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Actually looks like some solid progress. I'm sure its no coincidence this was posted on the day the recruiting dead period ended

FSU noon game was a scorcher a few years ago. almost had a heat stroke after the rodney adams touchdown

We did have a 13 point lead on an 8-3 Memphis team with under 4 minutes to go. Also had the ball at midfield down 7 midway through the 4th against a solid UCF before Joiner fumbled away our momentum. Took talent to put ourselves in those situations. Hard to judge the season when we had games like ECU where 40 guys couldn't practice because of contact tracing that week.

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:2a51561e-1c15-44ad-b5b5-af41b0670d86#pageNum=1 Pretty detailed college football preview has us ranked 10/11 in the conference but mentions "Jeff Scott brought in plenty of talent to compete right away and elevate the Bulls in the conference." Also mentions us as the sleeper team for the conference. Reading the section on USF he seems to think we have the talent to compete and just couldn't put it together last year. Makes sense considering we had new coordinators on both sides of the ball in a covid year.

only way the fan split for this isn't embarrassing is if we can beat NC State week 1 to build some excitement

Pretty sure being an AAU member provides a school a lot more funding. Every Big 10 school except Nebraska is an AAU school, maybe if we got AAU status and averaged 45,000+ in attendance they'd look into a Florida footprint

Is NC State supposed to have a good defense or this is just a lack of confidence in our offense? Looks like they gave up 29 PPG last year

2020 was coming off an offseason with an entire new coaching staff and system but no offseason practices. Cade Fortin has looked a lot better this spring than any option we had at QB last year, and he's actually had practices to get in tune with his receivers. Lots of the big plays in the spring game were against solid coverage too, not just a blown play with a wide open receiver.

teams can be a little discombobulated week 1. hopefully its nc state and not us

Wish we had a place to donate to an on campus football stadium fund that updates with live numbers and shows a goal of what needs to be hit to start building. I've heard the argument that they don't want to start fundraising for it because it could cut into fundraising for other things. But I'd bet most casual fans would only donate if it was towards a stadium fund, and they just aren't donating to anything now. Just being able to watch the number go up would be encouraging too, think it would push people to just randomly drop money in. Instead of donating a bunch towards it and not knowing if 13% of fundraising is complete or 83% is complete.

That USF-Memphis game still frustrates me. Up 13 with 4 minutes to go and just play terrible situationational football. That was with Noah Johnson too. Thinking back to that game, Temple, UCF, even ECU (I think we had like half the roster not practicing that week) I think in a normal year with a normal offseason and normal practices we would have won 3/4 games last year.

circumstances out of his control has really hurt his start here. I'm still optimistic he can get us to the point were we are at least .500 every year and once every four years we have a team good enough to compete for a conference championship and make the tourney. Which for this program may be our ceiling. First season wasn't good but came on strong at the end, more promising than the lost years that came before. Second season won 24 games and the CBI. Looking to breakout that 3rd year but we lose Yetna right before the season and have a mediocre season. Year 4 is a covid year. Start 7-5, then miss a bunch of time to covid, then go 2-8.

16% chance at 6 wins...I'd say thats fair. I have a hunch we'll be 5-6 heading into the last week. @UCF with bowl eligibility on the line.

https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2021/04/06/usf-seeks-developer-ideas-for-700plus-acres.html?fbclid=IwAR13VA5ZeGz_5Wxfels107rNF1-jf3Kfkx23CwOqU_YTHhMmiW68kjk3Mtc Anyone know what this is about? Saw some students were making petitions. "We'll give you these 700 acres to develop if you build us a football stadium on part of it"

Also was curious what the exact number of this sellout will be. The fact they're calling it a "record" sellout makes me think it would be the most ever at a USF spring game.

Any word on if parking will be free? Tailgating allowed?

I'd love an on campus stadium as much as anyone, but while we suck things aren't as fun and thats something tangible we can point at and blame. But if that on campus stadium had just 25k fans in it and USF was losing by 3 scores to a G5 team the atmosphere would still be dull. If we can even just sustain Memphis's levels of success the last 7 years (floor of 8 wins and every 2-3 years win 10+ games and compete for a conference championship) we would consistently be pulling 45k fans into Ray Jay and game days would be a blast. The red seats don't suck as much when there are fans in USF colors to cover them.

Maybe I'm naive to how this all works but why doesn't USF have an on campus stadium fund to donate too? They estimated it at 240 million dollars in their study. Assuming you can get 40 million of that from rich alumni/sponsors when your close to the finish line, i'm sure there are plenty of alumni that would set up a recurring donation. Especially if you made it so each person who donated over 10k would get their name on a brick outside the stadium. It would probably take 10 years, but at this point if you told me we'd get a similar press conference for an on campus stadium in 2030 i'd be ecstatic.

When I was in grade school about 15 years ago there was a program called the JR Bulls Club. I think the deal was for any kid grades K-8 and for $25 they would get a ticket to each home game, and I want to say a free soda and popcorn to each game. The school probably didn't make that much money directly off it, but for each kid that young going there's likely a parent buying a full priced ticket to take them. Me and a few friends were a part of it growing up and as a result we all grew up USF fans over the Big 3. Because when your that age going to a game in person with your friends against UAB/Memphis/Whoever is more entertaining than watching an SEC game on TV at home. Would think it would be a good idea to bring it back as we aren't selling out anyway and this would just grow the fanbase. I got accepted into FSU/UF/UCF and chose USF over all of them because going to USF games growing up made me such a big USF fan I couldn't see myself at any other school. All I can find is this page from 2005: Junior Bulls Club - USF Athletics Junior Bulls Club

It's safe to assume the last game vs Notre Dame marked the end of an era in USF football. In the 5 years before that game we had beat Clemson, FSU, #5 WVU, #13 Kansas, Auburn, #7 WVU. Since then what is our best win? #21 Temple in 2015 that finished 10-4 and unranked? #22 Navy in 2016 that finished 9-5 and unranked? A 6 win P5 team in a bowl game? If I didn't know any better it would appear Notre Dame had Touchdown Jesus curse us in spite after we beat them. My prediction is they beat us in a game a little too close for their comfort (24-14), but it is enough in the end for them to break that curse. And we will go on to have success unseen at USF moving forward.

Started all 13 games this past season. Two time All-CUSA Honorable Mention offensive lineman. His offensive line coach at FIU just became our offensive line coach and he's from the area (New Port Richey).

Isn't this only the depth chart for this week? Maybe they are stratigizing differently this week than they will next.

Greg Reaves breaks out for 10 sacks. Mitchel Wilcox looks like Gronk against the AAC and declares for the draft a year early. The offense does better than last year because Barnett is a better fit than Flowers for this scheme.

The home town team who is a favorite for the championship in their respective sport had a home playoff game at the same time...I love USF football but lightnight playoffs > spring game.