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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.

The Bulls look lethargic. The defense just isn't there tonight at all. Hopefully they can pick it up soon or else this game is going to get out of hand quickly.

I have a gut feeling that Taggart will get fired tomorrow and I am basing that off the Antigua hire and Masiello attempted hire he's already made. The average pay for an NCAA tournament coach last year was 1.5 million dollars. Antigua took the job for $900,000 and was the top assistants at the country. Masiello was the former top assistant for Pitino and was going to take a similar offer. The basketball team already looks a million times better then it did last year. Antigua has worked these guys extremely hard, and is constantly coaching within each game. Because of that you can see the team getting better and making adjustments while in the game itself, which has led to a near comeback NC State win and a comeback win over what looks like the best team in the Colonial this year. We have also seem them get better in areas like free throw shooting and turnovers game to game. Taggart's team isn't doing that. It's game 12 and the players still look confused. They are still dropping easy passes. They still don't know how to run block. They still can't get the plays in on time. What's clear to me is Harlan's philosophy in what he wants in a coach is someone who has been a part of a championship program, and knows what it takes to win. Taggart's only big time football experience is as the running backs coach at Stanford and his only head coaching experience was making Western Kentucky decent. I could see him getting a guy like Scott Frost who has coached with Oregon for five years, 1st as the WR coach, and then as Offensive Coordinator. Since he is young like Antigua, he will be willing to take less money for an opportunity that if successful will eventually lead to a top tier job. The bottom line to me were those comments by Harlan. He understands the gravity of the situation, especially from a financial standpoint. This team needs to win, and not just 6 games but more like 9 or 10, and they need to win soon.

The only thing I've heard that makes sense is that Taggs promised Q he could play immediately wasn't there a rumor that flowers was threatening to transfer when he wasn't getting playing time? I would bet it's true. That's the problem with not having any QB's on the roster though. Hotshot high schoolers can demand things they normally wouldn't be able too because they know how badly USF needs a QB.

I remember a few years back (end of the Leavitt era), they offered Buy 1 get 1 free season tickets and I had 2 in the endzone that only cost me a little more then $200 for the pair. Harlan needs to have a promotion like that to try and get some of the casuals back that gave up on the team years ago, as well as give either some big discounts or some cool incentives to the long time season ticket holders. Once (hopefully) they start winning, the stadium will fill up again. Tampa is hungry for a winner. The Bucs and Bulls combined are 6 - 16, and there have been a grand total of 2 home wins this season out of 11 games.

This one really worries me. We just played two road games, one of which we won in overtime against a decent UAB team, one of which we lost to a team that almost always makes the NCAA tourney in NC State. This is a big test to see if Coach O can get his team up again after only one day off, against a mid-major that has played some solid ball this year. The bottom line to me though is turnovers. Against NC State we only had 10 and nearly took them out. Against UAB we had 24 and nearly lost. Keep control of the ball and we should win.

Mike White was also 3 stars. According to Scout White was a 2-star QB ranked 78th coming out of high school. The guy played one year of QB in high school, There are some High School Seniors right now that have more games played under their belt then White has had in High School and at USF combined. White seems like a good guy, and I think he really is working hard behind the scenes to get better, but when you have that little experience leading a team, bad things are most likely going to happen.

Actually may have been pretty good. Maybe a little weak at WR, Landi at TE could have been pretty good. Plancher and Ben Williams. Pretty strong D. Could have done as well as Skip. The second year, if Scott still came on board (Scott was Skip's recruit) would have been interesting. willie would have taken BJ out in favor of someone not ready to see the field as soon as he has the opportunity Lmao. If Willie had even freshman BJ Daniels this team would have beaten Maryland, ECU, and maybe even Wisconsin and Memphis. At the very worst we would be 6-5 right now. Our passing offense would be about the same, but that 500 yards per season of rushing by him would have made all the difference. Willie has has three crappy QB's right now. That's the bottom line. White is a 50% passer that has rushed for negative yards this year. Bench is just as inaccurate as White and is a little bit more mobile. Flowers can't throw the football but can run. If we start the next season with any of those three at QB next year we are screwed again. He needs to bring the best junior college QB he can find, and then recruit someone young to learn for a few years.

Skip earned his firing. He completely ignored the QB position in recruiting. Year 1 he brought in Gunsby who never ever really saw practice time. Year 2 he brought in Matt Floyd. Year 3 he didn't bring in a QB, and that's knowing that BJ Daniels was a Senior. In the middle of his 3rd year when BJ got hurt is when the team started to look like a complete and total disaster and they haven't been the same since. Period. Here's another interesting stat between Skip and Taggart too. In 6 total years of recruiting (2010 - 2015), they have recruiting a combined 80 three or four star players. Only 1 of those players was a QB (Flowers), and as we have already seen he is much more of an athlete then he is a QB. This is using the Scout website btw, but it holds true for pretty much every site. Pretty pathetic if you ask me.

This is a borderline NCAA tourney team already this year. They just played an experienced team on the road, that was an overtime away from making the sweet 16 last year, and nearly beat them, and they have only played 4 games together. Our schedule is extremely favorable this year. The only OOC game left we will be underdogs in will be against Bama, who really hasn't looked that great at all, and Seton Hall who is still a complete unknown. FSU is terrible. Hofstra will most likely be the next toughest game we play out of the OOC teams. Then when you look in conference, everyone is way down. Uconn has been consistently mediocre against weak teams. Memphis lost to a D-2 team. SMU will get better but right now just looks closer to good then great. Cincy is really struggling right now too. Temple, ECU, Tulane, and Tulsa all look weak already. UCF and Houston have only played bottom feeders and didn't look great doing it at all. I really don't think it's a stretch the way they already look for them to go 11-2 OOC, and then 11-7 in conference for a 22-9 record, followed by a win for two in the AAC tourney for a 24-10 record, which would be a borderline NCAA team.

Taggart really needs a TE that can catch the football too. McFarland is just awful. I swear he must have atleast 15 drops this season, and every single one seems to be a 1st down play where we would have picked up 6 - 8 yards and be set up for an easy 1st down pickup on 2nd or 3rd down. Taggart should get one more season. The O-Line is much better. The defense is extremely young and inconsistent but shows flashes at times,. Our RB core is the best in the AAC. Our WR's and TE's drop more passes then anyone in the country. Our QB's are wildly inconsistent, but at the very least don't turn it over very much. Alot of his recruits from this 2014's massive class are not even playing this year and are just redshirting anyways. If even a handful of them are as good as Mack and Johnson then this team will start winning alot more games really soon. If not then we have to look elsewhere for a coach, but to fire him for trying to fix a massive dumpster fire only two years in, when they have shown some improvement is stupid.