(10-17-2021 06:27 PM)tigerfan39 Wrote:  

(10-17-2021 04:44 PM)memphisike Wrote:  IKE's saying the BIG will be involved, the street tells Ike Virginia will be headed to the BIG and probably
North Carolina. Think about it.

Holding my breath, bro.

Don’t hold your breath long on Ike words

(10-17-2021 02:57 PM)TigerBill Wrote:  

(10-16-2021 06:12 PM)Keeper Wrote:  

(10-16-2021 05:18 PM)Claw Wrote:  If we don't get an OCS now we will never have one.

Never is a very long time. Until the people of Memphis are willing to support big time college football (when GameDay isn't in town) there won't be any new stadiums being built.

Thank God someone with inside knowledge has spoken. Having given it as a declarative fact, you have put the issue to rest.

If we don't do it now there will be a better chance of the 13" Color Tube TV coming back than us ever having an OCS.

(10-16-2021 10:06 PM)Browning Hall Wrote:  

(10-16-2021 06:12 PM)Keeper Wrote:  

(10-16-2021 05:18 PM)Claw Wrote:  If we don't get an OCS now we will never have one.

Never is a very long time. Until the people of Memphis are willing to support big time college football (when GameDay isn't in town) there won't be any new stadiums being built.

Big time college football is played on college campuses, and they’re all around us. Great game day atmospheres and lots of fun. Let’s give them that right here in Memphis and find out what they’ll support. I think they’d like it. A lot.

Agreed. The time to step up and move on campus is now. Who is the last program to receive an invite to a P5 conference that played its games in a municipally owned stadium? Maybe Miami in 1991… and we aren’t them.

The Liberty Bowl sucks… it just does. We’ve repeatedly tried to put a shine on that turd, and we continually watch as we’re passed by other schools. We’re like Wooderson from ‘Dazed & Confused’. We are where we are because we have tried to sell ourselves on what we could be with investment, instead of investing & making ourselves desirable.

(10-19-2021 08:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(10-16-2021 10:06 PM)Browning Hall Wrote:  

(10-16-2021 06:12 PM)Keeper Wrote:  

(10-16-2021 05:18 PM)Claw Wrote:  If we don't get an OCS now we will never have one.

Never is a very long time. Until the people of Memphis are willing to support big time college football (when GameDay isn't in town) there won't be any new stadiums being built.

Big time college football is played on college campuses, and they’re all around us. Great game day atmospheres and lots of fun. Let’s give them that right here in Memphis and find out what they’ll support. I think they’d like it. A lot.

Agreed. The time to step up and move on campus is now. Who is the last program to receive an invite to a P5 conference that played its games in a municipally owned stadium? Maybe Miami in 1991… and we aren’t them.

The Liberty Bowl sucks… it just does. We’ve repeatedly tried to put a shine on that turd, and we continually watch as we’re passed by other schools. We’re like Wooderson from ‘Dazed & Confused’. We are where we are because we have tried to sell ourselves on what we could be with investment, instead of investing & making ourselves desirable.

Technically there has only been a Power 5 since 2013, when the Big East collapsed. If you are counting BE schools that were picked up by the P5, Pittsburgh was one of those schools and it plays at Heinz Field. Otherwise the four teams just added to the B12 are the only teams ever added to the P5.

If you are going to count the BE as a BCS ( “P6”) conference, it added South Florida in 2005 while it played in Raymond James Stadium.

(10-19-2021 08:57 PM)CRM114 Wrote:  

(10-19-2021 08:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(10-16-2021 10:06 PM)Browning Hall Wrote:  

(10-16-2021 06:12 PM)Keeper Wrote:  

(10-16-2021 05:18 PM)Claw Wrote:  If we don't get an OCS now we will never have one.

Never is a very long time. Until the people of Memphis are willing to support big time college football (when GameDay isn't in town) there won't be any new stadiums being built.

Big time college football is played on college campuses, and they’re all around us. Great game day atmospheres and lots of fun. Let’s give them that right here in Memphis and find out what they’ll support. I think they’d like it. A lot.

Agreed. The time to step up and move on campus is now. Who is the last program to receive an invite to a P5 conference that played its games in a municipally owned stadium? Maybe Miami in 1991… and we aren’t them.

The Liberty Bowl sucks… it just does. We’ve repeatedly tried to put a shine on that turd, and we continually watch as we’re passed by other schools. We’re like Wooderson from ‘Dazed & Confused’. We are where we are because we have tried to sell ourselves on what we could be with investment, instead of investing & making ourselves desirable.

Technically there has only been a Power 5 since 2013, when the Big East collapsed. If you are counting BE schools that were picked up by the P5, Pittsburgh was one of those schools and it plays at Heinz Field. Otherwise the four teams just added to the B12 are the only teams ever added to the P5.

If you are going to count the BE as a BCS ( “P6”) conference, it added South Florida in 2005 while it played in Raymond James Stadium.

And they added us before they lost their power status. But the spirit of the question is of course the top 5 conferences. The BigEast was seen as a little brother, desperate for adds because of the raid by the ACC and BigX shortly before we got chosen, so that doesn't count.