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Surprised ECU and Tulsa are so low, surprised FAU is so high. Does ECU return that QB?

There are no rules from preventing these situations playing out like this either: 1.) USF NIL collective actually raises 100k for Battie 2.) After spring practice Auburn still needs a RB, offer him 250k to transfer 3.) He takes it, now has 350k and USF fans just spent 100k on nothing Until there are some type of regulations around this it doesn't feel right breaking our entire NIL budget for a few players when they can just transfer anyway. I'd rather every player on the roster be getting 10k than the best 8 players getting 100k.

Wow assuming this is about Battie this changes my tune on NIL. If a 1-11 G5 team can't keep their leading running back without 250k I don't think we even try to keep our stars. We just have to spread it out so everyone on the roster gets a nice chunk of change and focus on the culture of the team and system the coach puts in place. Make everyone look like system players so its not a big deal to lose these guys

Camping World in Orlando and the Jags stadiums both revealed renovation renderings today. Both included roofs for shading.

We had the 75th ranked defense the year before Jeff Scott got here. Returned a bunch of top contributors from that side of the ball like Boyles, Nick Roberts, Bentlee Sanders, KJ, Grier, Smoke Davis, Yates, etc. Scott immediately then had the #122 defense the next year and players production on that side of the ball immediately dropped off a cliff or they were pushed to the portal for attitude reasons. Those that were went on to have great years elsewhere. The defense never showed improvement under his tenure. I maintain that Scott had no clue about situational football, scouting on defense, game prep on defense, etc. And replacing him with a new CEO for the program will show an immediate bump on that side of the ball. Attitude is so important on defense and Scott had no urgency or attitude to pass on to the players. Our defense I guarantee will be top 90 this year in points allowed just because we don't have that man leading the program anymore, if its not I pledge to donate the dollar equivalent to that ranking to USF athletics.

BOT agenda for 6/13 when they plan to approve the 200 million dollar debt plan just got posted. Mentions they are adding over 600 premium seats to the 2018 feasibility studies suggestion so they can offer a wider range of premium seat options. Also makes it seem like the rec field being moved work is starting ASAP this summer, but then later on keeps mentioning design work on the stadium started in October 2022 and construction for that project starts in October 2023.

The biggest brands of both those conferences, the Big 12 scoops up the best leftovers. Then the remaining teams from the PAC and ACC grab the top of the MWC and AAC to make some conference like this is the most likely outcome i've seen.

Frequently Asked Questions | Future USF On-Campus Stadium FAQ mentions future expansion is going into the planning

Northwestern is building a new stadium that has 35k capacity so that may not be an issue

Taking out 200 million in debt to build an OCS is

Saw Hillsborough County is the #1 destination for people moving out of Illinois from 2009-2013. Looks like most people in the Midwest move down 41 to the St Pete/Tampa/Sarasota area while most people from the Northeast move to the Atlantic coast of Florida

Was thinking about this. We should just focus on a Miami rivalry moving forward Both AAU schools with similar emphasis on the med schools, both cities have a similar food culture, both fanbases understand the struggle of playing in a huge NFL stadium far from campus. Our helmet logos are pretty similar to make for cool graphics. 2 biggest media markets in the state. We already play them in 2024, 2025, and 2028. After that there will be 9 total matchups and they'll be one of the teams we've played the most in our history

Anecdotally, going to a Packers/Bears vs Bucs game or that Wisconsin @ USF game in 2019 shows you how many midwesterners are in the area. For any of those cases there ends up being 20-30k fans from the other team. Pics from that 2019 game show that a bit. In the Tampa Bay area there are 10+ Packers bars

I saw a good analogy: US News rankings are like Yelp while getting an AAU membership is like getting a Michelin star.

Looks like Western Kentucky had to replace about 90% of their defensive 2-deep from last year. Could turn this into a shootout

FSU is not AAU. As for passing them in academic public perception that probably wouldn't happen unless we pass them in the US news rankings as a top 25 public university. Those rankings are flawed but a lot of kids use them when applying for schools

Tampa Bay business leaders, community partners share excitement in USF’s AAU membership The world’s brightest faculty, staff and students are historically known to gravitate to AAU universities located in metropolitan areas. Tampa Bay business and community...

How NIL has changed college football’s facilities arms race “You can build whatever stadium you want. If there’s no players in it, it doesn’t matter.”

**** hadn't even thought of that. September 16th is around the time we should see them. Why not break them out when playing at 3:30 on ABC.

only issue as a fan would be a lot of late starts. When we played at BYU a few years ago it was a 10:15 EST start time.

Not likely at all. I'd put USF to the Big 10 by 2040 at a 1% chance. But if you'd have asked me in 2021 what are the odds USF is an AAU member and playing in an on campus stadium in 5 years I would have put that at a 0% chance.

looks like quite a few schools above us aren't AAU too. Curious to see where we end up in the first rankings after this

Top 25 Public University is one goal I've heard we have. With how much debt we have for the stadium a consistent athletic department has to be a goal. You can't give the Jeff Scott's year 3's when you have to be selling enough tickets to pay off the stadium.

FSU/Clemson/UNC/VT to SEC Miami/ND/UVA/ ends up in the Big 0 along with some west coast schools USF and UConn join with Pitt, Syracuse, Louisville, NC State, Wake, BC, Duke, and Georgia Tech to form...The New Big East. 9 game conference schedule in football, playing each team in the conference. Merge with the Big East in basketball like the old days to have a super basketball conference with the tourney in MSG