Superhippy

Allen would be a solid choice. Everywhere he has gone he has found success. I am a little biased because he coached Demario Davis who is one of my favorite Jets though. The thing I like most though is that has shown multiple times that he has an eye for talent, which is the one thing I think Taggart needs in a coach more then anything right now.

And he knows Taggart or Harbaugh how? That has been the hiring criteria so far. That has been true so far, but after the firing of both of his coordinators after his meeting with Harlan, it's clear that there will be a change in philosophy on the field. You don't fire a coach that is running a pro-style offense, and a (IMO) prevent defense, for the same types of coaches. Taggart really needs to get away from the Harbaugh coaching tree anyways. He is trying to do his best Harbaugh impression, when what he really needs to do is be Willie Taggart. He's not coaching and approaching things the same way that he did at WKU.

It's dumb to hire a HC in waiting for a 37 year old coach. What happens if Taggart turns it around? A HCIW would be out the door in a red hot minute at the first opportunity. Then it's a win / win for USF. We need to stop looking at the fact that if a coach succeeds here he will leave, and start looking at the fact that if they pet plucked by a bigger school, it means that coach did great things here, and put the team in great position for the future. Just look at Oregon. Kelly left, but the groundwork was already in place for Helfrich to continue the success. Another good example is Boise State. The team had a down year after he left, but the program is still the top G5 program in the country. Having Randy Shannon for a year or two may be what it takes to get our defense back on track, and from there it will be much easier to find a quality candidate to take over that position.

I have a feeling Randy Shannon will be our next DC. As a head coach he was a failure, but he was a great defensive coordiator at Miami. Currently he is the LB coach at Arkansas, but he may be willing to take the USF job, with the hope that if the Bulls defense can become good, then he can get a top level DC job later. Coordinators for top schools these days are making as much, if not more then Taggart.

Bresnahan doesn't shock me at all. Our Pass Defense was among the worst in the entire country this year. He was a pro coach for 17 years. Harlan / Taggart may have just felt that he was failing at teaching the young players. There's a big difference between calling plays for NFL level players that will grasp them easily, and teaching college kids who may have little knowledge of the defense he was trying to run.

We will be running the spread next year. That's what scores points in college football these days so much so that even Nick Saban installed it after running more of a pro-style for years at Alabama. Taggart's system can work, but not with this team and not these QB's. To run his system you need accurate QB's. In the spread you need a smart QB. The ONLY thing our QB's did well this year was not throw a ton of interceptions. Spread offenses are a quick learn anyways which is a good thing. Baylor's offense is essentially only about 15 different passing plays. Most of the WR's are just decoys with the QB having the option to either thrown it to option 1 or find his check down. What they do though is run the same exact play later on, with a different WR being option 1. That's why it's so hard to beat. You can't cover everyone so even when a play looks the same, the goal of it is different.

I'm just glad Wulff was fired. He went 9-40 at Washington State, including going 4-32 in the Pac-10. In those 49 games they failed to score 20 points 31 times. Before that he has a mediocre D-2 coach at Eastern Washington with a record of 53-40. The only reason he got the job was that he was on Harbaugh's staff with the 49er's for a few years. and even then he was like the lowest coach on the offensive totem pole there. His title was just offensive assistant. Willie may have taken the play-calling responsibilities off his hands after the first few games, but can you really blame him. We needed a miracle to beat Western Carolina. We lost to Maryland after forcing 6 turnovers. We got blown out by a very average NC State team. We then had another miracle win against UConn. We also only scored 21 points this year twice. He had to get fired. As for Taggart, the sad reality is that we can't fire him. We still have to pay Holtz $500,000 for the next 3 years. Taggart has 3 years left on his deal which is worth about 1.2 million per year. If we fire him then we will have to pay around 1 million for coaches that are not even here, on top of a 1.2 - 1..5 million dollar salary for a new coach. For a team drawing only 25,000 a game right now, it's just not realistic. The only thing Harlan could do is tell Willie to clean house.

I'm in the very small minority here but I still don't think the offensive system is the issue. We drop no less than 4 - 6 balls per game. Our QB's make no less then 6 - 8 awful throws per game. Georgia Tech runs the most old school, "outdated" offense in college football (triple option), are ranked 11th in the country, and are two 5 point losses away from being a Top 3 team in the country. IMO they are going to end FSU's undefeated streak too. Why? Because their players execute the offense to near perfection. I'm sorry but this excuse by USF fan's that "the system" is failing is a load of garbage. We just had Skip Holtz, who was a bubble screen and quick pass loving coach, and I hate to break it to my fellow Bulls, but he went 8-4 this year at LA Tech and has his team in the C-USA title game. At some point we need to stop putting all of the blame on the coaches, and start putting the blame where it belongs and that's on the players. It's a harsh reality but at some point it needs to set it.

I have no idea but I know it won't be White. These stats are using ESPN. - 116th (out of 121 QB's) in terms of Accuracy. - 105th in QB Rating. - 121st in TD's thrown. - 102nd for yards. - He only took 15 sacks this year as well, which means the offensive line, although still not great did a MUCH better job in protection then last year. If you take everything into consideration White, including level of competition played which wasn't exactly the SEC or PAC-12, you could easily make the case he was the worst QB in the entire country this year, and without a doubt one of the worst 5. I have supported Taggart plenty, and still hope he can find success here but if Mike White is the starting QB for the Bulls in game 1 against Florida A&M then I won't watch a single game next year. He didn't do a single thing this year to show that he should continue starting other then pulling out a win against a historically bad SMU and barely beating a nearly as bad Tulsa.

In all honesty the terrible attendance this year is actually a good thing. In the NFL teams like the Bills and Browns sell out every single game no matter how terrible they almost always are, and in turn management doesn't feel the pressure to put a winner on the field. In college you have teams like Texas A&M, Tennessee, Ole Miss, and Texas that even though they are consistently mediocre to bad, they continue to draw 80k plus fans, and in turn there isn't a huge sense of urgency to win. Yes their fans b*tch and moan but that doesn't mean anything as long as the $$$ are still coming in. Taggart's contract along with the fact that we are still paying Holtz, make it so we can't fire him this year. That's just the reality of the situation. What the horrible attendance does though is give Harlan the ammo he needs to tell Taggart that he needs to fire his entire coaching staff and essentially relinquish control of certain parts of the team to other coaches. That's essentially what the best coaches in the country do anyways. Nick Saban let's Kirby Smart run his defense leaves it be most of the time. Right now he is letting Lane Kiffin do his thing too. He understands that his job as head coach is to oversee the entire team, not micromanage part of it. Taggart doesn't get that at all.

Read a little about why the UAB football program really shut down and it's pretty obvious that Tuscaloosa is the corruption capital of the country.

That doesn't even include a loss in their preseason exhibition to a D-2 team as well. The AAC will be lucky to get 3 teams this year in the tourney.

I feel like we should be down by atleast 16 right now. The one good thing I will say is that Antigua in nearly every game has shown the ability to make adjustments at the half. That late 4-0 run was huge too.

Bulls are hanging tough, they just need to stop turning it over so much.

The ball needs to be in Collins hands as much as possible. He's quicker then anyone else on the floor and Bama has no answer for him so far. Everyone else is getting dominated.