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"The only meaningful statistic is number of games won." -Woody Hayes. 

All you have to do at the end of the day is win the game.  Do what you can to prepare for each team beforehand, but win the game when the time comes.  We just have to out work them. 
Take it one step at a time.  Enjoy the win. 

In fairness, Boyle went 15-43 and got shut down in the second half.

Also in fairness, his receivers dropped a few sure passes in the endzone.  So take that as you will XD

Final score: 8-3 Bulls win. 

Two field goals and a safety (That defense of ours will win us the game).  Our offense can't find the end zone, but at least we will move the ball.  XD  Here's hoping.

Once we become competitive again they'll come back. The Bulls suffer from a similar issue as the Rays. They are both extremely young teams and it takes time to grow a sustained fan base especially in a state like Florida where you have FSU/Florida/Miami. It would be interesting to see what an OCS would do for student attendance. I wonder if the inability to travel to Ray Jay is an issue for a lot of people whereas with an OCS you could walk or take USF transportation to the game. 

I agree, it will take time to earn back the fan base as a whole since USF hasn't got the 100+ year history and national pedigree of other major in-state schools.  Winning is the only way to put butts in the seats for a young program.  Playing solid opponents would also help.  You know...established opponents XD

 I also know that, as a student, its hard to get out to Ray Jay.  When you have to make the choice to go all the way out to Raymond James, you want to make sure the ride back is in victory and not in humiliating defeat.  Wins will sooth those reservations also. 

I believe the OCS thing has been discussed over and over here and its a split between "sounds great" and "never mention that again."  ;P

Coach T should've "Called Out" the Students.

Eh, if anything that would have just made us upset and given us reason not to go if they lose more games.  In The Oracle today it states he "understands the fan's frustration and his team is working toward earning back the fan base.  He just asks that when the team gets it going, everybody come back." (Its on the back page under "Win") Now THAT is a grown man's humble response to a loss of support this season.  Makes me feel like he cares about us as fans, makes me feel bad for not going this week.  He's an honest man who earns what he gets and that includes respect.

 

Its a young program. We don't have the history of Alabama, Ohio State, or Texas to draw the crowds. USF football was the fastest team in history to reach the Top 10 in the national rankings system and people expect wins. Now we get sluggish losses and it hits hard on a new fan base.

We students come from all over, we have allegiances to other schools from where we were raised. I'm not from Tampa or even Florida for that matter. I went to every game last year despite the last-minute losses and heart-shattering defeats. I went to the first 3 games this year hoping to see a different team emerge. It wasn't happening. So I took a week off, decided to save on parking money and study instead. USF ended up winning an ugly game. Part of me wishes I had been there, but overall I don't quite know what to think about future games. Louisville? Heck yeah I'll be there, if only to see a top-ranked team play. But games against such weaklings as Memphis or SMU? I may sit those out. It all depends on performance these next few weeks.

Call it being a bandwagon fan if you will, but I can only take seeing this college getting spanked so many times before I give up cheering until they show progress. USF lacks the things to keep people coming back no matter what: History and Tradition.

how do you expect to build tradition and history if you and others don't show up when the team is struggling and trying to rebuild? Nothing but fairweather.

 

Truth be told I wasn't a huge USF sports guy when I got here, I've been trying my best to get into it the last 2 years of school.  It gets hard when the college you attend, but not necessarily the one you rooted for  your whole life, is getting smashed.  I also find it hard to really get into a game where we get smashed and we don't have many crowd cheers or crowd traditions that are unique to USF to get me going when we are down.  So I made the choice to study and focus on academics this weekend rather than attend a game I had every right to believe we would lose.  I was wrong about us losing, but I got some quality study hours in.  Its up to the team to build the history, what little they have is impressive but unfortunately in a world where conference and national titles are key to a larger local fan base, we are severely lacking in that category.  It doesn't help that most kids here grew up rooting for Miami, FSU, and UF so their inter-state allegiances are skewed.  Fairweather maybe.  I can see how you could come to that conclusion.  I wish I could get behind the team more and have fun doing it, but this week I chose to watch us play from home and focus on school-work rather than potentially suffer another letdown.  I'll be there for the 'Ville game, after that I'll make determination on a week to week basis. 

I say tank so we can get a good draft pick........

You mess with the bull, you get the horns XD

Its a young program.  We don't have the history of Alabama, Ohio State, or Texas to draw the crowds.  USF football was the fastest team in history to reach the Top 10 in the national rankings system and people expect wins.  Now we get sluggish losses and it hits hard on a new fan base. 
We students come from all over, we have allegiances to other schools from where we were raised.  I'm not from Tampa or even Florida for that matter.  I went to every game last year despite the last-minute losses and heart-shattering defeats.  I went to the first 3 games this year hoping to see a different team emerge.  It wasn't happening.  So I took a week off, decided to save on parking money and study instead.  USF ended up winning an ugly game.  Part of me wishes I had been there, but overall I don't quite know what to think about future games.  Louisville?  Heck yeah I'll be there, if only to see a top-ranked team play.  But games against such weaklings as Memphis or SMU?  I may sit those out.  It all depends on performance these next few weeks. 
Call it being a bandwagon fan if you will, but I can only take seeing this college getting spanked so many times before I give up cheering until they show progress.  USF lacks the things to keep people coming back no matter what: History and Tradition.