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Maybe if the Bulls suck this year and Billy Donovan gets fired we can convince him to come back to college.

Do new coaches ever get announced in the middle of the season when there is an interim? Would assume there may be a handshake deal that everyone knows about but nothing formally announced until after the UCF game

If only we fired him at the end of last year we could have had Frank Martin. Don't think recruiting locally matters as much for basketball when the classes are only about 2 people a year.

If we go 3-0 to end the year you gotta keep him. That would be more in line with the next Dabo than Jeff Scott. Dabo took over as an interim for a losing team and finished 4-1 down the stretch

A sign of a bad coach is inconsistency. This team has shown they can keep up with Florida/Cincinnati. If we can get a coach that can get them to play with that intensity 12 weeks a year we're going bowling next year.

Yup. Even aside from the baggage Gruden was famous for having a system that took years to learn for young QBs. And that was young QB's who were the best of the best in college. I can't imagine how frustrated he'd be trying to install a playbook with bunch of 18-21 year old kids

that might divide the fanbase more than Leavitt

It could show how quick the rebuild may or may not be. Finish 2-1 and a lot of people will be convinced Jeff Scott was holding this team back and a new coach could turn it around year 1. Get blown out 3 times on the other hand...

Any word on if this is Gruden?

Gruden hasn't coached in college in over 30 years and those emails provided a lot of ammo for negatively recruiting. It would be naive to think some kids parents won't want their kids being led by a man that was exposed for making racist comments behind closed doors.

I think when a coach comes in and starts talking about how bare the cupboard is and how long the rebuild is going to take the guys on the roster take it as a diss. The coach just called them all trash and threw them under the bus and now expects them to go out there and fight and give 110% for him?

He grew up in Ft Myers, we are the closest FBS school to his hometown. Still more likely he doesn't come here but that may be worth something

Soft is certainly an accurate way to describe USF these past couple years

Wonder if we hear more details from guys in the program of why it didn't work now that things are finished.

Deion would be so fun. Look at all the blue chip players and attention he's bringing to Jackson State. USF and Tampa would become relevant immediately. Have to imagine the fundraising would go through the roof too. Think the contract would have to have a low buyout though, it'd be no secret he'd leave us in a heartbeat should FSU open up.

Him and Mullen are the only fired P5 coaches I'm interested in.

Seth mentioned a name I LOVE Brian Johnson. QB for Utah when they beat Bama in the sugar bowl. Playing a high level at QB brings a different understanding to the game. Mississippi State QB coach for Dak Prescott and Nick Fitzgerald Gators playcaller in 2020 when Trask set all those records Eagles QB coach these past 2 years, turning Jalen Hurts into a stud NFL QB

Georgia Tech and Colorado. Those jobs you have an admin apathetic towards athletics and are dwarfed by other brands in your conference. Will be an uphill battle to look impressive and get a blue blood job. At USF with the new IPF and stadium in the new AAC in Tampa you should be able to finish top of the conference in recruiting each year.

This. Plus I'd imagine our investment in athletics is looking pretty good compared to a lot of the new AAC. Brand new 22 million dollar IPF and an On Campus Stadium that'll be ready while your recruits are upperclassman feel like huge recruiting tools. Would have to be incompetent to not pull in the #1 recruiting class in the conference. The new stadium needs to be a selling point to coaches. Deion Sanders has an ego, let him know if he wins here they'll be calling a stadium the "house that primetime built"

If we end the season 3-0 would anyone be inclined to keep the interim staff? Or that would just be looked at as a dead cat bounce and we'd still want to start fresh?

In hindsight signs that he wasn't the guy: 1.) Indecisive/over-thinking. Football is all about instincts and reacting without thinking. If the head coach can't do this he certainly can't teach the players how to Took him 3 games into year 2 to find a QB, then goes and replaces him immediately after spring practice. If he doesn't trust his own instincts to make that decision there had to be a lot of wishy washy-ness in other decisions. Constantly taking time outs before big plays. Felt like every game they couldn't get a playcall made in time and had to burn a timeout that could have been used in crunch time. If you don't know the right play within 30 seconds you're not trusting your instincts. 2.) Too timid. You got to have some aggression in this game. You have to have a different gear than nice and conservative. Toughness and aggression from the coach can cause stress in practice. Practicing with a stressful atmosphere makes you better in close late games. Punting in plus territory. Happened a few times, one specifically I remember is SMU last year. Down 10-0 in the 1st quarter, 4th and 5 from their 34 and we punt. Go for it or kick a field goal and i'm fine, just anything besides punt. Always finding a way to **** up close games. There has been 11 games in Jeff Scott's tenure where it was a 1 score game at some point in the 4th quarter. We have lost every single one. 0-11 The moment where I went from optimistic we are turning things around to doing mental gymnastics trying to justify hopes that Jeff Scott is still the guy? Tulsa in 2021. 4th quarter starts and we are up 31-20 with Tulsa starting at their own 1 yard line. If being up two scores at home vs ******* Tulsa (with them needing to drive 99 yards just to pull it into a 1 score game) is too big of a moment to just put the foot on the gas and put them away you'll never be able to.

Well do we have a better place to donate our money to than Fowler ave right now for NIL purposes?

i've given up on re-alignment dreams. I've accepted that our most likely positive outcome is being a cream of the crop G5 team and selling out a 40k OCS every week, and I'm perfectly content with that. Especially in a 12 team playoff era.

Scott has also made comments how NIL is going to be the biggest thing moving forward. I've seen some NIL deals here and there but it seems like Fowler Avenue is our only collective. Does anyone know if they have released any details about how much money they are raising and what our collective looks like compared to our peers?

We haven't been ranked in the college football playoff but there have been some suspect rankings keeping us out. In 2016 for example after the regular season we weren't ranked but Navy was 19th in the college football playoff. Both teams were 10-2 in the same conference and we had a head to head win over Navy where we we're up 42-0 at one point.