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re: Why doesn’t the SEC Tournament rotate to Memphis?
Posted on 10/21/21 at 2:55 pm to husslemane
Posted on 10/21/21 at 2:55 pm to husslemane
That’s so far from the truth.
There are more SEC basketball fans in Memphis than Memphis Tiger fans. I don’t even think the Tigers have sold all of their season tickets for basketball and they are supposed to be legit
There are more SEC basketball fans in Memphis than Memphis Tiger fans. I don’t even think the Tigers have sold all of their season tickets for basketball and they are supposed to be legit
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Posted on 10/21/21 at 2:56 pm to DonaldPump
It shouldn't rotate anywhere, it should always be in Atlanta.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 2:57 pm to husslemane
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Memphis only loves SEC football, mainly because the Tigers have never consistently been nationally relevant. Basketball-wise, 90% of the city couldn't care less about any SEC team
This is way off 
Posted on 10/21/21 at 2:58 pm to husslemane
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Second, Memphis only loves SEC football, mainly because the Tigers have never consistently been nationally relevant
Memphis loves SEC football because it's a large city in the South without a flagship university in any other major conference. Even if Memphis was good at football, which they have actually been for awhile now, Memphis would still be an SEC city. There are like 8 SEC schools within a 3-4 hour drive from Memphis. Those alums grew up in and many still live in Memphis. Would you say Atlanta is only an SEC town because Ga State and Ga Tech suck at football? Or Birmingham is because UAB sucks? or New Orleans because Tulane sucks? No, because that's ridiculous.
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The way Miami is about "the U" in football and Louisville is about their Basketball, that's how Memphis is about Tiger basketball.
Not even close. Tiger high has a decent basketball following but you're going way over the top with that.
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Basketball-wise, 90% of the city couldn't care less about any SEC team.
wrongThis post was edited on 10/21/21 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 10/21/21 at 2:58 pm to MetroAtlantaGatorFan
It should honestly just stay in Nashville if anything
ATL has more crime than anywhere and the basketball schools in this conference are much closer to Nashville than Atlanta
ATL has more crime than anywhere and the basketball schools in this conference are much closer to Nashville than Atlanta
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:00 pm to Golfer1
Right, because all that "crime" in Atlanta has hurt the SEC title game in football.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:01 pm to Golfer1
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I don’t even think the Tigers have sold all of their season tickets for basketball and they are supposed to be legit
And I doubt they have since Derrick Rose was in college and before that when Anfernee Hardaway was in college. Tiger High has band-wagon Memphians that pretend they care when they're good. But, at the end of the day, it's a commuter school with no real school loyalty when it comes to athletics. It's no different than a school like MTSU, UAB, etc.
This post was edited on 10/21/21 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:02 pm to DonaldPump
I'm all for Memphis, or NOLA. Get the game out of ATL, at least not every year. ATL is just too generic and corporate. The stadium is an abomination of architecture.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:02 pm to MetroAtlantaGatorFan
We don’t have to make it about crime.
No basketball school is closer to Atlanta.
There is a reason it’s always more heavily attended in Nashville compared to Atlanta
It’s in Tampa this year then back to Nashville for 6 more years right?
Keep it out of Atlanta. Too far for the basketball schools in the SEC
Once Nashville builds a new stadium. Have heard they are wanting to build a dome to host a SB look for the football championship to be moved out of ATL every year
No basketball school is closer to Atlanta.
There is a reason it’s always more heavily attended in Nashville compared to Atlanta
It’s in Tampa this year then back to Nashville for 6 more years right?
Keep it out of Atlanta. Too far for the basketball schools in the SEC
Once Nashville builds a new stadium. Have heard they are wanting to build a dome to host a SB look for the football championship to be moved out of ATL every year
This post was edited on 10/21/21 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:03 pm to Golfer1
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There is a reason it’s always more heavily attended in Nashville compared to Atlanta
If we're all being honest, how many people attend the SEC basketball tournament is dependent on how long Kentucky lasts. It's always been that way.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:06 pm to lsufball19
Agree with that but when Arkansas is good we will pack that place.
It’s usually Kentucky mostly and then Arkansas
I love when Kentucky gets bounced early cause their tickets books they sale for cheap haha
It’s usually Kentucky mostly and then Arkansas
I love when Kentucky gets bounced early cause their tickets books they sale for cheap haha
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:06 pm to Golfer1
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We don’t have to make it about crime.
YOU brought it up.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:07 pm to MetroAtlantaGatorFan
Well I mean even the nice areas of ATL have become a $hithole
Can’t even go to mall without getting shot now. Park your car at airport it will have windows busted out
Liberal issue I know
Can’t even go to mall without getting shot now. Park your car at airport it will have windows busted out
Liberal issue I know
This post was edited on 10/21/21 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:07 pm to Golfer1
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Well I mean even the nice areas of ATL have become a $hithole
so much so that Buckhead residents are campaigning to create their own city with their own police force.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:11 pm to Golfer1
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Agree with that but when Arkansas is good we will pack that place.
It’s usually Kentucky mostly and then Arkansas
I love when Kentucky gets bounced early cause their tickets books they sale for cheap haha
Yeah I can agree with that. And if the tournament were in Memphis, there would be A LOT of Arkansas fans there. Back when it was in the Pyramid when Nolan Richardson was coaching, that place was packed. I think they actually played Kentucky in the SECT that year.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:14 pm to NaturalStateReb
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Nothing says basketball like Birmingham
Maybe, but things are a changin'
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The Birmingham Squadron are an American professional basketball team based in Birmingham, Alabama. The team is the NBA G League affiliate of the National Basketball Association's New Orleans Pelicans.
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Birmingham will host the first and second round of the NCAA Tournament for Division I men’s basketball in 2023 at the newly renovated BJCC.
The NCAA’s announcement marks the first time for the NCAA Tournament in Birmingham since 2008 for men’s basketball.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:43 pm to Golfer1
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Sorry you are poor and have to live in Corinth.
Again I live in Desoto county and have for over 25 years… only still here cause I’m helping family.
When the supply chain continues to get worse I’ll take my family land in northeast MS over Memphis any day.
This will be my last post as this isn’t meant to change anyone’s opinion. I look at stats, I look at trends, and I look at facts. Small towns have plenty to do if you are content with life and don’t need “things” for worth of it. Corinth has plenty for me and again a much better place to raise my kids.
Remember why the mid south fair isn’t in Memphis, or why the Peabody Place got shutdown, or how many bodies were dropped off at the front of the pyramid, or why the Mall of memphis or any mall in memphis for that matter can’t survive, or why cops were stationed at every on ramp for 8 months from potential random shooters on the interstate, or… you get the point.
Ever get shot at while taking your kids to the zoo? I have
Ever get shot at while going to the fair? I have
Ever seen a UCF family get beaten and mugged outside the Liberty bowl because they parked on the “wrong side of the street”? I have
Memphis had potential but they always ALWAYS frick/fricked it up.
Good luck in your shithole “city.”
I’ll take most small towns in the Sip any day.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:47 pm to STATEofMIND
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Ever get shot at while taking your kids to the zoo? I have
Ever get shot at while going to the fair? I have
Ever seen a UCF family get beaten and mugged outside the Liberty bowl because they parked on the “wrong side of the street”? I have
Memphis had potential but they always ALWAYS frick/fricked it up.
Where the frick are you going and/or who are you hanging out with if you personally know three people murdered in the last month and have been shot at multiple times? Either you're lying to make a point or you're in a gang. I don't care how dangerous Memphis is or isn't, your personal experience is not normal in the least. I know no one personally who has been murdered and know no one personally that has ever been shot at. I grew up in Memphis and most of my friends and family still live there, so I have plenty of anecdotal evidence myself.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:50 pm to STATEofMIND
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Ever get shot at while taking your kids to the zoo? I have
Ever get shot at while going to the fair? I have
Ever seen a UCF family get beaten and mugged outside the Liberty bowl because they parked on the “wrong side of the street”? I have
All of this happened to you, and you know 3 people murdered recently? That kind of reeks of a little bit of BS to be honest with you.
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I’ll take most small towns in the Sip any day.
I probably would to or my original small hometown in Alabama. I live in Collierville, that is the Kroger where we shop that had the shooting, I knew some of the people shot, you're going way over the top here.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 3:53 pm to DonaldPump
It is a dump.
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