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[Twirling Time]

Door?

(for you old schoolers)

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Door?

(for you old schoolers)

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[Twirling Time]

I remember every second of that glorious day. The door, the reporter firing up a heater on camera ....

 

[Neutral Corner]

Maybe less? From one of those forum threads:

Don't know who or to what extent but this from multiple reliable sources. 3 players were due NIL payments on Sept 1st and they didn't happen. The collective has been being robbed blind. There is no money in it.

Again, I am not sure how it happened or to what amount of money is gone, but I have heard it from 2 different sources that don't even know each other. This is coming to a head - QUICKLY.​

Hoo boy.

I don't buy it. Second hand "reliable sources" on a message board? Coaches don't pash out the money. If someone at a collective is dipping into the funds, that's embezzlement, but it isn't an NCAA problem. If it is something coaches promised which didn't happen, that could be a problem, but again, the money should not move through the coach's hands. I'll need a lot more detail than that.

If there is any truth to it at all there should be a thorough housecleaning.

 

[dixiehack]

When's the last time somebody in the city of Memphis was three days in arrears on promised money without gunfire involved? That alone makes me doubt it.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I don't buy it. Second hand "reliable sources" on a message board? Coaches don't pash out the money. If someone at a collective is dipping into the funds, that's embezzlement, but it isn't an NCAA problem. If it is something coaches promised which didn't happen, that could be a problem, but again, the money should not move through the coach's hands. I'll need a lot more detail than that.

If there is any truth to it at all there should be a thorough housecleaning.

Oh, it got worse. And it's gonna get worser.

Against a backdrop of staff upheaval within the men's basketball program, a University of Memphis official acknowledged the existence of an anonymous letter alleging widespread potential rules violations in the program and said the letter has been pashed along to the NCAA.

"The University of Memphis is aware of the anonymous letter and it has been turned over to the NCAA," university spokeswoman Michele Ehrhart said in an email to Sports Illustrated on Wednesday. "That is all we can say on the matter." ...

The letter alleges Hardaway's personal involvement in what could be major violations in the recruitment of a player who came to Memphis and a second prospect who did not enroll at the school. The letter claims those violations occurred in 2020 and '22. It also alleges academic violations occurred in the '23–24 school year. The allegations in the letter have not been independently substantiated.​

Reporting by Pat Forde: Memphis Acknowledges Letter Alleging Widespread Potential NCAA Violations in Men's Basketball Program

 

[HanSenSE]

Seems like there's always been an air of inferiority around Memphis athletics. It's the island of mid-majordom in a sea of SEC. Perhaps that's why they operate so close to the line.

 

[dixiehack]

Who could have predicted the guy who blatantly cheated at his high school job across town would blatantly cheat at a college known for blatantly cheating?

 

[tapintoamerica]

Seems like there's always been an air of inferiority around Memphis athletics. It's the island of mid-majordom in a sea of SEC. Perhaps that's why they operate so close to the line.

Seems they regularly cross that line. The basketball program, as others have pointed out, has been rotten to the core for 40 years.

In re: Hardaway, I suspect there has to be at least one former NBA star-turned-college-head coach who managed to succeed in coaching, but offhand, I can't think of a recent example. Who am I missing?

 

[Neutral Corner]

Beats me, but for every one of them there's four or five Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, or Chris Mullin types.

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

Rick Stansbury ... good God.

 

[franticscribe]

Mike Davis is going to be the head coach of Memphis by the end of the season, isn't he? LMAO.