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BB came to play - currently 6 for 6 and 54 yards. Nice work.

The ‘empty butts in the seats’ argument for relocating from StP was incredibly overstated. It’s expensive to move teams and the Rays new it. Plus butts in seats for a team don’t account for much Truth is empty seats or attendance has very limited effect on the bottom line. In aggregate, an MLB team’s ticket sales only account for ~30% of total revenue. Luxury box sales are a part of this 30% and is what really influences the bottom line and casts the greatest financial shadow. Somewhere between 5-20% of TOTAL revenue are now represented solely by luxury box ticket sales and a lesser and lesser fraction of the bottom line is contributed by the average MLB seat. The Rays got their new stadium and ultimately what they were really after- new luxury boxes. Glad to see it get done.

Well said. +1M. MK is telling you who he is, listen USF.

MK has 24 months and is on an ultra short leash and like it or not so is Golesh after these last years of gross negligence and deplorable USF football performance. USF fans largely gave MK and coach Scott an ‘innocent before guilty’ approach but now both MK and Golesh are overtly on a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ standing with the fan base with good solid reasons to support it. They’ve literally got 24 months in my mind to put out this dumpster fire. My personal odds are 3:1 both Golesh and MK get flushed with a full revamp leading into the OCS timing and effort. For me, MK proved his worth with these last 3 or so coaching searches. People try and tell you who they are and what they’re about and worth, whether you choose to listen is one thing. MK has been consistent telling and showing us, if nothing else. Guilty until proven innocent means, fan attrition will continue IMO. They’ve held out long enough in their mind and won’t come back until there is a product on the field to not be grossly embarrassed about. Let’s be honest fans aren’t asking USF for much more than ‘please give me a reason to take the brown bag with the eyes cut off of my head’ at USF games. Until then, you’ll continue to see fewer continued circular conversations about the ‘value of a coach’, value of intangibles, etc like the pass that Scott received for 3 years. No more circular conversations and mental masturbation about anything other than performance. Wins and losses matter and taking this virtual brown bag off our heads matters and nothing else. Put up or shut up MK. You’d have been fired in virtually any other field for this horrible performance.

My goodness this rabbit hole again- I’ve got to believe even at my own dismay that Mike Kelly actually formally asked if Golesh actually knows how to coach this time (see x-Scott)?

Mike Kelly honestly revealed how grossly unprepared he was for this coaching selection and this moment. Instead of actually acquiring a coach, he acquired a reputation for being ill prepared for the big moment. When he’s not getting caught up in being enamored by coaching lineage instead of more important things like failing to ask if the coach can actually ‘coach’ (see Antigua and Scott) he’s being outgamed by a SWAC (Southwestern Athletic Conference) coach who playing him like a puppet. This is probably an argument that the SWAC or less is where he belongs.

Recruitment would have been rocketed into another mode IMO. That said, Prime has yet to really face formidable competition be it veteran coaches or similar quality DI players. I wasn’t sold on this Prime move either. It felt a bit like we were chasing ‘lore’ again like we did with x-Antigua or x-Scott. Victory through association doesn’t work. How about victory through fundamentals, high quality execution and wildly being detail oriented and instilling this ethic. No doubt Prime gets set back when he’s forced to play a legitimately talented team. Let him ride the wave until then. Congrats Prime, now go out and show us your true ‘Taggart’.

I would have been impressed with a Herman hire, no doubt.

Fully agree- there are others out there who have incredible potential not named Chadwell. Truth is most of us follow teams and not coaches or coaching pedigrees to know who has the likelihood for success. After all, who following CJL’s announced hire replied ‘oh this guy will take us to #2 in the nation’. Certainly not me

See respectfully, this is where I think a little differently. While i would love to be enamored by a hire from a ‘respected’ conference, it’s not critical in my mind. Conference lineage is important but not essential and at the cost of everything else to a USF HC hire. Being effective at one’s job is far more critical than former conference lineage. If USF’s former coaching hire gaffs, Antigua and Scott aren’t the purest example of this, then there isn’t one. Also, Prime was about far away from meaningful conference lineage as there is.

I don’t see a substantive amount of chatter about Chadwell, seems like this is where we’re headed IMHO

Now that Deion is dust, have we conflated the ‘Chadwell is absolutely not coming to USF’ story a bit? Why exactly has Chadwell’s name fallen off from USF so much?

You’re seriously kidding, right? (Insert dumpster fire gif)

This is done. Anyone arguing anything else isn’t looking. He should be fired. Talking around it in circles is losers fodder. Fire Scott now.

Agreed. Explaining Scott’s failures are a failure in search of an explanation. He is USF’s worst coach by any objective analysis in USF’s history. It will take his firing for some of you to acknowledge it but trust me, we’ll get there.

1-21 and there are still ‘Branch Davidian’ style adherence to this joke of a coach after 3 years. I’m literally choking laughing and crying at the same time that people log into this MB to defend the 4% winning record. Burn it down, Waco style.

Sorry fellas that I accidentally abbreviated then duplicated my post trying to fix it.

The law of unintended consequences of this hyperopic consolidation of big school names is that while intending to pool the ‘big money’, they neglect to acknowledge the negative influence of unpairing decades of intermediate football rivalries attempt to disrupt the Goliath (Duke vs FSU, et al). An attempt to only pool the perennial schools underscores the power brokers misunderstanding of the essential cog that makes the NCAA system appeal to so many outside of Austin and Gainesville. The lack of David vs Goliath stories will have a greater effect than they give credit to. Seeing only the big winners play each other will be attract many, though over time the elimination of the chance an up and coming to excel against a Goliath is essential in the NCAA system of appeal and will tire the average consumer. America likes the undergoes- always has. I believe this missing key element will eventually come at a cost. Most in the US don’t watch college football from Ann Arbor, Gainesville, Austin or Big Bend. Instead the majority of college football is watched from an aggregate of places like Boise, Duluth, Memphis and Lubbock. Over time this will result in a greater cost than originally intended IMO. The MLB recognized this aggregate value in the 1990’s when they instituted revenue sharing nearly 3 decades ago with great success. College football has decided to go instead into left field by aggregating the equivalent of LA Dodgers, Yankees and Astros into a single division. It will blow up in their face- not immediately, but slowly over time through apathy and attrition. Even the MLB recognized this.

The law of unintended consequences of this hyperopic consolidation of big school names is that while intending to pool the ‘big money’, they neglect to acknowledge the negative influence of unpairing decades of intermediate football rivalries attempt to disrupt the Goliath (Duke vs FSU, et al). An attempt to only pool the perennial schools underscores the power brokers misunderstanding of the essential cog that makes the NCAA system appeal to so many outside of Austin and Gainesville. The lack of David vs Goliath stories will have a greater effect than they give credit to. Seeing only the big winners play each other will be attract many, though over time the elimination of the chance an up and coming to excel against a Goliath is essential in the NCAA system of appeal and will tire the average consumer. America likes the undergoes- always has. I believe this missing key element will eventually come at a cost. Most in the US don’t watch college football from Ann Arbor, Gainesville, Austin or Big Bend. Instead the majority of college football is watched from an aggregate of places like Boise, Duluth, Memphis and Lubbock. Over time this will result in a greater cost than originally intended IMO.

Agreed.

Historically some poor choices by USF but also some bad timing and bad luck. Timing remains critically important. USF football remained largely on its back when it needed to be appealing, high performing and wildly successful during realignment discussions. The fact that this realignment stream is 80% nonsense, noise or impotent bickering amongst Bulls reveals exactly where we are.

Pretty place- though as most places prices for lakefront are awfully expensive. My wife and I have discovered this this year as we have been in search for a place. Good luck in your search Rocky.

You too. My wife and I as I think I previously mentioned to you years ago used to live in Boston- now were in St Pete, however, are currently in Gilford, NH, for the summer, in the Lakes Region (wife grew up here)- not terribly far from you! Here just for the summer on Lake Winni- beautiful place, to be sure. Used to shiver at the UCONN FB games watching our Bulls sometimes win. Never been to Amherst but have driven past many times on 93 on my way from Boston.

That matters. A ton.