/

Sounds like he told Nick's parents to "just leave".

(02-05-2018 02:29 PM)EricSigEpTNBeta183 Wrote:  Poppa Lawson on J&J . . . Not sure why people don’t like he guy. Seems like a smart level headed dude to me.

Damn is everybody trolling the Memphis fan base now?

we aren't even on the cusp of the NIT Tourney.

(02-05-2018 06:53 PM)fsquid Wrote:  we aren't even on the cusp of the NIT Tourney.

Not even on the CBI bubble.

(02-05-2018 06:55 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 06:53 PM)fsquid Wrote:  we aren't even on the cusp of the NIT Tourney.

Not even on the CBI bubble.

Everyone is on that bubble, you just have to pay a $50k entry fee

(02-05-2018 04:20 PM)TiminMem23 Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 04:16 PM)NigelTufnel Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 03:50 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 01:04 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  Mark Giannotto‏ @mgiannotto

Memphis leading scorer Jeremiah Martin on @Sports56WHBQ: "I don't really know what [Tubby Smith] means by 'we need psychological help.' ... We're fine."

What the hell is happening when we go to Tampa...

Second year in a row that after Tampa we began to have a disaster.

ECU is in Tampa?

I think it's in the upside down.

Does anyone remember the 1995 Liberty Bowl ECU v Stanford? The halftime show was the Stanford Band’s tribute to East Carolina, Our Forgotton State. Good stuff. The ECU fans sitting near us were pissed

(02-05-2018 04:16 PM)NigelTufnel Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 03:50 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(02-05-2018 01:04 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  Mark Giannotto‏ @mgiannotto

Memphis leading scorer Jeremiah Martin on @Sports56WHBQ: "I don't really know what [Tubby Smith] means by 'we need psychological help.' ... We're fine."

What the hell is happening when we go to Tampa...

Second year in a row that after Tampa we began to have a disaster.

ECU is in Tampa?

USF is in Tampa and we lost to ECU which is a disaster...

Last year after USF we lost to UCF by 100

Tubby needs to read a manual on effective PR and on motivating Millennials. Alternatively, maybe he does not care. He is rich and elderly and can do whatever he pleases.

Context people, context. Did he specify a year?

(02-05-2018 07:48 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  Tubby needs to read a manual on effective PR and on motivating Millennials. Alternatively, maybe he does not care. He is rich and elderly and can do whatever he pleases.

Problem is Tubby thinks he can write that book.

The comment is from a Dallas Morning News article this morning in which Tubby equates Memphis with SMU both being on the cusp of the NCAA Tournament -

https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college...tournament

SMU fans be like

ESPN has picked up the Tubby quote in its pregame write-up for the WSU game
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketb...=400988101
Memphis (14-9, 5-5) has its own problems, but has lost only twice at home all season.

The Tigers are also slumping, having lost three of four, including an 88-85 overtime loss to East Carolina on Saturday in a game that head coach Tubby Smith called out his players.

"We probably need some psychological help. Really, I'm serious," Smith told the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which called the loss humiliating. "There's strange things. When you have to scream and holler from the start of the game to get in their stance, to sprint back, pick it up, run harder, it's a real issue."

(02-05-2018 01:58 PM)Tygrys Wrote:  He has made comments in the past that I just kind of shrugged off and did not think much of. However, he comments are beginning to remind of Pastner's in his final two years. They just keep getting more and more out there and increasingly outlandish. It just stinks of somebody who desperately wants out of their current situation. Almost like he is trying to force the hand of the administration to fire him so he does not have to resign and give up his paycheck...

At least there was truth in what Pastner would say, might not like that he would say certain things but there was always truth in his statements. Tubby’s statements . . . They are just mind boggling and head scratching.

(02-06-2018 01:55 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  ESPN has picked up the Tubby quote in its pregame write-up for the WSU game
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketb...=400988101
Memphis (14-9, 5-5) has its own problems, but has lost only twice at home all season.

The Tigers are also slumping, having lost three of four, including an 88-85 overtime loss to East Carolina on Saturday in a game that head coach Tubby Smith called out his players.

"We probably need some psychological help. Really, I'm serious," Smith told the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which called the loss humiliating. "There's strange things. When you have to scream and holler from the start of the game to get in their stance, to sprint back, pick it up, run harder, it's a real issue."

Total lack of obedience.