Greetings everyone. It’s sad when a Florida Gator is the most positive person regarding the Bulls than most of it's fans. Grant it, I understand your frustration. Hell I hate Muschamp, and feel UF should have hired Charlie Strong instead of passing him over 4 times nor do I like th current players, but it is what it is. Last week, everybody was crying about how horrible USF is and how Maryland will beat the brakes off of USF’s bus. Well not only was USF competitive, but they should have won the game. A missed field goal and botched kick is what stood in the way. Here is some reasons why you guys are being too hard on your team:
1. Mike White your starting quarterback was injured. I think Bench sucks, has no arm strength or accuracy to be a starting quarterback. White may not be that great but at least he has ONE good 300 yard passing game and has a much bigger arm and upside than Bench
2. Andre Davis the team’s LEADING receiver was injured as well. I read some of your comments about how the offense plays better w/o him but c’mon on man, he had his best season last year with 4 different quarterbacks who weren’t that great. All of the receivers that had drops was from a bad pass from Bench. One thing Davis is good at is catching balls from inaccurate quarterbacks such as BJ, EVeld, Floyd, and a freshman White. Hell he spent his whole career catching bad passes at USF, so I’m sure he would have caught many of those bad passes which would have made Maryland pay for stacking the line or help us take advantage of 6 turnovers.
3. Thor the captain of the offensive line was also injured. So your starting quarterback, Receiver and 320 Ib offensive lineman was injured and yet you still manage to almost win the game
4. The Defense. I guess you realized that Taggart decided to put a vanilla game plan for WCU b/c they played **** well vs. Maryland. Those 6 turnovers were ALL from strips and hard hits. There were no unforced turnovers. Our defense hit the weight room this summer and the hard hits is proof. I think by next year they are going to be a beast. Deadrin Senat was a beast in high school and was recruited by Alabama and USC. He was suppose to replace Clowney this years for Spurrier. You guys have some great recruits.
5. It’s only the 2nd game and whether you want to admit it, USF already surpassed your expectations which you didn’t have at all after the WCU game.
It’s only been 2 games. I understand that USF has been such a disappointment in the past that nobody wants to get emotionally attached to anymore, but you guys are overcompensating for having too high expectations to basically having none at all. And ****ting on your own team hard. Have some faith in the football Gods lol Things will get better and I will be here to say “I told you so†J Grant it, I have no ties to Tampa or USF. To be honest, I became a fan simply b/c in addition for loving underdog stories, I am of Haitian decent and at the time the team had like 14 Haitians lol I think that’s the problem, you guys need to recruit more Haitian players like you did during your golden years lol With that being said, I hope my comments did not come off as condescending like my first post, it’s really not my intention. If none of you guys will have faith in USF this Florida Gator will. One day USF will be awesome and these hard times just makes it so much better. This is coming from a lifetime New Orleans Saints fan lol Good luck this weekend. I will be watching the game and hoping the football Gods shine some light on "Da Bulls"