Brad

SBien and Bullish are both on the mark with their recent comments...that is why Ari is so funny stating that it is pathetic that we underpaid an underachiever...Let's wait and see whether USF commits to its next skipper in terms of salary, facilities timetable and promotion. No better time than now to turn the corner with USF Baseball.

Whitey Herzog?

Big enough for a women's dinghy?

Isn't Peters a former USF coach under EC? If so, I say that rules the guy out. Regime change is at hand here.

As long as I never see you in a short skirt again, it's okay...

I always love a good story on Rick Moranis...so yeah, make sure you spell it right...

No, I know those are already there...Beaches, you know...if we have an OCL...there has to be beaches...sorry to let you guys down... :-[

Could the OCL be adjacent to the OCS with an OCP overlooking the OCB?

It ain't over 'til we say it is...who's with me?

From Greg's blog: Link to Greg's blog

Yeah, I was trying to find salaries on the web last night, but after one attempt, settled back into comfortable surroundings and gave up. Brett or Greg probably know what the supposed candidates are making - it is public record I believe.

By the way, you got it half right, but, unfortunately standing on my wallet doesn't help much...

Brett's Blog ;D

Well that is a loaded question...first of all with all the other perks...yes I probably could live on that.. But moreso, I think I would have won a few more games and earned a higher salary just like CJL. The fact is everyone seemed to have gotten comfortable until the current administration rolled in. Complacency kills. I would have been more offended had I learned he was being paid $150,000.

What Huggy missed was this recruit: When the recruits don't follow, then what? More Beer and road sports?

Leonard keeps running through obstacles for resurgent Rutgers  June 1, 2006 By Dennis Dodd CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer  Brian Leonard is ignoring every roadside flare in his path.   Last season, Brian Leonard helped Rutgers to a 7-5 record and the school's first bowl since 1978. (Getty Images)   His brother's college career ended prematurely because of a combined five surgeries on his knees and shoulders. Leonard himself takes on tacklers like they've just broken into his house. He even blew off the NFL to play his senior year at -- stifle your laugh -- Rutgers. He has gotten this far without making much sense, why stop now? "I wanted to make history," said Leonard, a 6-foot-2, 235-pound fullback who might be the most unique player in the game. Name a better college hitter with or without the ball in his hands. Name the last fullback to lead his team in scoring (102 points in '05). Name another fullback who can catch like Leonard (169 passes in three seasons). Name a another fullback with as many career yards (2,352). First, you have to name a fullback. The position is pretty much dead except, maybe, when the ball gets close to the goal line. "He's a player who hasn't been in college football in quite a while," said that brother, Nate, who's now in commercial real estate in New Jersey. "I never saw John Riggins, but he's like him." Or Mike Alstott. The comparisons are already out there. If Brian stays healthy -- always a question since Johnny Knoxville would blanche at his hurt history -- he could be better. The NFL loves his ability to run, catch and block. But, for now, Brian is too in love with Rutgers. We're talking about a guy who blew off Penn State, Notre Dame and Syracuse four years ago for a weird, strange, odd reason. Loyalty. Rutgers was good enough to honor its commitment when Nate blew out his knee as a high school senior. So Rutgers was good enough for Brian. "I didn't want to be part of a team that already had success," he said. "I didn't want to go to Penn State where you know you're supposed to win every game and supposed to go to a bowl game every year. I wanted to go to a school where it was (a surprise) to go to a bowl, turn that program around." The turnaround is in progress. A 7-5 season last year marked the Scarlet Knights' first bowl since 1978. Depending on who you talk to, coach Greg Schiano barely stuck around to enjoy it after going 12-34 in his first four seasons before the breakthrough. Leonard stuck it out with him. In the process, folks realized that he -- and Rutgers -- can play. "I don't see it heading back down any time soon," Leonard said. "Greg is going to win a BCS bowl or a national championship bowl." We've checked him for hallucinogens. Leonard is clean. When you're 22 and able to defy death -- or at least serious injury -- optimism is a given. At a young age, Nate accidentally clocked his little brother in the head with a golf club. At age 5, precocious Brian snatched the tie off Mickey Mouse at Disneyland. The large mouse chased down the small kid and got back his neckwear. At age 10, Brian decided to slide down a ladder face first. "I had blood coming out of my face in every spot and scars on my lip," Leonard said. "My mom said my lip was quivering but I wouldn't cry. For some reason I don't, no matter what. I never cry." He was the whipping boy who was never whipped. "Even my friends talk about it today," Nate said. "We would beat on him, he would start laughing." Nate knew it was time to quit messing around with little bro' four years ago when, as a Rutgers freshman, Brian asserted himself. "It was the first time I knew I couldn't take him anymore," Nate said. "He picked me up and threw me across the room. He was just joking around, but I knew I couldn't mess around anymore." When things were going badly at Rutgers, Brian, 22, could have transferred or hung his head. But he looks at Nate, 25, and sees a career that was ruined by injuries and refuses to back down. "I live through him a lot," said Nate, whose Rutgers' career was limited to two years. "My dream was obviously to go to the NFL." Barring a catastrophe, Brian is going. He calls himself a "hybrid" back, playing in the same backfield with tailback Ray Rice. On any given carry, Leonard can choose to clock a tackler or leap over him. Try breaking that down on film. "Against Pittsburgh, I saw guys just sitting on their heels," he said. "They weren't even ready to tackle me. You put your shoulder down." But the flares are burning. Warning: The average shelf life of an NFL back is something like four years. Warning: Leonard's tread already is wearing thin. Rebut: A warrior pose is key. "I've been doing yoga the last three months," said Mr. Shoulder Down said. "I recommend it. I felt faster, I love it. I'm dripping with sweat when I'm done." Story Link

Who knew you would appear after the criticism of Ari?

Am I the only greedy one that despite my thankfulness wish it had been the other way around - $7 mil for athletics and $6 mil ($3 mil + $3 mil match) for academics? :-X

Looks like he just worked out for the Raptors too: Jay Williams works out for Raptors TORONTO (CP) - Three years after a motorcycle crash that forced Jay Williams to learn how to walk again, he believes he's finally ready to step back on the NBA court. He says he wouldn't mind if it was as a Toronto Raptor. Williams, the former No. 2 NBA draft pick out of Duke, is in Toronto working out for the Raptors, and likes what he sees in the young team and new GM Bryan Colangelo. .... The Raptors also worked out Toronto native and University of Connecticut shooting guard Denham Brown on Thursday, along with Kentucky guard Rajon Rondo, Pittsburgh guard Carl Krauser, and Montreal's Mohamed Hachad, a guard out of Northwestern. Scheduled to work out Friday are Richmond forward and Edmonton native Jermaine Bucknor, Duke guard Sean Dockery, South Florida forward Solomon Jones, and Syracuse guard Gerry McNamara. Story Link

Thought this was the Hinkelberger autobiography... Thanks for your $500....only 127 other morons and your whole group can fund Eddie's base pay - and then ***** about yourselves. Congratulations. You are pathetic Ari..

turkeysoup is like a shock jock...he couldn't care less about USF...just likes poking at 'em.  He's a lot like cee (if not cee under a new name).  Presents himself as though he has some connection to USF when in fact no one that really supports the school would say the things he does.  He really is to be ignored. But seriously on the OCS, I commend UCF for starting something.  We will too...right now their football need is their overwhelming need...that is not the case at USF.  So would I settle for a basement bargain erector stadium now or wait for a better funded, nicer stadium when the need fully arrives?  I'll take the latter and find comfort in other well overdue facilities upgrades around campus.

What say you about that won-loss % up there? I would have expected a bit more out of a Tampa product rolling in all that UL dough...I guess perhaps he resurrected that program? Why would he be talking so openly about the USF job? Looking for a new deal at UL? Seemed sort of strange to me.

Rupp was the gent I mentioned here a few weeks ago...would have been a nice fit about 5 years ago...out of UT...but we were stuck in neutral.

Sounds ripe for the pickin...

Well then that makes sense...a marketing deal.. I think those Leon commercials are great...