achiever1911

Still doesn't identify the 2 teams playing today in the stadium though.

They might have, but everyone knows there is no such thing as the Tampa Bay Gaytors! ;D

I really got a chuckle out of that! Not even the mighty Gaytors could convince the Glazers to repaint the endzones! ;D

Are you related to Smazza??

I still think he's overrated!! ;D

http://bulls.tbo.com/bulls/MGBUUSAVWHE.html Nicholas Leaning Toward Declaring For NFL Draft CHARLOTTE, N.C. - University of South Florida junior LB Stephen Nicholas has petitioned the NFL's Draft Advisory Council and is leaning toward leaving USF a year early, his teammates said following Saturday's loss to N.C. State. Nicholas said he would make a decision next week. Nicholas, who began the year only 17 hours shy of his communications degree, has been contemplating leaving early since August. Playing in front of 10 NFL scouts in probably his final USF game, Nicholas had 10 tackles, including one for loss. He finished the season with a team-high 15 1/2 tackles for loss. "To win the game and send the seniors out with a win would have been huge," Nicholas said. STREAK ENDS: USF's 14-0 loss was the first time in the Bulls' nine-year history they were shut out. Before Saturday, USF had been held to a field goal four times in its 100-game history, but never shut out. NOT STANDING PAT: Junior QB Pat Julmiste, who was 8-for-25 for 91 yards and an interception, knows he must improve next year if he wants to play. "I need to get my junk together," he said. "If I don't do it by two-a-days next spring, you'll see a different quarterback in there." Freshman Carlton Hill also struggled, losing two fumbles. "Both played below average," USF offensive coordinator Rod Smith said. HALL FINALE: Senior RB Andre Hall said he was a little worn out from all the bowl activities, but still managed his 12th career 100-yard game with 118 yards. It was the first time this season USF lost when Hall rushed for 100 yards. "I didn't get as much rest as I thought we would," said Hall, who finished with a career school-record 2,731 yards. "Coach tried to warn us." TALE OF THE TURNOVERS: As they have all season, turnovers and sacks played a key role for USF, which lost two fumbles and allowed six sacks. For the season, USF had 19 turnovers and 19 sacks in its six losses, compared to six turnovers and six sacks in its six wins. HOMETOWN HURT: N.C. State senior Brian Clark continued a trend of former Chamberlain receivers haunting the hometown Bulls. Clark had three catches for 66 yards, including a 9-yard touchdown reception and a 41-yard catch that set up N.C. State's other touchdown. In the past two years, Pittsburgh's Greg Lee, of Chamberlain, has 11 catches for 259 yards and four TDs against USF. ODDS AND ENDS: USF senior Terrence Royal's three sacks gave him a school-record 19.5 sacks in his career, breaking Shurron Pierson's previous mark (18). It also gave him 10 this season, tying Pierson's mark in 2001. ... USF's final ticket numbers were about 5,300 sold. ... USF sophomore Jerome Springfield made his first career start at left tackle in place of Thed Watson, and sophomore RT Walter Walker started for Marc Dile. ... USF senior P Brandon Baker, who didn't travel with the team and drove to Charlotte after becoming academically eligible Friday, finished his career with a 40.75-yard average per punt, second in school history to Devin Sanderson (40.9). Baker had the second punt of his career blocked. ... USF is 0-3 in games with 11 a.m. starts, losing by an average score of 29-9. ... USF's five opponents that advanced to bowl games are 0-3 (UCF, Miami and Rutgers), with Louisville (Gator Bowl) and Penn State (Orange Bowl) yet to play.

Cowards! ;D

Way to go girls! They really have a shot of breaking into the Top 25 with the schedule they play this year.

Fall 2004 Enrollment Statistics - 42,950: USF's total enrollment 32,442: Undergraduate enrollment 7,366: Graduate enrollment 4,182: Fall 2004 freshman class 35,081: Tampa campus enrollment Diverse freshman student body including: 11.4% African American, 9.9% Hispanic, 5.1% Asian 94.5% are from Florida 42% of new freshmen live on campus 4,063: Fall 2003 new transfer students 2,112: International students, representing 116 countries 7,788: Degrees awarded in 2003-04 academic year 181,907: USF alumni around the world http://www.usf.edu/ataglance.html

USF Adds Kansas, McNeese State By BRETT McMURPHY bmcmurphy@tampatrib.com Published: Dec 20, 2005 TAMPA - South Florida agreed to a home-and-home series with Kansas beginning next season in Lawrence, Kan., and added a home game with Division I-AA McNeese State, completing the Bulls' 2006 football schedule. The Bulls will visit Kansas on Sept. 23, 2006, with the return game in Tampa in 2008. The USF-KU game will be a reunion for USF coach Jim Leavitt and Kansas coach Mark Mangino, who worked together as assistants at Kansas State from 1991 to 1995. Kansas (6-5) is playing in its second bowl game in three years Friday against Houston in the Fort Worth Bowl. The addition of Kansas forced the Bulls to push back their road game at North Carolina to Oct. 14. The Bulls open next season Sept. 2 at home against McNeese State (5-4), which will receive $250,000 for the game. USF's remaining non-conference schedule: Sept. 9 at home vs. Florida International, Sept. 16 at UCF and Oct. 14 at North Carolina. In Big East play, USF will host Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and Syracuse and visit Cincinnati, Louisville and West Virginia. Game dates for the Big East Conference games have not been determined. 76 Percent Of Division I Athletes Graduate INDIANAPOLIS - More than three-fourths of Division I athletes complete their college education, according to a new calculation that NCAA President Myles Brand calls more accurate. The new Graduation Success Rate, or GSR, shows 76 percent graduate, the NCAA said Monday. The rate includes students who transfer to other schools throughout their college career, information not considered in the federally mandated graduation rate. That rate is 62 percent, according to preliminary data. "Our students today are far more mobile than they have been in the past," Brand said. "We must respect that migration of students in order to get accurate data." Among the 318 Division I schools, the overall graduation rate for football was 64 percent, an increase from 54 percent based on the federal rate. The University of South Florida had a GSR of 57 percent in football, compared with a federal rate of 50 percent. Florida State's GRS in football was 52 percent, compared with a 46 percent federal rate. Miami had a GSR of 67 percent and a federal rate of 65 percent in football. Florida had a GSR of 80 percent in football, compared to a federal rate of 42 percent. "The academic success of our student-athletes is our first priority," Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley said. "This is something that we have tracked and monitored for years. Our Graduation Success Rate numbers released today show that academics are a priority for our student-athletes and coaches. "I think the computation of the GSR more accurately reflects the progress of the teams than the federal graduation rates. Students transfer in and out of programs and their progress should also be tracked." Lacrosse had the highest GSR for both men and women, at 89 percent and 94 percent, respectively. In men's sports, basketball had the lowest GSR, at 58 percent, an improvement on the federally reported graduation rate of 44 percent. The women's basketball rate was 81 percent. In women's sports, bowling had the lowest GSR at 72 percent. http://bulls.tbo.com/bulls/MGBXZ4ZOFHE.html

Yes, it really looks cool. Job well done.

****!

Here husband is an alum.

Do you plan on putting the date of the bowl game on the shirt?

Hands down I depise the Gators most of all! GO BULLS!!

Screw the Bucs!!

What an exciting win for the Cowboys!!

Stick a fork in the Knats as their done........ Tulsa - 44 Knats - 27 GO BULLS!

http://tampatribune.com/MGBK4IY9RGE.html TAMPA - -- BullsHeaven store owner Jeffrey Neil Fox has invested more than $500,000 on the hunch that the University of South Florida's move to the Big East Conference will pay off in fans buying USF Bulls caps, shirts and souvenirs. Bright House Networks, the area's primary cable-TV supplier, signed a multimillion-dollar, five-year deal this fall hoping to leverage USF's new role as a Big East member to broadcast Bulls games on TV. Shawn Pulford and Jim Zmirich of Alexander Reid Land Development LLC spent $2 million to convert a former Hops Restaurant Bar & Brewery on Fowler Avenue into an eatery with a USF sports theme called the Bull Ring, hoping to capitalize on the buzz around USF and the Big East. USF's inaugural year in the Big East, one of the country's major sports conferences, has meant a spike in Bulls sports-related business off campus and at university sporting events. Besides restaurants and merchandisers trying to cash in on USF's move to the Big East from Conference USA, USF's athletic department expects a windfall in ticket revenue thanks to its football and basketball teams drawing more fans. "Everything is timing. USF has come of age. We want to get their merchandise out there," said Fox, a 1975 USF graduate and president of Authentic Team Merchandise, which opened the BullsHeaven store on North Florida Avenue on Thursday. Fox signed a deal with USF in September to be the Bulls' official licensed merchandiser, which allows him to sell logo gear at games. Fox also is partnering with Pulford and Zmirich to sell Bulls merchandise at the Bull Ring restaurant. The Bull Ring's owners are aiming for first-year revenue of $2 million to $2.5 million and hope to double those numbers in five to six years, said Bill Haines, the restaurant's general manager. The restaurant, which opens Dec. 16, will have 40 to 45 employees, including USF athletes, he said. The decision to open the restaurant "was done with the awareness that USF was entering the Big East this year," Haines said. "The Big East is a brand name, and it's a bigger market," Fox said. "It's big-time." Case in point: Tonight's USF-West Virginia football game in Tampa would have decided the Big East championship had the Bulls defeated the University of Connecticut a week ago. But USF lost, dooming its Sugar Bowl bid. The team, having a 6-4 season, still might play in its first bowl game: either the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, N.C., or the Motor City Bowl in Detroit. The Meineke Bowl pays $1.1 million to each school that plays, and a Big East team that plays in the Motor City Bowl also would get $1.1 million. USF, like the seven other Big East football members, splits $12.5 million from various bowl games and can make extra money based on its Big East conference finish and the particular bowl it plays in, said Rick Costello, USF associate athletic director and chief financial officer. Even if the team doesn't play in a bowl game, USF can expect at least $1.5 million from that arrangement, he said. This is USF's fifth year playing Division 1A football, college's highest level. The football program's only coach, Jim Leavitt, signed a seven-year, $7 million deal this week. USF actual attendance at Raymond James Stadium averaged 32,231 a game this season, compared with 19,757 a game for six contests in 2004, according to the Tampa Sports Authority, the public agency managing the stadium. In addition, the USF basketball team will host colleges with high-profile round-ball traditions such as Villanova, DePaul, Connecticut and Georgetown during the 2005-06 season. USF is upgrading its 10,411-seat Sun Dome on campus by installing scoreboards, adding more floor seats, replacing the floor surface, and looking into adding suites, said Tom Veit, associate director of athletics. Action Sports Media will sell advertisement space on the new scoreboard and is trying to get a naming rights deal for the dome, said Veit, a 1993 USF graduate. USF will receive a revenue cut from the naming rights deal -- which would be a first for the building -- and from advertisement signs in the venue. But USF officials said the exact amount of revenue is secret under the Action Sports deal. Ticket revenue from football and basketball games has increased 15 percent thanks to the Big East move, Costello said. USF basketball attendance has no place to go but up: In 2004-05, average announced attendance was 3,220, including an average of 1,828 fans in the stands. To market the move to the Big East, USF has a $250,000 annual budget to advertise games in local media. "That's up from zero when I came here," said Veit, who started in March 2002. USF plans to improve its other sports facilities and hopes to use the Big East's high profile to prompt alumni to donate money, said Doug Woolard, USF athletic director. Murray Sperber, a former English and American studies professor at Indiana University who has published several books on college sports spending, cautioned that USF's move to the Big East will mean the university will have to spend more to compete. "The bad news is that they're competing for a leisure dollar in a very tough town. I don't see it getting much better after this year," Sperber said. "I can't imagine they're going to make money. Playing in the Big East means they will have serious travel costs."

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USF Women Drop First Game Of The Season, 71-47 To No. 7 North Carolina CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) (December 2, 2005) -- No. 7 North Carolina got its toughest challenge at home this season -- and still won by 24. Ivory Latta scored 16 points and Rashanda McCants added 14 to lift the Tar Heels to a 71-47 victory Friday night over previously unbeaten USF. USF made just 19 of 55 shots (34.5 percent) but stayed closer on the Tar Heels' home court than any other opponent this season. North Carolina beat its first four visitors by an average of 45.8 points. Erlana Larkins had 11 points for North Carolina (7-0), and La'Tangela Atkinson scored nine and grabbed 10 rebounds before fouling out with 6:49 to play. Jessica Dickson led USF (5-1) with 18 points, and Shantia Grace added 14. Dickson also grabbed 10 rebounds marking her second double-double of the year, and her second in the last three games. North Carolina made five 3-pointers, two by Latta, on the way to a 32-17 halftime lead. Latta had 11 points in the first half, shooting 4-of-9 from the field. USF repeatedly tried a 2-3 zone on the Tar Heels. "I just didn't think we could match up with their depth and athleticism," coach Jose Fernandez said. "We're missing two starters from our lineup. We only played six kids, really, for most of the game. They played 11." “We beat ourselves. I mean 7-21 from the free throw line, 19 turnovers for the game, for playing the No. 7 team in the country; you can’t play as poorly as we did tonight. Defensively, we thought that if we kept them around the 60-point range – anywhere between 60 and 68 points – that we’d be alright. But 47 points, where are you going to be scoring 47 points? I just think we were a little tentative.†USF led 8-5 after hitting four of its first five shots, then missed its next 14 over a span of 13:29. The Tar Heels used a 17-2 run during the Bulls' drought to take a 22-10 advantage. USF failed to make a second-half basket until 7:30 elapsed. Already leading 34-20, North Carolina got five points from Latta and six from McCants in a 12-0 run that made it a rout. A free throw by McCants with 12:53 left gave North Carolina a 46-20 lead. The Tar Heels took their biggest lead, 62-28, on McCants' last 3-pointer, coming with 7:02 remaining. The Bulls will return to home for their inaugural BIG EAST Conference game with No. 14 DePaul.

The Gators are going to eat you alive! ;D

Correct.

Ditto!!

The Gators will eat you alive!!