Rick Stansbury out of a job
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Penny fires 4 Memphis staffers as season nears
Memphis basketball coach Penny Hardaway announced the firing of four staff members Wednesday, just two months before the start of the season.
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Came here to post that.
Time for the waterpark to open.
Ironically, the one coach they didn't fire is the main one they should.
Ah, Memphis basketball. Times change, but that cluster17 doesn't.
The start of the end of every head coach. He gets one more year if he fires some or all of his staff and "starts in a new direction". Funny how the new direction is almost never up. Has a coach who fired most or all of his staff ever recovered?
Penny has been very underwhelming. I remember when he was first hired, Memphis media went crazy and said he was destined for multiple title runs.
PS - Memphis local sports radio is the worst. They essentially ignore everything SEC even though they have more SEC fans in the Memphis metro than actual Memphis Tiger fans.
PS - Memphis local sports radio is the worst. They essentially ignore everything SEC even though they have more SEC fans in the Memphis metro than actual Memphis Tiger fans.
Did I see that this is now 8 assistants out of 10 in total that will not be returning from last year's staff? For starters, that's an obscenely high number, and the timing of these last 4 being dismissed is also weird with it coming just a couple months before the start of the season. Something definitely smells weird about all of this
Memphis was actually playing well last year while Penny was serving a suspension and Rick was the interim. They immediately started to suck when Penny took over again.
Was listening to sports talk a little while today. They were slamming Penny for letting Rick go. Apparently he was responsible for bringing in the current class.
Chris Vernon is saying it could be their new AD finding some recruiting nonsense and needing someone to be the scapegoat. It’s a valid theory since the other 3 guys are all local Memphis area guys.
Very interesting as usual for Memphis Basketball
Very interesting as usual for Memphis Basketball
Oktibbeha Co. bass will rue the day…
Thought everything was legal now.
We could build a Stansbury recruiting statue. NIL is right up Rick's alley.
Penny is a stubborn idiot. Biggest problem with hiring a beloved alum is you usually have to fire them.
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At Rick's age he probably has his nest egg and isn't feeling a whole lot of pressure.
Faragi Phillips from Grenada was also let go. A lot of rumors flying around but looks like Rick and Penny had a disagreement over something they couldn’t get past according to an AAU coach on the radio today. Other college coaches don’t seem to think much of Penny.
If he could still recruit, that would be fine.
They had 4 great years with Dana Kirk and 4 great years with Calipari. Other than that, pretty decent low-level program but nothing special at all.
Almost everything. I guess we’ll see what happens and what comes out of this. It was an interesting theory.
I have no idea if it's a fit or makes any sense at all, but I'd kinda like Rick being involved with our program again. It's a tough game, but I always liked the way he consistently had great athletes who played hard and did the fundamental things that really matter.
Felt bad about how it ended for him, even though I agreed it was time for a change. Just not the 17'n change we got.
Penny will be gone in less than a year. No chance he's got a long term future there.
Felt bad about how it ended for him, even though I agreed it was time for a change. Just not the 17'n change we got.
Penny will be gone in less than a year. No chance he's got a long term future there.
Gary Parish now reporting that Memphis has acknowledged handing over a letter to the NCAA that alleges major recruiting violations, and it’s not exactly a coincidence that this coincides with the firings.
I don’t know how you get into trouble with the NCAA in this day and age, but it sounds like Memphis knows that they’re busted, and they’re trying to get out ahead of it by firing some scapegoats
I don’t know how you get into trouble with the NCAA in this day and age, but it sounds like Memphis knows that they’re busted, and they’re trying to get out ahead of it by firing some scapegoats
Penny going to get canned next. No way he's not tied directly into any wrongdoings that merit firings at this point in time. Probably for the better in the long term. Penny ain't it.
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