He wasn't hired straight out of the NBA. He was hired because he coached AAU for all the top players in the Memphis area and they knew he would get those recruits. He's also a legend down there. He's awful and they should've hired a real coach but that was the reasoning.
Penny has only 2 appearances in the tournament since he’s been hired while having rosters that should have produced better results.
Not sure I’d consider AAU ball a primer for a college HC job.
Michigan State has a leftover reputation as an overachiever based on tournaments more than a decade ago. It's really time it had the reputation as a huge underachiever.
...and that reputation as an overachiever is based on MSU regularly underperforming in the regular season with rosters loaded with top 100 recruits and then pulling it together during tourney time as a lower seed. I don't know how the MSU fanbase feels about him but the national media has been letting Izzo off the hook for awhile.
Does seem rather ridiculous since now players are getting millions of dollars. But I guess back then rules were rules.
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And that's why he had to fire the staff..............
It's the same as the way the media kept Tex Schram's reputation as a great GM alive for a decade after the Cowboys had badly declined.
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Headline in the next week: "The Big 12 is proud to announce the addition of Memphis (not State) University for all sports beginning in 2025. Memphis has shown a tenacious desire to win without regard to any rules. Face it... it's hard to break rules in an NIL and transfer portal world, but Memphis found numerous ways to cheat. Add in a US News ranking of 269 and we believe that Memphis is the right fit for the Big FedEx 12."It feels like there are allegations of Level I recruiting violations and academic fraud and NCAA investigations and lawsuits and just about anything else you can imagine all the time. The program recently wanted to accept a young man who is now a felon after being convicted of firing a gun into a car filled with people. More recently, the program was reportedly recruiting a young man who had bounced through two schools already, the latter of which after being charged with sexual assault. And now this, with Memphis acknowledging Wednesday to Sports Illustrated that it has handed over a letter to the NCAA from an anonymous author that alleges multiple rules violations within the men's basketball program.
At Memphis? I'm shocked I tell ya. Shocked!
End of the road? Penny Hardaway's tumultuous Memphis tenure has sadly taken an exhausting toll
It's never boring at Memphis, but boring sounds nice right now
It feels like there are allegations of Level I recruiting violations and academic fraud and NCAA investigations and lawsuits and just about anything else you can imagine all the time. The program recently wanted to accept a young man who is now a felon after being convicted of firing a gun into a car filled with people. More recently, the program was reportedly recruiting a young man who had bounced through two schools already, the latter of which after being charged with sexual assault. And now this, with Memphis acknowledging Wednesday to Sports Illustrated that it has handed over a letter to the NCAA from an anonymous author that alleges multiple rules violations within the men's basketball program.
At Memphis? I'm shocked I tell ya. Shocked!
End of the road? Penny Hardaway's tumultuous Memphis tenure has sadly taken an exhausting toll
It's never boring at Memphis, but boring sounds nice right now
What could you possibly do to violate NCAA Rules ?Memphis sends letter alleging major violations in men's hoops to NCAA
Hours after Memphis basketball coach Penny Hardaway suddenly fired four staff members, the university confirmed the existence of an anonymous letter alleging serious NCAA violations within the Tigers' program.www.espn.com
Who would have guessed it??
If there’s a way, you knew Penny would find it
I feel like this chart deserves its own thread lol
Sounds Squidish with maybe a sprinkling of Pitino.
