Coaching Carousel (Basketball)
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mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
Very late or very early. Take your pick.
ptgrd23
- orange county CA
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.
....The four additional firings makes nine total staff members who were on the 2023-2024 team that will not return for the coming season. That team went 22-10 and finished fifth in the AAC before a early exit in the AAC Tournament.....
4 coaching staff members with Memphis men's basketball team fired, Penny Hardaway announces
Assistant coaches Rick Stansbury, Faragi Phillips and Jamie Rosser, along with special advisor Demetrius Dyson were all let go, U of M announced Wednesday, Sept. 4.
www.localmemphis.com
Crazy to fire your entire staff 2 months before season starts.
Can't they still transfer and potentially play for their new team at the semester, as long as they don't play any games with Memphis?
I believe it's an entire year they have to sit out. Think of Dainja.
I was thinking of Nae'Qwan Tomlin's midseason transfer to ... Memphis.
Looking into it though, it appears it's because he graduated from KState in December (after being benched for the first half of the season), and then "transferred"/enrolled as a graduate student in Memphis and was immediately eligible.
Memphis Men’s Basketball Program Acknowledges Letter Alleging Widespread Violations
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Memphis Acknowledges Letter Alleging Widespread Potential NCAA Violations in Men’s Basketball Program
Head coach Penny Hardaway is purported to have personal involvement in the accusations of illegal player recruitment and academic violations.
www.si.com
Multiple violations coming … Penny is on his way out …
However - Memphis doesn’t care about the violations as long as they win games and get recruits …
The sitting out rules are pretty much gone. I don't see anything that stops a player from playing the pre-season with one team, and the conference schedule with another. Hopefully I just missed it.
As of April '24: Transferring undergraduate student-athletes who have to have left their previous school while academically eligible and in good standing (not subject to disciplinary suspension or dismissal) and meet progress-toward-degree requirements at their new school before competing, are immediately eligible at their new school. It is expected [what does this legally mean?] that students will use the transfer portal.
The transfer portal for basketball is 45 days long starting in mid March. I did not see a between semester transfer portal, so I don't know how those get handled. My _guess_ is that a student in good standing can start playing once classes start for the new semester.
I did enjoy that one MLB player ended up playing for both sides in the same game this year due to a trade.
OrangeBlue98
- Des Moines, IA
Memphis’ accountants and lawyers doing the math of “NCAA fine vs buyout” as we speak to determine whether to fire Penny for cause…….
I bet Dainja is not happy he transferred right now. Mark him down with Skyy
Yeah, when Memphis was revealed as his destination I had some serious misgivings about that choice. I think he could have done much better. No clue what DD realized money/NIL wise, but I think he moved a little to quickly in making that decision.
Doesn't DD still have 2 years of eligibility though, or is this his last one?
After seening Coleman's payday, he's probably not happy he took one of the first offers.
The Illini basketball staff definitely have some cautionary tales to tell if there is someone they REALLY want to keep onboard. I am not sure Skyy or DD were one of those players though. Skyy for sure wasn't one of those players, and DD was probably more a scheme casualty than anything else. He was looking for a Star role and thought he could get that at Memphis, here at ILL not so much.
Not trying to make excuses for Memphis since it's likely a rotten egg. But with the transfer rules and international players, how do schools keep the academic standard these days? Or, maybe it doesn't matter since most players are only going to stay for a year or two?
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