{"id":29688,"date":"2026-03-13T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29688"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:36:50","slug":"frupdate-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/frupdate-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Frupdate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote that Penny is too &#8220;nice&#8221; to coach Memphis players, as was Josh Pastner, and that our university would be better off with a men&#8217;s basketball head coach who is, for a lack of a better term, an a-hole.<\/p>\n<p>So I asked AI agent Claude to make a list of younger and lesser-known coaches whose style resembles those of Rick Pitino, John Calipari, and Bob Knight. Claude came back with<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Pitino, Xavier<\/li>\n<li>T.J. Otzelberger, Iowa State<\/li>\n<li>Todd Golden, Florida<\/li>\n<li>Jerrod Calhoun, Utah State<\/li>\n<li>Will Wade, NC State<\/li>\n<li>Takayo Siddle, UNC Wilmington<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there&#8217;s ya a list to watch during conference tourney week and March Madness, although Golden and Otzelberger are perhaps already out of Memphis&#8217; reach. Wade is said to have a polarizing personality much like Calipari.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis River Parks seeks a <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/job\/memphis-river-parks-partnership-memphis-tn-80-director-of-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">director of finance<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/job\/memphis-river-parks-partnership-memphis-tn-80-accounting-clerk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accounting clerk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Orpheum seeks a <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/job\/orpheum-theatre-group-80-manager-of-accounting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manager of accounting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aldo&#8217;s Pizza Pies will celebrate St. Patrick&#8217;s with a one-day-only pie on the 17th: thinly-sliced corned beef, melted Swiss, sauerkraut, Thousand Island dressing &amp; caraway seeds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/do\/memphis-oddity-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis Oddity Market<\/a> happens Saturday 4-9 at The Medicine Factory, 85 W. Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cognaccarsandcigars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cognac Cars &amp; Cigars<\/a> happens Saturday at Fourth Bluff Park.<\/p>\n<p>Auto-Chlor is hiring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ziprecruiter.com\/jobs\/a\/b?lk=x7vD1l86YPw1pKiPXFRNsw&amp;tsid=111000153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">videographer\/photographer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/do\/grind-city-throwdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grind City Throwdown<\/a> is a latte art battle of the baristas Saturday 5-9 PM at Dr. Bean&#8217;s, 387 S. Main. Free to watch, $5 to compete.<\/p>\n<p>Wiseacre Downtown will celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/do\/pi-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi Day<\/a> (3.14) Saturday with live music all day, Little Bettie pizza specials, and a Goner Records pop-up.<\/p>\n<p>Heartbreak Hill Trio plays Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s tonight.<\/p>\n<p>There were some incredible voices at E&amp;H karaoke yesterday. A group was talking about doing &#8220;Somebody to Love&#8221; by Jefferson Airplane next Thursday &#8211; a timeless classic and one of my top 5 favorite songs of all time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/myVzaR8cmDA?si=C0D_khH9WfdvYs0f\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote that Penny is too &#8220;nice&#8221; to coach Memphis players, as was Josh Pastner, and that our university would be better off with a men&#8217;s basketball head coach who is, for a lack of a better term, an a-hole. So I asked AI agent Claude to make a list of younger and lesser-known &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/frupdate-36\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frupdate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29690,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29688\/revisions\/29690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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