re: Why doesn’t the SEC Tournament rotate to Memphis?

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People live in north MS and commute to Memphis cause they can’t afford the nice houses in Memphis

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This is a lie.. some do, but the vast majority live in the Shelby County suburbs due to better school systems, less traffic, and more land for development. Memphis city schools collapsed due to corruption for a reason.

Memphis interstates were designed around factories that have been abandoned and the areas of Memphis those factories were are some of the heaviest crime areas because of it.

Downtown, which is where the tournament would be, is perfectly fine. There are areas you shouldn’t go, but if you’re worried about ending up like a Chiraq casualty from visiting for a tournament at the Forem that’s insane.

Use the same logic you use in any big city. The downside of Memphis is you have a lot fewer attractions outside the tournament.

You do have the Memphis Zoo, which is one of the top zoos in the US, you also have basspro at the pyramid, Graceland(real natives never go), children’s museum, pink palace, Overton park, Cooper/Young, Shelby Farms, Agricenter, Peabody, riverside drive, Tommy Lee Park, Wolf River Greenwalk(this will soon connect downtown all the way to the west side of Collierville from what I heard.

Just looked it up

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Built in phases, this 10-foot and 12-foot wide pathway will eventually extend a total of 36 miles to connect neighborhoods all the way from the north end of Mud Island, in downtown Memphis, through the neighborhoods of north central Memphis, connecting to Shelby Farms and then to the cities of Germantown and Collierville, Tennessee.

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That’s all spread out though and outside of Riverside, Tommy Lee, and the Peabody they aren't walking distance from downtown.