(11-18-2022 02:41 PM)MemphisFootballFan Wrote:  

(11-18-2022 02:37 PM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(11-18-2022 01:07 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(11-18-2022 12:03 PM)MemphisFootballFan Wrote:  

(11-18-2022 11:52 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  The desperation call to Ambassadors for NIL funds … the need for significant facility upgrade, the dwindling interest in Tiger football as evidence by the pathetic turnout at this year’s games… it all makes you wonder if we can keep football viable on the FBS level; and will football investment eventually compromise basketball.

Football is more important than basketball.

It was… now, not so sure.
We simply cannot compete as a farm system for P5 schools.

Finally someone that gets it on here

Been competing as that for decades. We are on the exact same trajectory that Cincinnati is on, only we are about 7 or 8 years behind them in taking football seriously.

We have never had to compete with the situation we have now. Transfers don’t have to sit out and can be purchased for a price.

Cincinnati is a much wealthier school than Memphis. They have a medical…their endowment dwarfs ours. We are no longer on the same trajectory as UC. The invested & they have made it. We’re on the outside looking in.

(11-18-2022 06:29 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(11-18-2022 02:41 PM)MemphisFootballFan Wrote:  

(11-18-2022 02:37 PM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  

(11-18-2022 01:07 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(11-18-2022 12:03 PM)MemphisFootballFan Wrote:  Football is more important than basketball.

It was… now, not so sure.
We simply cannot compete as a farm system for P5 schools.

Finally someone that gets it on here

Been competing as that for decades. We are on the exact same trajectory that Cincinnati is on, only we are about 7 or 8 years behind them in taking football seriously.

We have never had to compete with the situation we have now. Transfers don’t have to sit out and can be purchased for a price.

Cincinnati is a much wealthier school than Memphis. They have a medical…their endowment dwarfs ours. We are no longer on the same trajectory as UC. The invested & they have made it. We’re on the outside looking in.

I definitely agree about Cincinnati's wealth in comparison. With Memphis there has arguably been only ten years of real, consistent effort in football. I just hope all those that have been helping the program get to this point don't give up. Ten years is a relatively short time, yet Memphis still at least gets looked at for realignment in that time frame.