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Eye On College Basketball

How did Memphis reach this point under Penny Hardaway? Plus: Why UConn-to-the-Big-12 failed

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Sports, Basketball

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The Memphis Tigers are back in the headlines ... for the wrong reasons. Penny Hardaway dismissed four of his staff members. Will he be next? What's with the anonymous letter that's been sent to the NCAA? Why has this program continually been so noisy off the court? Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander break it down, then get into why UConn going to the Big 12 stalled out. Also: Highlights from GP's vacation and Norlander goes backstage with Pearl Jam.

(00:45) - There's Turmoil in Memphis...again.

(33:09) - The UConn-Big 12 talks are dormant.

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0:00.0

Hey there it's Carrie Parish. Welcome back to the CBS Sports

0:08.3

Island College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting

0:11.6

Dodo Birds and leaky Black, Matt Norlander is here with me and

0:16.2

you're watching on YouTube, please smash the like button.

0:19.4

Pretend your Brandon Davies, shouts to the BYU legend.

0:22.2

If you haven't yet subscribed to the

0:23.3

CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel, please also do that while you're here.

0:27.8

Let's get into it. I suppose we'll start with the University of Memphis which has

0:32.2

created by my count at least four headlines in the past week.

0:36.0

Number one, four assistant coaches, including Rick Stansberry, were fired less than nine weeks

0:41.8

before the start of the season for reasons that have gone

0:44.8

to date unexplained. Two, the university acknowledged receiving a letter that it has

0:50.9

turned into the NCAA alleging major rules violations by Penny Hardaway and multiple staff members.

0:56.4

Three, the school has reportedly reached a deal with Nolan Smith to join Penny staff and

1:01.2

four Penny Hardaway conducted a Q&A with our buddy John Rosteen that was both defensive and at times a little delusional.

1:10.2

Norlander from a distance tell me what you make of everything you're hearing and

1:13.6

reading about Penny Hardaway's program at Memphis. So much to get into here

1:18.6

GP great to be back with you and I know some folks were hoping to get this

1:22.1

episode sooner.

1:23.0

G. P. had a little vacation time so we wanted to allow for him to get back and

1:26.7

so here we are. Thanks for everyone for joining us and listening etc.

1:29.5

Etc. A lot to get into. The fact that we are here again and by here GP I mean talking

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