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10 minutes ago, CousinRicky said:

Is there air conditioning in that club?  

https://snapdragonstadium.production.carbonhouse.com/assets/doc/Cox-Business-Club-9192b3a084.pdf

Here's the photos, guessing so

1 hour ago, Triple B said:

I've seen these "field level" clubs at other stadiums, pro and college, and just don't get it. The view has to be horrible ... doesn't it?

This is the view from Snapdragon Stadium's new field level club seats. Section C130 row 4, not a bad view at all

34 minutes ago, Brad said:

Students offer voice in on-campus stadium planning

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Select students were invited to a listening session on Tuesday to share their ideas and learn more about the plans for the on-campus stadium. Vice President of Athletics...

 

No additional parking is pretty wild and the first i've heard of that.

LOVE that they are including a restaurant in the stadium though. Will be big for having people in that area year round

The Wizard went to the focus group today and has been tweeting about it

• Seats will be a blend of bleachers/normal seats
• There will be shade, referencing the issues at Snapdragon Stadium
• A tailgating area will be prioritized

Dequan Stanley in the portal

Golesh sure is freeing up some scholarships. Hopefully to be used in the trenches

1 hour ago, Gatorbull325 said:

I feel he is better than the Coastal QB, but you can tell CAG has his favorites.

wonder if CAG has a preferred style he's looking for in his QB

Prioritize deep passing, mobility, etc

11 minutes ago, belgianbull said:

I don't think that will happen. My fear is that they will go the cheap route and built something similar to FAU. If that's the case I would rather have them wait a few more years, raise the money, and built it right.

No way they spend 22 million on the design phase then build a stadium that would have just cost 2-3 times that

6 minutes ago, John Lewis said:

Good call on the parking garages. I don't think it's a great idea to have the one on Sycamore.

One other thing that makes me think this rendering is not exactly legit is that the Operations building is on the North end of the Stadium. Everything I have heard suggests it will be closest to the practice fields and IPF. I'd be stunned if they changed this now.

Good point, another reason that doesn't make any sense is it really boxes in the stadium.

Its clear they want to leave the option open for further expansion in the future. If they build it like in the rendering you'd have no room to expand to the North of the stadium as well as the South/West sides being severely cramped with the IPF and Track. Hell even the North side doesn't have much room to expand without changing a road.

I agree this can't be too accurate

ESPN has us at 5-7 year 1. I'd take it

5 minutes ago, Dave_Glaser said:

Those TDS guys are just posers. One of them on the podcast (the dude always dropping F bombs) even admits he doesn't attend or watch most USF games, but he feels somehow qualified to comment? And their recruiting "coverage" and "scoops" are basically just generated by scouring Twitter - which any of us could do pretty well if we had the time or inclination. They have no sources at USF - just like our boy JK. 

this board breaks more scoops than TDS or 247 honestly. Never been on the rivals site so can't comment on that but Russ at least seems a lot more active than Will

3 minutes ago, John Lewis said:

That is the lake at Castor Beach. It's already there.

castor beach is there on the far left with the beach attached, i meant the one in between that and the stadium

2 minutes ago, Hem said:

Away team in the sun at all times 

 

from source it’ll most likely be an East/West orientation now though. 

Is that the football facility attached to the north side? Wasn't aware that was going to have another practice field

Also that lake across the street appears to be new. Looks like that area they're prepping to be a tailgate spot

22 hours ago, Jim Johnson said:

@FazaUSF and I were on the same session with about 20 others.  The ideas shared were basically everything we've heard here many times before.  Some highlights:

• Quite a lot of support for having a centralized tailgating location, while allowing people to tailgate across campus if they so choose.
  • This would allow for a return of the pregame walk for the team
  • It would also allow parts of the band to play for different tailgate areas (something they used to do)
• Shade! With more shade, people are more likely to remain in the bowl for more of the game
• Band - make it easy for them to get to and from the field, and account for instruments if they have a dedicate section
• Seat backs were important to a few people... but everyone said the students could use SRO or bench seating
• Ensure a enough concessions and bathrooms to avoid really long lines, and allow video/audio of the game when waiting
• Allow expanded access to the facility
  • A restaurant that could be open year around
  • Allow people to run/workout
  • Let student club sports use/rent the field
  • Design the acoustics to account for concerts

 

Did it seem like the shape/style of the stadium is decided, and these groups are to help them decide what bells and whistles to prioritize? Or are we pretty early in the design process and even the shape of the stadium is still being decided?

Spring Game Sees Capacity Crowd Enjoy Joyous Night of Football on Campus - USF Athletics

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More than 70 former players return as Bulls roll through final scrimmage of the spring.

4,000 people filled Corbett + the ones turned away.

Not bad for a spring game of a G5 team with 4 wins in the last 3 years. Pumped to see where this program will be with a stadium and a couple years to get some wins.

Just now, GoBulls84 said:

This is basically it. I'm sure it was going on long before, and it's more recency bias, but during the GOP primaries back ahead of the '16 election, we all decided we were cool with Trump and the other candidates trading middle school insults complete with dumb nicknames and d*** size comparisons. Political debate and discourse has completely devolved into absolute stupidity.

I think being able to argue on the internet is what made everything nose dive. 

If an interaction like this happens in person whoever's offended just shrugs it off or walks away because not everyone has to agree with everyone on everything. Easy to act high and mighty with your morals online, if you run around screaming in person about what the other guy just said and how everyone should be mad at him you'd look like a lunatic.

I guess I only saw one of his deleted tweets, but I don't really get the outrage (with any of it really, could care less what promotion a company is running and think this whole bud light "controversy" is stupid)

Really seems like he was making a joke that its a great time to work at Miller's Ale House because they are getting so much extra business with all the people boycotting Bud Light. 

2 hours ago, Triple B said:

I can only think of one ...... so hopefully there will be little to no sticker shock ******** when the prices come out.

Not sure how legit this site is but it was updated on March 30th and estimates it at 400 million. Has documents on the project that you need an account to see

1 hour ago, FazaUSF said:

11am

• Clemson has a graveyard where they put up tombstones of all the ranked road wins they have.
• Florida State has the sod cemetery, where they keep the sod from all their big wins.
• Ohio State has Buckeye Grove, where a tree is planted to honor a player everytime someone is a first team all american.

Things like this seem like an easy way to build tradition and have an area on campus people like to walk through on gameday. Not sure what our version could be. Maybe how we have those Bulls outside the MSC, every football player who is in the USF hall of fame gets a bull in an area outside the stadium dedicated to them? Pretty sure that list is just Anthony Henry, Blackwell, Selvie, and Flowers.

Don't need anything too much different than Baylor's stadium. Lots of seatbacks but also some bleacher seats for student/visitor sections. Shade setup around the entire stadium. A pretty large club section. A berm for big games when we want to pack in standing room tickets. There's is 45k, wouldn't take much to shrink its capacity by 5-10k if thats what we want.

http://stadiumdb.com/img/news/2022/03/05Alo01.jpg

Then take Hawaii's idea of extending the shade past the stadium to extend our shade past it in both sides giving the stadium the shape of the Bull horn logo from an aerial view. Put the gates below those extended shades so people are waiting in line covered from the conditions

Played the entire second half of the only FBS win in the Jeff Scott era.

Came in only up 17-14 and played mistake free allowing us to pull away. A big part of one of my only positive memories of USF football in the last few years

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Rahim will make $1.1 million in Year 1, with that figure increasing to $1.35 million the final year. His staff salary pool remains at $1 million the first two years, and ultimately tops out at $1.05 million.

Abdur-Rahim would owe USF $2 million if he departs before March 31, 2024. That buyout ultimately falls to $500,000 in the final year of the deal. If USF fires Abdur-Rahim without cause, the Bulls owe him 20 weeks of his $500,000 base salary.

Sounds cheap? 20 weeks of a half a million for us to buyout is chump change

31 minutes ago, Dave_Glaser said:

Sorry, but I can't put a lot of faith in the idea that a guy who's coached nothing but offense throughout his career watched tape of us and magically has all the answers to our defensive woes. I have a hard time buying that the Jimmys and Joes were all good and the only issue was the Xs and Os. I guess we'll find out, because right now we won't look a whole lot different, personnel-wise, from a year ago, with a few exceptions from the portal. 

In 2019 we had the 75th ranked defense, then immediately with most of the same Jimmy and Joes we became one of the absolute worst on that side of the ball under Jeff Scott for 3 straight years. 

Sure Golesh has coached nothing but offense, but that means he's still watching film on defenses trying to find weaknesses to exploit all the time. Its not out of the question he watched film on us and was able to find some major issues in terms of philosophy, X's and O's, etc.

3 minutes ago, Bull Awakening said:

Wow didn’t realize he was an assistant at UGA. Thought someone said he was at GaTech under CBG?

Never at GT. Was the lead recruiter to get Anthony Edwards to Georgia though

7 minutes ago, Dave_Glaser said:

With as few new defensive players as we brought in for 2023, can we afford to lose any at this point? And according to the recruiting sites, EVERY player committed thus far for 2024 is on offense - a QB, RB, OL and two WRs. Starting to wonder if we realize what's on the other side of the ball . . .  

Shortly after Golesh was hired he mentioned he watched tape on the team and had figured out what the problem was and had an exact plan in his interview with Kelly on how to fix that and turn things around.

So given these two facts:

• Our defense was atrocious no matter how you slice it. Anyone with eyes could tell you that was the big problem for this team.
• He didn't bring in that many defensive recruits

I think the problem on that side of the ball may have been as simple as struggling to get plays in on time and the defense being out of position at the time of the snap, rather than the personnel being worthless.