HPbull

Spineless needs to be let go immediately! You punt on 4th and 1 in the 4th qtr.

I don’t get it, I would rather have their stadium on our campus and upgrade it periodically until it’s at its desired amenitie and capacity level. I want to take my kids on campus before the game and walk to the bookstore, the new Publix, show them the old bunker where I took my classes etc. We will sit on our hinds idly until next round of realignment and if it does occur and we get left out we will have ourselves to blame. I am tired of Ray Jay, it’s feels like a cavernous corporate ******** where we have no home field advantages, I am tired of that big pirate ship that screams Buccaneers, it just doesn’t feel like a college environment. I wish our AD was as proactive as UCF’s, I am tired of this close to the vest, wait and see, move at a cement turtle pace when it comes to sports facilities.

I have zero faith that we can pull this off and let me tell you why. Let’s say we came out like we did and jumped on them like we did Temple, Charlie and company will find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Example: This is a momentum killing situation that Charlie and company are known for.. We are up 17-0 by some miricale we get another stop with 4 mins left in the first half. we drive all the way down to UCF 5 yard line and it’s 3rd and goal We get a false start now it’s 3rd and goal from the 10 yard line. We run a HB dive for a 2 yard gain now it’s 4th and goal from the 8 yard line. Instead of going for it on 4th down to put pressure on UCF we kick a field goal that is blocked and ran all the way back for a TD going in to halftime 17-7. Tell me y’all couldn’t invision this happening..

These kind of QB’s come a dime a dozen in Florida. Just go recruit the 5’10” Qb’s that run the spread at all the local high schools that all of the big P5 schools are trying to recruit to play a different position. Strong said himself he recruited Flowers to play defense. Look at King at Houston he was at WR, we don’t need to worry about developing a QB to take snaps at the next level, we need a system QB that will be a great colleg player

It’s a reason White/BB are having trouble, schematically USF is better suited for QB’s like Flowers, Grothe and Daniels. With the athletes we can recruit it’s better if we get them in to space and use their speed and have a qb who is a serious threat to run. If you are going to do read option the whole game might as well get a qb who can make the defense pay .

I was saying the same thing, right before the half when we had 56 seconds and had just converted a first down and had timeouts left. I knew spineless would pack it in, had that been Taggart he would have tried his best to score. We lack killer instinct, this game in the first half was right in Strongs wheelhouse get up a touchdown or two and kill the clock. This playing it close to the vest old school respect your opponent BS needs to go along with Strong. I like Taggart, Spurrier and Leach type mentalities, if we can beat you by 100 we will.

If our AD is serious about our football program, this staff needs to be let go

When you play not to lose, you lose! This coaching staff sucks

Coach Strong and this play not to lose offense. Jesus Christ, open up the **** offense and go get the victory!

Can we please stop running HB dives.

I just feel that when you try and be good at both with the level of kids we recruit you actually end up being average at both. Only a few teams really field an elite offense and defense, I am not saying have an absolute horrible D, I am just saying that I feel in this day and age it would be advantageous to have a wide open offense and a serviceable defense. I would rather have Q, Mack and company on the field needing a touchdown to to win a game over having Selvie, Moffit and company needing a stop to win the game.

Well not entirely but with the way offenses are putting up points in this new era of football it would be beneficial to just field a team that has a chance at winning shootouts. Football these days are basically basketball on grass, Taggart figured that out and basically said we arent going to ask the defense to win games for us, we are going to go out and win it with the offense and I loved that mentality. Strongs old school keep it close and hope the D gets a stop and win by 3 points is yesterday’s game, I don’t know why strong insist on wearing bell bottoms and an afro in the era of dreadlocks and skinny jeans. GOT TO ADAPT....

It has nothing to do with coaching or players, I just feel that is the way the universe work. I read Cincy board and they want revenge for the 60 plus points we put up on them a few seasons ago, they think the weather will be a factor, they said their defense is the real deal. I’m not disputing any of that, I just have a feeling that we go up there and put it all together and then us fans will be wondering where has this team been all season.

I am all for seeing what the other QB’s are capable of doing now that we have nothing to really play for. Agree?

Have we ever been successful without a Grothe/Daniels/Flowers type of Qb? BB isn’t the answer, Flowers made this stale offense look good last year just as King is making the same offense look good in Houston.

The problem is the team is taking on the personality of the coach. He coaches scared, and how long will we go with BB, I can see why he was bounced around from school to school.

That 4th and 1 in the first quarter when Charlie elected to kick I was screaming at the screen. I hate spineless coaching, you got to go for that and let the O build some momentum.

Just a question for the imagination, do you think the UCF game ending would have played out similar to the Texas Tech game had Wilcox not fumbled? I had this calmness about me on that drive that we would score, I think UCF knew it as well but then the Wilcox play happened.

Yeah that Black Friday game has the potential to be real big for the conference if both teams are undefeated at that point. We have to play and beat them anyway in route to a conference championship so why not have them be undefeated and ranked.

Do we move up this week? The only team to lose in front of us was #12 VT. Thoughts

#12 #13 and # 16 go down this week. Memphis takes care of uCf. It's possible that we could be sniffing the top 10 in the next few weeks.

What's up BullsPen, let me shed some light on the current ticket and attendance situation from my perspective. I graduated from USF and I love my school and root for my team and every chance I get. The problem I have is, I can't buy season tickets even if I wanted to because I have 4 sons that play little league football (TBYFL) and their games always seem to fall around the same time USF play on Saturday's. Thursday nights is really a no go with the 7:30pm start times which is really more like an 8pm start time because it's a school night for my kids and with the length of the games and travel time back to South Tampa (Interbay) wich is really not that far from RJ, my kids would be getting in bed at 11pm. Friday night games are better but the problem there is that high school football in Tampa is a big deal and I have nephews that play and my kids and I go to their games. So it's not that I don't want to support my team but with these non traditional game days It's just a lot easier to DVR it and watch when I get back home. To tie this back to the point of the ticket prices I am not sure no price point could solve my issues and I am pretty sure there are a lot of alums in my situation or something similar. Now I make it my goal to try and get to two home games a year on a Saturday that don't conflict with my kids little league football. I think we need to come to a realization that people find it more convenient to watch the games from home not necessarily out of want but out of need.

Looks like these three teams will go down, how far do you think we move up?

We are pretty much tied with Cincy now, I think the ranking jumped from 133 to 140.

USF up to 140 from 159! UCF dropped 5 spots from 171 to 176...