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Do we know if they are moving Merrell around to other positions? If not,  Semien might be a bit of a roadblock. 

6 minutes ago, chapelbull said:

I didn't read the article, but can this be used to circumvent the trips to the mound by a coach rule?  Coach just tells catcher to go to the mound and tell the pitcher something?

The article does say that there is no clock that turns off the ear piece. So the coach could talk to the catcher at all times. So I believe you are correct, there would really be no need for a coach to go to the mound unless they are changing pitchers. Communication is one-way, the Catcher at no point can relay anything back. 

I'm not a fan of raising tuition for a stadium that isn't a necessity. You may not like RayJay and you may want the stadium to be closer but it isn't needed. At the end of the day, we still have a decent stadium to play in. 

On 3/27/2018 at 9:54 AM, Bourbon Bull said:

Brad Points

Can this please be the official title for the points

13 minutes ago, Mission9 said:

Ultimately, is was a good thing for their program.  

That it was, but I think Alabama is one a few places that something like can work out for you.  

We have threads in need of a merge 

2 minutes ago, Mission9 said:

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/9/1/16175568/uab-football-canceled-return-timeline-2017-season

 

I also seem to remember Tim Brando discussing the issue on his radio show. 

I read that article but if i'm not in the meetings i'm not gonna assume the decisions made were a  conspiracy against UBA football. Not saying theres nothing fishy here but, When you look into a lot of those article that SB  references here, They're mostly about money.   I'm sorry but even in Alabama, money will talk louder than the ghost of bear Bryant. 

"Student Body President Moneer Kheireddine said student fees could be used to fund an on-campus football stadium during his State of the Student Body Address on Wednesday."

"Kheireddine said the potential fee could range between $30 and $80 a semester per student. He also noted that Student Government (SG) could not change student fees without a vote by the student body and that any statement regarding student fees to fund a stadium is currently hypothetical."

Full article here:

http://www.usforacle.com/news/view.php/1033149/Student-fee-to-possibly-fund-on-campus-f

i'll go with this.

19 minutes ago, Mission9 said:

I think the the shut down of the UAB program had more to due with the University of Alabama trustees who had some old scores to settle.  

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/uab-football-canceled-president-says-sport-not-sustainable/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/cusa/2017/06/28/football-returns-uab-blazers/437009001/

There is reason to believe the Trustees were working boost the Tide as the expense of the Blazers or that the trustees were against athletics but, according to UAB it had to do with having to operate at a deficit and not being able to build facilities and needing the community to buy in. 

"The fiscal realities we face — both from an operating and a capital investment standpoint — are starker than ever and demand that we take decisive action for the greater good of the athletic department and UAB," UAB president Ray Watts said. "As we look at the evolving landscape of NCAA football, we see expenses only continuing to increase. When considering a model that best protects the financial future and prominence of the athletic department, football is simply not sustainable."- CBS

"Seeing an opportunity to help resurrect the program, Craft stood in front of six of the city’s biggest business leaders at a key breakfast meeting in May of 2015. Though they weren't UAB fans or boosters, Craft showed them that UAB’s enrollment had ticked down since the announcement and sold them on what a revitalized football program could do for the school, thus having an economic impact on the city.

“It was a matter of showing people with the right investment, UAB is positioned to be a great mid-major program and can become a national program,” Craft said. “That was what we sold and when the money was put forward, it was really a convincing argument. Within a month, we'd raised several million dollars.”

That amount blossomed to $21 million in 18 months, most of it in chunks of less than $1 million, validating Clark’s decision to go back to UAB, but only “if we bring it back the right way.” 

Without Clark’s involvement, though, that momentum may never have carried very far".- USA Today

2 minutes ago, chapelbull said:

Funny, but I don't know how he gets away with some of the things he does/says in today's society. 

Baffles me as well

1 minute ago, NewEnglandBull said:

You are correct Tosh does the same. Of course Brooks was a comedic genius with a long track record. Don’t watch too much of Tosh because he is a ucf grad...my hatrid runs deep. 

I'm not really a fan either. Mostly due to his choice of school as well, although he used to make fun of UCF. I can't find those quotes anymore. He might have taken them down in recent years as he has returned to do shows there. i can't lie though, some of his one liners get me. 

• I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.
• I'm actually all for gay marriage. Just the thought of having another man around the house...

i think that's about all from him I can post on here. But i promise no group is safe. 

8 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Probably correct...less than 30%. It’s funny that in today’s climate, a movie like that could never ever be made. Ol’ Mel had the philosophy by offending everyone no one can be mad. 

Daniel tosh is still living and has a show, so it might could still work. can't see Brooks being more offensive than him. 

So I didn't know this, but the SEC is doing some interesting stuff with earpieces for pitch calling and replays. I found the pitch calling walkie- talkie to pretty interesting. I think it will catch on. 

"The coach will speak into a walkie-talkie or pinned-on microphone, and the catcher will have an earpiece inside his helmet. Communication will be one-way only, from coach to catcher."

https://www.sporttechie.com/sec-baseball-wireless-pitch-calling-expanded-instant-replay/

Matchup: USF (18-8, 2-1 The American) vs. Tulane (11-15, 2-1 The American)
Dates: Thursday, March 29 – Saturday, March 31
Times: 7 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | 1 p.m.  

TAMPA, MARCH 28, 2018 – The University of South Florida baseball team is seeking its sixth-straight series win when it returns to league play for a three-game series against Tulane beginning Thursday at 7 p.m.

The Bulls (18-8) dropped a Tuesday matchup against a Stetson team that was ranked in multiple polls, 5-3. Senior Duke Stunkel Jr. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) went 3-for-4 with a double and a run scored. Coco Montes (Miami) was on base three times and scored two runs. Junior Alec Wisely (Jacksonville) pitched three scoreless inning out of the bullpen.

Junior JD Dutka (Suwanee, Ga.) hit .500 last week with four doubles, a triple and six runs scored. He was named to the American Athletic Conference Weekly Honor Roll on Monday.

Junior catcher Tyler Dietrich (Naples, Fla.) hit .500 against UConn to open conference play and David Villar (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) hit .385 with two doubles and three runs over the weekend.

USF's bullpen was magical against the Huskies, combining for 11.0 innings, allowing just eight hits and one unearned run with nine strikeouts.

Lefty All-American Shane McClanahan (Cape Coral, Fla.) will start Thursday and look to shake off his most recent outing against UConn, in which he allowed six runs in the second inning. Prior to that, McClanahan had set a program record for 31.2 consecutive innings having not allowed an earned run. He sits second nationally with 61 strikeouts and is fifth with 15.84 K's per nine innings.

Righty Peter Strzelecki (Lake Worth, Fla.) will start Friday and sophomore right hander Collin Sullivan (Randolph, Mass.) will start Saturday.  

Head coach Billy Mohl will face his alma mater for the first time as lead skipper on Thursday. Mohl was a standout four-year member of the Green Wave baseball team, setting the school single-season and career record for fewest walks-per-nine-inning average. The righty went 9-0 as a senior, becoming just the second regular starter in Tulane history to go undefeated.
He was a part of Tulane's 2005 College World Series team that earned the No. 1 national seed in the tournament.

SERIES HISTORY

Tulane leads the all-time series with the Bulls 32-22. USF defeated Tulane in the conference tournament last season, 7-6, and took the final game of a three-game series in New Orleans. Prior to that, Tulane had won seven-straight in the series.

SCOUTING REPORT

The Green Wave (11-15) also enter the second weekend of league play having lost a midweek game after taking 2-of-3 from Cincinnati at home. Tulane is 10-7 at home but just 1-8 on the road, though it has played road series at Ole Miss, Long Beach State and contest at LSU.

Tulane is led offensively by infielder Jonathan Artigues, batting .330 with 21 runs and six doubles. Kody Hoese is hitting .315 and preseason all-conference selection Grant Witherspoon is batting .302 with a team-high eight doubles, four homers and 20 RBI.

The Green Wave will start three right handers this weekend. Kaleb Roper (2-3, 4.40 ERA, 28 K) will go Thursday, Ben White (0-1, 4.65 ERA, 19 K) will start Friday and Keagan Gillies (2-3, 2.56 ERA, 31 K) will get the nod Sunday.    

NOTA-BULLS

• Villar still leads the Bulls and sits third in the conference with a .379 average. His 13 doubles on the year are fourth in the nation.
• USF leads the country with 76 doubles and leads the nation with 14 triples on the year.
• The Bulls are tops in the conference with a .466 slugging percentage, a .295 batting average and in scoring (6.8 runs per game). 
• Montes is hitting .410 over the last 10 games and Stunkel Jr. is hitting .383 with six doubles over that span.
• Junior Garrett Zech (Naples, Fla.) hit his sixth triple over the weekend, ranking him second in the country.

http://gousfbulls.com/news/2018/3/28/baseball-bulls-get-back-to-league-action-host-tulane-for-three.aspx 

Both teams are coming with a 2-1 conference record.  But Tulane is 11-10 overall and 1-8 on the road. Lets take advantage of the home field. 

When I was getting my masters I spoke with Peter Roby (google him if you must) about the UAB program seeing how he himself went through shutting down the Northeastern football program. He flat out stated that the reason they shut it down was to wake our their boosters and that when that happened their backing for football related things would spike. He also made loose prediction about their facilities getting a boost because of it. We can follow that method if you want, but I don’t think the people of Tampa will care much as the people in Birmingham do 

2 hours ago, NAS Gone to Paradise said:

The flag thing is actually against federal law, the same is’t not true about coaches, besides facing criticism comes with the job title.

How long have you been a season ticket holder?  I’ve been going to USF WBB games since before he was hired.  The performance level of his teams hasn’t improved in a long time, especially when you factor in the lesser competition level in the AAC.

 

 

I’m just gonna let the federal law comment go because I almost laughed out loud at that. 

But anyways, stop acting high and mighty because you have season tickets. This isn’t a women’s basketball, issue it’s a sports issue. The issue is, you have unrealistic expectations. To relate it to football, you would want a coach that wins nine games a year to get fired. Unless you are Alabama, that’s ridiculous. 

So recently the NFL rules committee has... simplified the catch rule, complicated a new targeting rule, and taken away field goals after game winning TD's. I have always thought the NFL needed a targeting rule but based on what I am hearing the wording it leaves a lot to interpretation. Based on what we have seen in the NCAA, this could be much worse than catch or no catch. 

http://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/272769/guide-to-nfls-new-rules-what-to-know-about-approved-tabled-and-rejected-proposals

18 hours ago, NAS Gone to Paradise said:

The American Flag shouldn’t be depicted the way it is (hacked up) on that shirt.

I know and basketball coaches shouldn't face criticism for turning a nothing program into a perennial 20 win team, but its a crazy world we live in. 

16 minutes ago, Triple B said:

Is there a limit on how many per school can be invited?

I think it really comes down to the number of DB's they wanted to see vs the number QB's. 

9 hours ago, Brad said:

I was delayed getting onto the radio broadcast thanks to the 3 hour time difference and a busy last few hours working for the man.  I started listening top of 7.  Sounded like we might not have had a good night sleep or something.  We made a few errors, left guys on base and had baserunning miscues...just an odd assortment on maladies vs. Stetson.  Made me think I'll get over it with a sweep of Tulane Thur-Sat.

Any of you happen to watch or listen?  

I wasn't able to watch or listen as we played last night as well, but I got the same impression, just lost focus in the later innings and couldn't recover. 

20 minutes ago, Bourbon Bull said:

that kid's changeup was outstanding.  Probably had 6 strikeouts with that pitch. 

Its the most under valued pitch in baseball.