Player payments, ticket sales, stadium updates: Athletics head says Tigers are in ‘great shape’
Ed Scott has been the University of Memphis athletic director for 13 months. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Ed Scott sat inside a conference room in the University of Memphis’ Maxine A. Smith University Center on Wednesday morning and explained to the university’s board of trustees how the Tigers are “punching well above our weight class.”
Scott, Memphis’ athletic director who’s now 13 months into his role, has said some variation of those words several times through his tenure — especially so in recent months.
But in this latest presentation, Scott laid it all out plainly.
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Parth 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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