Complete meltdown on Memphis board

[CalallenStang]

after they were blown out by Arkansas State.
http://ncaabbs.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=499

Sort of puts our predicament into perspective.

[sbsmith]

Losing to a Sun Belt team will generally elicit that sort of reaction. Remember 24-6 and 45-28?

[SMU 86]

Since we have not played them yet I will hold off on any comments towards Memphis until after that game because if something weird happens in that game we could almost be in meltdown.

[CalallenStang]

Losing to a Sun Belt team will generally elicit that sort of reaction. Remember 24-6 and 45-28?

Yes, but this is worse. A lot of Memphis fans wanted to hire the guy that took the Arkansas State job back when they fired Tommy West. Then they lost by 44 points.

[CalallenStang]

A lot of the Memphis fans want a coaching change right now. Mid-season.

[goldenstang]

They should be melting down.

[MustangSTATS]

A lot of the Memphis fans want a coaching change right now. Mid-season.

Didn't the last coach get fired after pointing out the fact that Memphis was in no way committed to football. Has that changed over there?

[skyscraper]

Bad situation over there. Didn't realize the school is losing $2 million a year on football.
Memphis paper says AD should leave along with head coach.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/20 ... snt-start/

[gostangs]

half the teams in college football lost money - the non BCS half - ours included.

[Charleston Pony]

I'm glad we don't play Memphis next week; I would expect them to respond after a humiliating defeat like that.

[leopold]

West went on a tangent at the news conference when he was fired, saying publically that the school should either 'put something into it, or do away with it.' Watch it, it's entertaining and enlightening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLk06dQlyAE

Memphis is loaded with issues concerning football. They tried to bring an inexperienced coach on the cheap who is an alumnus and can do one thing - recruit - but has not even been a coordinator yet, and it's blown up in their faces. The coach at Ark State, Hugh Freeze (some of you may remember that name from the movie 'The Blind Side') is a former Memphis area HS coach who is starting to have a little success, and now his name - and every other coach available - is being thrown around. If he knows better, and he probably does, he will steer clear of Memphis football.
Their football team has been starved financially for decades. For years they had to use my HIGH SCHOOL alma mater's artificial practice field when it rained because theirs was inadequeate. They desperately need an on-campus stadium (they look at ours and drool) but are stuck using the Liberty Bowl, which is two miles away from the campus, outdated, and in disrepair because the city hasn't taken proper care of it. They are a program that is loaded with natural advantages, but can't get off the mat b/c they put ZERO money into it.
Now the rumor is that if they don't get into a BCS conference soon they are dropping football. Actually, that has been a rumor for decades. Basketball has supported them for a couple of generations now.

Whatever you think of SMU football, be thankful we are not Memphis.

[PonyKai]

Which is why I laugh whenever I see Memphis touted as a possible Big 12 or Big East candidate. Really? Where can I get some of those drugs?

[1983 Cotton Bowl]

Lose to Arkansas State. . .been there, done that.