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There was some of that in the Scout practice reports. Have you been following them? In case you missed them, here are some mentions: http://southflorida.scout.com/2/412632.html And from yesterday: http://southflorida.scout.com/2/423096.html

I think the practice reports which Scout has been putting out over the past couple of weeks have been mostly positive. We aren't injured and everybody has worked hard in the off season to get in shape. I'm feeling much more optimistic about the team, but we are still pretty young and inexperienced and don't have the depth that we really need.

Getting back to Coleman, he was only ONE hour short! USF: Linebacker ineligible TAMPA - As was the case in 2003, linebacker Gene Coleman failed to qualify academically and won't play this fall. Coleman will take classes at Hillsborough Community College after falling one hour short of his associate of arts degree at Pearl River Community College, according to his coach there, Tim Hatten. "This will actually do him a world of good," Hatten said. "He can treat this like a redshirt year, and I think it's the best thing for Gene Coleman and for USF." Coleman, once thought to be a key addition, transferred with 55 of the 60 necessary credit hours. Hatten said Coleman left Pearl River at 253 pounds and will work to reach a target weight of 225-230. Coach Jim Leavitt said his staff had been resigned to not getting Coleman, who can enroll in January with two years of eligibility. "We didn't think he would (qualify)," Leavitt said. "He wouldn't have been ready to play this year. He wasn't in nearly good enough shape. But it'll come down to Gene getting his schoolwork done. He's got to do the work." HOW HOT: Leavitt and Dr. Eric Coris, director of USF's Sports Medicine Institute, are expected to be part of a segment on Monday's Good Morning America, which will look at new technological advances to help limit the risk of heat exhaustion in athletes. Ten linemen took a special pill Friday that can transmit body temperature readings to trainers. - GREG AUMAN, Times staff writer http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/13/Sports/FSU_puts_on_the_pads_.shtml

Posted on Sat, Aug. 13, 2005 UP FRONT | SPORTS HEALTH More sports teams finding thermometer pill easy to swallow University of South Florida linemen were the latest athletes to take thermometer pills. By JACOB GOLDSTEIN jgoldstein@herald.com Early Friday morning, a University of South Florida football player swallowed a thermometer, a battery and a radio transmitter. The whole rig fit inside a silicone capsule the size of a really big multivitamin. By the time the player started practice two hours later, the pill had made its way down through his stomach and into his large intestine, where it inched along, broadcasting his body temperature to anyone who cared to tune in -- in this case, an athletic trainer who wanted to prevent the player from getting heat stroke. Every few minutes, between drills, the trainer sidled up to the football player and typed his jersey number into what looked like an old-school TV clicker. The device told the trainer how hot it was inside the player. As the athlete worked out, his temperature went up. When the temperature inside him hit 103.5 degrees, the team doctor told him to take a break. ONE OF 10 LINEMEN The doctor, Eric Coris, wouldn't say who the player was -- only that he was one of 10 USF linemen who had agreed to take part in his study of the thermometer pill. The pill was developed in the 1980s for NASA, and used mainly by researchers until 2001, when the highly publicized heat-stroke deaths of Minnesota Vikings tackle Korey Stringer and University of Florida fullback Eraste Autin caused alarm at training camps nationwide. Since then, the pill has been adopted by several NCAA and NFL teams, including the Gators, the Vikings and the Jacksonville Jaguars. THE COSTS The device trainers use to read a player's temperature costs about $2,500. Each pill costs about $35 and passes through a player's system in about a day. The Vikings recently spent more than $12,000 for a system that includes several high-end recording devices and more than 100 pills, said Susan Smith, sales and marketing manager at HQ Inc., the Palmetto, Fla., company that sells the pill. Trainers use the pill most often during training camp, when teams face a triple threat: out-of-shape players, brutal summer temperatures and rigorous workouts. Deaths from sports-related heat stroke are rare -- one commonly cited source lists an average of three deaths a year, Coris said -- but the heat and humidity of Florida summers make training camps here particularly perilous. On Sunday, an ambulance rushed University of Miami quarterback Kirby Freeman to the hospital after he overheated on the field. Scott McGonagle, UM's head athletic trainer, said UM has considered using the thermometer pill as part of a research study but has not yet done so. The Dolphins have not used the pill either, Smith said, and Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene would not say whether the team is considering doing so. NOT THE ONLY FACTOR Coris and Michael Ryan, the Jaguars' head athletic trainer, both emphasized that temperature alone cannot be used to evaluate players. ''You get a feel for a player,'' Ryan said. ``We don't use temperature as the sole component to see if we have to intervene.'' In his study, Coris is giving the pills to 10 linemen -- who, because of their gargantuan size, tend to suffer more in the heat -- for the first six days of full-pad, twice-a-day practices. He said he hopes to determine how closely the players' core body temperature correlates with symptoms such as chills, nausea, cramps and confusion. ''You do the things you can within reason,'' Coris said. ``It's not like we're going to take everybody across America and give them [these] pills.'' HIGH SCHOOLS South Florida high school coaches, who cannot afford the thermometer pills, say they fight the heat with frequent water breaks, tents where players can get out of the sun and, most importantly, close observation. ''You watch 'em -- that's the key,'' said Palmetto High football coach Jim Kroll. ``They get glassy eyed. They start to stammer, almost like a drunk.'' http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12372378.htm

13/08/2005 FIBA U21 1/4 Finals - Argentina out MAR DEL PLATA (FIBA U21 World Championship) - Host Argentina was pulled out tonight of the medal round by the European side of Lithuania 76-63 in the last quarter finals of the FIBA U21 World Championship 2005. Lithuania took first the lead until Leonardo Mainoldi from Argentina entered in action with 6 points in a row bringing Argentina 16-16 after 3 minutes played in the second quarter. From that moment on, the game turned into a real physical war. "It was a great battle on the court and a great game for Argentina. "Argentinean team has brilliant players, and I am sure that they will be stars in the future. Just in the final quarter we could break Argentinean defense, and theirs fouls and turnovers helped us to reach the victory," Lithuanian head Coach Ramunas Butautas. From this war Argentina seamed to be the team which could make the most of it, until Lithuania started to break through the tough defense that Argentina had installed. "Until the third quarter, we could develop the game style that we had prepared. "We knew that Lithuania based his offensive in the penetrations, so we tried to make a tough defense in the paint," explained Gonzalo Garcia. The European fired up a bunch of three pointers in the last minutes of the games to clinch the last semi finals spot. The will play Australia which previously defeated Slovenia. "In the last quarter, they broke us, with their forward's job and a better effectiveness in three points throws. They took advantage of our mistakes, like the turnovers," added Garcia. Game Card http://www.fiba.com/pages/en/events/blockbusters/wc_u21_men/art_U21_wc_m.asp?r_act_news=8698&r_cat=208

Flashback: http://www.southfloridabulls.com/Sports/Football/Bulls%20Football%20USF%20@%20Cincinnati.htm

Who?

Did you watch him against us last year? He looked like the best quarterback in history. It's a shame he was injured right before the Louisville game, as he could have given them some competition.

Exactly! ;D http://susie1114.com/WhosOnFirst.html

5. Andre Hall RB, South Florida, Sr. 2004 STATS: 210 carries, 1,357 yards (123.4 ypg), 11 TDs, 149 receiving yards Hall was a two-time juco All-America RB before arriving at South Florida. All he did in his first year at USF was set a Bulls' single-season rushing record with 1,357 yards, including two games of 200-plus yards. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/2005/08/12/gallery.bigeast/content.6.html

Ive been watching it too. Did you hear earlier that the commentator had to correct the school Rubin went to from Central Florida to South Florida. Pretty lame that they couldn't get that right in the first place considering USF is in Tampa along with the Bucs.

Courtesy of USF Rivals: Shhh..........don't telll anybody. ;D

Now look at Woody George next to him! ;D

Free pics at USF bullseye from today's practice: Cray sure looks big: http://www.usf.rivals.com/feature.asp?SID=1074&FeKey=8663

Canada upset USA today  93 - 90! Lithuania 76 Argentina 63 http://www.fibaamericas.com/torneos1_us.asp?t=PHCLYUFIPT

I couldn't get the real player version to operate here, even though I could watch it on the Bucs site. I'm not sure why. This is the quick time version: [tt]http://www.buccaneers.com/av/quicktime.aspx?id=1235[/tt] This also doesn't work for me here.

Thanks for letting us know. Here is the real player version [tt]http://www.buccaneers.com/av/realplayer.aspx?id=1235[/tt] http://www.buccaneers.com/default.aspx?skipintro=true

Beat ya to it! ;D

I figured that would get your attention!  ;D Friday, August 12, 2005 USF on Good Morning America It's not the national TV exposure you'd normally expect, but USF's football team will be featured in a segment on Monday's "Good Morning America." USF, as part of a $20,000 grant from the NFL, showcased a new technology in Friday's practice that should help athletic trainers limit the risk of heat exhaustion in football players, especially in hot summer preseason practices. Ten USF football players -- all bigger players from the offensive and defensive lines -- swallowed a small white pill that encases a crystal temperature monitor and a small transmittor that can relay internal body temperatures to a wand trainers can carry -- the readings allow trainers to monitor players' temperatures and better anticipate heat-related problems. You won't read as much about this in Saturday's Times because our front page on Aug. 1 included a story written by Times writer Lisa Greene that addressed the same study, including quotes from Dr. Eric Coris, director of USF's Division of Sports Medicine. Coach Jim Leavitt, true to form, tried to embrace the positive exposure for USF's program without allowing the media event to distract too much from practice. A morning football practice rarely draws more than one or two print reporters at USF, and today's had several TV crews with cameras and boom mikes following players around. Leavitt closes practices to the media after the first half-hour, and he was as diligent today as ever -- for him, it seems to be not so much about secrecy as it is eliminating peripheral distractions whenever possible. So watch GMA on Monday and look for an appearance by Dr. Coris, as well as Leavitt, who was interviewed shortly after Friday's practice and kidded that he could have used a temperature monitor himself -- he likes completing the sprints after practice alongside his players, so he's often a sweat-soaked as they are by the end of a long practice. Leavitt recalled that all he took as a player 30 years ago were salt tablets, so technology has come a long way. posted by Greg Auman @ 8/12/2005 02:27:00 PM  0 comments  http://www.sptimes.com/blogs/usf/

Well, we did look like world beaters against them until about 3 minutes left in the first half and then the bottom fell out. At this point it's hard to say what will happen against PSU. I wouldn't be all that surprised if we beat them in a low scoring game. Nor, would I be all that surprised if they killed us.

This picture was taken at USF media day recently: USF's helmet now features a black logo and facemask.

[tt]http://gobulls.usf.edu/home_images/video/TCU%20Overtime_300k.wmv[/tt]

I could't find it by looking on the USF offical site, but I did find it by searching the archives here and it is still available: http://gobulls.usf.edu/Sports/football/tcu_video.htm

The USF official site had the exciting finish of the TCU game. You might want to check their football archives to see if it is still there.

MOON OVER MIAMI: Kickoff for USF’s Oct. 1 game at Miami is tentatively set for 8 p.m. and is expected to be televised on ESPNU. http://bulls.tbo.com/bulls/MGBDGHY86CE.html