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Interesting, all though not that surprising. Fowler Ave sent out an email yesterday about starting to offer content to bridge the gap between student athletes and fans. Sounds like a lot of videos and interviews will be coming out. Weird time for USF coverage. No TDS, no 247 board, and the Times hates us. Thank God for The Bullspen.

In the Athletic article about Golesh that came out today a recruit mentioned Golesh showed him renderings of the stadium on his visit to USF

Is Alex Golesh the right coach at the right time for USF? 'We found our fit' THEATHLETIC.COM USF is now No. 5 in the pecking order in its own state. How can the Bulls become relevant on the national landscape?

Its felt like the past few years a lot more guys from Florida made it to the league. My first thought was Dwight's Magic and the Big 3 Heat were so popular 10-15 years ago basketball grew in the state. Or that timeline might better line up with when parents started pushing their kids to basketball because of concussion worries with football. However after looking at the numbers... In the last 6 years (18-23) 34 guys have made it to the NBA that went to high school in Florida. In the 6 years before (12-17) 12 guys made it to the NBA that went to high school in Florida. That doesn't include any of the IMG/Montverde academy type kids either...That's an additional 33 guys in the last 6 years and 7 in the 6 years before that. So it may be more closely related to all these elite basketball players moving to Florida to play at an academy, and local players playing against that level of talent more often whether it be in local games, practices, open gyms, camps, etc. it has been a "rising tide lifts all boats" scenario. Regardless, great to hear Amir will be focusing on local recruiting.

I realize the first part of this equation (serious sustained success for a few years) sounds impossible for this team, asking to suspend belief for the hypothetical...

Tampa is the #13 TV market and has no NBA team and only 1 D1 men's basketball team within an hour of the city. The next biggest TV market with no NBA team and only 1 D1 basketball team within an hour of the city is Columbus Ohio at #32. But USF men's basketball is even more isolated than that, the next closest D1 university to Tampa is UCF, which is 104 miles away. To find a TV market that has no NBA team and only 1 D1 basketball team within 100 miles of the city you'd make it down to Albuquerque at #49. There is simply no comparable market that only has 1 show in town when it comes it men's hoops. In football this isn't the biggest deal, since people have no problem driving 2-3 hours to their alma mater on a Saturday. But with much of basketball season happening on weeknights, if you want to go to a game you're staying close. USF basketball hasn't had back to back winning seasons since Seth Greenburg was coach 20 years ago. USF has never made back to back tourney's and has only appeared 3 times. Do you think if USF basketball strung together some success (3 straight NCAA tourney appearances with 1 of those being a sweet 16 run) the city would rally around them as Tampa's basketball team? Or is Tampa just not a basketball town and nothing sustainable would last (floor of program elevated, attendance never dips below 7/8k)

GoBulls84 inspired me to go back and look. Kelly's comment here "I don't think its wise to release any general renderings until a higher level of deliverability certainty is achieved" is some interesting wording. I wonder if its related to 79Bull's sentiments on the board of governors meeting. Seems like thats the last hurdle and we should be in the clear...but if we released renderings now, and they told us to scale back the plan its too much $$$ it would be a disaster. Better to wait and just get that locked in, then go forward and show off what it'll look like.

lol i love it. i've seen people here mention late summer early fall when we can expect to see something. My newest tinfoil hat theory is next Wednesday/Thursday. Pretty sure those 2 days after the MLB all star game are the only days of the year with no major sports on TV. Huge vacuum looking for something sports related to talk about...wouldn't be the worst time to throw out stadium renderings

thats probably a good thing then. from what i've read the NIL's that are in tricky situations are the ones who have been claiming they are non profits and donations can be written off on taxes

https://thatssotampa.com/zydeco-brew-werks-mosi-tampa/ Mosi is getting a brewery this summer

Anyone know if Fowler Ave is for profit or non-profit?

someone on a construction message board for Tampa claims there is a rumor there is a Vinik + Rays + Ybor play going on. Would make sense for why he'd need that much capitol freed up. Looks like it also came out yesterday Hillsborough is about to make the Rays a pitch about Ybor https://www.fox13news.com/news/hillsborough-prepared-to-make-offer-to-rays Getting an MLB team 20 minutes south of campus wouldn't be a bad consolation prize

thats what the press release said and i'm sure plays a part. But he also sold off a minority share in the Lightning this month estimated in the hundreds of millions. Liquidating that much money in 2 separate transactions within that short of a time could lead one to believe he has a play in mind to use that money. granted i'm not sure how or why USF would be involved

USF Receives Eight Proposals To Develop Forest Preserve Most of the plans include building apartments, hotels, and restaurants, but one hopes to preserve the land entirely. When they were looking at redeveloping the entire 770 acre area it was definitely revenue generators: The golf course is only around 150 acres I believe, but I'd bet on them having a similar strategy

I think the Claw was the one section of that land that could be developed: https://www.usforacle.com/2021/10/26/law-creates-advisory-committee-to-assess-development-of-usf-forest-preserve-the-claw/ An update on the USF golf course - FAQ University of South Florida

wonder if theres already plans for what its turning into

Any old timers remember what the hype around Leavitt was like when he was hired? Was that seen as a slam dunk at the time or a head scratcher?

Death comes in 3's right? This offseason we've lost Will @ 247 and now TDS. Maybe Baker's coverage of USF will be next.

These 2 really get me hype. For Amir people point to his record, but he's an even more extreme case of Willie have a losing record at USF with no context. His last 2 years there were the 2 best years in school history! Plus he had the best recruiting class in his conference after year 1 going 1-28. This dude has already pulled off a rebuild more improbable than turning around us will be, excited to follow the process. And as for Golesh turning over the roster. I LOOOOOVE that he is grabbing guys out of the portal with 1 year of eligibility. It felt like Jeff Scott was 100% focused on setting a culture so we'd be great "next year", always getting underclassman out of the portal and preaching progress on a rebuild. Based on Golesh's recruiting I think he is going for as many wins as he can from year 1, no "year 0" nonsense.

coaches were shown plans of the stadium Friday idk if that means anything in regards to when we'll get shown the plans, still wouldn't be surprised if its next month or next year

Splitting everyone out wiiiiiiiiiiiddddeeeeee and moving with tempo. Defense doesn't have time to set up between plays. they need to know going onto the field that drive if they're going to keep some guys stacked in the box and leave each receiver 1 on 1, or put more guys into coverage and leave an open box. The offense is just way too spread out to try and disguise it like you're doing both. The idea isn't pass happy, its to force the defense to leave a weakness each time that will be obvious to the QB by the time he's snapping the ball. Need a QB with a strong arm because the receivers route's will be so far away from the line of scrimmage regardless of if they are going deep or not. It makes zone defense almost impossible too, as that relies on a lot of backend communication which they just don't have time for in between plays. Bama tried this against Tennessee last year and thats why their coverage kept busting, Hyatt had 6 catches for 200+ yards and 5 TD's. Once Golesh finds a soft spot in the defense he hammers it like a video game player discovering a glitch. Weakness is if the other team can bring pressure with the down lineman and is better on the line of scrimmage. As then the advantages become moot points.

UCF gets 1.95 million a year for their stadium sponsor. If we get 2/3rds of that it would be about 1.30 million a year My idea was based on the fact Outback was paying 8 million dollars a year to sponsor the Outback Bowl, so we try to get them to sponsor a lower level bowl game for 2 million dollars a year at the OCS. Between those 2 contracts it would be the 3-4 million dollar range. I was combining them into 1 in my math. But I'm not even sure the bowl game sponsorship $$ goes to the owner of the stadium or the organizer of the bowl game so nvm