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Makes our attendance look like Penn State.
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Everyone must have stayed home to watch the game on TV.

How many students does Memphis have?


When did Memphis stop being Memphis State?
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(10-28-2009 04:54 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  When West gets fired at the end of the season and we get Mike Holmgrom, or Gruden or Phil Fulmer, we will be able to fill the stadium against conference usa schools.
Holmgren, Gruden, or Fulmer, huh? Anyone want to field this one?
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This game was the highest rated Tuesday night game on ESPN and ESPN2 so far this season so a lot of people in the area stayed home to watch the game. With FedEx and other larger donors we have the money and backers to get Holmgrom, Gruden and Fulmer. Those are dream coaches but I do think can get a proven college coach like Lloyd Carr, Bob Davie, Tommy Bowden, Gary Barnett if he has changed his ways or Brian Kelly if we can give him more than what he is getting at Cincinnati. Another good choice would be Issac Bruce as he can start his coaching career where it all began.
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(10-28-2009 08:50 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  This game was the highest rated Tuesday night game on ESPN and ESPN2 so far this season so a lot of people in the area stayed home to watch the game. With FedEx and other larger donors we have the money and backers to get Holmgrom, Gruden and Fulmer. Those are dream coaches but I do think can get a proven college coach like Lloyd Carr, Bob Davie, Tommy Bowden, Gary Barnett if he has changed his ways or Brian Kelly if we can give him more than what he is getting at Cincinnati. Another good choice would be Issac Bruce as he can start his coaching career where it all began.

Do you have a link to back up that claim?

And please...........I don't want to hear the reason for this high rating is because Memphis is a gigantic media market.
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(10-28-2009 08:50 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  This game was the highest rated Tuesday night game on ESPN and ESPN2 so far this season so a lot of people in the area stayed home to watch the game. With FedEx and other larger donors we have the money and backers to get Holmgrom, Gruden and Fulmer. Those are dream coaches but I do think can get a proven college coach like Lloyd Carr, Bob Davie, Tommy Bowden, Gary Barnett if he has changed his ways or Brian Kelly if we can give him more than what he is getting at Cincinnati. Another good choice would be Issac Bruce as he can start his coaching career where it all began.
Wow I don't even know what to say about this post. 01-wingedeagle
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...from all reports, we could even get Gus Malzahn or Trooper Taylor to give us the time of day, and you think those guys are going to come running to the rescue. Actually, Tommy Bowden could be a possibility, albeit a very unlikely one.

Sheesh, I want the Tigers to land a great coach, but it's time face reality and admit our HC job isn't exactly the most desirable in the CFB world. While all reports are that the money would be there for a coach, there are other factors. Like I said, an offensive coordinator who was coaching high school 4 years ago won't talk to us...that's not a good sign.
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(10-28-2009 08:50 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  This game was the highest rated Tuesday night game on ESPN and ESPN2 so far this season so a lot of people in the area stayed home to watch the game. With FedEx and other larger donors we have the money and backers to get Holmgrom, Gruden and Fulmer. Those are dream coaches but I do think can get a proven college coach like Lloyd Carr, Bob Davie, Tommy Bowden, Gary Barnett if he has changed his ways or Brian Kelly if we can give him more than what he is getting at Cincinnati. Another good choice would be Issac Bruce as he can start his coaching career where it all began.

Good Lord. Get this guy his meds. Kelly to Memphis. I love the internet sometimes. Better than stand up.
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Biran Kelly to Memphis is laughable. UTK screwed the pooch when they didn't do everything in their power to lure him away. They may not have been able to get him, but I don't think Kiffin will ever be half the coach Kelly is and had LK not been able to get around nepotism laws and hire his father, they'd be in worse shape than they are now.

I don't know that BK will be leaving Cincy anytime soon, that is until Notre Dame finally cuts ties with fat Charlie. Brian Kelly would crawl from Cincinnati to South Bend, but he probably won't have to because the Notre Dame boosters will build a bridge made of one hundred dollar bills from South Bend to Cincy that BK can collect as he goes.
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(10-28-2009 08:50 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  This game was the highest rated Tuesday night game on ESPN and ESPN2 so far this season so a lot of people in the area stayed home to watch the game. With FedEx and other larger donors we have the money and backers to get Holmgrom, Gruden and Fulmer. Those are dream coaches but I do think can get a proven college coach like Lloyd Carr, Bob Davie, Tommy Bowden, Gary Barnett if he has changed his ways or Brian Kelly if we can give him more than what he is getting at Cincinnati. Another good choice would be Issac Bruce as he can start his coaching career where it all began.

Unless FedEx is ready to give Brian Kelly controlling interest in the company plus like $20M a year, I kind of dont see that happening...
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(10-28-2009 08:50 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  This game was the highest rated Tuesday night game on ESPN and ESPN2 so far this season so a lot of people in the area stayed home to watch the game.

This was the highest rated Tuesday night game of the season so far? I'm very impressed, considering out of three Tuesday night games, the other two being Sun Belt matchups.

The first Tuesday game was Middle Tennessee @ Troy. Middle Tennessee has been playing FBS ball since 2001 and Troy has been playing FBS ball since 2004. Murfreesboro is a city of just over 100,000. Troy is a city of less than 20,000.

The second Tuesday game was Louisiana-Monroe @ Arkansas State. Louisiana Monroe has been playing FBS ball since 1994 and Arkansas State has been playing FBS ball since 1992. Monroe is a city of just over 50,000(metro of 170,000) and Jonesboro is a city of under 70,000(metro of 120,000.

ECU has been playing FBS ball since 1978 and Memphis has been playing FBS ball since 1978. Greenville is a city of 80,000(metro of 170,00) Memphis is a city of 670,000(metro of 1.3 million)

ECU football has had some very big wins on national tv in the past few years, Memphis had some good seasons a few years back during the DW years.

As much as I love the Blue Raiders and think the Sun Belt is a fast improving conference, if your game hadn't been the highest rated of the three...that might be even more embarassing than your attendance at the game.
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So the competition was only Middle Tennessee @ Troy and Louisiana-Monroe @ Arkansas State? That's the funny thing about stats.

Do resonable Memphis fans claim MemphisTger as one of their own?
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(10-28-2009 04:54 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  It was rainy, cool, a Tuesday night, and the game was on national TV...If we were in the Big East or SEC, we would have had 60,000 no matter what our record is.

So, did the fans stay home because of it being "rainy, cool, a Tuesday night, and the game was on national TV" or did they stay home because you aren't "in the Big East or SEC"?

Would being in SEC have changed the weather? I know their deal with ESPN is mammoth, but I didn't realized it granted weather changes.
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(10-28-2009 08:50 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  This game was the highest rated Tuesday night game on ESPN and ESPN2 so far this season so a lot of people in the area stayed home to watch the game.

I'm not sure I'd be trumpeting that claim given that the only other two Tuesday night games this season involved Sunbelt teams (Middle Tennessee @ Troy and Louisiana-Monroe @ Arkansas State). That is like bragging about being the top student in a remedial course.


(10-28-2009 08:50 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  With FedEx and other larger donors we have the money and backers to get Holmgrom, Gruden and Fulmer.

How did all that money work out in the Calipari situation?


(10-28-2009 08:50 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  or Brian Kelly if we can give him more than what he is getting at Cincinnati.

If Kelley leaves UC, it will be either for the NFL or a top tier programs (Notre Dame for example). He isn't going to take a step down in the coaching ranks (BCS to a non-BCS program).
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(10-28-2009 05:57 PM)XLance Wrote:  Everyone must have stayed home to watch the game on TV.

More a matter of not wanting to sit thru a cold rain and watch a 2-5 team play. Many of those who stayed away are trying (misguidedly) to effect a coaching change.

Quote:How many students does Memphis have?

A little over 21,000

Quote:When did Memphis stop being Memphis State?

1994
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(10-28-2009 04:54 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  It was rainy, cool, a Tuesday night, and the game was on national TV. I know a few students that had tickets but did not want to go because of the rain. Plus we are a basketball school and that is something that I care more about right now than talking about football.

Anyone think that maybe this is why Memphis hasn't gotten a Big East invite yet?


(10-28-2009 04:54 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  If we were in the Big East or SEC, we would have had 60,000 no matter what our record is.

That is a laughable argument to make. Memphis played BE member Louisville in 2008 (you know, the Big East team that Memphis fans claim as one of their biggest rivals ever) and just over 40K showed up to watch the game. And just to re-emphasize my point, want to guess what the attendance was for Memphis' season opener against then ranked #8 Ole Miss (both teams were 0-0 and Ole Miss is considered one of Memphis' biggest rivals)? It was 45,207.

Let's take a look at 2004 versus #14 Louisville. Memphis had a star player (DeAngelo Williams) Tiger fans could get excited about, they were 5-2 on the season, and they were playing a huge conference rival who was #16th in the nation. Attendance was 52,384. So even with all those things going for them, Memphis still wasn't able to hit the 60K attendance mark.

So no, I don't buy your argument that 60K would show up regardless of the record because there simply is no evidence to support that claim (if they can't get 60K to show when they are good, then they won't get 60K to show up if they are 1-11).
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(10-29-2009 09:24 AM)UofL07 Wrote:  
(10-28-2009 04:54 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  It was rainy, cool, a Tuesday night, and the game was on national TV. I know a few students that had tickets but did not want to go because of the rain. Plus we are a basketball school and that is something that I care more about right now than talking about football.

Anyone think that maybe this is why Memphis hasn't gotten a Big East invite yet?


(10-28-2009 04:54 PM)MemphisTger Wrote:  If we were in the Big East or SEC, we would have had 60,000 no matter what our record is.

That is a laughable argument to make. Memphis played BE member Louisville in 2008 (you know, the Big East team that Memphis fans claim as one of their biggest rivals ever) and just over 40K showed up to watch the game. And just to re-emphasize my point, want to guess what the attendance was for Memphis' season opener against then ranked #8 Ole Miss (both teams were 0-0 and Ole Miss is considered one of Memphis' biggest rivals)? It was 45,207.

Let's take a look at 2004 versus #14 Louisville. Memphis had a star player (DeAngelo Williams) Tiger fans could get excited about, they were 5-2 on the season, and they were playing a huge conference rival who was #16th in the nation. Attendance was 52,384. So even with all those things going for them, Memphis still wasn't able to hit the 60K attendance mark.

So no, I don't buy your argument that 60K would show up regardless of the record because there simply is no evidence to support that claim (if they can't get 60K to show when they are good, then they won't get 60K to show up if they are 1-11).

That makes the 4,117 seem even worse.

C-USA needs for Memphis to be good. If Memphis, East Carolina, UCF & UTEP were all pulling in over 40K REGARDLESS OF THE OPPONENT & Marshall, Southern Miss and Houston were all over 30K, it would really help the league's perception.
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For the record.....I had no idea that only 2 other Tuesday night games have been played on ESPN so far.....both being Sun Belt matchups.

Thank you all for bringing that point to light.

IMO....the interesting thing to watch for will be the ratings for tonight's Cryolina @ Va. Tech Thursday night game and next week's Va. Tech @ ECU Thursday night game. Tonight's is going up against the World Series......next week could also, depending on how the series plays out.

Last week's FSU @ Cryolina Thursday night game "drew a 2.0 U.S. rating and 3 million viewers up 11% and 20%, respectively, from Florida State/N.C. State last year (1.8, 2.5 mil)."

Also.... Rutgers/Army drew a 1.0 U.S. rating and 1.6 million viewers on ESPN2 last night Friday night.

And yes....if the game involving ECU beats out all of those.....I'll be sure to swing over here and beat my chest. 03-nutkick 02-13-banana 04-rock

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(10-29-2009 08:54 AM)UofL07 Wrote:  How did all that money work out in the Calipari situation?

Worked out great. Back in 2000 a lot of folks said we'd never get Cal. Others said that he'd be gone in 2 or 3 years.

He stayed here nine seasons, became our alltime winningest coach, and won 30 plus games each of his last four seasons.
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Fact is that Memphis consistently outdrew Cincinnati when both were members of C-USA.

A terrible team on a rainy night and many fans who are boycotting (because they want the coach fired) resulted in what was probably the smallest Tigers home crowd in the 45 year history of Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

I was there, but I can't say I blame those who weren't. I'm more concerned about who our next coach will be than I am about our attendenace. Memphis attendance is fine when we are winning and sucks when we aren't. That will probably never change.

Win and they will come.
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