Memphis Standards

[Scot-e]

If Memphis has to club baby seals to put a NCAA worthy team on the floor I am all for it. We need them to be good -period.

 

[jibsey]

I also think it's wrong to bash Memphis' academics. Many years ago I attended and took courses in both their science and English departments. Quality was top notch. Now being in the city of Memphis they give many students a chance at attending succeeding. If they don't accomplish they are gone.
Their city demographics and tuition fees dictate that so their admittance standards are not Storrs but then again admittance standards for premier division one athletic programs even Ivy League can be quite suspect. If a prime Yale basketball recruit applied without the sports he usually would not get in, never mind get the "need " scholarship aid he is getting.

 

[PradaMane]

I feel like every 2 days its a new scandal going on with Mempiss. You go through all the trouble of letting these type of kids in just to get bounced out the tournament the second weekend.

 

[UofMemphis]

I feel like every 2 days its a new scandal going on with Mempiss. You go through all the trouble of letting these type of kids in just to get bounced out the tournament the second weekend.

Accepting transfers that meet NCAA requirements is not a scandal...I mean, I get it...UConn turned down Godfrey, and we took him. I don't see a scandal there.

As for Johnson, he gave his dorm swipe card to a couple of his hoodlum friends, and they robbed a few dorm rooms...Johnson got suspended, now he's transferring to Memphis...again, I don't see the scandal.

 

[upstater]

Apparently, bigtime 2016 recruit Skal Labissiere is trying to enroll at Memphis for the spring because his handlers messed up his high school eligibility and he has nowhere to play. In fact, he won't be playing at all, nor will he be going to school this year. Which begs the question about how in the world a kid from Haiti can come to the USA without completing his schooling, and still enroll at a university.

 

[WestHartHusk]

Apparently, bigtime 2016 recruit Skal Labissiere is trying to enroll at Memphis for the spring because his handlers messed up his high school eligibility and he has nowhere to play. In fact, he won't be playing at all, nor will he be going to school this year. Which begs the question about how in the world a kid from Haiti can come to the USA without completing his schooling, and still enroll at a university.

Is he trying to enroll in a university? i thought he was trying to enroll at Memphis.

 

[UofMemphis]

Skal is at the prep school I attended in Memphis, Lausanne.

http://www.lausanneschool.com/

He's trying to get eligible

http://www.commercialappeal.com/spo...ship-eligibility-for-skal-labissiere_19521187

Its a good school.

 

[Scot-e]

Look M- All of us want U of M to do well and you are a good addition to the BY (you might be the only AAC poster from another team I don't ignore).

But if your school does what it does and does it well- no need to post every enomolly when someone tries to get eligible.

 

[mauconnfan]

There's a lot of questionable stuff going on there no doubt. But it is what it is right? Next......

Funny thing is they're getting kids in who can't enroll at ours and others but Geno can't say congrats to a fellow Philly girl that's 12 years old.......NCAA is beyond screwed up

 

[willie99]

I'd rather bash UK (c'mon man, Squid?)or Dook (hype city BABY) or BC (then again, why bother) or Donna SheLieLa and the Canes or even the best college basketball program in the country every December, CUSE, but leave our conference brothers alone

C'mon Tigers, my new 2nd favorite team in the country, replacing Louisville.

 

[UofMemphis]

Look M- All of us want U of M to do well and you are a good addition to the BY (you might be the only AAC poster from another team I don't ignore).

But if your school does what it does and does it well- no need to post every enomolly when someone tries to get eligible.

I just noticed the headline in the paper because I went there. Skal is in a tough spot. He's not a Memphis kid (from Haiti) and his handler is out for himself.

 

[UofMemphis]

NCAA cleared Godfrey to play today

http://www.commercialappeal.com/spo...his-season-for-university-of-memphis_68388762

 

[UCONN-NYC]

and a

NCAA cleared Godfrey to play today

http://www.commercialappeal.com/spo...his-season-for-university-of-memphis_68388762

another of your threesome is in the fold a year early
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...recruit-dedric-lawson-reclassifies-class-2015

 

[UofMemphis]

and a

another of your threesome is in the fold a year early
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...recruit-dedric-lawson-reclassifies-class-2015

2015 class:???

KJ Lawson (four-star)
Dedric Lawson (five-star)
Skal Labissiere (five-star)

That would be truly epic.

 

[Scot-e]

Yawn.

 

[UofMemphis]

Yawn.

It's good news for Memphis, which is good news for the AAC...It's tough trying to keep up with UConn ;-)

 

[champs99and04]

I'm not going to conjure any moral outrage over "standards", but I do question whether consistently signing kids with character/eligibility/academic concerns is the best way to build a basketball team. Sign one or two kids with a couple question marks, and you're probably alright. But if you make a habit out of targeting kids other schools are afraid to touch...you're setting yourself up for self-destruction.

To be clear, I have no idea if this is the case with Memphis or not. I'm not in the position to judge anybody else's character. But disciplining 19 and 20 year old kids is tough enough when they aren't documented discontents or troublemakers, and if the strategy is simply to accumulate the most possible talent at any cost, I don't see it translating to victories.

 

[UofMemphis]

I'm not going to conjure any moral outrage over "standards", but I do question whether consistently signing kids with character/eligibility/academic concerns is the best way to build a basketball team. Sign one or two kids with a couple question marks, and you're probably alright. But if you make a habit out of targeting kids other schools are afraid to touch...you're setting yourself up for self-destruction.

To be clear, I have no idea if this is the case with Memphis or not. I'm not in the position to judge anybody else's character. But disciplining 19 and 20 year old kids is tough enough when they aren't documented discontents or troublemakers, and if the strategy is simply to accumulate the most possible talent at any cost, I don't see it translating to victories.

Pastner suspends kids for cursing and being late to the team bus. Hell, he kicked Five star player Jelan Kendrick off the team for being a head case.

He takes discipline, and second chances, very seriously.

 

[mauconnfan]

Pastner suspends kids for cursing and being late to the team bus. Hell, he kicked Five star player Jelan Kendrick off the team for being a head case.

He takes discipline, and second chances, very seriously.

The cursing is his choice, kind of strange to me but I guess good for him!

 

[UofMemphis]

The cursing is his choice, kind of strange to me but I guess good for him!

If you screw up and yell an expletive...whatever.

If you screw up, a coach corrects you, and you tell that coach to "go F himself"

That's totally different.