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Sent Joey Knight to cover the fiesta bowl instead of covering us.....touche

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What did you expect? The Times is a self serving organization that dramatizes news (Good or Bad) in an attempt to generate a profit. JK doesn't want to cover USF anyway. My point is, don't expect any favors from the Tampa Bay Times. Even if they are the home newspaper.

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Pitiful !

 

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To be fair, Jeff Odom did a nice piece on the USF Bowl Win.

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/college/usf-pulls-out-overtime-victory-against-south-carolina/2307844

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For all the upheaval USF had experienced in the weeks leading up to Thursday's Birmingham Bowl, one might have understood if the Bulls struggled to get through just one more ounce of adversity. This month, Willie Taggart, who led the program's turnaround from moribund to the finest campaign in its 20 years, bolted after four seasons for Oregon. The unknown about assistants' futures and the constant questioning about what to expect next under new coach Charlie Strong were enough to leave heads spinning.

But as USF's 18-point, second-half lead slipped into a tie, and eventually overtime, Thursday against South Carolina and the miscues piled up, there were the 25th-ranked Bulls looking as energetic and focused as ever on the frigid sideline of historic Legion Field.

On the first play of overtime, quarterback Quinton Flowers passed to tight end Kano Dillon for a 25-yard touchdown. And on the ensuing South Carolina possession, the Bulls defense — a unit that had been plagued with misfortune all season — earned its biggest stop, forcing a fumble at its 1-yard line and jumping on it to seal a wild 46-39 victory.

It was the first postseason victory for USF (11-2) since it defeated Clemson in the 2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl, and its first win over an SEC opponent in nine years.

"We had to remind ourselves to be smart," interim coach T.J. Weist said. "That's all it was. We talked about not just winning 11 (games for the first time in program history) … but we had to take 11. It wasn't going to be given to us."

The Bulls found that out quickly.

Behind Flowers — the game's MVP for finishing a game-record 23-of-32 for 261 yards and five touchdowns (three running, two passing) — USF had a two-score advantage at halftime, using a dose of dink-and-dunk passes and even some trickery in a first-quarter two-point conversion. The lead ballooned to 39-21 midway through the third quarter on a 47-yard interception return for a score by cornerback and former Tampa Bay Tech standout Tajee Fullwood.

But defensive lapses and stalled possessions swiftly allowed the Gamecocks (6-7) to chip away. Seeing USF all-time rusher Marlon Mack and receiver Rodney Adams get banged up at times on the slippery artificial playing surface didn't make matters easier. Flowers even suffered a gash on his left hand that required a bandage.

After Fullwood's pick-six, South Carolina strung together 17 unanswered points, including a 1-yard touchdown run by A.J. Turner and a two-point conversion pass from freshman Jake Bentley to tight end Hayden Hurst to tie it at 39 with 1:34 left.

The Bulls defense needed to pull together and did so after Flowers' go-ahead touchdown.

On the final play of overtime, defensive end Mike Love sacked Bentley. The ball hit the turf, and safety Khalid McGee leaped on top of it, sending a hefty chunk of the announced crowd of 31,229 into a frenzy. A mass of white uniforms raced onto the field in celebration.

Strong, who was a spectator on the sideline, even joined in, taking photos and embracing Flowers in front of USF's bench.

"It's pretty ironic that we struggled all year defensively and then we make the biggest stop of the season to win this game," said linebacker Auggie Sanchez, who finished with a team-best nine tackles.

"It was the biggest game."

And a storybook ending to a dream season.

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Odom is a hack. Just follow his twitter and you'll see his hot takes and fan confrontations. The university deserves an actual professional journalist who respects the programs. 

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A lot of South Carolina's success was pure luck coupled with our problematic defense.   The only thing I resent is the term 'dink and dunk'.  How about focusing on the dimes QF threw on third down in tight windows?

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I would like more (and more optimistic) local USF coverage too, but the Tampabay Times is a media company that serves their customers. They have the metrics that show what moves the needle for them and it's clearly not USF coverage. If it was they would cover us more. It's that simple. We need to win games, and then win the area's hearts. THEN we will get more local coverage.

It's not just the Times. I noticed that the Channel 10 (local CBS) had a fairly lengthy sports segment this morning and they didn't even mention the bowl game. USF needs to build fans in the area. The local media companies have already shown that they don't feel the need to help us grow the fan-base. However if the product on the field grows the fan-base, then the local media companies will be forced to cover us more.

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Not surprised. TBT is a mullet wrap with an agenda.

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