03-16-2012

 Today is the day that the Memphis Tigers played & won their final basketball C-USA game. That is a good thing, C-USA has been a joke for a few years now. Memphis has been trying to get out of it and move to the Big East. That seemed to happened last summer, but nope, today is also the final basketball game of the 'old' Big East. It will be replaced with a 'new' Big East who will have first rights to play their tourney in MSG. This means that Memphis is going to join a unnamed conference which I have nicknamed the 'Not Big East' Conference. This assumes that the 'Not Big East' doesn't fall apart first, which it still could. 

 Why is this happening, money or football TV money. It seems strange to me, a basketball fan, that the quest  for more football money can just destroy tradition, when we all know that tradition is why FBS doesn't have a playoff, but it can. I am an Memphis football fan, I hear how football is so important and that basketball doesn't really matter. I hope that this people are right. Conferences hurt & changed rivalries ended all for money, I hope that it is worth it. Because if they are wrong and it is not worth it, there will be no place in this nation that those people will go and not have to deal with the effects of the their mistake.

MVP

In happier news, Congrats to Chris Crawford C-USA tourney MVP.

We are screwed!

Meet the new Big East!

Last week it was announced that the 7 Catholic schools that are leaving the Big East are leaving early. It that wasn't bad enough, it looks like they are taking the Big East name with them. This means that the conference that Memphis is joining won't be the Big East. So now after all of the hard work, sweat, tears & money, Memphis is not in the Big East



Somewhere Ashton Kutcher has a camera & is filming this.



 So know what? I would say drop football, but I don't feel like getting called stupid on twitter. So Memphis now needs a new conference, I said lets try the want aids, and sell stuff.

T-shirts for sale, barely worn!

Whether or not this works, I don't know but I do know a few things

1. Memphis is still not in a major onference
2. RC Johnson has now offically failed
3. Memphis basketball is getting screwed
4. This is all the BCS's fault.

Super Conferences lineup predictions.

Cooler than the Tardis, Deloren and Bill & Ted's phone booth put together.

  Ever since conference realignment begin a few years ago there has been talk of super conferences. A super conference is a conference with several members like the old WAC did before the Mountain West split off. Except they would be the major conferences & would control major college football. All the other football conference would be left out. Well using the MSF prediction machine shown at the top, I have come up with the future look of the Football Bowl Subdivision conferences. Time to go to the future and back.

In my Opinion: Memphis Football

  It is time for the University of Memphis to drop football from the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) to the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). I hate the idea of doing it but it is necessary. Memphis is a basketball city, & the university is a basketball school. Tiger fans have not focused on football & truth be told we don't care about it. We want to be in the Final Four, not a BCS game. Yes, football can make a lot more money than basketball, however it is basketball that makes the money at the U of M.

300th post What I have learned this year, MMXXII. 2012

It's the 2012 year in review for my life. 

I have learned many things this year.



In Life

Hear comes episode 7. This is not the real poster.

1. Deaths comes when they comes, in my cases twice in one week.
2. Getting into law school is hard & expensive 
3. Being a blogger takes commitment, whether or not I have that commitment will be answered next year.
4. If I keep posting stuff people will make comments, got 2 this year, which make it 2 for the lifetime of this blog.
5. Joe Paterno knew & covered it up.
6. The NCAA really just doesn't get it.     
7. Disney plans on owning everything

The champ

 Click to see what is the rest I have learned.

2012-13 Bowl Game Picks

Here is a list of my predictions for this years college bowl games. I will pick the winners as I don't do betting lines. These picks are for entertainment purposes only and for me to show how smart I am. Here are my picks

YOUTUBE WEEK DAY 2: Memphis Tigers Basketball tribute

 
A tribute to Memphis' basketball team, the Memphis Tigers. To the tune of Go Tigers Go being played by the University of Memphis band.

Today is RC Johnson's last day.

  Today is the final day of RC Johnson time as AD at University of Memphis. It has been a wild ride. Football had is greatest success. Tiger Lane was built. Men's Basketball took over C-USA & made it to the title game. That team also had the most wins in a season ever, 38. Fund raising is at a all-time high. Memphis Pom are National Champions. Memphis is about to join the Big East. Hiring first John Calipari then Josh Pastner as men's basketball coach has worked out.

It is also fair to mention, football is in horrible condition. Larry Porter, who got the job over now Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze, did a poor job & was fired after two seasons. New coach, Justin Fuente was not hired by RC. Call for a on campus football stadium were ignored. The Basketball title game appearance was vacated, along with the 38 win season ever. Cal left the program in horrible shape & Josh Pastner has picked out of desperation. The Big East is falling apart, with teams jumping to the ACC & Big 12.

  That being said, Memphis sports are now better. But I am still annoyed about a few things RC, anyway goodbye RC.

A List

This is a list of things that the University of Memphis needs to do as it gets ready to leave C-USA for the Big East. Here is the list.

  University of Memphis is now in the BIG EAST. The BIG EAST is a BCS conference. The BCS is big time. So Memphis is now big time. While this is great there are some things that I have been wanting to say about CUSA & I guess this is the time to say them.While I have doubts about the BIG EAST. I are glad that Memphis will soon be done with CUSA.

Memphis in the Big East

 It looks like it finally has happened. Memphis joining the Big East. I was going to done a list about it but Geoff Calkins of the Memphis Commerical Appeal beat me to it. So I now have to actual write something meanful.