It's not about me. I mean that sincerely ... This is my 33rd year as an athletic director. Melba and I love Memphis, we love the community, we love the university, and we love the Tigers. If you're gonna do what I'm doing, you learn to develop a really thick skin. You've gotta be able to move on. Does a...
He's from Memphis and he's watched the (Vols-Tigers) games, so I'm sure he's ramped up and ready to go
My opinion is he might not wear a uniform in Memphis again ... It’s nobody’s fault. Josh has a system, (but) I don’t know where Joe fits in it. And Joe said he’s confused, unhappy and not having fun. And I always say if you’re not happy you need to do something about it. They’re trying to work things ou...
We were 100 percent in the tournament, and now we might not be in the tournament after this loss
It looked like early, this game could get ugly ... We were really concerned it could be a 40-10 halftime score or something like that. The fact that it was somehow manageable at halftime was huge because we had played so poorly.
We just didn't have an answer for Black
We just said we wanted to keep the ball out of the lane ... They had gone to Black, and he had crushed us inside. We were trying to get in front of him, and, if he did catch it, then the plan was to double-team him. But he caught it so deep and got it off so quickly, we couldn't get there in time.
We definitely wanted to play hard for him to let him know that we've been working hard for him and not have any slippage in practice ... We just wanted to take this for him.
He did everything right until the shot, and he raised up out of the play
I am from Memphis, I have a lot of family there and people who love me and are pushing for me there so I am going to take a couple of these shirts I got from the (UTEP) Bookstore with my number on them and have some of those fans out there in the orange