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Coach Dugans says Chase Whitehead playing well, leads catch-drop chart in spring, was 33-33 through first 8 practices

 

We (wide receivers) fit this offense better, I feel really good - Wr Ryeshene Bronson

Nice to hear some good things about the receivers.

Hopefully we can be 10,000 strong for this. I don't care about the circumstances (home ncaa tournament game + free tickets), filling up an arena the size of the Sun Dome for a woman's basketball game would be a great thing for this program.

Recruits in non revenue sports would love to come to a program that can create an atmosphere like that for sports not including mens basketball and football.

This is an INSANE opportunity. Tell everyone you know. Hopefully this is campaigned to all the students really well tomorrow.

If Auggie Sanchez is on the level to be picked before Nigel Harris I'd say our linebackers are in good shape for this 4-2-5.

Theyre starting to pick the teams between 3 and 5 today. The coaches can each pick 1 offensive and defensive player, who do you think will get taken and who would you take?

Could be a sign if Flowers is taken early, or at the very least give him some confidence.

I'm really confident in this defense, as long as we can have at least an average scoring offense and get like 28 PPG (would have ranked 72nd nationally last year) we will probably win at least 7 or 8 games and go bowling. 

Flowers winning the job would be huge, as long as it means he stepped up and its not based off the fact everyone else was hot garbage.

 

Is it just me or do our linebackers...Sanchez and Harris look small? I think back to when we had barrington, Moffit, lattimore, other guys they were all big guys

Sanchez is 10 pounds heavier than DD was his senior year.  He played last season at 240.  He's literally one of the bigger inside LBs we've had at USF 6'3 245... Moffitt played is senior season at 6'2 245.  I think Auggie will be better this season than last.  He was a redshirt freshman starting in the middle, and play decent.  Harris at 6' 220 isn't much different than a lot of OLB we've had at USF.  Sam was starting at 225, though he did get up to 230 as a senior.  Our LBS actually look pretty similar to those we had under CJL... which makes me happy.

 

I've had a chance to see a few practices now and the biggest thing I'm coming away with is we are going to have a great defense.  From what I see, Flowers is improving a lot.  He seems to be getting comfortable and seeing his ability to break contain and move... he should make some plays with his legs and I'm actually coming around on his passing.  He can run this offense.  To be honest, this looks like an old USF team.  Guys are flying around on the defense and we run a spread offense based around a running QB.  Because make no mistake, the QB who runs this system needs to be able to run.

 

Mack and Tice have been doing about what I expected.  I haven't seen a lot out of the WRs.  I mean there have been some flashes but to be honest, they are going against a nickel every down and the defense us ahead of the offense.

 

The offensive line... well... the number 1's do OK sometimes.  I think we should be able to muster up a pretty decent OLine this year once everyone is here and healthy.  Bethel coming in, Brynar, Thor, Djbulkavic (I have no clue as to how to spell his name), Ruff, Hall, Thor, Knox, Galati, Smith... we will be decent.  I predict we will look a lot like USF did when Leavitt first left... likely win 7 or 8 games and make a bowl.  The difference between now and then I think will be this team will embrace the read option.  Leavitt never actually based his system on that.  The offense seemed to be winging it a lot back then, IMHO. 

 

If we can have a season like that it would be huge. We NEED a bowl game this year to help with recruiting, Taggart's job stability, and give the fans a reason to come to the games.

Flowers to Wilson on a 40 yard touchdown, apparently the quick pace caused a hole in the defense. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come.

Had BJ Daniels never gotten hurt(only 374 yards away) he'd likely be the Big East's all time leader in total yards over guys like Grothe, Pat White, and McNabb. To say he shouldn't have been a QB here is idiotic.

Anybody stepping up at WR and Oline? If we can get a few guys to really improve there it will make whoever plays QB's job a hell of a lot easier since those positions look pretty weak now.

Forget UConn. Let's play them first round. Lots of beaten people before the jump ball. Wow!

Way to go CJF and WBB. Saturday night at home in a tourney game. Can we get 5K to show up?

Is it in the Amalie Arena or Sun Dome?

2 home games to kick off the tournament and hopefully 2 to end it.

Each game has gotten closer, 4th times the charm with UCONN?

The single elimination is what makes the NCAA Tournament March Madness IMO. They'll never change it.

Was he even on the 2 deep?

Hoping either Flowers, Bench, or White really starts to pull away as the undoubted top QB on the roster before the season starts. 

That game of QB roulette Willie played last season won't get it done. We need consistency and I really hope its Flowers, I really think he has the potential to lead a dynamic argument.

We need someone to graduate and invent a Nike level company and get our own Phil Knight

Peters, McMurray, Tulio, and Luis Santo's are all good enough to get minutes next year imo.

I'm not that worried, a guard rotation of AC, Holston, Peters, Dinero, and McMurray would allow are guys to run.

Then have guys like Ziegler, Morrilo and Tulio in the small forward position.

Then with Guerrero, Perry (hopefully), and Santos holding down the paint we should be good enough to not worry about Cousins or Clayton ever seeing the floor.

Cousins and Clayton are terrible. Can't see them being on the team next season. 

Are the two white guys  (Bodway and David i think) on scholarship btw?

If only our game vs UCF was how we will play every game going forward, then I would actually be excited for the conference tournament games ahead. Could you imagine if we suddenly got hot with Zeigler, Holston, & Morillo all scoring over 15 every game and we dominate the boards, upsetting every team we face. We end up winning the tournament and getting the auto bid into the NCAA tournament after such a miserable season. Lol the dream scenario that will not play out, we lose game 1 or game 2 at best in our tournament.

Thats the dream.

Hypothetically, if this were to somehow happen, what seed do you think we would get in the tournament?

The first game of the year usually has a full student section as all the new kids want to check out some college football and everybody else missed tailgating. 

If we can be lucky enough to get good weather and build a nice first half 4 touchdown lead there will be a nice fun atmosphere in the Ray-J and really help set the tone for student interest the rest of the year. We need to win by 40+, 3rd year for Taggart no excuses.

Nextt year we will be loaded with talented underclassmen. I feel like the 2016-2017 season will officially mark the end of the rebuild and we will be contending for an NCAA tournament bid.

Luis Santos (FR)

Tulio Da Silva (FR)

Jahmal McMurray (FR)

Ruben Guerrero (SO)

Bo Zeigler (SO)

Troy Holston JR (SO)

Roddy Peters (SO)

Assuming Dre Clayton (SO) and Dinero Mercurius (SO) transfer.

Holston has been on fire lately and already has 14-6 this game.

Collins - Peters - Holston should be a great guard trio next year. Hopefully Antigua gets the guys he needs to run his system, if Perry can get healthy I could see us improving to almost .500 in conference play.

Without Allen and Perry. If we can keep this up all game and prove this run isnt a fluke it would give some nice hope for next season.

 

...  said Taggart, who points out that 75 percent of the roster has turned over since he took the USF job. ...

 

This is an important statistic to keep in mind... one that will be more important in the fall will be:

 

How many players on the 2-deep were "recruited" under Holtz?  My guess is out of the 50 or so players on the 2-deep... maybe 5 will date back to the Holtz era...

 

How is that compared to last season? Because if the past 2 seasons have mainly been Holtz's guys in the 2 deep then that could be a reason for the lackluster play and maybe we have something to look forward to this year?

If only football and mens basketball were as good as mens golf and womens basketball

DE Demetrius Hill not on the roster currently according to Joey Knight, taking care of something personal apparently.