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Odd to blame UCF for USF’s failures. I’ll never understand the POV of not wanting to play your biggest rival.

So for the record, I’m not outright against the stadium but if your future outlook changes while you are in the planning stages of a $300+ million dollar project, I certainly would expect that renewed discussions are in order. As another poster point out, the summary write-up proposal indicated that USF was already over estimating potential benefits according to an independent evaluator. If USF was already basing the ROI on rosy projections and we just took another step down/were left behind (potentially until 2036), the entire justification (financially) may no longer be there. As far as your other points, we had plenty of traditions in the making when we were winning in Raymond James in the late 2000s and the students also didn’t have a problem with making it to those games in droves. Winning does that. Further, it doesn’t seem like the on campus basketball arena is drawing the students attendance just because we built one. I’m for investing in football in whatever way gets USF back to relevance the quickest. May be that’s the stadium, may be it’s a payment to buy our way in to a conference (a la SMU), may be it’s a donation towards FSUs ACC contact buyout. I’d personally be ecstatic to be sitting alongside 40k other USF fans again in RayJay playing the nationally recognized teams again, win or lose.

Think much of that was booze fueled and agree that any proclamations one way or the other about the coach or this season after a single game are just plain dumb. The stadium, on the other hand, should absolutely be questioned.

Not disagree with your main premise but it doesn’t seem that MK has the/any experience to groom a football coach; he’s a bureaucrat. He’s just hiring and hoping he hits the lottery. For some reason though, donors keep cutting checks.

Some will brush this off, but folks should go take a look at MKs twitter feed vs UCFs AD Terry Mohajir and tell me which of those individuals looks like they have a passion for their job and school. The problem as I see it, is what you mention, donations and fundraising are up, so MK probably doesn’t lose his job in the near term.

Pretty sure that UCFs talent in 2020, coming off of Scott Frost tenure, was significantly better and deeper than USFs is in 2023. They were also 6-4 that year but that was also in part due to a bad defense.

It will be interesting to see if he can run his TN system effectively when he has suboptimal talent.

Can someone please invent a breathalyzer for internet posting?

Probably took them more than 1 game.

Golesh has a Herculean task in front of him. He is the head coach of a P4 farm team whose best players will continually be poached (either by NIL or wanting more media exposure for their talents) and replaced with reclamation projects. The idea some folks had that we’d be okay on offense because we were last year ignored the fact that nearly every single playmaker from last year is gone. I don’t envy his position.

Exceeding expectations after 1 quarter. Solid start.

So is the game only available on Fubo?

Of course, just throwing s against the wall. But if the consensus is that the ACC would be the best and most likely future landing spot, seems logical our efforts should be doing everything we can to have that happen sooner rather than later. USF needs to become a disrupter.

Repurpose stadium money to help fund FSU leaving the ACC. Playing in the ACC at RayJay would draw far more fans than playing in the AAC at an OCS.

Someone posted an article recently that indicated that MK was part of the effort to bring in those new schools. One might begin to suspect that MK isn’t very good at this job.

To think we have gone from that to this (now). It’s memories like these that doesn’t allow me to accept USFs new lot in life.

Auto renew (and Alabama) caused us to retain our season tickets this season. Will be opting out this time around.

::::Looks into crystal ball::: Answers: no, no and no.

FSU is reportedly working with JPMC to raise cash for a ACC buyout. USF should take those stadium funds and help fund that cause. Win/win.

Wonder how he’d feel about being an AD.

Interesting. Reminds me of Peyton Manning while in Indy when it would be silent while they were on offense. Long has been a pet peeve of mine…fans screaming while team’s on offense.

A PAC 4 + best of AAC + best of MWC (shortly after) conference instantly changes USFs trajectory.

I can guarantee that won’t happen…we play Bama in week 3.

Number of FSU fans and red-themed stadium definitely made it look like their home game. If we had the 2007 fan base for that 2016 game, it would have been different. Best opening to a game (1st play bomb TD for USF), followed by the worst possible response (next play FSU rushing TD).

September 2016 noon game vs FSU was the hottest game in my recent memory. For FSU it was worth it, for some of these new conference mates, not so much. Shade for the home side should be a requirement.