I thought the NCAA was essentially dead and toothless

[Extendedcab]

Or are they just really selective?

See link about Memphis. https://www.newsmax.com/us/ncaa-memphis-cheating/2025/07/17/id/1219141/

[Tripp McNeely]

Slap on the wrist...the NCAA is still dead and toothless

[Political Hack]

A flex of momentary morality in a quest to remain relevant...

They should stick to academic scandals and leave the economic part of the game alone.

[Pancho]

That ain't all Penny has going on up in the crime mecca of TN. avoid the area at all costs

[viverlibre]

We would have self imposed the death penalty.

[DawgFromOxford]

That ain't all Penny has going on up in the crime mecca of TN. avoid the area at all costs

Bad take. There?s some cool stuff going on here but that doesn?t sell news headlines

[Tripp McNeely]

Bad take. There?s some cool stuff going on here but that doesn?t sell news headlines

Yeah, it's just a lazy take. The majority of crime in Memphis happens in 2-3 pockets where the majority of us never go.

[Brobi-wan]

Yeah, it's just a lazy take. The majority of crime in Memphis happens in 2-3 pockets where the majority of us never go.

You mean the malls?

[Pancho]

Yeah, it's just a lazy take. The majority of crime in Memphis happens in 2-3 pockets where the majority of us never go.

what causes the crime and who is responsible? I think there are valid reasons for people to avoid the area all together. Cars broken into 7 or 8 times in 2 years in a gated community and these are not the areas you say some folks avoid due to whatever reason.

[Saltydog]

Yeah, Memphis is moving further to the south and east. Even Germantown now isn't that safe. Not as bad as Midtown or downtown but comparable to 10 or 15 years ago it's gotten a lot worse.

[Political Hack]

Inner city pockets are seeing donations and subsidies dry up, which is going to automatically result in higher crime. It's science.

[viverlibre]

Inner city pockets are seeing donations and subsidies dry up, which is going to automatically result in higher crime. It's science.

Result in? Have you not been paying attention? It's been happening for decades and ramped up since the plandemic.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Yeah, Memphis is moving further to the south and east. Even Germantown now isn't that safe. Not as bad as Midtown or downtown but comparable to 10 or 15 years ago it's gotten a lot worse.

I've got a friend who's parents live in the gated neighborhood that backs up to Ridgeway Country Club, extremely nice neighborhood with multimillion dollar homes. His dad's car was stolen FROM THEIR GARAGE during the middle of the day. I mean it used to be that you knew the areas to avoid in Memphis and could avoid them pretty easily. Nowadays, I don't know if the areas where you would feel safe even exist anymore.

[Pancho]

Then Mulroy, the DA turns em back loose the next day if they are arrested. It is an entire trash run city.

[DownwardDawg]

Yeah, it's just a lazy take. The majority of crime in Memphis happens in 2-3 pockets where the majority of us never go.

Pretty much all big cities but people run with it. Nashville has a lot more crime than people realize but it's kept quiet because it's such a tourist attraction. But if you live there you know where/when not to go.

[DownwardDawg]

I've got a friend who's parents live in the gated neighborhood that backs up to Ridgeway Country Club, extremely nice neighborhood with multimillion dollar homes. His dad's car was stolen FROM THEIR GARAGE during the middle of the day. I mean it used to be that you knew the areas to avoid in Memphis and could avoid them pretty easily. Nowadays, I don't know if the areas where you would feel safe even exist anymore.
Wow!! That's pretty damn wild!!

[DawgFromOxford]

I've got a friend who's parents live in the gated neighborhood that backs up to Ridgeway Country Club, extremely nice neighborhood with multimillion dollar homes. His dad's car was stolen FROM THEIR GARAGE during the middle of the day. I mean it used to be that you knew the areas to avoid in Memphis and could avoid them pretty easily. Nowadays, I don't know if the areas where you would feel safe even exist anymore.

Got a Memphis zip code on my address, not a suburb, but a legit Memphis zip code and I feel perfectly safe existing.

I'm not going to pretend Memphis doesn't have it's problems, but it's not just some cess pool with no hope and no value. It's a lot like Mississippi in the fact that to an outsider, why would anyone want to live there? But then you live there and discover it aint half bad.

[Coach34]

Sooooo- who is committing the majority of these crimes in Memphis?

[Pancho]

Got a Memphis zip code on my address, not a suburb, but a legit Memphis zip code and I feel perfectly safe existing.

I'm not going to pretend Memphis doesn't have it's problems, but it's not just some cess pool with no hope and no value. It's a lot like Mississippi in the fact that to an outsider, why would anyone want to live there? But then you live there and discover it aint half bad.

do you pack heat or are you really that relaxed?

[Brobi-wan]

Sooooo- who is committing the majority of these crimes in Memphis?

Is this ban hammer bait?

[BeardoMSU]

Typical shit, this thread has devolved into, lol.

[Coach34]

Is this ban hammer bait?

Why? I asked a simple question

[BeardoMSU]

Why? I asked a simple question


https://youtu.be/JyKt8_ZLxUg?si=jzhhQlF1qBwx434A

[DEDawg]

do you pack heat or are you really that relaxed?

lived here for over 10 years, never once thought I needed a gun or felt unsafe. still live downtown. ppl just either are from the suburbs so they only hear the local news, or out of towners who just go to the airport (which is a bad area) or the liberty bowl which is run down. it's a lazy take

[Pancho]

good luck to you. I know several postal workers there as well as real estate and pest control people. They are uncomfortable daily and are armed due to this criminal element. We used to go to red bird games but the many cars with broken windows has deterred us, same thing with the mall areas as well. My cousin has recently moved from the mud island area due to prowlers after dark. He was attacked in a restaurant parking lot by 3 fine citizens and survived. Then my great aunt who while unloading groceries had a 9 held to her head as her van was stolen by 2 more fine folks there. Both these are in the last 3 years but the mayor say that crime be down and all. be safe brother is all i can say to you and stay lucky

[Tater]

Sooooo- who is committing the majority of these crimes in Memphis?

Poor people. Like hack alluded to - when people can't survive off of "legal" means - minimum wage doesn't provide minimum rent/necessities, programs cut for social funding - then three things happen: People move elsewhere, birth rate slows, people turn to "illegal" means to survive.

Take a sociology course. State offers a great intro course - SO 1003. Honestly you should just go shadow any classes in Bowen.

[viverlibre]

My cousin has recently moved from the mud island area due to prowlers after dark. He was attacked in a restaurant parking lot by 3 fine citizens and survived. Then my great aunt who while unloading groceries had a 9 held to her head as her van was stolen by 2 more fine folks there. Both these are in the last 3 years but the mayor say that crime be down and all. be safe brother is all i can say to you and stay lucky

No offense, but if one is going to work/live/shop/recreate in proximity to high crime areas (like Mem, Jxn, B'ham. NOLA, BR), he/she must have an acute sense of situational awareness and plan. I've worked in DT Jxn for 30 years, between my building and my parking space is a hundred yards in an area frequented by bums, I carefully survey the scene before making that walk.

[Pancho]

good and good thing no thug just appeared from behind a building as they did in both instances that I mentioned. Some poor folk have no idea and no intention of improving their plight and just resort to a normal life of crime and get locked up or shot.

[Political Hack]

Result in? Have you not been paying attention? It's been happening for decades and ramped up since the plandemic.

Not a big social science guy? Crime doesn't stay static. It either goes up or goes down. Like the climate. You know? Just always changing. I know some don't believe in that, but it's just basic common sense. And the policies we put in place help deter or encourage crime. Right now, we're in an "encourage crime" window and we'll see rises in violence and theft.

[mparkerfd20]

Sooooo- who is committing the majority of these crimes in Memphis?

The Usual Suspects.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Sooooo- who is committing the majority of these crimes in Memphis?

The folks committing the crimes are held down by the system. Otherwise they would be future surgeons, astronauts, scientists, or engineers. Every time some 16 year old gangbanger with his pants below his asscrack, his gun turned sideways, and his pockets full of drugs shoots somebody, I realize there will be another empty seat in medical school.

[Tater]

The folks committing the crimes are held down by the system. Otherwise they would be future surgeons, astronauts, scientists, or engineers. Every time some 16 year old gangbanger with his pants below his asscrack, his gun turned sideways, and his pockets full of drugs shoots somebody, I realize there will be another empty seat in medical school.

Imagine if we set up a better plumber trade school pipeline.

Also while this is elite dawgs, you don't have to whistle so loud.

[Pancho]

plumbing ain't easy

[Tripp McNeely]

plumbing ain't easy

Neither is pimpin'!

[Pancho]

is they a pimpin school?

[TheLostDawg]

lived here for over 10 years, never once thought I needed a gun or felt unsafe. still live downtown. ppl just either are from the suburbs so they only hear the local news, or out of towners who just go to the airport (which is a bad area) or the liberty bowl which is run down. it's a lazy take

I was literally in a liquor store there 10 years ago and the owner pulled a gun on someone. I imagine things haven't improved. This was downtown.

[TheLostDawg]

Poor people. Like hack alluded to - when people can't survive off of "legal" means - minimum wage doesn't provide minimum rent/necessities, programs cut for social funding - then three things happen: People move elsewhere, birth rate slows, people turn to "illegal" means to survive.

Take a sociology course. State offers a great intro course - SO 1003. Honestly you should just go shadow any classes in Bowen.

Yeah but those books avs teachers all lean one way. Is there something to what they teach, yes. It's also half the story as always. When crimes have no punishment, there is nothing to persuade these people not to take the easy way out instead of doing it the hard way and get a job to pay your way out. Is it tough, absolutely but there are a lot of good people that do it.

[Coach34]

Every big city with problems has all the same characteristics:

Years of Democrat leadership
Very high taxes
High prices
Lots of crime (and its gotten so bad for some they have even stopped reporting crime stats)
Education is terrible

You get what you vote for- I dont need a sociology book for that

[Political Hack]

Yeah but those books avs teachers all lean one way. Is there something to what they teach, yes. It's also half the story as always. When crimes have no punishment, there is nothing to persuade these people not to take the easy way out instead of doing it the hard way and get a job to pay your way out. Is it tough, absolutely but there are a lot of good people that do it.

Agree with this except the "books all lean one way." That's a lie your political leaders tell you to divide you from education and make you dumber. "Don't trust the smart people" isn't really a good method to progress humanity. The new fear mongering of education and healthcare is insane to me. If you withdraw those social support systems from families, crime, poverty, hunger, dispare, desperation, etc... will all rise. Lots of grey area there. And there is no perfect system. Personally I don't mind paying a little more in taxes if it lowers the local crime rate and makes my family safer. I don't think paying 100% tax is right. And I don't think paying 0% tax is right. It's somewhere in between. And I think most logical people would agree with that.

One Memphisian I know, that grew up with his mom working multiple jobs, after his dad was murdered, while he chased a dream, made it out. Called me the other day looking for real estate investment opportunities. By the numbers, he shouldn't have made it but he was driven and he didn't let the environment weigh him down. So individuals can overcome that environment, but that doesn't mean that society will not suffer the overall impacts of removing society's most critical social support systems.

[DEDawg]

I was literally in a liquor store there 10 years ago and the owner pulled a gun on someone. I imagine things haven't improved. This was downtown.

Always weird to me how the people who dont live or come here all have a story about them or a family member yet those of us who do live here dont

[Tripp McNeely]

Always weird to me how the people who dont live or come here all have a story about them or a family member yet those of us who do live here dont

Lived in Memphis area for 47 years...the ONLY time me or an immediate family member has EVER been robbed was when my parents moved to Southaven in 87'.

[Pancho]

that's what statistics are for. luck does count

[Brobi-wan]

We about to lose a couple of y?all over this thread for a couple weeks lmao

[Pancho]

like the ole miss player in cordova?

[TheLostDawg]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45782523/ole-miss-freshman-lineman-corey-adams-killed-shooting

[TheLostDawg]

Every big city with problems has all the same characteristics:

Years of Democrat leadership
Very high taxes
High prices
Lots of crime (and its gotten so bad for some they have even stopped reporting crime stats)
Education is terrible

You get what you vote for- I dont need a sociology book for that

See, you still have some good takes from time to time.

[Tater]

Yeah but those books avs teachers all lean one way. Is there something to what they teach, yes. It's also half the story as always. When crimes have no punishment, there is nothing to persuade these people not to take the easy way out instead of doing it the hard way and get a job to pay your way out. Is it tough, absolutely but there are a lot of good people that do it.

The truth leans one way. Towards the truth. Someone who isn't telling the truth tries to describes it as something else. But it's the truth. It's science. Much like mechanical sciences, it isn't "open to manipulation".

Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling an agenda.

There's nothing but a fine stopping someone from insider trading. And the penalty is monetary so the cost of doing business means just make more money than that.

If you think that people steal $5k a pop is a problem. Think about this. 300 million people steal $5k. So a little rough of the population, but a lot of money right?

That's 15 billion. Elon Musk went from $25 billion in 2020 to $185 billion in 2021. Look it up. Would have taken every american stealing $5k - 10 times each to make as much money as one man's net worth went up during the pandemic.

Take a minute and soak that in before you think about the next time you whine about someone double counting food stamps and thinking they're taking from you.

[Tater]

Every big city with problems has all the same characteristics:

Years of Democrat leadership
Very high taxes
High prices
Lots of crime (and its gotten so bad for some they have even stopped reporting crime stats)
Education is terrible

You get what you vote for- I dont need a sociology book for that

You do need a sociology book.

But you already admitted, you wouldn't believe MISSISSIPPI STATE teaching you. Get the **** off all of our boards and go elsewhere. You don't support this school and just literally said it is corrupt. Why would you post here anymore?

That's a rhetorical question, which means don't answer with your uneducated ass.

[Tater]

We about to lose a couple of y?all over this thread for a couple weeks lmao

Hope we gain by subtraction with one saying he ain't gonna trust Bowen hall.

Edit: remember. Mr. Coffee34 has zero affiliation with State unless it's got Louisiana in front of it. Then he just comes on here and repeats SECRant and wastes mfs time. Ace says hit the road jack.

[BeardoMSU]

This thread really needs deletion before it ends up on Message Board Geniuses...

[Coach34]

You do need a sociology book.

But you already admitted, you wouldn't believe MISSISSIPPI STATE teaching you. Get the **** off all of our boards and go elsewhere. You don't support this school and just literally said it is corrupt. Why would you post here anymore?

That's a rhetorical question, which means don't answer with your uneducated ass.

I'm sorry facts hurt you little guy. Get ****ed assclown

[Coach34]

Hope we gain by subtraction with one saying he ain't gonna trust Bowen hall.

Edit: remember. Mr. Coffee34 has zero affiliation with State unless it's got Louisiana in front of it. Then he just comes on here and repeats SECRant and wastes mfs time. Ace says hit the road jack.

Welllllllllll, there is that degree thing I got from State

[BeardoMSU]

I'm sorry facts hurt you little guy. Get ****ed assclown

Someone with an "alleged" nickname of Peaches calling someone else an assclown is pretty funny, tbh.

[Coach34]

Someone with an "alleged" nickname of Peaches calling someone else an assclown is pretty funny, tbh.

nobody calls me that shit.

[BeardoMSU]

nobody calls me that shit.

Sure they don't, lol.

Yet back when you had privileges on this board, somehow the slightest mention or whisper of a peach (or any plurality of stone fruit, lol) resulted with a ban-hammer from you, lol.

[BeardoMSU]

Sure they don't, lol.

Yet back when you had privileges on this board, somehow the slightest mention or whisper of a peach (or any plurality of stone fruit, lol) resulted with a ban-hammer from you, lol.

Which of course is especially funny considering you're the self-appointed king dipshit of dishing out retarded nicknames, lol.

[Coach34]

Sure they don't, lol.

Yet back when you had privileges on this board, somehow the slightest mention or whisper of a peach (or any plurality of stone fruit, lol) resulted with a ban-hammer from you, lol.

It was a joke based off a Sped kid getting mad because I got on his ass for being lazy af. Because that moron said something idiotic- my buddies on the coaching staff had fun with it. I'm a big boy and can take the shit because I give it out just as well when I call them Coach Redneck/Ol Drunk Mane/Coach Mighty Mouse/etc

[Coach34]

And again- we are getting away from my factual post- which none of you want to address.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Every big city with problems has all the same characteristics:

Years of Democrat leadership
Very high taxes
High prices
Lots of crime (and its gotten so bad for some they have even stopped reporting crime stats)
Education is terrible

You get what you vote for- I dont need a sociology book for that

This is pretty much spot-on. Jackson has terrible public schools, and couldn?t even keep the water running.

[BeardoMSU]

And again- we are getting away from my factual post- which none of you want to address.

Ah, now we've moved to the Epstein List evolution strategy, lol...

Stage 1: "no one calls me that shit"

Stage B: "ok...yeah...some people DID call me that for a time...but only because I verbally abused a special ED kid (and got on his assssss)..."

Stage 5: "it's cool tho...I'm good with it! It was all in fun...I can take it BC I dish it out...they only meant it in jest! Nothing else, of course! We all have cute nicknames for each other".

Stage J: "But anyways....why are we still talkin' about peaches?! That's yesterday's news! Y'all are just getting distracted from the topics that matter!!!!"

[Coach34]

Ah, now we've moved to the Epstein List evolution strategy, lol...

Stage 1: "no one calls me that shit"

Stage B: "ok...yeah...some people DID call me that for a time...but only because I verbally abused a special ED kid (and got on his assssss)..."

Stage 5: "it's cool tho...I'm good with it! It was all in fun...I can take it BC I dish it out...they only meant it in jest! Nothing else, of course! We all have cute nicknames for each other".

Stage J: "But anyways....why are we still talkin' about peaches?! That's yesterday's news! Y'all are just getting distracted from the topics that matter!!!!"

Major cities are Democrat run and most for decades
Major cities have high crime
Major cities have high taxes
Major cities have unreasonable rent
Major cities have hating the police problems
Major cities have businesses and more affluent people leaving them


But major cities didn’t have this problem 50 years ago

What changed?????

Stop the personal attacks and please address the question

[BeardoMSU]

Major cities are Democrat run and most for decades
Major cities have high crime
Major cities have high taxes
Major cities have unreasonable rent
Major cities have hating the police problems
Major cities have businesses and more affluent people leaving them


But major cities didn?t have this problem 50 years ago

What changed?????

Stop the personal attacks and please address the question

Stage 9: COPE


ETA: and that was y'all's discussion, not mine. So don't demand i address your question, lol. Nothing to do with me, Peaches.

I merely chimed in to note how funny/ironic it was a guy such as you, "allegedly", had a lifestyle which warranted such an odd nickname, is all.

But imagine my relief to find out you were only given said title for verbally abusing a SPECIAL ED kid (and getting on his asssss!).

I mean....whew!....dodged a bullet there, bud!

[Pancho]

sociology isn't needed

[basedog]

Dang, and yet a few rip small town StarkVegas with nothing to do but on the other hand rip major cities which are true! This is funny and sad!

[Tater]

Major cities are Democrat run and most for decades
Major cities have high crime
Major cities have high taxes
Major cities have unreasonable rent
Major cities have hating the police problems
Major cities have businesses and more affluent people leaving them


But major cities didn’t have this problem 50 years ago

What changed?????

Stop the personal attacks and please address the question

There's nothing here worth addressing.

"Crime is going up / they stop counting stats."

You're wrong on the first count, but if I go and waste time giving you the stats to show it, you've already decided you won't believe it.

So what's the point? You've made yourself immune to understanding facts. There's nothing to debate you with because you reject reality. You think you've cracked the code like a 12-year old learning the 4 move chess checkmate. But in reality you don't know how to adjust if someone doesn't open with setting that up, so you just flip the board and reset until you get someone to play the game you want to play.

So no, there's nothing else to discuss on this front. Go to a Delta State board and post there. Or be the t-shirt Tigerdroppings you wish to be. You're already halfway there. (I'm calling you a piece of shit if you need that one explained to you)

[somebodyshotmypaw]

There's nothing here worth addressing.

"Crime is going up / they stop counting stats."

You're wrong on the first count, but if I go and waste time giving you the stats to show it, you've already decided you won't believe it.

So what's the point? You've made yourself immune to understanding facts. There's nothing to debate you with because you reject reality. You think you've cracked the code like a 12-year old learning the 4 move chess checkmate. But in reality you don't know how to adjust if someone doesn't open with setting that up, so you just flip the board and reset until you get someone to play the game you want to play.

So no, there's nothing else to discuss on this front. Go to a Delta State board and post there. Or be the t-shirt Tigerdroppings you wish to be. You're already halfway there. (I'm calling you a piece of shit if you need that one explained to you)

Let's look at Jackson. Are the public schools better today than they were in the 70's? How about the mall? How about the infrastructure? How about the murders? Do their citizens hate the police? Are businesses and affluent people leaving? Could the recent leadership handle basic services like garbage pickup and running water? Honestly, they are good questions.

[Political Hack]

Let's look at Jackson. Are the public schools better today than they were in the 70's? How about the mall? How about the infrastructure? How about the murders? Do their citizens hate the police? Are businesses and affluent people leaving? Could the recent leadership handle basic services like garbage pickup and running water? Honestly, they are good questions.

Mississippi, being a MASSIVELY liberal state when it comes to receiving federal tax dollars, should have plenty of money to fix many of these problems. It chooses not to.

[Pancho]

why folk scared to go in the hood and preach values? that is what is missing but federal dollars do not teach any values. If they did, we wouldn't have the fatherless kids run amuck. However, I do enjoy reading the posts from our 2 most affluent elitedawgs members as they claim to be the smartest regardless of topic. Dam they remind me of ole miss fans

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Mississippi, being a MASSIVELY liberal state when it comes to receiving federal tax dollars, should have plenty of money to fix many of these problems. It chooses not to.

Very very true. The problem is that much of this isnt a money problem. The public schools in Jackson have had plenty of funding, yet the scores are bad and the facilities are falling apart. It's an admin problem, a maintenance problem, and a parent/child problem. The mall was private, so government funding didn't matter. What about streets, water/sewer, and garbage? Well there was plenty of money, but it takes work ethic, effort, and skill to run those departments, and Jackson refused to hire any of the 3. Jackson can't manage their city. They have clowns in charge who couldn't run a lemonade stand.

[Brobi-wan]

I love this board so much. Everyone who gets to make the decisions are the same. They’re all in the same club, and none of us are allowed access. Don’t fight over them. They wouldn’t piss on you.

[Pancho]

the ones in jackson city are too lazy to go pee