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Maybe I am holding on to wishful thinking like you say, but maybe I'm able to see what the new coaching staff is doing and it's all positive. I haven't seen anything about USF basketball that isn't positive since Antigua took over. If you are in so much pain then maybe you should go see a doctor of try over the counter medicine. What exactly are you seeing that's positive? Player exits?

For me, this is not just the usual fallout from a coaching change. This is another symptom in a continuing pattern of failures by the athletic department. You can blame Stan Heath, you can blame the kids, but the reality is the program is going back to square one AGAIN and, for me, under a coach that I have no confidence that he can get it done. I'm not saying he won't, I'm saying there's nothing that gives me confidence that better days are ahead. If you see it, you're just holding on to wishful thinking, because there is no track record to show it. The exact same thing goes for football. Being an assistant to John Calipari and Jim Harbaugh doesn't make you John Calipari and Jim Harbaugh. And you'll never see me bragging about recruiting class rankings. The only thing that matters is on-field performance. I don't want to argue with fellow Bulls. That's not my aim. I'm just a guy who - in the past - has been as close to the program as you can get. It's painful to see what's happening and I can't pour my heart and soul into it anymore. I did that for years. Again, Brad will vouch.

You are really going to quit on the Bulls because half the team was apparently a bunch of soft quitters. I will keep supporting them but right now I feel more embarrassed for anyone that was supporting the Stan Heath regime. After seeing how many and how fast these guys are quitting I think the decision to fire him was 100 percent justified, and I am excited to see what kind of USF BULLS that Antigua can bring in. So just curious. If you're a die harder since 1984, why did you wait until March, 2014 to become a member of TBP? You can ask Brad about my track record.

You are really going to quit on the Bulls because half the team was apparently a bunch of soft quitters. I will keep supporting them but right now I feel more embarrassed for anyone that was supporting the Stan Heath regime. After seeing how many and how fast these guys are quitting I think the decision to fire him was 100 percent justified, and I am excited to see what kind of USF BULLS that Antigua can bring in.

What a train wreck. USF athletics is a complete embarrassment. I've been a diehard, bleed green & golder since 1984 - NEVER been called fair-weather - but that's officially it for me. I'll check back in around 2018 and see if anything has improved with football, men's basketball and baseball. Anthony Collins will be next and the 2014-15 Bulls won't be competitive with Hillsborough Community College.

Video of him looks like a young Ron Anderson Jr. Not real athletic, but a tough guy around the basket.

His offer list obviously wasn't very impressive, but neither was Toarlyn Fitzpatrick's and he was a really solid contributor during his career at USF. Let's hope he is one of those diamonds in the rough.

OK, so we have a first-time head coach and his staff now includes: 1) his brother 2) a high school coach who was a college buddy 3) a guy who was busted down from his assistant position because of multiple DUIs I'm hoping like hell that this works out, but strictly from the outside looking in, this looks like a potential mess waiting to happen.

Prado has to know it's over. Unless something miraculous happens from this point on, we will have a new regime in the dugout next year and, frankly, it's overdue. The only positive to letting it go this long is that we won't have to pay two baseball coaches next year the way we already are for football, basketball and the AD.

Nice. Rod Strickland brings his multiple DUIs to USF!

Don't know it it's been noted anywhere or not, but the little old American has teams in the Final Four of NCAA men (UConn), NCAA women (UConn), NIT men (SMU) and NIT women (USF).

There's no rest for Mark Harlan. He has Antigua on board, now he has to begin the search for a new baseball coach.

That's one hell of a raise for a guy who's never been a head coach. Give him a deal loaded with incentives.

That's one hell of a raise for a guy who's never been a head coach.

He's making $275,000 base salary at Kentucky. They'd be NUTS to give him $1-million a year. There's nothing that says he's deserving of that. http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/03/kentucky-coaches-ad-bonuses-330k-aaron-harrison-final-four/