Memphis athletic director shines light on Tigers’ decision to stay in AAC
“This is one of the things I’m learning about Memphis — a lot of folks, and some of you in the media, candidly, want us to go to be great,” University of Memphis athletic director Ed Scott said Thursday, Sept. 26. “And sometimes you gotta be great to go. So when I hear people say, ‘I’m not gonna buy tickets,’ or, ‘I’m not gonna support the programs,’ you’re not really hurting me. You’re hurting the student-athletes.” (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
“It really came down to what our future looks like,” Ed Scott said. “... The financials were not there.”
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Ed Scott Memphis Tigers Athletics AAC Pac-12Parth Upadhyaya
Parth Upadhyaya covers the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team. A Raleigh, N.C., native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism, Upadhyaya is a longtime college hoops junkie. Prior to joining The Daily Memphian in 2022, he covered high school sports in western Pennsylvania for the Beaver County Times and Penn State football for the Centre Daily Times.
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