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Tell South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa that. They're massively increasing in population and are frequently overlooked when people think of "all over the world".

It appears this door has been shut:

In fairness we also had 2 sacks, 10 TFLs, and the team forced 3 fumbles (recovering 2). Those can't be attributed necessarily to bad QB play, we just dominated Syracuse.

Could have been worse.

Home game this weekend!

VCU on a 10-0 run, up by 7. Let's see if they close it out. They look a lot like us. Great ball movement, great shooting. They close out on rebounds really well. Going to have to be extremely active on defense and forcing turnovers. Villanova hasn't pushed them on turnovers like we try to do with teams-they seem to want to force more bad shots than anything else.

Analytics has its place. We are a good team that still has flaws. It's rare to have a team that doesn't. They've been covered over by the fact that we win and we know what we're doing at the end of games. I think the biggest difference between this year and last year is that we know how to close games out. I'm sure, if you all recall, how many times we would be pulling our hair out with 10 minutes left in a game during the CBG era. USF is ahead or tied. It almost always ended up being a choke job. I feel like the only time we didn't choke was when the team felt like it had a clear goal on the line (i.e. beating UCF). These days we're not particularly concerned with 10 minutes on the clock-we'll either close this game out, or the opponent will suddenly become incapable of shooting due to excellent defense and the offense finds open gaps where they weren't before. Do keep in mind that for most the year we were still working our way up to beating teams ranked in the 100s and 200s in the net with ease. We're doing that NOW, for sure, but we weren't doing it in January. The team to its credit has consistently gotten 2-3% better every game, r we wouldn't be doing what we're doing now, but it takes work.

Definitely need to raise the rate for sure. I would at least boost his pay to $1.5M, make the bonuses a bit bigger (say double them as they're fairly small), and raise the buyout to $3 million. A bigger school will pay it and that pays for our next coach. With that said CAAR will look for the right job. I think he would want to target a place like UGA where he's coached before and Mike White will be on the hot seat going into next year. Leonard Hamilton is about to retire at FSU, but that's historically been a fairly dead-end job with poor facilities and recruiting. But for the ones saying we should triple his pay...get out of here. Even if we sell out every game next season we're looking at $3-4 million in revenue at most not factoring in any expenses. The licensing agreement with Adidas helps some too but how much I'm not sure. You still have to pay full cost of attendance for the players and salaries for assistants and managers. If we breakeven on MBB after all that we're doing well. The TV revenue is pretty much getting paid to the football coaching staff and I'm hopeful there will be way more ticket sales for FB next year as there's way more marginal revenue opportunities there. I don't think we're paying anything more than we're already paying on fixed costs for football currently.

I had told my dad it was a sellout there and rushed him there. He was asking me for a while where everyone else was but he eventually got his answer. It was probably the weather and weeknight road traffic.

I got 4 2nd level tickets on TM plus parking for $97. Mind you, I bought them a week ago.

Okay, typo, 12 teams, but even so. Those 20 are going to generally be ranked higher in the NET because of the way things are set up.

It's pretty much tournament or bust at this point. In past years the NIT would have been a viable consolation goal, but with the P5+BE mucking things up to benefit them, you're going to have teams ranked in the 60s and 70s in the NET who will be on the NIT bubble since the field has effectively shrunk by 20 teams. I'm sure CAAR isn't overpressuring the players, they have so much self-confidence and belief that they can and will win. I just don't want them to go from being on the verge of dancing to potentially not going anywhere because of the early season gelling issues. That's why winning the conference tourney is so important. At that point the question is "where are we seeded" not "are we going".

Did we even bring that many for FSU in 2009? UF let us bring a ton in 2022 and the turnout was quite solid. If we manage to generate 20k even with secondary market for Bama we might get invited into the SEC lol. It would also be insanely loud.

They're refusing to boost us in any kind of meaningful manner despite having beaten #27 FAU (at the time and now #29) in the NET. The NET seems to think we are so bad we are behind Memphis and UNT despite beating them on the road. Assuming we go 2-0 this week I could see us finally moving into the mid-to-high 80s. To make SMU quad 1 they will have to beat FAU on Thursday at FAU and then hope they rise at least 5 spots. That way if we beat them they're not sliding more than a couple of spots-and it's a quad 1 win. I think FAU and SMU would be ranked right next to each other at that point. Our best hope for getting quad 1 wins is for UNT and Memphis to get their act together and win some real games. UNT was briefly quad 1 until UAB beat them too. Assuming SMU and FAU get in/stay in Quad 1 and UNT wins some big games to close out the season, you're 3-0 and that might be enough for an at-large for a committee looking at us. It has to guarantee NIT even if we don't win the conference tourney. In the meantime, the goal will have to be to win the conference tourney. I think those games are all neutral-site. It will be a lot easier if we're the #1 seed since we will always get the weakest opponent unless there's an upset in the bottom 7 two days in a row. You're facing either #8 or #9 on Friday (right now that's Tulane or ECU), #4, #5, #12, or #13 on Saturday (SMU, UAB, Rice, or Temple), and finally the winner of the #2 bracket on Sunday. If you're looking for wins for an at large you're stuck hoping SMU and FAU are the opponents if you lose the conference championship as that would be two more quad 1 games at a neutral site for a record of 4-1 against Q1. Going 4-0 or 5-0 against quad 1 with a conference championship probably helps seeding a ton unless you end up a #8 or #9 seed in the NCAA tourney.

Agree with your points except for one-the turnaround wasn't too quick, it was perfect timing. We've got national attention on us on a daily basis, we're showing up on national TV.