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29 minutes ago, DJBulls said:

Barnett has also been playing qb for roughly 37 years...McCloud payed qb for really 1 full season in high school...he is still developing...that is why I think he may still make a push for playing time...

LOL to think a guy in such a football obsessed family has only been playing for one year. Sorry man, but you are dead wrong. McCloud has never shown to be able to throw like Barnett has

41 minutes ago, DJBulls said:

He showed promise...don't be shocked if you see him get snaps at least early on when we start playing...

Barnett is better than McCloud

1 hour ago, NewEnglandBull said:

This comment is the biggest fail in the history of the Bulls Pen Message Board...

Willie and Jim are the legends here. They have never failed us. 

1 hour ago, Gatorbull325 said:

FAU beat FIU last year and won the C-USA title last year. They had a nice team last year and they have a nice team this year. This is Taggart's first time starting off with a "good" team. And his first recruiting class at FAU is ranked#1 in CUSA with a 4 Star QB that happens to be Deon Sanders son....and Jim Levitt running the defence, but yup...they will suck for the next 3-4 years

FAU is going to smoke USF big time and I'm going to be a little happy about it. Willie and Jim are the legends man. USF fan first and always, but that is a side team for me this year. 

I disagree with Barnett being disappointing. Obviously hes nowhere near QF, Grothe, BJ. 

Look he lead the team to being undefeated his first year before he and Sawtelle got hurt. His second year came out flat vs Wisconsin and a lot of the early games, but who on offense didnt come out flat?? I saw our linemen on both sides getting manhandled, WRs dropping the ball constantly, and a deflated coach. 

Was Barnett awesome? No. But I'm not going to call someone disappointing when he was better than your average AAC QB. Unless the disappointing part comes from always being hurt. That I can agree with. I'll say I think Barnett is miles ahead of McCloud still. 

5 hours ago, BDYZR said:

Not down voting you, just the jerseys 

I think that usually gets a Leavitt no likey

On 8/17/2020 at 11:34 AM, brybull1970 said:

You won't get any argument from me on the expenses side, but as a conference we need to be focusing more on the denominator and not the numerator. The AAC, and USF, can't save its way to growth.

As an alternative, I would propose that the 8 full-time members of the AAC plus Navy and Wichita State (excluding Tulsa and Tulane) leave the conference and form a new 14-team conference with 5 full-time members of the Mountain West. This would be much in the same way the majority of the Metro and Great Midwest schools left to form C-USA in 1995. Two, 7 team divisions for football would dramatically reduce travel expenses over a 16 team version, as would expenses for other sports.

At that point, the TV contract could be up for bidding, and it should be split and parceled out to maximize all of the various tiers. I would argue in this equation that the sum of Boise State, San Diego State, Air Force, Colorado State and UNLV) are greater than the sum of Tulane and Tulsa on a per school basis.

I heard that it's hard to kick teams (I dont actually know what that involves). 

Anyway I think the only teams that add value are Boise and BYU. Colorado state and SDSU would be decent adds, but have their drawbacks. Air force and UNLV dont do anything for us imo and I think we should pass on them. 

9 hours ago, Bulls On Parade said:

Somewhere likely in the middle of really bad and really good.  We will be improved team over last year I am pretty sure about that... Strong didn't pull a Skip and leave us totally void of any talent for the next coach.  

Really? Not to spoil the optimism of this page, but do you mind telling me who Strong recruited that is going to be good next year? 

I have to think this will help recruiting. If USF is trying to play a full 12 games while some schools are cancelling seasons, youd think an eager young football player would pick a team that actually wants to play football

This is what leadership does. You face challenges. You dont just give up and stay home. Props to Mike Aresco and Michael Kelly for trying to make this season happen. 

1 hour ago, Friscobull said:

I loved Rodney Adams and his jet sweep was epic but I still think Andre Davis was better however played on much worse teams.  Not near as fast and not NFL caliber but at 6’1” he had long arms big hands and caught everything thrown anywhere near him.  Both were great.

It's probably a 3 person debate as far as best WRs since Leavitt. I'd say 1. Adams 2. Davis 3. MVS but you cant go wrong. I just think RA could do so much more than Davis. MVS while having the most talent seemed to disappoint at crucial times (compared to RA and AD) 

If USF doesnt start Monday, this board will be bored

The best performer at WR since the Leavitt years. Great player with crazy speed

25 minutes ago, Jonesy Bull said:

But in this situation, imo, we need one solid voice to give us the facts, not be wishy woshy and give us a mandate to make this **** go away

I dont see what benefit is to be had by the NCAA coming in and shutting everything down when different regions are affected (thanks for the action verb lesson Trip) differently and schools are capable of making informed decisions. It might be a messy season, but messy is better than no season. 

27 minutes ago, Jonesy Bull said:

OK, maybe a stupid question (no comment from the peanut gallery).  Is this whole play or not play games being governed by each individual conference or will the NCAA get off the collective Ass and make decisions for the entire colllege football community.  Sounds like a complete recipe for disaster.

I know I will get in trouble for this, but its the same **** thing that the Federal government passed the buck and said each state just do your own thing.  Thats worked out so well......We would not be in this position if the people in charge weren't such ******* and actually made a decision for the good of the country......no different than the NCAA!

Yes I have an opinion, and this is a message board, so people don't like it, than maybe its time to re-think what a message board actually is!

I respect differing opinions but I heavily disagree that the few deciding for the many is a good idea. 

I hope we play though

1 hour ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Kind of a double risk for them. If they win those games it increases their playoff chances over the other conferences (assuming they are quality games and there will actually be a playoff). But it does give them a few more chances to lose as well. 

I thought the playoff committee agreed when it was formed that G5 teams were irrelevant when it comes to playoffs

Awesome call. If other leagues dont want to provide football this season, the AAC will surely get more eyeballs by playing more games

20 minutes ago, Triple B said:

Kind of amazed at times at the number on here in this category ...

 

I'm not sure that MK is of that mindset but has it ever been reliably confirmed that he even wants to come back?

I think loyalty is important. If somebody has done great things for you, it's your responsibility to be great for them back. He put USF on the map, and USF did everything they could to have a nasty break up over one mistake. I dont care if the administration didnt like him. The fans liked him and I like winning. That's why we are here right? "We play to win the game". 

13 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

So if Jim was hired by ucf are you telling me you would be cheering for ucf success? Hoping ucf beats us in football every year he is the coach? 

I couldnt go that far haha

7 minutes ago, smazza said:

he cant be a usf fan

I feel the same about people who supported firing Jim

8 hours ago, NewEnglandBull said:

WTF? Why are you taking that position? Because L is the D coordinator? No past coach is bigger than a university’s program...and certainly not one's alma mater. 

Sure but I'm just a Tampa sports fan. No ties to USF. I wear my USF shirts and have a USF license plate cover and go to more than half of the home games and many away games. 

Leavitt and to a lesser extent Taggart are the two coaches who made USF for me. I just dont think it's acceptable to never welcome the Jim back and act like he wasn't part of the program's history. 

Life goes on, and I'm hoping CJS kicks ass

Obviously that coach had hit his peak. Only 16 NFL players and making an unknown university compete at the level of blue bloods within 10 years of starting a program shows we were stuck and never going anywhere. Needed to be fired. Additionally, we should never welcome him back. 

Bitter sarcasm aside, I'm cheering for FAU to beat us this year (The game being cancelled would be a blessing so i dont have to root against USF).  

2 hours ago, chapelbull said:

I did count Tulane and said they were CUSA at the time in my original post.  Are we going to pretend that they are a drastically different program now that the letters in their conference initials have changed?    And that "barely D-1A team" was in the aac until they decided not to be anymore .... kind of makes my point.

Tulane IS drastically better under Willie Fritz whose really changed everything there. Why wouldn't a program improve with an increased revenue and status? 

And your second reason for computer rankings not working is because it liked UCF going undefeated and beating multiple quality teams including the team that beat both national title teams. 

I can see why you and Jonsey got into it, you make awful points

2 hours ago, Gatorbull325 said:

I never said he wasnt a bad head coach in any of my posts on this thread. I just compared the numbers. As for this year, who knows.  All I can say is that last year, we was really close to 7 wins  so we are not as bad as we think. I still think we would have gotten Noah Johnson or kept Tate Rodemaker if CCS was still here. In the end, out of his 3 seasons he had 2 seasons end with a winning record and a waaaaaay better tenure than Holtz who didnt nearly get half the hate that CCS got. 

I guess it's reasonable to think that the QB play couldnt be worse, so maybe 5-6 wins you could convince me of. (Even then, we have to rely on a transfer QB, not a player CCS can develop. Hopefully somebody else developed him)

What you cannot convince me of is praising CCS for 2017. That team was beyond deep and developed. The way they finished 2016 was incredible. I just try and imagine the possibilities if Willie Taggart stayed, Mike Norvell, Matt Rhule, Willie Fritz, Ken N, or pretty much any decent AAC coach came here during that year, we likely go undefeated or 1 loss. 

To me, Strong and Holtz both did equally bad while at USF. 

Now I'll make a counter point. Holtz is actually the better head coach. Hes proven to win at ECU and now at La Tech. If you asked me who I'd rather have coaching USF next year between these two, I'll take Holtz easily