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Originally posted by UofMemphis
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If football is so important, and such a moneymaker, how on God's green earth do you pay your basketball coach more than double than your football coach?There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese. -
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Memphis has always been a basketball school...Tiger basketball is in the cities DNA:Originally posted by MoValley John View Post
But that doesn't mean we can't make our football into a successful money making program as well.Comment
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Didn't your last arena sink or something like that?Originally posted by UofMemphis View PostMemphis has always been a basketball school...Tiger basketball is in the cities DNA:
But that doesn't mean we can't make our football into a successful money making program as well.There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.Comment
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No...
Memphis had whats called "right of first refusal" at The Pyramid...we could have blocked the Grizzlies move, but we bent over backwards to accommodate them...when the FedExForum was built they gave us a sweetheart deal to move all our games there...our locker rooms are just as nice as the Grizzlies.
The Pyramid is being converted into a Mega BassPro shop with a hotel, aquarium, boat dock to test fishing boats and of course shopping.
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So it did sink? Or did it flood? Or was it just a piece of crap from day one?Originally posted by UofMemphis View PostNo...
Memphis had whats called "right of first refusal" at The Pyramid...we could have blocked the Grizzlies move, but we bent over backwards to accommodate them...when the FedExForum was built they gave us a sweetheart deal to move all our games there...our locker rooms are just as nice as the Grizzlies.
The Pyramid is being converted into a Mega BassPro shop with a hotel, aquarium, boat dock to test fishing boats and of course shopping.
There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.Comment
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Oh...I remember...few years back the Mississippi flooded...but the city sandbagged the Pyramid and it survived just fine.
it was close, though:
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I took the time and looked it up, the Pyramid didn't sink, but it did flood. What a waste of money! From Wikipedia:
Ever since its inception there have been problems at the Pyramid. On the
Pyramid's opening night, someone shut drainage pumps off and by the time it was realized, the entire arena began to flood causing stage-hands to sandbag the entire perimeter to preserve the electrics which ran under the stage. This also caused plumbing problems and was considered a disaster. The arena was also assumed to be NBA ready. However, when the Memphis Grizzlies came to town, this was discovered not to be the case. The cost of upgrading the structure to NBA standards exceeded the cost of a new stadium. The new FedExForum was built and opened in 2004.
When the FedEx Forum overtook the Pyramid as the city's primary indoor sports arena, the Pyramid did not have any long term tenants. A committee studied possible uses of the arena in 2005, and considered such uses as converting the arena into a casino, an aquarium, a shopping center, or an indoor theme park.[8] In November 2006, Congressman-Elect Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) suggested that he would attempt to open a "Mid-American branch" of the Smithsonian Institution in the building. However, these plans were never realized.There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.Comment
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I was around 6-7 when the Pyramid opened so I guess I missed all that...I never liked it as an arena...FedExForum however, is very nice.
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Sweet locker rooms!Originally posted by UofMemphis View PostKung Wu say, man who read woman like book, prefer braille!Comment
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This thread has stopped being about shockers and or basketball like 20 pages ago. Can we move it to around NCAA? I know everyone's enjoying this but every time I get on here I'm like "uh oh, the realignment thread has been bumped, is there any news that affects shocker basketball?"I just want to stand on land...
@rjl:
If I had a gun with two bullets and was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and a Creighton fan, I think I'd shoot the Creighton fan twice.Comment
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Funny thing is that when this thread was started, a few members of the board didn't like having "yet another realignment thread" on the board. Now, it is the official alignment thread.Originally posted by LandStander View Post
I really hate being a thread Nazi, but...
You didn't want to "clutter" a megathread which is filled with literally dozens of hypos just like yours, so instead you cluttered the board with an entirely separate thread. If the dozen of us who post in the megathread felt like doing that every time we felt like barfing out a dream scenario, these things would be everywhere. Chaos would reign. Worlds would end.Comment
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No doubt this albatross is a POS but I spent an entire afternoon many years ago on the advice of my better half attending an historical rendering of WWII through Russian Eyes. It was riveting.Originally posted by MoValley John View PostComment
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HEY!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! LOOK AT ME!!!!!!Originally posted by CBB_Fan View PostDeuces Valley.
... No really, deuces.
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