USFbulls24

Really? Anybody else remember this? Not me. But I could also say that had I been the coach Daniels' entire career he would have blossomed into a great QB. Doesn't make it true. If Leavitt's teams had any issues it was on offense. That seemed to change to defense when Holtz was here. If he had said, Giddens would have blossomed, or any other defensive player, I would agree with it. But to say that about a drafted QB? The first in USF's history? Lol... why would I lie? http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/former-usf-coach-jim-leavitt-enjoys-49ers-super-bowl-run/1272820 There is the link from last year. In the article, towards the end, it says "Had Leavitt stayed, he believes he would have won a Big East title. He Believes QB B.J. Daniels would have flourished in the spread offense he had planned." So I guess I used the wrong words... It was almost a year ago that I read it. But to me, reading that can also be taken as he thinks B.J. would have been a very good QB and developed with him as the head coach. I believe it completely. B.J. has been very good although in preseason against 2nd and 3rd string defenses, but the difference is he has great coaching now.

LOL. He is 3 games removed from a SB loss. He would have to be historically bad and even then for some reason Harbaugh likes McCoy? But I would love to see Daniels play. Leavitt came out last year and said that had he been the coach at USF for Daniels' entire career that he would have blossomed into a great QB. I believe it.

I would hope not, but you never know after Taggart named Matt Floyd the starter for week 1 after the treat we all had watching him play last year..

They were talking about that last night on Monday Night Football and I think it was Jack Delrio they were talking about and he does exactly what you said Bulls24 and matches the schemes to his players which makes a lot more sense to me. Sure makes this sound like a throw away season for Taggart. Plus if I am a player - especially a senior how excited are you going to be after hearing that ? Seriously, how much different are the players we have now from the ones that are supposedly suited for Taggart's offensive system?? Where is this big difference that makes it tough for the players to adapt? CWT is doing the exactly correct thing, IMO, by doing what got him here .... and what were Taggart' exact words about the current players? Was it they don't fit the style .... or they weren't recruited for the style? Which to me means that they thought they'd be playing in a different type offense when choosing here but doesn't automatically mean they can't play in that offense. Catching the freaking footballs that you should catch is the same in any offense ... agree. no matter what offense you run your o-line needs to pass block, your QB needs to be able to complete passes, etc. it's one thing for a pro team to transition a little more slowly but in college you get 5 years max and your practice time is limited. if anything these players have shown they run block better (which goes better with Tags system), they are not good pass blockers (odd considering they were recruited to run 5 wide sets- it will help having TEs and FBs helping block in this system)we have pretty good TEs(which i hope we start using more), our QB isn't expected to be 90% of the offense(probably a good thing), and our RB has shown he is the strength of our offense(again better suited to this system). our offense was terrible the last 3 games of last year running the so called system they were recruited for. why waste time trying to teach them that properly.. You're right. The Oline does have to pass block and the fact that our QB situation is probably the worst in college football doesn't help matters. I don't want to take anything away from Shaw and our Oline run blocking because its been the only bright spot, but the power run offense is made so the running game will succeed. They've torn up Mcneese State and FAU on the ground with 34 carries for 304 yards (Shaw that is) and had a respectable game with 23 rushes for 94 yards against Michigan State. So if you want to invest a lot in what we've done against D1-AA McNeese State and FAU then go ahead but I'm not sold on that aspect due to the competition all the success has come against. Skip Holtz is such a bad coach anything he did should just be thrown out the window. No one is saying to teach them how to run a spread offense... I think taking a handful of plays 4, 5, 6 or even more that you can go to whenever to catch a defense off guard or I dunno when we're down by 18 at home in the 4th quarter to FAU instead of continuing to trot out 2 WR and 2 TE when we have to score in a hurry? list 5 receivers you're going to trot out there. tell me we have a QB that can run and pass for 90% of our offense with only 5 linemen in to block. it's obvious the strength of this team is to line up with 2 TEs (happen to be 2 of 3 best receivers on team) and run the ball. Our back is #6 in nation averaging over 7 yards per carry and you want him to change it up. Haha dude... you are completely missing what I am saying. Andre Davis, Ruben Gonzalez, Derrick Hopkins, line up Sean Price as a WR, Deonte Welch, Chris Dunkley, etc. You think its just completely off the wall to run 4 plays a game on a 3rd and long or a situation like that in a spread? K man... no I'm not missing what you are saying. first off you weren't saying to run a few plays with 5 wide. secondly we can't protect our passers as is and you want to leave them back there with 5 linemen only. they would get killed. the only reason BJ was able to run it was because he was a tremendous athlete. why isn't lining Davis and McFarland as TEs with 2 wideouts and an RB out of the backfield just as effective? Personally I wouldn't put 5 guys out in a pattern with our line. our QBs would have about 1.5 seconds but I'm sure Taggart could do it without running 5 wide. that's just an invitation to blitz with no extra protection. "I understand Taggart comes from the School of Harbaugh and Stanford and wants to run the power run all day but why not just for this year mix in some packages and offensive plays that cater to the players you currently have???" Mix in some packages and offensive plays that cater to the players you currently have is exactly what I said at first and exactly what I have been saying this entire time.... Have you watched UCF play this year? (Once again... I am not saying we need to run a spread offense, nor am I saying we need to be like UCF) They run a lot of what Leavitt used to run (Once again... I am not saying we need to run a spread offense) where we would line up with 5 wide and run a very quick WR screen to the slot receiver while the other two receivers block. UCF uses it a lot and it A) creates space, almost guarantees yardage, and C) the QB is in no danger of getting sacked because as soon as he receives the snap he is throwing the ball. Just because you lineup in a 4 or 5 wide set does not mean you have to sit back and throw the ball deep. You have many options. we ran the bubble screens all the time with Holtz. perhaps you forget the 2 times he almost got Hopkins killed. trust me I've seen enough of the short yardage spread pass plays to last a lifetime. a) it doesn't create space. you have as much space running out of a traditional set. it didn't create yardage last year after Daniels went down 3) the QB got sacked plenty and pick 6's galore when you throw outside we don't have the personell to run skip's spread. regardless of what system they were recruited for. give us UCFs QB and no one would be complaining about Taggarts offense. You take everything way way way too literally. Good grief I am just simply giving examples of something that you can do out of a play or 2 in the spread offense that really doesn't risk that much.

You make good points. I think a good QB fixes 80-90% of our issues.

They were talking about that last night on Monday Night Football and I think it was Jack Delrio they were talking about and he does exactly what you said Bulls24 and matches the schemes to his players which makes a lot more sense to me. Sure makes this sound like a throw away season for Taggart. Plus if I am a player - especially a senior how excited are you going to be after hearing that ? Seriously, how much different are the players we have now from the ones that are supposedly suited for Taggart's offensive system?? Where is this big difference that makes it tough for the players to adapt? CWT is doing the exactly correct thing, IMO, by doing what got him here .... and what were Taggart' exact words about the current players? Was it they don't fit the style .... or they weren't recruited for the style? Which to me means that they thought they'd be playing in a different type offense when choosing here but doesn't automatically mean they can't play in that offense. Catching the freaking footballs that you should catch is the same in any offense ... agree. no matter what offense you run your o-line needs to pass block, your QB needs to be able to complete passes, etc. it's one thing for a pro team to transition a little more slowly but in college you get 5 years max and your practice time is limited. if anything these players have shown they run block better (which goes better with Tags system), they are not good pass blockers (odd considering they were recruited to run 5 wide sets- it will help having TEs and FBs helping block in this system)we have pretty good TEs(which i hope we start using more), our QB isn't expected to be 90% of the offense(probably a good thing), and our RB has shown he is the strength of our offense(again better suited to this system). our offense was terrible the last 3 games of last year running the so called system they were recruited for. why waste time trying to teach them that properly.. You're right. The Oline does have to pass block and the fact that our QB situation is probably the worst in college football doesn't help matters. I don't want to take anything away from Shaw and our Oline run blocking because its been the only bright spot, but the power run offense is made so the running game will succeed. They've torn up Mcneese State and FAU on the ground with 34 carries for 304 yards (Shaw that is) and had a respectable game with 23 rushes for 94 yards against Michigan State. So if you want to invest a lot in what we've done against D1-AA McNeese State and FAU then go ahead but I'm not sold on that aspect due to the competition all the success has come against. Skip Holtz is such a bad coach anything he did should just be thrown out the window. No one is saying to teach them how to run a spread offense... I think taking a handful of plays 4, 5, 6 or even more that you can go to whenever to catch a defense off guard or I dunno when we're down by 18 at home in the 4th quarter to FAU instead of continuing to trot out 2 WR and 2 TE when we have to score in a hurry? list 5 receivers you're going to trot out there. tell me we have a QB that can run and pass for 90% of our offense with only 5 linemen in to block. it's obvious the strength of this team is to line up with 2 TEs (happen to be 2 of 3 best receivers on team) and run the ball. Our back is #6 in nation averaging over 7 yards per carry and you want him to change it up. Haha dude... you are completely missing what I am saying. Andre Davis, Ruben Gonzalez, Derrick Hopkins, line up Sean Price as a WR, Deonte Welch, Chris Dunkley, etc. You think its just completely off the wall to run 4 plays a game on a 3rd and long or a situation like that in a spread? K man... no I'm not missing what you are saying. first off you weren't saying to run a few plays with 5 wide. secondly we can't protect our passers as is and you want to leave them back there with 5 linemen only. they would get killed. the only reason BJ was able to run it was because he was a tremendous athlete. why isn't lining Davis and McFarland as TEs with 2 wideouts and an RB out of the backfield just as effective? Personally I wouldn't put 5 guys out in a pattern with our line. our QBs would have about 1.5 seconds but I'm sure Taggart could do it without running 5 wide. that's just an invitation to blitz with no extra protection. "I understand Taggart comes from the School of Harbaugh and Stanford and wants to run the power run all day but why not just for this year mix in some packages and offensive plays that cater to the players you currently have???" Mix in some packages and offensive plays that cater to the players you currently have is exactly what I said at first and exactly what I have been saying this entire time.... Have you watched UCF play this year? (Once again... I am not saying we need to run a spread offense, nor am I saying we need to be like UCF) They run a lot of what Leavitt used to run (Once again... I am not saying we need to run a spread offense) where we would line up with 5 wide and run a very quick WR screen to the slot receiver while the other two receivers block. UCF uses it a lot and it A) creates space, almost guarantees yardage, and C) the QB is in no danger of getting sacked because as soon as he receives the snap he is throwing the ball. Just because you lineup in a 4 or 5 wide set does not mean you have to sit back and throw the ball deep. You have many options.

They were talking about that last night on Monday Night Football and I think it was Jack Delrio they were talking about and he does exactly what you said Bulls24 and matches the schemes to his players which makes a lot more sense to me. Sure makes this sound like a throw away season for Taggart. Plus if I am a player - especially a senior how excited are you going to be after hearing that ? Seriously, how much different are the players we have now from the ones that are supposedly suited for Taggart's offensive system?? Where is this big difference that makes it tough for the players to adapt? CWT is doing the exactly correct thing, IMO, by doing what got him here .... and what were Taggart' exact words about the current players? Was it they don't fit the style .... or they weren't recruited for the style? Which to me means that they thought they'd be playing in a different type offense when choosing here but doesn't automatically mean they can't play in that offense. Catching the freaking footballs that you should catch is the same in any offense ... Well... for 1, in a power run offense you want offensive lineman that are absolutely huge and will move the defensive line at will on running plays. In a spread or pass heavy offense you're going to want more of an athletic quick offensive line to be able to protect the QB. Secondly, you don't really have athletes on the field other than an outside WR and your RB. The rest of the players are going to be strong guys that will knock you on your butt every play and two really good TE who can block and catch the football. "He said these guys were recruited to play in a spread offense and now we're asking them to do something different". I wasn't saying he doesn't think these players can play in his style of offense. He realizes his style of offense is not our current players strength. I am not saying what Taggart is doing is wrong, it makes me wonder why he can't implement a few packages that actually plays to our players strengths.. I am not saying ditch what has gotten Taggart to where he is and run a spread offense. I was simply saying he should put in a few 4 or 5 wide packages in a game, think that would... I dunno.... catch the defense off guard? Absolutely it would. Not only would it catch the Defense off guard it would create space for the athletes that we do have in Hopkins, Davis, Shaw, etc. yes let's go 4 or 5 wide because our o-line are such great pass blockers. what's odd is you list the type of players that are used for spread offenses and ours are exactly opposite. we have good run blocking linemen. we have two very good TEs. we have very few WRs. why on god's green earth would we spread out? the strength of our team and the focus of his offense is to run the ball. why would we want to do something we're not good at regarless of what system they were recruited for? is Matt Floyd or Bobby Eveld going to run or pass for 90% of our yards? because that's exactly what skip's offense was about. perhaps you don't remember these same players running skip's spread last year after BJ went down. passing for under 100 yards and 3 picks against pitt. why would anyone want them to run an offense that was so terrible? You're either not reading what I am saying or misunderstanding. I do not think we should spread the offense out and run a spread offense. I simply think that having a few plays a game that involves 4 or 5 wide receivers could help our offense either when we're down by a ton and need to score some points or getting the ball into one of our athletes hands in space. Holtz spread was junk. we can't pass block. we need more than just 5 linemen in to block effectively. it will not help our offense by using less blockers. how effective was the spread last year when we scored 1 TD in last 3 games? I AM NOT SAYING TO RUN A SPREAD OFFENSE. I am saying to have a few plays or packages where its AN OPTION 4 or 5 times A GAME.

They were talking about that last night on Monday Night Football and I think it was Jack Delrio they were talking about and he does exactly what you said Bulls24 and matches the schemes to his players which makes a lot more sense to me. Sure makes this sound like a throw away season for Taggart. Plus if I am a player - especially a senior how excited are you going to be after hearing that ? Seriously, how much different are the players we have now from the ones that are supposedly suited for Taggart's offensive system?? Where is this big difference that makes it tough for the players to adapt? CWT is doing the exactly correct thing, IMO, by doing what got him here .... and what were Taggart' exact words about the current players? Was it they don't fit the style .... or they weren't recruited for the style? Which to me means that they thought they'd be playing in a different type offense when choosing here but doesn't automatically mean they can't play in that offense. Catching the freaking footballs that you should catch is the same in any offense ... agree. no matter what offense you run your o-line needs to pass block, your QB needs to be able to complete passes, etc. it's one thing for a pro team to transition a little more slowly but in college you get 5 years max and your practice time is limited. if anything these players have shown they run block better (which goes better with Tags system), they are not good pass blockers (odd considering they were recruited to run 5 wide sets- it will help having TEs and FBs helping block in this system)we have pretty good TEs(which i hope we start using more), our QB isn't expected to be 90% of the offense(probably a good thing), and our RB has shown he is the strength of our offense(again better suited to this system). our offense was terrible the last 3 games of last year running the so called system they were recruited for. why waste time trying to teach them that properly.. You're right. The Oline does have to pass block and the fact that our QB situation is probably the worst in college football doesn't help matters. I don't want to take anything away from Shaw and our Oline run blocking because its been the only bright spot, but the power run offense is made so the running game will succeed. They've torn up Mcneese State and FAU on the ground with 34 carries for 304 yards (Shaw that is) and had a respectable game with 23 rushes for 94 yards against Michigan State. So if you want to invest a lot in what we've done against D1-AA McNeese State and FAU then go ahead but I'm not sold on that aspect due to the competition all the success has come against. Skip Holtz is such a bad coach anything he did should just be thrown out the window. No one is saying to teach them how to run a spread offense... I think taking a handful of plays 4, 5, 6 or even more that you can go to whenever to catch a defense off guard or I dunno when we're down by 18 at home in the 4th quarter to FAU instead of continuing to trot out 2 WR and 2 TE when we have to score in a hurry? list 5 receivers you're going to trot out there. tell me we have a QB that can run and pass for 90% of our offense with only 5 linemen in to block. it's obvious the strength of this team is to line up with 2 TEs (happen to be 2 of 3 best receivers on team) and run the ball. Our back is #6 in nation averaging over 7 yards per carry and you want him to change it up. Haha dude... you are completely missing what I am saying. Andre Davis, Ruben Gonzalez, Derrick Hopkins, line up Sean Price as a WR, Deonte Welch, Chris Dunkley, etc. You think its just completely off the wall to run 4 plays a game on a 3rd and long or a situation like that in a spread? K man...

They were talking about that last night on Monday Night Football and I think it was Jack Delrio they were talking about and he does exactly what you said Bulls24 and matches the schemes to his players which makes a lot more sense to me. Sure makes this sound like a throw away season for Taggart. Plus if I am a player - especially a senior how excited are you going to be after hearing that ? Seriously, how much different are the players we have now from the ones that are supposedly suited for Taggart's offensive system?? Where is this big difference that makes it tough for the players to adapt? CWT is doing the exactly correct thing, IMO, by doing what got him here .... and what were Taggart' exact words about the current players? Was it they don't fit the style .... or they weren't recruited for the style? Which to me means that they thought they'd be playing in a different type offense when choosing here but doesn't automatically mean they can't play in that offense. Catching the freaking footballs that you should catch is the same in any offense ... Well... for 1, in a power run offense you want offensive lineman that are absolutely huge and will move the defensive line at will on running plays. In a spread or pass heavy offense you're going to want more of an athletic quick offensive line to be able to protect the QB. Secondly, you don't really have athletes on the field other than an outside WR and your RB. The rest of the players are going to be strong guys that will knock you on your butt every play and two really good TE who can block and catch the football. "He said these guys were recruited to play in a spread offense and now we're asking them to do something different". I wasn't saying he doesn't think these players can play in his style of offense. He realizes his style of offense is not our current players strength. I am not saying what Taggart is doing is wrong, it makes me wonder why he can't implement a few packages that actually plays to our players strengths.. I am not saying ditch what has gotten Taggart to where he is and run a spread offense. I was simply saying he should put in a few 4 or 5 wide packages in a game, think that would... I dunno.... catch the defense off guard? Absolutely it would. Not only would it catch the Defense off guard it would create space for the athletes that we do have in Hopkins, Davis, Shaw, etc. yes let's go 4 or 5 wide because our o-line are such great pass blockers. what's odd is you list the type of players that are used for spread offenses and ours are exactly opposite. we have good run blocking linemen. we have two very good TEs. we have very few WRs. why on god's green earth would we spread out? the strength of our team and the focus of his offense is to run the ball. why would we want to do something we're not good at regarless of what system they were recruited for? is Matt Floyd or Bobby Eveld going to run or pass for 90% of our yards? because that's exactly what skip's offense was about. perhaps you don't remember these same players running skip's spread last year after BJ went down. passing for under 100 yards and 3 picks against pitt. why would anyone want them to run an offense that was so terrible? You're either not reading what I am saying or misunderstanding. I do not think we should spread the offense out and run a spread offense. I simply think that having a few plays a game that involves 4 or 5 wide receivers could help our offense either when we're down by a ton and need to score some points or getting the ball into one of our athletes hands in space.

They were talking about that last night on Monday Night Football and I think it was Jack Delrio they were talking about and he does exactly what you said Bulls24 and matches the schemes to his players which makes a lot more sense to me. Sure makes this sound like a throw away season for Taggart. Plus if I am a player - especially a senior how excited are you going to be after hearing that ? Seriously, how much different are the players we have now from the ones that are supposedly suited for Taggart's offensive system?? Where is this big difference that makes it tough for the players to adapt? CWT is doing the exactly correct thing, IMO, by doing what got him here .... and what were Taggart' exact words about the current players? Was it they don't fit the style .... or they weren't recruited for the style? Which to me means that they thought they'd be playing in a different type offense when choosing here but doesn't automatically mean they can't play in that offense. Catching the freaking footballs that you should catch is the same in any offense ... agree. no matter what offense you run your o-line needs to pass block, your QB needs to be able to complete passes, etc. it's one thing for a pro team to transition a little more slowly but in college you get 5 years max and your practice time is limited. if anything these players have shown they run block better (which goes better with Tags system), they are not good pass blockers (odd considering they were recruited to run 5 wide sets- it will help having TEs and FBs helping block in this system)we have pretty good TEs(which i hope we start using more), our QB isn't expected to be 90% of the offense(probably a good thing), and our RB has shown he is the strength of our offense(again better suited to this system). our offense was terrible the last 3 games of last year running the so called system they were recruited for. why waste time trying to teach them that properly.. You're right. The Oline does have to pass block and the fact that our QB situation is probably the worst in college football doesn't help matters. I don't want to take anything away from Shaw and our Oline run blocking because its been the only bright spot, but the power run offense is made so the running game will succeed. They've torn up Mcneese State and FAU on the ground with 34 carries for 304 yards (Shaw that is) and had a respectable game with 23 rushes for 94 yards against Michigan State. So if you want to invest a lot in what we've done against D1-AA McNeese State and FAU then go ahead but I'm not sold on that aspect due to the competition all the success has come against. Skip Holtz is such a bad coach anything he did should just be thrown out the window. No one is saying to teach them how to run a spread offense... I think taking a handful of plays 4, 5, 6 or even more that you can go to whenever to catch a defense off guard or I dunno when we're down by 18 at home in the 4th quarter to FAU instead of continuing to trot out 2 WR and 2 TE when we have to score in a hurry?

They were talking about that last night on Monday Night Football and I think it was Jack Delrio they were talking about and he does exactly what you said Bulls24 and matches the schemes to his players which makes a lot more sense to me. Sure makes this sound like a throw away season for Taggart. Plus if I am a player - especially a senior how excited are you going to be after hearing that ? Seriously, how much different are the players we have now from the ones that are supposedly suited for Taggart's offensive system?? Where is this big difference that makes it tough for the players to adapt? CWT is doing the exactly correct thing, IMO, by doing what got him here .... and what were Taggart' exact words about the current players? Was it they don't fit the style .... or they weren't recruited for the style? Which to me means that they thought they'd be playing in a different type offense when choosing here but doesn't automatically mean they can't play in that offense. Catching the freaking footballs that you should catch is the same in any offense ... Well... for 1, in a power run offense you want offensive lineman that are absolutely huge and will move the defensive line at will on running plays. In a spread or pass heavy offense you're going to want more of an athletic quick offensive line to be able to protect the QB. Secondly, you don't really have athletes on the field other than an outside WR and your RB. The rest of the players are going to be strong guys that will knock you on your butt every play and two really good TE who can block and catch the football. "He said these guys were recruited to play in a spread offense and now we're asking them to do something different". I wasn't saying he doesn't think these players can play in his style of offense. He realizes his style of offense is not our current players strength. I am not saying what Taggart is doing is wrong, it makes me wonder why he can't implement a few packages that actually plays to our players strengths.. I am not saying ditch what has gotten Taggart to where he is and run a spread offense. I was simply saying he should put in a few 4 or 5 wide packages in a game, think that would... I dunno.... catch the defense off guard? Absolutely it would. Not only would it catch the Defense off guard it would create space for the athletes that we do have in Hopkins, Davis, Shaw, etc.

Thanks for posting this. Taggart mentions at the very end how the guys here were recruited to play in a spread style type of offense. Although, Holtz didn't really run a true spread it was more of a pro style, but why in the world would we not run a little of what our players are build to play?! I understand Taggart comes from the School of Harbaugh and Stanford and wants to run the power run all day but why not just for this year mix in some packages and offensive plays that cater to the players you currently have??? The players would continue to learn the power run O, but be able to do at least a little something on offense during the transition. I guess at this point it is a complete and total loss if we can't even beat FAU or McNeese State so might as well do nothing but Power Run so that all of the learning and transitioning happens this year for our players. But it makes me scratch my head to hear a coach say he knows the players he is working with doesn't fit the style he wants to run but he doesn't compromise or adjust even a little bit to try and be successful...

There are too many other sources of free information for this to actually work. Although the times has the best information that I've seen you can get more info from Twitter, ESPN, gousfbulls.com, other newspapers, etc for free. Good Luck to them. I'll read my 15 pages and then from that point I will look elsewhere until the next month starts.

1) The Gators are not as good as Miami it's as simple as that. 2) Even if Stephen Morris doesn't play (he will), they will run all over us with Duke Johnson (who is a STUD) 3) First game in the spotlight? This is the University of Miami not Miami University of Ohio. 4) We do suck... although we do have nothing to lose that won't be our saving grace.. 5) You're hanging your hat on a noon kick off? Lol alright.. 6) A team full of Leavitt recruits beat Miami. This is a team full of Holtz's recruits that can't even beat FAU or McNeese State.. 7) We are a borderline 1-AA team at this point 8) Miami should be overly confident playing against us I think our Defense can put up a fight, but our offense certainly can't.

Your optimism can be appreciated to a degree but there comes a point where you have to realize this is real life and not some fantasy land, right? Take your Bulls goggles off for 2 seconds and you realize that there is absolutely no chance this game is close. In Taggart you trust from the job he did at WKU? I still like Taggart and don't think it is fair for anyone to make their mind up on him yet, but the guy hasn't even put together a game plan good enough to stay in a game with McNeese State and FAU. So far my thoughts on him are a heck of a recruiter, but lacking when it comes to actual coaching..

LOL. I'll take Miami by 40. They're going to run up and down the field on us no problem. Morris is a very good QB plus they have a stud RB in Duke Johnson. The only thing we'll be able to improve on in this game is not turning the ball over. Even if we don't turn the ball over it'll get ugly. Good luck to everyone going to the game.

If it gets worse***

I have season tickets in Section 240, Row D, Seats 1 and 2. I probably won't be attending anymore of the games so If anyone is interested in buying the tickets for any of the remaining games you can send me an email. I would only be looking for $15-$20 a ticket and if it gets work that could get down to $10 a ticket. My email is mcschmid@mail.usf.edu. Go Bulls.

I have two tickets Section 240 Row D Seats 1, and 2. I'll sell both for $40. Face value of $35 a piece.

Glad to check back in on the thread and see mostly optimism and at least a few people who agree with me that there was some "spark" during the last game, though short lived. To me, it's not about making up my mind on CWT... and we certainly have a hole to get out of, dug for the most part by Skip. It's about being a supportive fan, which most of us are if we're hanging around the board right now... OKAY wait a second... before I respond further, I see this was your first post ever on the board? Have you been following the program for long? I generally have a no-reply policy to first posts unless it's "Hi my name is x good to be here." Kinda brutal, I know... but it filters out a lot of flamers. I have been following the program since 2005 and attended USF from 06'-10'. I hope that's long enough to meet your requirements of being legit...

Welcome to the board. You may have some valid points, but I'm sure no one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to watch football. I'm sure there are other more entertaining uses of your time that you could employ if you are bored. Also too, at this time, there are many other threads full of negativity that you could have posted in, yet you picked one of the few positive threads. I don't see why, other than to basically make a splash entrance onto the board ... Thanks. Wow.... I think you took me saying the word "boring" a little too literally. Football is not boring for me to watch. Let me rephrase "this style of offense we have implemented now is more boring to watch compared to the offenses of USF that I am used to". I love USF football and will always watch no matter the circumstances. As you saw I am new and don't really know my way around. I joined, saw this post, and replied. If that's against the rules or frowned upon I apologize...

Not even sure where to start about this entire thread... Optimistic about what? Yes, Taggart has absolutely nothing to work with compared to what we're used to, BUT compared to McNeese State and FAU he has a heck of a lot more to work with regardless of how bad our QB situation is. The fact that Taggart and our coaching staff could not put together a game plan to even compete, forget about winning, compete and play a close game against FAU and McNeese State should be a MAJOR RED FLAG for all Bulls fans. Holtz could even put together a game plan to compete with Ball State even though we lost. (I am not defending Hotlz he destroyed our program and I hate him, just point that out) Not sure where you saw a hint of Defense that reminded you of the defense we've been missing for years?? It is completely obvious to anyone what Taggart wants to do on offense. He runs a Power Run Offense. Just by the name of it you understand what he wants to do. He wants to line up and run the ball 65% of the time and throw when he has to. To me, this style of offense is horrible. Not only are we in a complete rebuilding mode and terrible we have to watch an incredibly boring style of offense. Yay.. 75% of the time On 3rd and longs we send out 2 WR, a TE, and a RB for passes. Because we run the style of offense that we do, the field is already compressed and makes it easier on the defense. If you go to the game, watch pass plays develop. Don't watch the QB, watch the receivers and the tight ends vs the defense's schemes. Lets say on a 3rd and 8+ yard situation a defense is in their "Nickel" package (4 down lineman, 2 Line Backers, 5 Defensive Backs) and we will also say what I mentioned above: we send out 2 WR, a TE, and a RB for passes. The Defense can bring 5 guys (the 4 down lineman and a LB on a blitz) to pressure the QB, and then have 6 Defensive Backs to cover 4 offensive players OR if they don't blitz and bring only the 4 down lineman they have 7 guys to cover 4. Who in the heck is going to be open to throw the ball to?? There is never anyone open and the QB has such little time to do anything because we're asking our Oline to stand up to the defense bringing pressure non stop because this style of offense invites the defense to do that! Not making excuses for our Oline, they have to play better, but unless you have Andrew Luck running this type of offense with AWESOME TE's and a DOMINATE offensive line this style of offense will not be successful consistently. I will not make my mind up on Taggart after 3 games, but to start out with blowouts by McNeese State and FAU at home he is digging himself a hole to dig out of. Sorry, I know this is all negative but it is what we're dealing with. The only thing to be optimistic about is that Taggart is an incredible recruiter and that shows by him being able to get kids to commit to our program given the facts of our awful season now, our awful season last year, our awful new conference, etc.