Jim Johnson

I just googled it and it showed 12k ... could be old data. USF's student section at RayJay is 12,500 when the full stadium is used.

To be fair, Vanderbilt's entire enrollment is smaller than the USF student section at RayJay.

Title IX my friend. Any student competing on any team on scholarship (or not).

After reading this thread . . .

$340 million ... but that is not for the stadium alone. The football and lacrosse building will take a significant amount of that.

East-West also allows for better wind flow... the winds in Tampa tend to be more westerly, so the openings on that end of the stadium means more of a breeze.

Hawaii Bowl is off the list.

Jaren Mangham (RB) went to Michigan State

Figured I'd check out this thread (at least the posts before week 1). Good job to those who predicted 6 wins.

You ready for this one? The DULUTH Trading Company, the sponsor of the bowl game, ... is not based in Duluth! (It was when the company was founded...)

It doesn't open until Monday (the day after championship selection day)... and the spring window was reduced to 15 days (May 1 - 15). The window is not open for all schools ... only for those who have fired their coaches (or graduate transfers, who can enter at any time).

Technically, there is no rule preventing it. However, entering the transfer portal tends to mean "I don't want to be on this team any more" so most schools consider it a form of quitting and only play the players who WANT to be there. Besides, if a player wants to both play in the bowl game AND enter the transfer portal, they can enter the portal after the game. The window is 30 days from December 3rd -- which is January 2nd.

This was expected to be a bit of a down year, relatively speaking, after losing our top scorer and our top inside player (the latter to the WNBA) and with Sammie out with an injury. The team should still bounce back in conference play.

It's the same design as the old "Big Sombrero"

Just a note on the above. USF cannot go to a bowl as a 5-7 team now. There are 75 teams with 6 wins and too many teams ahead of USF in the APR rankings. USF has to win tonight.

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That is the scuttlebutt. I don't know what the surprise is, but there will be a new uniform this week. One that Golesh helped select, apparently.

Not roasting you ... but I would assume (perhaps incorrectly) they looked at every possible source of funding. However, let's not forget the Rays will stay in St. Petersburg because Hillsborough County and the City of Tampa did not want to provide any help for that stadium. Plus state law limits funds for stadium construction... revenue sources that helped build Tropicana Field or Raymond James Stadium (hotel bed taxes, sales tax rebates, etc) are not available for college stadiums. So local governments would have had to spend property tax dollars -- something that would have been very unpopular. The City of Memphis is using state grant money for this purpose... not sure what the source of those funds would be, but Florida doesn't have many grant funds that could be tapped like that.

USF will be on that side of the equation... it's a large public school with a significant athletics budget. The problems that P5 schools talk about is having Ohio State, Kent State, and Youngstown State all playing by the same rules in Division I -- and there is some logic to that argument... but USF operates more like Ohio State than Kent State... My guess is we see some dividing line around $50 million in athletic budgets.

I don't get this. It's not the P5 against the NCAA... it's the P5 against G5 and FCS. It's a membership-based organization. And those schools can't really "leave" the NCAA entirely for all of their sports (the way the NCAA, the NJCAA, and NAIA are entirely separate.) Everyone seems to forget 1977... when Division I split. That is what needs to happen with the FBS... a new division with it's own rules for 70-80 schools.

The week AFTER us:

Bills fan here, Gator. Losing journey is a way of life. HA!

This could be quite difficult. Allow me to explain... (TL;DR at the bottom) First, 5-7 teams qualify for bowl games if there are not enough 6-6 teams. In 2023, there are 41 bowls from the NY6 to the Myrtle Beach bowl. That means 82 teams get to go bowling. After this week there are 70 slots accounted for: 69 teams with 6 wins or more and the winner of the Army/Navy game. Two of those teams are James Madison and Jacksonville State - who are not technically bowl eligible. So there are either 12 or 14 slots still available. Today, there are 23 others teams with 5 wins (not including USF). On the list, Army and Navy are the only ones who play each other, and Navy has one more game against SMU. In theory, all 23 teams could win their 6th game, meaning there would be 10-12 teams with 6 wins that don't go bowling. Now, it is just as unlikely that all 23 teams win as it would be for all 23 teams to lose. So it comes down to how many of the 23 teams win or lose. Second, 5-7 teams are selected in order of APR. USF was 69th overall in APR in 2021-2022 (the latest API available). While, most of the teams ahead of USF already have 6 wins, USF is tied for 16th place among the teams who are 5-6 (11 teams) or 4-7 (4 teams) this week. So for USF to make a bowl at 5-7, 15 other 5-7 teams would need to be selected or win their 6th game. (One of the 4-7 teams ahead of USF, Wake Forest, plays a 5-6 team, Syracuse. Cuse is behind USF, so the winner of that game would get in before a 5-7 USF team.) Scenario 1: USF wins and is in. This is the best scenario. USF control's it's own bowl destiny. The AAC probably won't have enough teams to fill it's slots, so as long as USF gets to 6 wins USF will go to a bowl game. Scenario 2: USF loses and needs (A LOT OF) help. Okay, USF loses to Charlotte. Before the message board burns down, let's look at the help USF needs... and boy is it a lot: There are 68 or 70 slots accounted for (depending on JMU and Jax St), so let's go with 70 eligible teams for now, meaning there are 12 left to fill. The winner of Wake Forest @ Syracuse will get selected ahead of USF. Syracuse is 5-6 but behind USF in APR and would be eligible with a win; Wake is 4-7 but is ahead of USF in APR. So we're at 11 slots left to fill. 4-7 teams ahead of USF in APR that need to lose: Michigan State (vs Penn St), Ball State (vs Miami OH), and Middle Tennessee (@ Sam Houston St) That leaves 22 teams that could all get to 6-6. 5-6 teams that are ahead of USF in APR (9 total): Minnesota (vs Wisconsin), Rice (vs FAU), Miss St (vs Ole Miss), UCF (vs Houston), South Carolina (vs Clemson), California (@ UCLA), Florida (vs FSU), EMU (@ Buffalo), Nebraska (vs Iowa). It doesn't really matter if these teams win or lose, as they would get a bowl game ahead of USF regardless of the result. If they all win and get to 6-6 they take 9 of the 11 slots automatically. If they all lose, they could still get slots ahead of USF depending on the results of the following 14 games. 5-6 teams that are behind USF in APR (13 total): No Illinois (@ Kent St), ODU (vs Ga State), Marshall (vs Ark St), Louisiana (vs LA Monroe), Colo St (@ Hawaii), Utah St (@ New Mexico), Wazzu (@ Washington), CMU (vs Toledo), Va Tech (UVa), TCU (@ Oklahoma), BYU (@ Ok St), Illinois (vs Northwestern) A 5-7 USF needs 13 out of 14 of these teams to lose (10 out 14 if JMU and Jax St don't get eligible). ------------------------------------------------------------------ TL;DR: USF wins and they are in USF loses and can still get in if 12 out of 13 specific 5-6 teams lose this week; these are teams behind USF in APR. IF JMU and Jax St don't get to go bowling, the number drops to 10 out of 13.