Alanda
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Nice, fair article about Memphis from The Athletic
Memphis is rising. But for now, its peers are benefiting from realignment
It's behind a paywall, but it gives what I think is an honest look at where we are and it helps that it comes from a national site. Here's the beginning part.
Quote:Just five FBS programs have posted eight or more wins in each season of the College Football Playoff era. You can probably guess four of them: Alabama, Clemson, Georgia and Oklahoma, who collectively have made up 19 of the 28 Playoff berths across the past seven years.
The fifth? That would be the program that is on the verge of becoming the most high-profile Group of 5 outfit in the country after the Big 12 formally adds four teams on Friday as expected.
Memphis has gone 65-26 since 2014 and has never gone worse than 5-3 in American Athletic Conference play. The Tigers have done this through three coaching regimes, as Ryan Silverfield is in his second season at the helm after predecessors Justin Fuente (Virginia Tech) and Mike Norvell (Florida State) parlayed their success into greener pastures in the ACC.
Yet in the short term, the program looks as though it is about to become the biggest loser in the game of musical chairs that is conference realignment, as BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF are Big 12-bound.
In the long term, school brass isn’t so sure that’s the case.
Some other things in the article. Veatch was interviewed and they talked about his background. It compared our enrollment and attendance to the other schools that joined the Big 12. Looked at certain enrollment numbers. Listed some of the main corporations in Memphis.
Also here's a part that ties into what has been discussed on the boards.
Quote:“There is definitely big corporate support, but I think diversity is another big selling point that we have, particularly in this day and age when people are truly waking up to the value of diversity and what it could bring to organizations, to schools, to communities,” Veatch said. “This is a place where over half of our student body is people of color and well over half of the population in this area is people of color. I was talking to the chair of our Chamber of Commerce, who happens to be on our staff at the university, and he had mentioned that we are No. 1 in the country in terms of Black tech employees.
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09-11-2021 04:45 PM |
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Mimi
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RE: Nice, fair article about Memphis from The Athletic
No matter what is written UCF in the Big 12 is ridiculous
Only BYU brings more than we would have
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09-11-2021 07:21 PM |
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RE: Nice, fair article about Memphis from The Athletic
Speaking of winning... here's the winning %-age of the four in + two out over the last 6 seasons...
2015-2020
Team %-age
Boise 0.770
Memphis 0.705
UCF 0.635
Cincy 0.622
Houston 0.611
BYU 0.610
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09-11-2021 11:48 PM |
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Alanda
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RE: Nice, fair article about Memphis from The Athletic
(09-11-2021 07:21 PM)Mimi Wrote: No matter what is written UCF in the Big 12 is ridiculous
Only BYU brings more than we would have
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(09-11-2021 11:48 PM)umbluegray Wrote: Speaking of winning... here's the winning %-age of the four in + two out over the last 6 seasons...
2015-2020
Team %-age
Boise 0.770
Memphis 0.705
UCF 0.635
Cincy 0.622
Houston 0.611
BYU 0.610
With the things publicly said that went into the decision process while looking at that info. It doesn't add up IMO.
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09-13-2021 01:11 PM |
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