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  1. Section 109, Row C, Seats 19 & 20 Face value of each ticket is $45. Willing to sell for $50 bcamp10331@aol.com if interested.
  2. I don't frequent the UCif rivals board that often. Found this post on there which I thought was very interesting: I don't know if this is old news or not but UCF will be playing USF twice next season. They will open the renovated sun dome and then USF will come later and play at UCF I'm sure the game will be sold out for sure if there is any truth to this rumor. UCif will have 8k fans in the building!
  3. http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/bulls/content/tennis-coach-barr-retires-after-20-years-bulls
  4. Grothe has landed on his feet... http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/bulls/content/grothe-orlando-qb-signs-predators Here's a transaction rich with irony: Former USF quarterback Matt Grothe, cut loose by the Tampa Bay Storm after playing sparingly this season, has signed with their Arena rival, the Orlando Predators. Bulls fans will remember that few enjoyed the USF-UCF rivalry as much as Grothe, who engineered and one complete rout, got poked " by UCF fans on Facebook and made clear his overall distaste for the Orlando school. And Grothe's pro career got its start -- albeit a short one -- in Orlando in 2010 with the UFL's Florida Tuskers. And to add to the nostalgia, Grothe was signed due to an injury to Predators backup Justin Roper, best known for throwing four touchdown passes for Oregon in the Ducks' drubbing of USF in the 2007 Sun Bowl. Orlando's first game with Grothe on roster is against the San Jose Sabercats, who have former Bulls receivers Huey Whittaker and Taurus Johnson on their roster. ...
  5. I definitely agree blurb doesn't make any sense. Won't we be playing these clowns in bball twice during the regular season??
  6. Head over to campus Monday to help celebrate the Bulls' remarkable 50-14 season, which was capped by USF's first-ever trip to the Women's College World Series. Join players, parents, students and alumni from 5-6 p.m. in the Big East Room of the Lee Roy Selmon Athletic Complex to take a look back on the season with a short highlight video and special speech from Athletic Director Doug Woolard, and hear from head coach Ken Eriksen as he honors the players with their NCAA awards. Stay for food and conversation during this hour-long presentation. All are welcome. http://www.gousfbulls.com//ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=7700&ATCLID=205435870
  7. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/columnist/story/2012-05-07/Next-Big-East-commissioner-will-have-hands-full/54814790/1 Maybe you saw the list of worst jobs that some outfit called Careercast.com put out about a month ago. Among the bottom five were newspaper reporter and broadcaster. Those guys whiffed. No list of worst jobs is complete without Big East Conference commissioner somewhere near the top. Yesterday, Big East commissioner John Marinatto resigned after being forced out by a conference membership that voted in just about every move it kicked him out for. Used to be, conference commissioner was one of those cushy, get-you-through-to-retirement kinds of jobs. He was a glad-hander. He showed up at the best bowl games and, maybe if things got hairy, soothed a few egos. The biggest decision was making sure he picked the right resort for the summer meetings. Not anymore. Now, conference commissioners are in charge of hostile takeovers, clandestine courtships and assembling the odd college sports cabal. If Marinatto failed, most of it rested in his inability to get a majority of the college presidents in his conference to live in the real world. After something of a coup in landing TCU, Marinatto wanted to solidify the league at 10 teams by adding Central Florida, but South Florida president Judy Genshaft refused, while other established league members still, according to sources, had designs on recruiting Boston College back into the league. Yeah, that was going to happen. In addition to dissent there was subterfuge. Marinatto worked on an 9-year, $1.4 billion TV deal with ESPN, based on TCU in the league, and took it to conference presidents. They voted it down. One school involved in the leadership on that decision then turned around and bolted from the league. If there were steps he could have taken that might've left the Big East on a more solid footing -- and there were, though not all were supported by the conference presidents in a manner timely enough to make a difference -- Marinatto also found himself in a situation where he could not win. After Syracuse and Pitt left, Marinatto told league presidents to increase the exit fee. They wouldn't. Shortly after, TCU walked away. What possible argument or action could've kept a team from leaving the Big East for the Big 12 or Atlantic Coast Conference? Stability might've worked for Syracuse. But once the ESPN deal had been turned down, there was none to offer. Former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese told The New York Times it was Marinatto's vision that kept the league afloat after Miami, Boston College and Virginia Tech defected. But Marinatto couldn't sell his conference on any vision, if in fact he had one this time around, nor was he given the support to take bold action to make achieving one even a remote possibility. Yes, there is failure, but it is at the very least shared. The question now is whether it can be reversed. The Big East still can cobble together a decent football television package, thanks to its expanded membership. It turns out sports are about the only thing anyone watches on live TV anymore. The bigger challenge for the new commissioner will be lobbying for leverage with the true football power conferences, and remembering to pay attention to the strength of the basketball side. Even so, there's no holding onto programs like Louisville or Connecticut if the league is raided again. And the biggest job of all will be coming up with a vision and identity for a conference that has lost both and holding together a membership that has lost its unity with new members who have to be uneasy. Those job rankings from Careercast ranked lumberjack as the worst job. But for the next Big East Commissioner, an axe may never be very far away. Contact Eric Crawford at (502) 582-4361 or ecrawford@courier-journal.com. Comment on this column or read his blog and past columns at www.courier-journal.com/crawford. For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's. To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor Brent Jones. For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to corrections.usatoday.com.
  8. From Greg's blog...... http://blogs.tampabay.com/usf/ March 30, 2007 At last, they meet: Woolard, Heath talk Here's the coaching update from Friday's paper ... USF's search for its next basketball coach continues at the Final Four in Atlanta, where former Arkansas coach Stan Heath met Thursday with Bulls athletic director Doug Woolard. "We had a good meeting," said Heath, fired Monday by Arkansas despite a 20-win season and making the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row. "We'll visit some more and have more dialogue in the next few days." If the Bulls are serious about offering Heath the job, the next step likely would be bringing him to Tampa to tour the campus and facilities and meet with school administrators. Asked if such plans had been made, Heath said "not at the moment." Heath, who said Thursday that he was "possibly" meeting with other schools in Atlanta, said he would have a better feel for his plans after "things clear up on my end." He has not been publicly linked to any other openings. Three of the four known candidates who have talked with Woolard  Winthrop coach Gregg Marshall, South Alabama coach John Pelphrey and former St. John’s coach Fran Fraschilla  have taken their names out of consideration since Sunday. The Bulls seek a replacement for Robert McCullum, who was fired March 9 after four seasons, including a 4-28 record in two seasons of Big East play. Woolard is not commenting on candidates during the hiring process. And one bonus note: I'm always curious to see how the South Florida vacancy is viewed nationally -- I tend to think of the current midmajor openings as largely unattractive ones, so I figure Kentucky, Michigan, Arkansas, Colorado and Iowa are seen as better jobs, but not much else. But check out this paragraph from Friday's Chicago Tribune, in a story about the slew of coaching vacancies: "Just six involve high-profile programsâ€â€Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan and Minnesotaâ€â€and the rest are at places like Chicago State, Georgia State, Hawaii, Iona, Quinnipiac, Radford and Southern Utah." Well. No love for the Bulls there, at least not the same love given to ... Radford (which got filled last week) or ... Southern Utah? Georgia State actually got Rod Barnes, a solid hire, but I think any job in the Big East is good enough to make it on a list of top openings right now ... I'm a bit surprised we haven't seen any other media outlets discovering who these other schools are that might be courting Stan Heath. Or at least no outlets that can be seen by the far-reaching eye of Google News ... I leave for the women's Final Four in Cleveland on Friday, so trying to track down this coach gets a little more challenging over the weekend ...
  9. The women won their second round game on Monday as they had a first round bye. They play Virginia in the quarterfinals on Thursday. GO BULLS!
  10. Well on the bright side, the Gayturds are getting hammered by Tennessee 50-31 at halftime. ;D
  11. Bulls won 3-0 according to the live stats on gousfbulls.com!
  12. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/nba/02/15/bc.bkn.hardawayremarks.ap/index.html NEW YORK (AP) -- Former NBA center John Amaechi, who disclosed last week he's gay, said anti-gay comments by another retired player "demonstrate the need to continue the conversation." Retired Miami Heat guard Tim Hardaway said on a radio show Wednesday that he hates gay people, then later apologized for his remarks. "I don't need Tim's comments to realize there's a problem," Amaechi told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday. "People said that I should just shut up and go away -- now they have to rethink that." Hardaway's comments were sparked by Amaechi's disclosure he's gay. "You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people," Hardaway said while a guest on Sports Talk 790 The Ticket in Miami. "I'm homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States." The host asked Hardaway how he would interact with a gay teammate. "First of all, I wouldn't want him on my team. And second of all, if he was on my team, I would, you know, really distance myself from him because, uh, I don't think that is right. I don't think he should be in the locker room while we are in the locker room." If he did find out that a teammate was gay, Hardaway said he would ask for the player to be removed from the team. "Something has to give," Hardaway said. "If you have 12 other ballplayers in your locker room that's upset and can't concentrate and always worried about him in the locker room or on the court or whatever, it's going to be hard for your teammates to win and accept him as a teammate." Amaechi also detailed his life, in his autobiography Man in the Middle, which was released Wednesday. He hoped his coming out would be a catalyst for intelligent discourse. "His words pollute the atmosphere," Amaechi said. "It creates an atmosphere that allows young gays and lesbians to be harassed in school, creates an atmosphere where in 33 states you can lose your job, and where anti-gay and lesbian issues are used for political gain. It's an atmosphere that hurts all of us, not just gay people." Hardaway later apologized for the remarks during a telephone interview with Fox affiliate WSVN in Miami. "Yes, I regret it. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said I hate gay people or anything like that," he said. "That was my mistake." Hardaway has reportedly been removed from further league-related appearances. "It is inappropriate for him to be representing us given the disparity between his views and ours," NBA commissioner David Stern said in a statement to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "Famously, they're saying in 2007 that homophobia is not an issue," Amaechi said. "While [Hardaway] is not a representative of the NBA or of straight men, there's no point pretending it's not an opinion that is out there."
  13. I'm not a Bucs fan, but really very happy for Tony winning the BIG ONE! Class act.
  14. From today's St. Pete. Times... Athletic director Doug Woolard is negotiating with the Tampa Sports Authority for a new lease agreement at Raymond James Stadium. A five-year renewal with a five-year option would leave open the possibility of USF opting out for an oncampus stadium in the next decade.
  15. Hey All, This is a great chance to connect with alumni…and enjoy women’s basketball…please pass along….. Pre-Game Women's Basketball Social Sponsored by the Pinellas County Alumni Chapter Women's Basketball: USF vs. Pitt Saturday, Feb. 10 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Gibbons Alumni Center, USF Tampa Meet special guest, former USF basketball star Tony Greier and hear about his new book, A Raging Bull: Chasing the Big Time. R.S.V.P. to Katie Giglio, Alumni Coordinator at 727-873-4561 or kgiglio@spadmin.usf.edu
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