adphill2

I get what your saying and it is 100% true but to compare a team that has been in the bottom of Conference USA and another from the bottom of MWC to teams in the ACC over that same time frame is a little nutty too.. I'm not saying that SMU and Tulane are comparible to Virginia and Boston College but to say that can improve or haven't shown in improvement since joining the AAC is a little nutty as well. Tulane although still a dormat right now does seem to be improving and their coach is doing well in building that team up. SMU although putrid on defense does seem to be developing some offense and have been good in the past and were a bowl team there at the end of their CUSA days. UCONN has played much better than they did in years past and seem to be improving as well. No our bad teams aren't as good as the middle tear bad teams of other conferences but I'd take UCONN over Oregon St, Kansas, Vanderbilt, and Wake Forest and I wouldn't have last year. You could even look at USF this year we're a much better team than last year and has only added depth to the conference. I'd say that the AAC has 3 really good teams (Memphis, Temple, Houston), 4 decent teams that could hang with the middle of the pack teams in most other conferences (excluding the SEC) in USF, Navy, ECU, Cincy, and 5 bad but improving/potential to improve Teams in UCF, Tulsa, UCONN, SMU, and Tulane. Yes coaches could leave but name a conference that hasn't had coaches leave for other programs, even the vaunted SEC had a guy leave to go to Penn State. That happens but like UCF sucking this year we need another team to rise to the top or for them to make a good hire so they can stay successful, like Houston did this year and Temples rise from middle of the pack to pretty good this year. Our biggest problem and what keeps us from being a "power 6" conference is our lack of great teams, lack of a consistently winning team, lack of revenue, lack of recruiting against the big boys, and our lack of history of success. But with all of those problems we still have 3 ranked and undefeated teams that will be in the conversation for a playoff series if they can stay undefeated.

Actually that was my breaking point as well.. I was furious after that. People tried to argue that Bench was coming because he was a better passer and we needed to score quickly.. It made no sense.. I hated that move. Glad he's been able to rebound from it and really was able to open up the offense a little more after the Memphis game.

At 65 dollars (+100 dollar donation) this is by far the best deal at USF.. Watching a top 20 WBB team in the Sun Dome is going to be a blast this year.

+1 and to add to this.. They asked for play calling mistakes not personnel management.. The only woefully bad call in the game was the trick play when your up by 17 pts and your right outside of FG range.. outside of that there were very few if any bad play calls in the last game. Much of the issues was lack of execution by TE/WRs and production from Tice and Johnson..

I worry about time of possession.. We are not a very good time of possession team anyway and with their constant flow of cut blocks and run plays our defense could get worn out by the fourth qtr. Thankfully we're playing this at the end of October and not August when we'd be battling the heat too because I don't trust our offense to be able to keep their offense off the field. Even if we're close if we don't maintain some type of equality in time of possession we're going to get tired and their going to eat us up by the end of the game.

That would be awesome.. and we could swallow the leftovers along with the PAC.. #dreaming

This is shaping up to be pretty interesting.. Say Memphis wins out, Houston only loses against Memphis, Temple wins against ND and their only losses come to Memphis twice that would give Memphis 4 quality wins, Ole Miss, Temple 2x, and Houston. I'd say that's comparable to most of the title contenders outside of the inflated SEC ranking bs.

I don't know, I'd be willing to forgive Taggart if we fall a part against Houston, That'd mean we're in the AAC championship game..