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Okay guys, I'd like to wrap this up and send in the donation on behalf of the group. I will send in a check to Eric at USF on July 30 for the total of the donations received. It looks like we have something greater than $450 if everyone comes through, or others step up. Please make your donation via PayPal to Bulliever@southfloridabulls.com (use the "Make a Donation" link in lower left corner of board and note it as your USF Facility donation) or mail a check to me at the following address: Brad Meyer 700 N. Coronado Street, #1044 Chandler, AZ 85224 Please send me an email and let me know what your plans are, I will confirm receipt of individual donations on this thread. Thanks! Brad

From the USF SID Office Subject: USF Soccer News Date: Thu 06/10/04 07:36 AM Men’s Soccer Adds Another Recruit from South Africa Tampa, FL - (June 10, 2004) USF men’s soccer coach George Kiefer has announced the signing of Lloyd Hughes. Hughes a 5-11, 165 pound midfielder from Johannesburg, South Africa joins a highly touted recruiting class in Rodrigo Hidalgo, Christian Jimenez, Osmany Hernandez, Freddy Hall, Frankie Slater, Colby West, Simon Schoendorf and fellow South African Mitchum Ford. “Lloyd is a great addition to our program”, said Kiefer. “He is very versatile and comes from a strong soccer background.” Hughes comes to South Florida from the Randburg FC system. He has been a member of the Southern Transvaal and Gauteng youth teams in Johannesburg, which is equivalent to a State and Regional ODP Program. He has also played for the prestigious Wits Under-17 youth team. Currently Lloyd has been selected to join the U-23 District team in Johannesburg. Hughes has a wealth of international experience playing in the Nike International Premier and Milk Cup. While playing in the Nike International Premier Cup with Randburg FC Under-17 team, he participated against Chile’s National Team and the prestigious Manchester United. He played with Wits Under-17 team at the Milk Cup in Northern Ireland against Northern Ireland’s Under-17 national team, Tottenham Hotspurs and Sutherland FC of England.

Neither could handle the ball very well, but it certainly would make an interesting on-on-one exhibition. Alexander vs. Shahid - the throw down.

I think it would have to be Dobras as well. He did a whole lot, shoot, pass, rebound - run the point, #2 guard. A leader. FTs - everything. Still like Chucky as the next best. Chucky, like Radenko, made everyone around him better.

Colts Official Site

Does Whittaker have more than ideal size in his quest to become an NFL wide receiver? June 1, 2004 By Bob Labriola steelers.com PITTSBURGH - In the language of NFL scouts, he definitely passes the eye test. That means Huey Whittaker sure looks like an NFL receiver. Six-foot-four, 234 pounds. Big hands that feel like pillows when he reaches out to shakes yours. But there is more to making an NFL roster than looking the part, and Whittaker knows he has his work cut out for him. The trend in the NFL is for wide receivers to have size, and at 6-4, 234, Huey Whittaker has enough of that. But there's more to it than that for someone hoping to make an NFL roster, and Whittaker is working daily on learning the things he'll need to be able to succeed at training camp. During his college career at South Florida, Whittaker started 21 of 32 games for an up-and-coming Division I program, but his career statistics of 117 catches for 1,447 yards and seven touchdowns aren't that exciting. And the traits that manifested themselves there are the very things on which Whittaker works every day at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex. "Just trying to become a true receiver and excel on special teams," said Whittaker about what he needs to accomplish during the remainder of the Steelers' team school, or optional team activities (OTAs) as they're referred to officially. "You hear about special teams being a big thing in making the team, and when you’re not drafted, or even if you are drafted, special teams can be a big part of making the team." That's the thing about Whittaker that becomes puzzling. How does a guy with his physical attributes and experience at a decent college program not get drafted? In the pre-draft publications that examined the prospects, things often written about Whittaker had to do with his lack of exceptional speed and a tendency toward inconsistency. But today his slate is clean, because Whittaker is just another of the five new faces at wide receiver trying to carve out a roster spot. Freddie Milons is going through his first offseason with the team after being acquired in a trade with Philadelphia in September 2003 and spending that whole season on the inactive list, and Brian Robinson is back for another shot during this training camp. Glen Martinez, Zamir Cobb and Whittaker are the three undrafted rookies at a position that includes returning veterans Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Antwaan Randle El, Chris Doering and Lee Mays. Burress isn't taking part in these sessions, and he also skipped the team's mandatory three-day minicamp, but any assumption that Whittaker is a potential replacement immediately for a four-year starter is putting too much stock in the similarity of their heights. Whittaker's focus right now is on the things he needs to improve to attract positive attention to himself once the team reports to training camp at St. Vincent College. "Not being drafted was a big surprise," said Whittaker, "but I’m here now and I have my chance. "Now I have to make the best of it. I picked Pittsburgh, because I wanted to get away from home so I could get a clean start and be focused without any distraction. They also didn’t draft any receivers here, so it gives me a little better chance of making the team. There are a lot of reasons why I picked the Steelers, but it all comes down to my opportunity." Story on Steelers Official Site

Notes from Official site: As Camp Pauses, Let's Crunch Some Numbers June 5, 2004 Exceprt: SAFETY Brian Dawkins and Michael Lewis start. That's the given here. Last year the Eagles went into the season with young backups and those kids came through. Well, Clinton Hart and Quintin Mikell are back. So is fourth-round draft pick J.R. Reed. What does that mean for Hart and/or Mikell? Do the Eagles keep a fifth safety? Knowing that Dawkins was injured for much of last season, do the Eagles go extra deep at safety for Reed, a player they really, really, really liked heading into the draft? Hey, both Hart and Mikell played well last year. There's every reason to think they'll get better in 2004. Eagles Official site

From the USF SID Office Subject: USF's West Wins Post-Grad Scholarship June 4, 2004 USF Track Athlete Wins Conference USA Postgraduate Award CHICAGO - Conference USA named the recipients of its Postgraduate Scholarship Awards today and USF track athlete Kristina West was among the six winners. The league annually presents six $4,000 Postgraduate Scholarship awards to graduates as selected by the Faculty Athletics Representatives at the conference's annual Spring Meetings. West is a four-year letterwinner in women's track and field. She is a seven-time member of the All Conference team and is a USF record holder in the pole vault with a jump of 12 feet. She received both the Conference USA Scholar-Athlete Award and the Commissioner's Academic Medal in 2002-2003. West was also named to the 2003 Division I Track All-Academic Team and was a National Merit Scholar Finalist. She plans to attend medical school. 2003-04 Postgraduate Scholarship Recipients Rick Britton, DePaul Men's Track and Field Mo Finley, UAB Men's Basketball Lisa-Marie Hyman, Memphis Women's Track and Field Matt Mayer, Louisville Men's Tennis Kristina West, USF Women's Track and Field Kristina Wilson, Cincinnati Women's Soccer

$25.00 in commission - so $250 in sales. It could happen.

The site receives up to 10% on all LIDS sales after a threshold is reached. There have been two purchases of $20.00 each so far. All revenue from the LIDS ads (or other aesthetically acceptable ads) will be combined with donations for our site budget this year. Everyone knows I hate the eye-sore ads and refuse to put them on this site. Hopefully these Bulls-related ads are acceptable to our members and a convenience for Bulls fans while also helping earn some revenue the site. Please be sure to use the link in the message board so that the site can be tied to the sale. Thanks, Bulliever

From the USF SID Office Subject: USF ACADEMIC NEWS Date: Thu 06/03/04 01:09 PM June 3, 2004 Conference USA Names 2003-04 Academic Medal Winners Twenty-Six USF student-athletes are among a total of 325 who have earned the Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Medal during the 2003-04 academic year, it was announced today. The number of athletes receiving the honor exceeds the total of 303 from last year. The medals are given to C-USA student-athletes with a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or above during the academic year. The following USF student-athletes have earned a Commissioner’s Academic Medal: Marlow Hernandez Baseball Bradley Karns Baseball Mikael Bergbrant Men's Cross Country Justin Geisler Football Dan Grassman Men's Golf Federico Mautone Men's Golf Robert Brenner Men's Soccer Ryan Kinsley Men's Soccer Aaron Paroulek Men's Soccer Chris Raye Men's Soccer German Escallon Men's Tennis Christa Benton Women's Cross Country Bente General Women's Cross Country Sara Hall Women's Cross Country Maggie Potter Women's Cross Country Claire Ragot Women's Cross Country Maritere Calderon Women's Golf Daniella Ronderos Women's Golf Samantha Ray Softball Tiffany Stewart Softball Melinda Mulvihill Women's Soccer Ashley Quaid Women's Soccer Karoline Hagen Women's Track Megan Malone Women's Track Jeania Romeus Women's Track Nicolette Barron Volleyball

Thank god...all the DNA is destroyed... ;D

Sorry to hear that Terry...glad you're okay though. I hope you cn salvage your belongings, especially the Bulls gear. No fire in AZ yet, but temps of 108 today...

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE As indicated yesterday, USF Football will be involved in building a Habitat for Humanity House this Saturday (details below). Roughly 50 players will participate, including captains Lee Roy Selmon Jr., Alex Herron and Derrick Sarosi. Jim Leavitt will participate as well.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA BULLS FOOTBALL PLAYERS BUILD TEAM SPIRIT WHILE BUILDING HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HOME WITH HOMEBANC TAMPA BAY, FLA. - JUNE 1, 2004 - On Saturday June 5, about 25 University of South Florida Bulls football players will put down their helmets and footballs and pick up hammers, power drills and other tools to work with Habitat for Humanity and HomeBanc Mortgage Corp. fulfilling the dream of home ownership for a Tampa Bay area family. On June 5, the players will gather at 5712 Camp Street in Wimauma (see directions below) and work on the house. HomeBanc Mortgage Corp. will also provide volunteers that day and The HomeBanc Foundation is the financial sponsor of the one-day project. The build will start around 9 a.m. and end around 3 p.m. Bulls head football coach Jim Leavitt, who is scheduled to work with his players on the house, wanted to pursue a community project this year to create an additional team building experience for his players and to help them appreciate the value of giving back to the community. “I know our players will gain a lot personally from seeing their efforts result in a new home for a deserving Habitat family,” he said. “And what they learn from this experience will add to the lessons in team work and reaching for big goals that we teach on the field.” Leavitt was familiar with HomeBanc through several USF alumni connections and approached the company to partner on the project. “We’re thrilled at the opportunity to work with Coach Leavitt and his staff and players,” said HomeBanc Central Florida Vice President Joe Wessel, himself a former college and pro football coach. “Coach Leavitt, the other coaches and all the players have been very enthusiastic about this project from the beginning and we’re looking forward to a very successful day. Football teaches leadership, and part of leadership is serving others and giving back. The lessons from that day will stay with these young men long after the house is completed.” Habitat for Humanity has built more than 150,000 houses around the world, providing more than 750,000 people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter. The organization was founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller along with his wife Linda Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable, no-interest loans. In addition to a down payment and the monthly mortgage payments, Habitat homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor into building their Habitat house and the houses of others. Habitat is one of HomeBanc’s primary corporate charities. To date, HomeBanc volunteers have worked on and The HomeBanc Foundation has helped fund the construction of 22 Habitat homes in Georgia and Florida. For more information about Habitat for Humanity, visit the organization on-line at www.habitat.org <http://www.habitat.org>. For more information about USF Athletics, visit www.GoUSFBulls.com For more information about HomeBanc, visit the company on-line at www.homebanc.com <http://www.homebanc.com>. Directions: · Take 75 South to the 674 East Exit · Travel on 674 East for approximately five miles, through Sun City Center and crossing over U.S. 301 · Turn right onto 5th Street (just past Ana’s Restaurant). · Take first right onto Camp Street. · 5712 is on the corner of 5th and Camp streets. A list of USF players who will participate will be available Wednessday...

Sorry guys the link is incorrect. I was trying to put up a link to the National version of Athlon, and obviously put up the wrong one. I changed the image during a break in Memorial Day shopping with the Mrs., and plan to remove the link altogether later tonight. It is not what I wanted. The link was to be a convenient way to purchase a copy of Athlon. The site also would make 3% on each sale - about $0.15 per copy sold. But it was more for the convenience than anything. Never would I want to see a Gator there even if it were for 300%!! Glad to see a couple Bulls get riled....we're a proud group.

Not jumping I hope...High altitudes are dangerous if the honeymoon doesn't work out just right Happy Birthday!

Where'd this come from? ???

I'm looking for the list of "Women's sports that have proven they can be profitable and viable without the crutch of Title IX.."

While it's a topic for another thread...I'd like to know which program(s) you are referring to. Without Title IX, you'd have to go back a long way. If you have that info, please let me know. It would help sort out my feeling on the whole Title IX debate.

None of the accomplishments of those programs impresses me. I really don't care much for women's soccer, softball, rowing - whatever. I can't even name all the women's sports we compete in (BasketBull may open a new thread on whether or not I am a real Bull ;D). I just don't care. Same goes for baseball. It just doesn't draw my attention like basketball and football. I think for many in the Bay Area, and direct supporters of USF, that may be the case. Football draws. The rest is just there. That's why I defined it as a narrow view. I like what I like. I don't watch the NHL, probably never will. I don't watch the NBA, probably never will. Same is true for girls softball. I focus on the progress of the sports I like and I think the majority of fans do that. We'd be hard pressed to sell 15K season tickets to softball even in a state of the art softball complex. People just don't care that much. Hence the coach should be careful with how he comes across to the community. I doubt his pleas in the media affected the apathy meter one iota.

Bulliever's narrow view: Things are fine the way they are, after all Mr. Eriksen, this is just girls softball (Sorry softball girls and their supporters). I think Mr. Eriksen is out of line. Perhaps we could find a community funded softball complex for him to play in.

I can add them all and a search box over the next few days. Thanks for your interest. Bulliever

From the USF SID OFfice New USF Director of Athletics Named to NCAA Sports Wagering Task Force Doug Woolard, named director of athletics at the University of South Florida May 12, has been named to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Sports Wagering Task Force. The task force has been assembled in response to findings of a national study commissioned by the NCAA that reveals a “disturbing” frequency of sports wagering among student-athletes. The NCAA’s 2003 National Study on Collegiate Sports Wagering and Associated Health Risks is the most comprehensive of its kind to measure the preponderance of wagering among student-athletes. It encompasses responses from approximately 21,000 make and female student-athletes at NCAA member institutions across all three NCAA divisions in most NCAA championship sports. “The scope of sports wagering among intercollegiate student-athletes is startling and disturbing,” says NCAA President Myles Brand. “Sports wagering is a double-threat because it harms the well-being of student athletes and the integrity of college sports.” As a member of the task force, Woolard will be charged with assisting in developing recommendations with a dual focus on ensuring the well being of student-athletes as well as the integrity of intercollegiate athletics. The recommendations could include expanding education efforts, proposed NCAA legislation and suggestions for legislation at the state and federal levels. Woolard is presently in his 10th year as director of athletics at Saint Louis University. He begins his duties at USF June 14.

Bulls fans, I have added an oversized eBay section to the home page on SouthFloridaBulls.com. It features the current Ebay auctions for the search term "South Florida Bulls." It's a handy way to see what Bulls gear is on eBay and still check out the occasionally updated front page at Phoenix, Arizona's favorite Bulls site - SouthFloridaBulls.com. Go to SouthFloridaBulls.com Site and scroll to bottom. Also, the site earns .05 per each bid made from the links there...at that rate, the site be worth $26.35 by 2007...come on join the fun, buy Bulls gear and support your site. Thanks, Bulliever