Bullcocky

We will need a touchdown on nearly every possession to be competitive this season.

We are every team's homecoming opponent. I live in South carolina and everybody tells me that they think it's nice that I wear the apparel and support such a small school. That makes me livid. Lol.

Looking at returning production from last year, we need about 19-20 immediate impact players in this recruiting cycle to go bowling.

It's hard to make somebody the face of the program before they've done anything at your school. If they produce during the year, then we can certainly start promoting them. Who are we putting on the calendars this year though. From what I'm seeing, we've lost our best players on defense, so I expect the defense to take a step back and the QBs and Atkins are the best players we have left on offense.

So I'm looking at the stats from 2023 and as far as returning players this year, the biggest returning production that we will have for 2023 seem to be with QB Byrum Brown and then Sean Atkins at wr with 19 catches for 238 yards. I figure we will go with Sean Atkins and Brown as the faces of the program for next season?

Introspective thinking, I think timing of my Fandom is important. I got in when usf was nationally relevant. The talk amongst the students at the time were how usf could continue to build into a program that could compete for a national title. Each week we watched the top 25 teams on TV to see how it would affect USF's rankings. We would talk trash on opponents message boards and with coworkers. We had great pride in our school and what it was accomplishing. College football is all about the trash talking and rivalries. That is the fun of it. When you're a bottom dweller in a conference nobody cares about without the chance to win anything relevant, a big chunk of what makes college football fun and exciting is taken away. I haven't watched a non usf game in ages because it doesn't matter. I haven't talked trash in ages because that would be sad. I remember thinking that any program who couldn't make a bowl game was garbage considering you had an fcs game and only had to win 5 more. When the ceiling for your program is so low that to reach it would equate to a terrible season ending for most other programs, there isn't much to brag about. I was at the cincy game and was so shell-shocked by the atmosphere. I remember when 40-45k in the stadium was a number we complained about and anybody in a section who was screaming their face off on 3rd down was chastised. We used to take it as a personal offense when somebody scored in the student section end zone. I was the only fan in my section at the cincy game screaming on 3rd down and people looked at me like I was weird in a stadium that had less fans than a high school game I went to the night before... I guess if this is the usf football you are used to, it's OK, but this isn't the usf I learned to love. To me, what we have right now is USF in name only. If the USF I know is somehow revived, yes I'll be back. It's just not the same and it's just not what I came to love. I refuse to lower my expectations of the program because I have seen what it can and should be.

I haven't posted in a long time, but I wanted to voice my frustration. I've watched every USF football game since I attended USF back in 2006. I went to most of the home games and at least one or two road games a year. I used to donate and talk Bulls football with people all the time. This UCF game will be the first that I won't watch. I just don't care anymore. This was the year I gave the team to pull me back in and then we show only marginal (maybe) improvement and get left out of conference realignment again. I don't give a hoot of we beat any of the teams coming into the conference. Those are the kind of teams we should beat into the ground for a gimmie ocs game and the kind of teams a coach should get fired for losing to. To be fair, all of athletics has let the fans down. The drought of no conference championships in a major men's sport from 95 until last year's fluky baseball championship set the ncaa record for longest drought amongst schools in D1 who compete in football, baseball, and basketball at the D1 level. When it comes to winning anything of importance in athletics, USF is the worst athletics program in the country. Hard to support that. Especially considering the resources and advantages we should have. Extreme gross negligence.

If the football season happens, how good is this team going to be with a month or so of practice to learn the new scheme?

It's a really good thing that we have an experienced coaching staff and all of our starters from last year are returning. I would hate to be one of those teams with a new coaching staff that still has to evaluate players and impliment a new playbook... Whew dodged a bullet.

We said that going into this year. We won the cbi. This year, many expected to be dancing...definitely not under .500.

I'm bought in. I think he has the tools and mindset to build a championship program here. With that said, I hope people don't expect immediate results, anything more than three wins next year with this roster would be impressive. Years two and three I'm expecting good things.

100%... And it's the D-1 version of last chance u. Maybe he's a great hard working kid just looking for playing time, who knows but it definitely seems fishy. It's not like we have many world beating receivers on the roster currently.

I'm guessing he might have had some off the field or behavioral issues. Fau likes those guys.

I really don't think it's fair to be comparing UCF to USF. They are in a different league and stage of development than we are. They have an on campus stadium that has hosted GameDay with an entertainment district around it and selling season passes to their lazy river. We are struggling to scrape together pennies to put an aluminum roof over a practice field. They have many fans and community support. Let's not compare ourselves to them at this point and focus on being better than other schools in our conference like Tulane and Temple who have passed us up in athletics.

Amen... We are set to start the year playing the backups to last year's atrocious line.

Ouch... How did this happen. He's a bay product... Did we not want him?

Exactly, the drought is in the "major" sports of baseball, football, and basketball... Not to belittle tennis and golf or anything.

Baseball was our last conference championship in a major sport in 1995. They are therefore the most successful major sport we have by that metric. That being said, we have the second largest drought in ncaa d1 at winning conference championships as an athletics department.

7th as a major Florida school in baseball... Yeah, mohl will be gone. We should be winning this conference every other year.

I received a George Selvie signed photo. Looking for a Grothe and Leavitt to go with it now.

Ucf will probably have more fans in the stands then we did this year... So yeah, we suck.

Transfers usually aren't bought into the system /school as much. Hard to build a program with them... They can be good in small doses to patch up positions of need, but if you're getting a bunch of transfers, that usually means your program is in trouble.

Going to be tough to pull him away from holy cross...

We don't have the Orlando school's resources... They have an ocs and an athletics culture + more money. I see a more realistic protection being 2-3 wins next year, 6-7 the year after that and maybe competing for the conference year 3. Next year we will be trotting out a lot of back ups from this year's team. We graduated some key talent and aren't really reloading it seems.

It appears though that this is a complete program rebuild from the ground up, so maybe we need to be patient and realize that we are going to suck for the next 2 or 3 years to get things back where they need to be?