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  1. I think they last time we beat an FBS team was before COVID? Maybe a little after? get a .500 season and the attendance will triple
  2. I only have 1% battery life, but Dion was in the athletics building today next to the baseball field. The first thing he said, is that the Wizard stays... the second thing is in regards to the war flamingos. He said he wa
  3. I really hope it's Dion. The only thing that saves USF is good recruiting. Good recruiting + terrible USF coaching = average season We historically always had terrible coaching, terrible strength training, terrible nutrition and terribly undersized players.. But if we have a head coach that can recruit, we can balance out the awful coaches with good players for an average season. Not win the conference average, bowl game eligible average. We need a recruiting coach...
  4. Can't get my good buddy in trouble.... It's not hard to figure out
  5. My rumor mill is telling me, that if he does not come here, that he simply didn't want to coach here Rumor is they are offering him a HUGE salary, with an even larger one (possibly double) if he gets us into a better conference But they are 100% willing to pay him 4-5 times what he is currently making (750k) to come here If he does not come here, its because he simply didn't want to coach here, not because the money isn't being offered. (very, VERY reliable source)
  6. a .500 season would be historic LOL Whoever gets us to .500, is going to score HUGE on their next coaching job at another school, the following year
  7. almost a .500 win percentage.. not bad! Jeff Scott was 4-26... .153 win percentage 1-19 in our conference... 5% win percentage?
  8. Larry Scott - Original USF player from the 1997 team Was part of USF's coaching staff when USF was in it's prime in the mid-2000's Was an interim head coach at UM Was part of UF's coaching staff Currently the head coach of Howard Has probably 20 years of college football coaching experience Would STAY with us even after doing good He's part of the heart and soul of this program, played AND coached under Jim Leavitt And most importantly... I used to be friends with him in Fontana Hall LOL My absolute #1 pick - Larry Scott
  9. We are ALWAYS going to have a new coach... ALWAYS We are a bus stop, for coaches going up or going down, but no coach will ever stay here more than 3-4 years. None We will most likely have a new coach in 2024... then another new coach in 2028... then another new coach in 2032... then another new coach in 2036... then another new coach in 2040... guaranteed... No one will ever stay here for even 1/3rd as long as we had Leavitt. With the upgraded locker rooms, with the IPF and hopefully the OCS, we are building a better bus stop
  10. Our #1 problem for the last decade, is that we kept trying to build our program around our coach No infrastructure, no investment in facilities, our locker room sucked, we didn't have an IPF and we didn't have an OCS USF will have a new coach, every 3-4 years from now until eternity... if they are good, they will move up for better money... if they suck, they'll be fired But no coach will stay here more than 3-4 years... not a single one. Right now, it's a dumpster fire until we get some more facilties built. Just let Jeff Scott stand there and hold the firehose Genshaft is finally gone and out of the way of athletics, hence the reason why so many positive things have happened since she left USF as president. The locker rooms were massively upgraded, and the IPF was built immediately upon Genshaft's retirement. OCS is coming next Just leave CJS where he is, we've gone through almost a half dozen coaches in the last 15 years... and none of them got us anywhere Leave him where he is.. keep building the infrastructure.
  11. The problem is that when you a program that had zero infrastructure, on a commuter campus... who we had as head coach was everything Because it was the ONLY thing... The program was originally built around Leavitt. No IPF, no decent locker room, no OCS... Leavitt Add 19 years under Caster (who didn't want football), and then we lose Leavitt halfway through her tenure We just spent 2 million updating the locker room, we just finished the IPF, the OCS is coming.... Which is perfect for the climate of college football now. We are in a bottom rung conference, where coaches go 1 of 2 ways - fired for poor performance, or leave after a couple years once the program gets average (Taggert). We made the mistake of building our football program around the coach. But coaches come and go! And there are over 100 colleges above us, and NFL jobs above us, that they are eye'ing the instant they start here. Leavitt wanted to build something HERE at USF... But none of these new coaches shared his same mentality, and we will never have that again. UCF proved this.... they proved that if you build the physical infrastructure (even with losing seasons), as coaches come and go, your program's traditions and infrastructure remain intact. 99% of what you see at UCF, was planned and built during terrible, embarssing seasons... but it was built. They built it! They built the infrastructure and they built the traditions You can laugh all you want at the bounce house, but we'll NEVER play OUR bowl game here, there like they did here at Raymond James. Knowing now... that coaches are only going to be here at USF for 2-3 years max.. now we can focus on the TANGIBLE things that ensure success. Culture, infrastructure, brand, partnerships, etc In the next 10 years, we will have 3-5 different coaches.... in the next 15 years, we will have 4-6 different coaches... in the next 20 years, we will have 5-10 different coaches. Over the next 30 years, we will have 7-10 different coaches The coaches are going to constantly come and go. If they suck, they are fired. If they are good, they move up. Mark my words, no one will stay at USF longer than 4 years for the life of this program.. it'll never happen. So knowing this, infrastructure is EVERYTHING. Brand is EVERYTHING. Traditions are EVERYTHING.. you can't establish any of those, under a President who doesn't want football (Castor), using a rented stadium, practicing on the IM fields. USF in 10 years will drastically different than we are now. We are basically a 4 year old program Year 1 - Castor retires from USF Year 2 - massive renovation and upgrade to the football locker rooms Year 3 - IPF begins construction Year 4 - OCS is being planned There is no coicidence.. Castor didn't want ANY of that, and it all took place IMMEDIATELY after she left
  12. And please don't think that my comments about Judy, reflect her negatively in any way,in regards to her leadership academically at USF or her as a person. Judy Genshaft was nothing short of one of the most amazing campus presidents we ever had. She is a very powerful, very charismatic and extremely intelligent person. I absolutely loved her as a campus president, and a community leader. This is a picture of her, taking the time to shake hands with my daughters at the USF games many years ago. She was so sweet to them, she looked at them as said "Guess what? When you Daddy went to my school... I was his principal!" LOL But... it was no secret that she didn't feel athletics was important to USF, including the football team. Judy Genshaft was an amazing campus president... but just not for athletics LOL
  13. This is when I knew we were in trouble... we just never recovered from this point.... I was already starting my optimism for next season...
  14. Fact - Playing video games you played as a kid, doesn't bring back the same feelings of joy and happiness you experienced as a kid Fact - Bringing back Leavitt after a 15 year absense, will not feel the same as it did in the early 2000's.. How good would you perform, at a job that you brutally fired from? That went public? That went nationwide? CJL wouldn't come back as the same person he left... actually quite the opposite... I would have loved to see Larry Scott as our head coach... if we are going to go 1 and 9, I'd rather just give the money and the HC position to someone who was a founding player at USF. I genuinely think we missed the board with Larry Scott. Larry Scott is the closest thing we could have gotten to Jim Leavitt. * Larry Scott did great at USF as an Offense Coach from 2005 to 2013 (O-Line, Tight Ends, Running Backs, etc).. Remember the #2 team? The sold out stadium vs QVU? Larry Scott was on the coaching staff! * Larry Scott did great at UF as a Tight Ends coach, when UF went 10-3 for the season * Larry Scott did great as the interim Head Coach at UM... Maybe I'm biased because I personally knew him at USF when we all lived in Fontana together... But ****.... I would have loved to see Larry Scott as our coach Anyone who wants Jim Leavitt to return, needs to get on the Larry Scott bandwagon. Larry Scott is a USF OG and I'd rather go through this hell with him, that some rando' coach from Clemson who's going to go 2-36 or whatever before he gets canned
  15. I just read that Joel Miller, the player in the middle of the Leavitt termination, died in 2017 I wasn't ready to hear that. He died at the age of 29 years old... 29! That really, really broke my heart. I had no idea until just now Joel Miller, USF player at center of Jim Leavitt dismissal, dies
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