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1 hour ago, belgianbull said:

Exactly right. In basketball there should be no muti year rebuilds  All it takes to be competitive is to recruit 2 to 3 very good players.  If we don't win  at least 14  games next season there will be no excuses.

Recruiting has been subpar so far. But there is still time. Haynes and Udeh would be good pick ups

Udeh is visiting Duke. He is a level of recruit we have no chance at

G: Selton Miguel (6'4 210), Jose Placer (6'1 174)
G: Chris Youngblood (6'4 218), Kasen Jennings (6'3 202)
F: Brandon Stroud (6'6 200), Kobe Knox (6'5 195)
F: Kasean Pryor (6'10 200), Sam Hines (6'6 215)
Corey Walker (6'8 215), Daniel Tobiloba (7'0 238)

Is this the full roster at the moment?

Hillsborough again seeks to redevelop MOSI property

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A prior effort to put a mixed-use project on the site stalled in 2020.

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Hillsborough County-owned land surrounding the Museum of Science and Industry on Fowler Avenue could someday be home to mixed-use development including housing, an entertainment venue, hotel, movie studio and technology and life-science businesses with high-wage jobs.

That is the hope of the Hillsborough Commission, which on Wednesday took the first step to again seek a private company to redevelop the 74-acre site, home to the science museum known commonly by the acronym MOSI.

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The project would be part of a larger and sustainable high-tech district covering 19 square miles between Interstates 275 and 75 and from Bearss Avenue to Busch Boulevard.

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The commission unanimously approved his motion directing county staff to develop a timeline and recommend what could be included in the redevelopment.

This was over 2 months ago now, wonder when we'll hear about the timeline.

1 hour ago, panchosanchez99 said:

Also, a lot of big name players entered the portal in the last week, including lots of centers. These were 4-star recruits who did not get a lot of playing time last year. Will Shaver at UNC, Ernest Udeh at Kansas, Isaiah Miranda at NC State, Mohamed Keita at St. John's, and more. Not saying that we have a shot at any of these four, but because of the large number in the portal, I think we have a shot to find us a legitimate starter.

I wouldn't get my hopes up. I don't think Amir really prioritizes a true center. Last year he had a 9 man rotation and the biggest guy was 6'8 264. Brandon Stroud at 6'6 200 was the 3rd biggest guy in his rotation.

Must preach fundamentals as they still we're great at not allowing offensive boards, 87th percentile in the nation at that. That even held up when playing power teams. 

Against Xavier they had 10 offensive boards and let up 4.

Against Florida they had 11 offensive boards and let up 6.

Against VCU they had 14 offensive boards and let up 8.

Against Indiana they had 4 offensive boards and let up 5.

Playing smaller allows them to have better perimeter defense too, their opponents had one of the worst assist/turnover ratios in the country. That combination of forcing the opposition to create off the dribble and not allowing extra possessions by boxing out is especially deadly when you're smaller and quicker and can capitalize by pushing the pace the other way and catching the defense out of position. Not a coincidence they we're in the 92nd percentile in the country at drawing fouls.

13 minutes ago, goingbackbull said:

It blows my mind how many guys transfered out signed with P 5 schools.    Jeff Scott is even worse of a coach then I thought

Grier -> Arkansas

Horn -> Colorado

Shrader -> Notre Dame

Long -> Georgia Tech

Mangham -> Michigan State

Weaver -> Colorado

Hall -> Duke

Battie -> Auburn

Kelly -> Georgia Tech

You're spot on, a team with that much talent and a good QB to go along with it shouldn't be going 1-11. This is one of the big reasons I'm optimistic for Golesh. I think we had the talent to make a bowl game on the roster last season, Jeff Scott was just ******* clueless with game prep, game management, situational football, etc.

90% of the games in his tenure felt like we'd come out totally unprepared and go down 2-3 scores immediately. Then the players would keep fighting and give us reason for optimism, until the same exact thing happened the next week.

This is the Metropolitan, already under construction slated to open in August 2024. Directly across the street from the University Mall. Will add housing for 760 students just half a mile from campus.

Posting these to show a lot of progress is already underway with this project. The area between the interstate and campus really could look entirely different by the time that on campus stadium opens. 

New 61 unit apartment building just finished. Scheduled to open next month. Just off the interstate on Fletcher 1.5 miles from Campus

Further North Nebraska on the old Grand Prix site the foundation is already being prepared for this apartment complex. This is just 2.5 miles from campus and should help the areas curb appeal, granted the Grand Prix is one thing I'm sad to see go from suitcase city

This apartment building just broke ground in March on the Northwest corner of Nebraska/Busch across the street from New World Brewery. While not much it is just 3 miles from campus in an area traditionally looked at as sketchy so this helps more than another used car lot.

Curious to see how Colorado does with a lot of players only having fall practice to learn the system and gel.

Richard Johnson from Sports Illustrated said a Pac 12 coach told him even before all the players just left after their spring game they have by far the worst roster in the P5 right now. At the moment they only have 5 total defensive lineman and 1 is a true freshman. Teams are going to just run all over them.

Also him bringing in all this talent and declaring open competitions at every position except the one his son plays at is going to be a huge issue in that locker room if his son strings together a few mediocre performances.

30 minutes ago, belgianbull said:

100 percent agree with this post. I doubt that Kennesaw State last year finishes much higher then us in the AAC, so A Sun talent is not going to do if we want to crack the top 7 next year. There is plenty of time still left to recruit until the season starts so I hope he can get some quality players to come to USF through the transfer portal. All it takes is two or three quality players. He needs to find players of the quality of  Harris. Hope he can get it done, but so far ( still early though) I am not impressed.

Probably right. In Kenpom last year:

#102 Wichita State (17-15)

#103 Tulane (20-11)

#120 Temple (16-16)

#123 Kennesaw St (26-9)

#145 USF (14-18)

16 minutes ago, flsportsfan83 said:

Just signed Daniel Tobiloba. Looks like his only offer per 247 was Kennesaw State. Not thrilled on this one. Would have assumed this new coach would have some success recruiting players other than the ones he had joining the ASUN. Talent here needs to be better as we are not in the ASUN. 

 

Hated the hire on day 1, was excited after he got his best 3 guys to follow him. That being said, Kennesaw won a bad conference and played a tight game in the NCAAT. Thats the only accomplishment of this staff coming in. We are in the AAC and need some higher recruits. 

I get what you're saying and don't necessarily disagree. But with this guy in particular he is 7 feet tall and shredded which is insane for an 18 year old.

Replaces Dok as our project 7 footer on the roster. But Dok was only 200 pounds, this dude is already 240!! With his size we just need to get him the confidence to play aggressive and he can get Russ type numbers

10 minutes ago, USF_Bullsharks said:

That is pretty neat. Does that mean the coaching staff did the reading of the defense and audibles from the sidelines... since they aren't crediting Hooker?  Only told him to make the throws...?

From my understanding the Golesh offense focuses on utilizing the extra wide hashes in college to space everything out and create a bunch of 1 on 1 matchups all over the field. Then they figure out the weakness of the defense they are playing and any mismatches that may play to their advantage, and then just spam the **** out of it in a hurry up offense so they don't have time to adjust.

Not only did Hooker not have to scramble or look past his first read, his first read would be wide open most the time. Even against Alabama. When Hyatt had 6 catches for 5 touchdowns and 207 yards vs Bama I think only 1 of those catches was contested, every other time he was just running free wide open against a Saban defense.

35 minutes ago, Cubanbull said:

I know everyone will be watching him at Colorado. He is now over 50 transfers including a player that transferred in from JSU following him. That’s a lot of players to replace and as we all well know the Transfer Portal is roulette 

Make that 2 players now that he had transfer in this offseason only to process out later this offseason.

47 minutes ago, puc86 said:

Once Boise builds an OCS and starts winning they are stone cold locks for getting called up…

Looking into the Boise metro area its wild how much potential USF has if we can just lock down the gulf coast as Bulls country.

Boise has the #75 metro market in America. Bradenton is  #70, Ft Myers is #77, and Lakeland is #80.

While it didn't always end well, our first 4 hires all got the team into the top 20 at some point in their tenures.

Really not hard to win here. Any school being able to say 80% of their coaches have appeared in the AP poll at the school would be impressive, let alone a G5 team.

Here's to hoping Golesh can prove Scott to be an anomaly.

8 hours ago, Gatorbull325 said:

Maybe he is trying to keep his offense concealed. I dont think its personal. 

Its practice tape from before Deion got there so it would be an entirely different offense. Its now coming out on twitter that he's doing this to other players too and the only transfers out that have their film got it on their phones before Deion got there

Glad we didn't pay $30 million for this experiment

Deion isn't even giving the guys transferring out their film to send other schools. If the plan is to win 3/4 games he'll lose some of his shine and **** like this will hurt him with the new recruits

1 minute ago, Peatearpan said:

So, assuming we had 105 players rostered, we have had somewhere around 20-25% players turnover since CAG. CU has had 40-45%?
 

That is insane 

If we count graduating players I think our roster turnover is currently around 38-45%. At the rate of things after spring it feels like we could have 50% roster turnover year 1.

28 minutes ago, jjlovecub said:

I agree. 40,000 seems like a much better number. I would be curious the cost differential to go from a 35,000 seat stadium to a 40,000

35k seats, with a huge berm in one endzone and enough standing room only to allow 40k capacity seems like the perfect compromise.

30-35k will feel like a full house and it'll be easy to have a great atmosphere to get students to keep coming back. But then for big games we could accommodate the extra demand

Michael Brown-Stephens Stats | ESPN

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Latest on Minnesota Golden Gophers wide receiver Michael Brown-Stephens including latest updated stats on ESPN

This guy committed to us.

Had a total of 730 yards over the last 2 years (17 games) at a Big 10 school.

3 minutes ago, Peatearpan said:

How many transfers out do we have since CAG got here?

I think I counted 22 since Thanksgiving

4 minutes ago, Peatearpan said:

Will Joiner have to make a permanent move to Slot?

we just got another WR commit yesterday. Guessing this is Golesh freeing up roster spots for better receivers than guys who get 2 catches on a 1 win team.

Between the transfer portal and graduation I think we now have close to 40 players gone off last years roster. Not saying we'll be good year 1, but if we we we're this is how we'd turn over the roster.

Looks like that makes FIU the OCS opener

11 minutes ago, I like GOOOOLD (and green) said:

Oh I agree the price is in line with actual costs today for what we’re looking for.  What I’m saying is take the list of what people are looking for that was circulating a few pages back and basically cross off all those items and circle back with with the Tulane or fau scale of project…this is the likely path from here.  We aren’t getting a stadium with 400mil-type amenities even with donors contributing way more than they have already.  

I'd entertain this if they didn't approve 22 million to design the stadium. You don't spend that much designing a 100 million dollar bare-bones stadium. The board approves that if they know they can build a 350-400 million dollar stadium