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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

You're joking, right??

I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Can someone please move this back over to the State of Florida Board as I could give a rat's a@# about this game! GO BULLS!!

April Fools! GO BULLS!!

Don't care for either team, but.............. GO OSU!!

This guys a job hopper........ TAMPA - University of South Florida defensive line coach Bernard Clark has left USF after one season to return to Florida International. A Leto High graduate, Clark came to USF in 2006 after a two-year stint as FIU's defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. At FIU, he will coach either linebackers or the defensive line under new coach Mario Cristobal, Clark’s former teammate at the University of Miami. "I want to be in an environment where you can make a difference in a young man's life," Clark said. "Where you can make them better men, fathers and husbands. A lot of people might think I’m taking a step back, but that’s OK. "To me it's not a step back. It has to do with happiness. Are you a better coach just because you’re in the Sun Belt or the Big East?" Clark, 39, is USF's third assistant, and second defensive line coach, to leave in the past two seasons. He made $75,000 at USF. "After seeing how USF has built a program and the excitement in everyone's eyes after winning the first bowl game, I want to do that at FIU," Clark said. "I sat down with Mario and [FIU athletic director] Pete [Garcia] and listened to their vision. That made it an easier decision. I realize they’re on the same page as I am." Clark, who played on two national championship teams at Miami, was a third-round draft pick of the Cincinnati Bengals. He also was an assistant at Division I-AA programs Liberty (2000-03) and James Madison (1998-99) and also Lakeland Santa Fe (1997) and King (1996) high schools. http://www.tbo.com/sports/bulls/MGBKK8HRFWE.html

Actually, the payout for the MPC Computer Bowl between Miami and Nevada is the lowest at $250K according to a USA Today article I read last month.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/12/08/Business/Way_to_go__logo__way_.shtml TAMPA - Who could have predicted this? The main merchandise wall at the Bucs and Bull Heaven sports store is displaying more University of South Florida shirts and hats than Buccaneers' logo gear. But that's what happens when the local college football team upsets a powerhouse West Virginia squad and heads to a bowl game, while the hometown Bucs plummet firmly into last place. It's a dynamic played out throughout the sports apparel business in the bay area depending on the vagaries of how well a giving team is doing. "A lot of this has to do with USF's success. The interest is growing," said Chuck Cotton, a 1975 USF graduate and Bulls season ticket holder who just spent $37.54 on a Bulls T-shirt and ski cap. "It's a growing program. It's a young program." The Bulls' buzz has stirred big business for Jeffrey Neil Fox. The owner of Bucs and Bulls Heaven reported that sales of USF logo gear at his store passed $100,000 for the month-long period from Nov. 5 to Tuesday. That's three times the revenue sales for the same time period in 2005. In response to the Bullish spending, Fox has spent $20,000 in ads, promotions and home mailings to lure even more USF fans to his North Florida Avenue store in Tampa. And he's beefing up his Bulls inventory, stocking more than a half-million dollars worth of green jerseys, T-shirts, skirts and even Rocky the Bull stuffed animals. At the same time last year, Fox had about $200,000 worth of USF inventory. This year, Fox is peddling 70 different USF caps compared with 10 last year. "The ink is still drying," Fox remarked about the print on the new shirts that just arrived showing the Bulls playing the East Carolina Pirates in the Papajohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Ala. on Dec. 23. USF fan Colleen Kurtz said Christmas shopping for her husband, a Bulls grad, was easy at Bucs and Bull Heaven. "The only thing he asked for was a Bulls jersey," said Kurtz, who also got a skirt for her two-year-old daughter. Total bill: About $80. The spike in Bulls gear sales is consistent with the overall trend in college football logo merchandise sales this year. Sales are up 46 percent nationwide, said Neil Schwartz, spokesman for SportScanInfo, a Palm Beach County company that tracks sports merchandise retail sales. For the state's Big Three of the University of Florida, the University of Miami and Florida State University, the sales of their logo gear reflect the wins and losses of their respective seasons. The Gators, who are playing in the national championship game, showed a 36.5 percent increase in gear sales this year. That's compared with a 12 percent increase for the Miami Hurricanes, which had an off-season in 2006. The FSU Seminoles struggled mightily on both the field and at the cash register, showing a 5.45 percent decrease in merchandise sales, according to SportScanInfo data. The buzz around the college bowl season has even prompted a west Tampa company that manufactures specialty sports T-shirts with irreverent messages to crank out hundreds of shirts this week. Smack Apparel Co. produced 1,000 "BCS Robbery" shirts for Michigan fans, who are disappointed that the Wolverines missed out on playing Ohio State for the national championship. Meanwhile, Smack Apparel made 2,000 shirts with the message that "Michigan is just a second place team," for Ohio State fans, said Wayne Curtiss, owner of Smack Apparel. . infobox: Source: SportScanInfo . Fast facts Winning is profitable Sports merchandise sales for the biggest college teams in Florida varied dramatically, mirroring the teams' on-field performances. Here's how sales between February and November this year compare with the same period a year ago. UF: Up 36.5 percent Miami: Up 12.3 percent FSU: Down 5.45 percent The top 10 in sales 1. Ohio State 2. Michigan 3. Texas 4. Alabama 5. Georgia 6. Notre Dame 7. Florida 8. Oklahoma 9. Kentucky 10. Tennessee

Actually, the payout for the MPC Computer Bowl between Miami and Nevada is $250K according to the USA Today article. GO BULLS!

Gruden was just what the Bucs needed to push them over the top at that time. No Gruden, no Lombardi. Maybe if things don't dramatically improve here next year, he'll move on. There may be another situation he could step in to like here ... You're exactly right as Gruden got lucky. Nothing wrong with a little luck.

Gruden won the Superbowl with a team assembled by Tony Dungy. There are many other talented coaches out there to replace Parcells if he decides to step down after this year.

This Cowboys fan says no thanks to your offer.

please tell /you to stop I really am a instigator, aren't I? ;D

I'll pass as the whole thing has gotten very old and stale!

Don't go there as you don't even know what's behind my username! fishinBULL.............what a dumb username! ;D

Just like that, sorry about early I was not getting mad at you but rather the abuse of this feature and the death of my joke. Let's just put the whole thing to bed and concentrate on our upcoming game this weekend. GO BULLS!!

Please stop making reference to me as the joke has now gotten old. Pick on some other poster as I think you have me confused with someone else!!

whoa keep me out of this line of fire i do not remember attacking anyone on this board gnats excepted ;D and last i have been a big proponent of change PJ, rod smith even questioning if CJL can take us to the next level Why the hell does my name keep popping up about attacking posters? I've never attacked anyone as I too would like to see some changes in some of the offensive coaching staff. Please pick on another messageboard poster jfcohio!!

What the heck are you talking about as I bleed green and gold? I've never had anything negative to say about the Bulls as I absolutely love the University I graduated from. I don't owe you any further explanation to affirm my allegiance to USF. Try another messageboard poster to call into question their allegiance to USF as I think I might have missed the punch line! GO BULLS!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, but no thanks! We don't want him running our players out of town. The Bucs can keep him.

A loss is a loss no matter how one tries to spin it............ GO BULLS!!

B-I-N-G-O!!

Cowboy fan talking about bandwagon fans ............ priceless.  Whatchu talkin bout Willis??