Just a man from Tennessee living in South Philly. Recovering Politico turned Public Affairs guy. Memphis Tigers fanatic. Opinions my own, RT ≠ endorsement
Philadelphia, PA via TN
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Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Memphis honestly should be Power 4 already.
• 112 wins since 2014 (10th in FBS)
• 70 home wins (T-5th in FBS)
• 12 straight bowl appearances (1 of 7 FBS programs)
• 10 ranked wins since 2015 (most among non-P4)
• 51st-largest TV market
• $73M annual athletic budget
• $226.5M stadium renovation
• $25M FedEx NIL commitment
• 29 NCAA Tournament appearances
What more does Memphis have to do?
Random thought but I’ve seen @MemphisFB a few times
& their fans/band always travel well.
This feels like a P4 fanbase & program especially when they fill up multiple sections of a visiting team stadium.
Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Random thought but I’ve seen @MemphisFB a few times
& their fans/band always travel well.
This feels like a P4 fanbase & program especially when they fill up multiple sections of a visiting team stadium.
No thank you!!!
Progressive ward leader eyes Philly City Council run — and a potential showdown with Mark Squilla ebx.sh/98Lddw
Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Useful visualization for policymakers and reporters tempted to frame rent control as a "renter protection," when in reality the evidence is quite clear that there are significant negative societal impacts downstream.
1) No reduction of homelessness.
2) Less housing supply and construction.
3) Higher rents for non-rent-controlled units.
4) Reduced housing quality.
5) Benefits only in-place residents (in terms of rent, not building condition.)
Be very careful how you frame a policy that is spun as one thing but that does the opposite.
Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
BREAKING: The Pennsylvania State House has passed a bill to open the state's primary elections to unaffiliated voters. The vote was bipartisan at 115 to 88. More to come.
Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Just a shocking level of incompetence.
🚨🚨SCOOP: A shipment of F-35 fighter jet parts was rerouted to Hong Kong this summer — then vanished.
Congress and DOD are investigating, amid the possibility that China may now have access to the highly-classified program.
W/ @audrey_decker9
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Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
One of these teams is ranked preseason top 25 and in a Power 4 Conference.
The other is a G6 team playing Arkansas State
Generational fumble by the @Big12Conference we will get our shot and make the most of it unlike others. #ClosetheGap Ⓜ️🐅
Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
So just for the record, our crowd tonight…playing a Sun Belt team…was larger than the max capacity of Houston, Cincinnati, and UCF. Ⓜ️🐅🏈
Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Memphis' Taylor Burton, J'Mond Tapp and Elijah Kinsler combined for 17 pressures and 4.5 sacks against UNLV.
Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
What this sport is TRULY all about!!
Congrats @CoachHuff and @MemphisFB for a great start to the 2026 season! Love this!!!
Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Fishback is a raging antisemite who did poorly tonight, but this angle is worth keeping in mind. The antisemitism problem is not just with young folks on the left, it's across the board. It is very much rooted in their unregulated deeply addictive social media experience
Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
When the Tigers were 2-10, Fred Smith was willing to dish out $10M per yr to any BCS (now called “power”) conference who would invite Memphis — this was a decade and a half ago
He again pledged more millions to the Big 12 in 2016 lobbying for an invite
Fuente, in his first season as HC, named Cannon Smith (grandson) to the team Leadership Council — Fuente would go on to rebuild & put Memphis on the football map
These don’t even scratch the surface of the long history & relationship between FedEx/Memphis athletics
I would love to see Arkansas football become what everyone in the state knows it can become & I’d love to see Silverfield be that guy…RS did a great job fundraising in his role as Memphis HC, but let’s not act like he was some sort of catalyst for getting FedEx “involved”
The commitment/investment was already in place & RS was a good steward of that foundation
Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Pennsylvania’s tourism office believes Philly could exceed visitor and economic impact goals at the World Cup ebx.sh/8Y6LKd
Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
On this day in 1940, NAACP leader and voting rights activist Elbert Williams was abducted and lynched by a group of white men, including the local sheriff, in Brownsville, Tennessee.
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Matthew Coker 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
BREAKING: I just announced a $30 million plan to fix traffic congestion and keep people safe around the Sports Complex in South Philly.
This area is a major economic and entertainment hub — and too many of us know what it’s like to sit in that traffic.
Whether you’re coming into town for a game or you’re a local who drives on these roads daily, these investments will help you get to where you need to go safely and on time.
