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They should only be allowed to have names on their backs if we make a bowl... otherwise I say leave it.

A stadium is not far fetched... they just got Muma to cough up $25 million to slap his name on the side of a building that is already built. They just need a donor to cough up the same amount or a bit more... lets say $30 million to start a fund, and then the USF Foundation office can issue bonds to the USF Athletics Dept. to borrow money with the understanding that it would be paid back + a fixed interest rate. SEC schools do this exact thing all the time to fund renovations and expansions of their stadiums. LSU for example just did the exact thing to fund the renovation of the East Stands of Tiger Stadium... got a bunch of bonds from their Foundation office. Once construction begins Athletics can begin selling season tickets and playing around with donor levels to raise more money... heck they can begin booking concerts and other events as well to raise money, sell naming rights, etc. Don't forget all that parking money... it adds up. USF has over $621 million in its Foundation coffers right now, not counting that Muma contribution. So USF has right now enough money to fund a new stadium 10 times over. Done deal... issue the bonds and call it a day.

I usually don't play the, "You only have 'x' number of posts" card, but ****, do you have anything good to say in your 55 posts? If there was something positive I would be the first to talk about it. Like for example we have a good running back, hopefully he gets better and becomes a great running back. I'm a realist, we come off as being downers, but are really just telling the truth. Most don't like to hear the truth... it ruins their delusions.

Sorry to double post, but how in the hell is Syracuse a big name opponent? Seriously Harland needs to do some research before uttering phrases like Big Name and Syracuse in the same sentence. Back in our glory days we owned them, and over all we still do. Given this major let down I can only imagine what the other 2 "Big Name" schools will be... Rutgers? and Louisville?

Given our current level of play I can only imagine they are talking about the following schools... 1 - East Bay High 2 - Bloomingdale 3 - Plant

I wouldn't call it respect... just the realization that we still suck and Taggart has done nothing over the off-season to make us drastically better. I could be wrong, but I seriously doubt it based on how poor we played against WCU. I see us getting maybe 4 wins this season. Which I guess is an improvement from last year, but not the one I was looking for. you're one of those fans that boo your own team at the first sign of adversity because of your unrealistic expectations, aren't you? 4 wins would double win total from last year. not sure what a college coach can do to drastically turn a team around in off-season but it does look like he brought in a big time RB to help. Unrealistic expectations? I'm sorry but when did expecting my DI FBS school to defeat one of the worst teams in DI FCS by more then 14 points become an unrealistic expectation. I went into this season expecting a total of 6 wins... this also is not unrealistic. A coach as touted as Taggart should have no issues getting his squad conditioned enough to best a FCS school, especially the worst one.

PSA - DRINK LOTS OF WATER! It will be extremely hot this week and next. Is beer not a good hydration tool?!??! I don't know about hydration, but it will be good for diffusing the inevitable meltdown following the Maryland game.

What you're not understanding here is that WCU is the worst team in SoCon which is a DI FCS school. This game was scheduled because they were the easiest team USF could find, so that our players could blow them out and get some swagger before going into two big games against Maryland and NC State. If we can't defeat a DI FCS school then that is a horrible sign that something is wrong. Its either the players or the coaching. In any event I'm giving the team the benefit of the doubt, and fully expect to lose the next 4 games. Again if we can't soundly beat a horrible FCS school then what shot do we have at beating Maryland, NC State, Natti, UConn, or God forbid UCF. Dark days ahead. you have no idea where they will finish this year. we did defeat them. I guarantee the goal for the coaches is not to blowout some team so they can get swagger. It is to work on areas of weakness to prepare them for the conference schedule and to get a win. Not sure why people expected some huge transformation from last year to this. we were 2-10 and scored 11 TDs all of last year. Barely... we defeated the worst team in a FCS conference. We went 2-10 as a FBS team... WCU went 2-10 last season as a FCS school. Here are some of the "college powerhouses" that defeated WCU last season... - The Citadel - Samford 62-23 - Chattanooga 42-21 - Wofford - Georgia Southern - Furman - Middle Tennessee State At least McNeese State last year was one of the best teams in the FCS...

I wouldn't call it respect... just the realization that we still suck and Taggart has done nothing over the off-season to make us drastically better. I could be wrong, but I seriously doubt it based on how poor we played against WCU. I see us getting maybe 4 wins this season. Which I guess is an improvement from last year, but not the one I was looking for.

What you're not understanding here is that WCU is the worst team in SoCon which is a DI FCS school. This game was scheduled because they were the easiest team USF could find, so that our players could blow them out and get some swagger before going into two big games against Maryland and NC State. If we can't defeat a DI FCS school then that is a horrible sign that something is wrong. Its either the players or the coaching. Lets just say that barely beating WCU will hurt next weeks attendance just as bad if we had just lost to them outright.

Maryland 70-10 Mack Price 215 I hope I'm wrong but our defense was horrible and our offense while slightly improved, was atrocious. Maryland is gonna come out fired up and they are known to run up the score whenever possible hence the massive loss.

I've been saying this when his name came up in the search. But what can we expect, after all this is what happens when you hire a search firm that only interviews one candidate. Nothing against Taggart, at the time he was a top candidate, but there were better candidates that had proven success in the SEC out there that the search firm ignored entirely. Those other candidates right now have shown great success with their new teams, while we have really not improved. Regardless of how bad Taggart may or may not be... he could still come out and surprise us you know... crazier things have happened. We are stuck with him for a solid 3-4 years max. We are not Florida or Texas, we can't spit a HC out after 2 seasons and hire another good one. So good or bad we are stuck with Taggart on this bus until 2016 or 2017. The one shining light is that the new AD from UCLA won't tolerate failure.

They are being too kind... Maryland will easily win by 30 points or more. I base this on the piss poor performance against the worst team in SoCon.

I'll likely drink more. After last season nothing is impossible.

New Traditions are impossible. Traditions are built over TIME. Until USF has a oncampus stadium we won't have any real pre-game traditions