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Maryland is the big determining factor game.  If we perform well and pull off the win, I'll buy into a 6-6 OR BETTER season.  If we lose though, I'll stick with my original thoughts and say 5-7 at best this year.  

And if we go 5-7 without a signature win over a ranked or just plain good opponent, they may fire Willie for lack of progress.  

But I'll save any doomsday talk for after the Maryland game.  

I'll reserve judgement until Maryland as to whether or not we perform well the rest of the way.   But I love the attitude change.  We didn't give up, we kept playing from a bad position and we executed in rough environment.  Props to the team.  

Offense is slowly improving and defense was better. GG

Flowers is a dynamic playmaker, but his accuracy leaves something to be desired.  I was frustrated by the number of screen calls early in the game.  Kid can make those slant routes work.  He doesn't have the accuracy for the deep ball yet.  

In time he can be a good QB.  For now he's athletic but average.  

Defense played very well, besides tackling Cook.  But he's NFL talent.  

Augie's hit and the last hit of the game were almost the same thing.  Frustrating crew for today's game (took 10 minutes to spot a ball incorrectly on 4th and 1)

What a defense.  Would love to see that quality back on the field again.  

Uni's look nice.  Still not a fan of those helmets though XD  

Of course, if we win I'll insist that we wear it for every game.

In terms of fundraising and raising an academic bar I believe Genshaft has done a very good job here.  She deserves to stay and I think it could push us further up that academic ladder (which is what really matters in College).

I will say, our bump down from BigEast to AAC athletically hurt us.  Loss of opportunity to put the brand out there on a national stage.  But you can hardly fault the woman for all of that.  Maybe some blame lies on her and her office, but I think our own decline around the time of Conference realignment and our do-nothing athletic department attitude was the main factor in all that.  

4 more years.  

This is my favorite thread.  

Ever.

Of all time.

Florida State Seminoles

34-22

Mack

Dillon

280

I'll say I agree with much of the article.  I think our performance in the first half was more Athleticism than Execution.  I also don't see us winning this game (I'll happily admit I'm wrong if we win though).  I'll hope a bit for a result like 2012, hard fought for 3 quarters before we surrender a few TD's. 

What I noticed most though were the people in the comment sections calling for our heads.  Some are still salty about 2009 

That song aggravates me after the 2012 game.

Every time FSU moved the ball forward that dang band would blast it from the upper deck.

I'm sure some players have similar feelings.

First half was sloppy.  Constant miscues (and a few boneheaded moves by a player or two) kept us from scoring more.  Second half saw a totally different team.  We played like we were supposed to play against a bad team.  Hopefully it points to bigger, better things this season.  We'll see.

I think some of our impact guys are finally making a real impact.  Frustration with losing and playing to their strengths may just get them a few more wins this year.

Its a hype thing.  Students love a "insert color here"-out idea.  Its supposed to show unity and intimidate.  I'll agree with you that it is better executed at a place that sells out (see Penn State White Outs: Now those are scary cool), but it can't hurt to try and get student involvement.  

Lord knows they need it...

If you really want loud booming sound, we could always transition to a pure drum-and-bugle type band 

Some people don't like that though.

Put the mic on them in the stadium and make sure it syncs well.  Otherwise I suppose we live with it for now.  

FAMU's band is very flashy.  Very loud and very visual.  They get better as the year goes on (as most bands do) but the formula is the same.  Its a very show-y band by tradition.  What they gain in style, they lose in quality however.  They sacrifice dynamics for loud sound and when they perform on the field, audio tearing is an issue.  You could hear it in RayJ.  

HOT has a more quality approach.  They sacrifice loud brass sounds for a full range of instruments and dynamics.  Though the music is often simple, it sounds like the music.  Audio tearing is less prominent.  

All in all its something you see with a lot of bands.  A few bands can bridge the gap between quality playing and a loud, booming sound. 

5-7 if 1 of those wins is against UCF. 6-6 otherwise. No way he survives missing a bowl and another loss to UCF.

I agree.  But I think he NEEDS that signature win in those 5-6 games.  Beat a good team (and hopefully UCF) and he can survive.  Beat bottom feeders and beat a lowly UCF (who just lost to FIU) and we reevaluate him very closely

Should have pushed for Braxton Miller.... lol

If he doesn't want his scholarship I'll take it. 

If we shoot 3's better in the first half tonight, we can win this game.  We could have won by 20 against LSU if we hadn't missed our first 8 three pointers and wasted those possessions   

I think we can do this.  Should be a nice crowd and a close game. 

Hopefully we can be 10,000 strong for this. I don't care about the circumstances (home ncaa tournament game + free tickets), filling up an arena the size of the Sun Dome for a woman's basketball game would be a great thing for this program.

 

Recruits in non revenue sports would love to come to a program that can create an atmosphere like that for sports not including mens basketball and football.

 

This is an INSANE opportunity. Tell everyone you know. Hopefully this is campaigned to all the students really well tomorrow.

Sorry to disappoint, but I haven't seen so much as a scribble on the sidewalk promoting this game on campus so far.  I think there was something at the front desk of the Marshal Student Center.  That's pretty much it though. 

Email did go out though.  So there is that.  I just think we need a better marketing scheme for these games.  Most people don't even know we are in the NCAA Tourney :c

Man.  Sucks that we have to play UConn for a shot at the title.  Its great that we get to play for a title and I'm so proud of this team. These girls deserve to win this conference.

But its still UConn.  XD  Maybe we get a miracle?  I can hope. 

To be fair to the student population during the UConn game, Its spring break this week.  Everyone is at the beach or at home XD

Used to be that way.  Changed it for a reason.  Might make some kids focus on academics.  Might make some athletes unhappy. 

It won't happen though.

No Thursday night games!  We might have a chance! 

 

 

 

 

 

Just some light researching on Leavitt, and I came across this article from an OU perspective. Pretty good retrospective and comments from former players, would make me want to consider him as an AD...

 

https://thefootballbrainiacs.com/ou-oklahoma-sooners-football-bob-stoops-jim-leavitt-coaching-search-linebackers

"The success he had at South Florida, including at one point being ranked number two nationally, has not been anywhere close to repeated since his departure."

 

Well that sentence hurts.

 

Pretty much sums it up.

 

 

I like Jim as much as the next guy but there was a clusterfck of strange events that got us ranked at #2.  Yea, I wish we were that good again but we were never the 2nd best team in the country and we never finished ranked in the Top 25.  Edit: Or did we finish 24 one year before I started following the team?

 

 

Yes but right now we don't have a cluster of strange events that would make the teams of the last 4 years hang within 14 points of the teams between 2007 and 2009. 

 

At the time in the season we beat Auburn (who went to Gainesville and beat UF 2 weeks later), beat WVU (who would later get back to #2 and squander a national title shot), destroyed the crap out of UNC and were sitting at 6-0 with better wins than anyone else.  Were we the second best team in the country? No. At that point in the season did anyone have a better resume? No.

 

And that seemed to be the M O of CJL teams. Lack of depth, better coaching, etc. all excuses/reasons have been used for our annual collapse in conference play.

I wonder what Harlan would do if we CJL was still here and we continued with the trend of making low end bowl games, but NEVER sniffing a conference title? 

 

If CJL had been coaching the last 5 years, we'd probably be 8-5 or 9-4 most years.  We may even be in another conference ( ).  Or maybe we are in this conference but we win because we don't play anybody.  We'll never know. 

With the perspective of the last 5 years though, I think we'd all be just fine with those 8-5 seasons again.