Jamie

RMC may end up being like that transition CEO of a company who does a great behind-the-scenes job in getting things in order, but doesn't get any credit when things get better. I'd also like to note that I'm just as proud to be an alum today as I was yesterday.

By the way, I would really prefer not to get a damaged-goods big name. That almost NEVER works out.

Not yet, but their insane fans aren't happy unless Kentucky goes to the Final Four. But if Tubby came free, though, the line would form to the left, and you better have some serious bank with you.

As a matter of fact he was... despite the fact that his first four years were so bad that smazza would have been screaming to fire Schiano for at least two of them.

So you're only objective if you want him to be fired? ob-jec-tive (adjective) 3 a : expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations <objective art> <an objective history of the war> <an objective judgment>

This is not the right question to be asking. The question is, is someone with one year of experience coaching in the CAA ready to jump up to the Big East? The first time he was interviewed, USF was still in C-USA and the Big East wasn't even on the horizon.

I found the final score on that Michael Smith 26-rebound game... Providence won 96-82. So that's another game played at a much higher pace than the one on Saturday. Either that or it went into overtime and got out of control with free throws.

Grant's only been a head coach for one year... are you sure you want to go after someone that new? By the way, on VCU's home page they have a chart congratulating themselves for having the largest enrollment of any school in the state. So I guess that makes them the UCF of Virginia.

I know we're all in full throat about Mac, but did you notice Gransberry's stat line in that last game? 26 points and 23 rebounds! In a 40-minute game! DePaul's entire TEAM only had 31 rebounds. I finally got around to reading the box score and saw that and thought, "Wait... WHAAAAAT?" Amazing effort in a meaningless game.

I just wish he wasn't doing all that for frigging Orlando.

Just because they're in the same conference doesn't mean that West Virginia and Louisville aren't "big boys".

What the hell is wrong with you flsportsfan? This is a thread about freaking MARCHING BAND UNIFORMS, and you turn it into a rant about why didn't USF hire Bob Huggins? They don't even wear those to basketball games! Do you have mental problems or something? Anyway... the new uniforms look really sharp.

There isn't enough money to do both right now. That's the point of this whole debate. You'd have to be crazy not to invest in football right now, if you had to pick between it and basketball. It's much higher reward, and probably lower risk. By the way, if you want to figure out how a football school rises from the dead in basketball, I would suggest Woolard take a field trip to Texas A&M. They were 0-16 in the Big 12 a few years ago. Now they're a legitimate Final Four threat.

Absolutely. This is insane. Losing momentum in football would do much more damage to the school's athletic reputation than staying bad-to-mediocre in basketball.

Brett really needs to stop bringing up his personal issues with Jim Leavitt at any opportunity he gets. It's unprofessional and unnecessary.

Dallas makes Orlando look like Birmingham, and it makes Birmingham look like Baghdad. Notre Dame would probably love to come to the Cotton Bowl if the officials would have them. They do have a long history with the game and they don't get many chances to play in Texas.

Different style of basketball in the Big East, too. Except for West Virginia, you don't have any teams jacking up 25 threes a game.

What do you mean nothing was set up at the end? We get to within 1 point and have enough time to force Providence to have to take a shot. They miss the first shot, get the board and score 2. We have enough time left to set up a 3 and Buckley tries to go crazy and draw a foul when he could have just let the defender fly by him to have an open look. Do you think they could have done better than that if they had had a timeout to use and set up a play? You didn't answer my question about the timeout situation. Do you think if they hadn't started launching threes with 90 seconds left, Gransberry might not have picked up a loose ball foul trying to rebound one of them? That fouled him out of the game at a point where they didn't need to be taking threes yet. They were so horrible from beyond the arc that I would have put off taking them as long as I could.

I don't think Mac will be back, no. I haven't posted very much about it because I don't think this is going to cure the program (at least not right now), and I don't have the energy to get sucked into a shouting match "debate" with people who will do a victory lap about having been right all along. Arguing with some of the Darksiders is like arguing with someone about abortion. Their heels are so dug in that they will not listen to any argument of any kind.

The Cotton Bowl lost some luster because the Cotton Bowl stadium is a run-down piece of junk with no amenities and no luxury boxes. And God knows what kind of weather you're going to get here in early January. It could be 75 degrees, or it could be snowing. They were also hurt by the loss of the Southwest Conference. (That would be an absolute beast of a conference if it were still around. I mean, imagine if Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Houston, Arkansas, and TCU were still in a conference together.) The Cotton Bowl had a tie-in with that league's champion and they always found a quality independent team to play them. But even before the SWC went under, the independent teams like FSU and Miami went into conferences, and Notre Dame slipped badly. When the Big XII formed, they already had a tie-in with the Orange Bowl. So the BCS bid went to them. I think if the SWC had hung in there for another five years, the Cotton Bowl might have been given a BCS game instead of the Fiesta Bowl.

Well, then you have to admit a lot of the Darksiders are doing the same thing with their personas on this board. They take pride, even a sick sense of delight, in being the loudest, most shrill anti-Mac poster they can be. Firing a coach is not good for the program in the short term, whether it needs to be done or not.

Because Providence is a bubble team and it got close at the end. ESPNEWS does that a lot with games in progress.

This is completely unfair and I'm saying that up front. But they put the last two minutes of the game on ESPNEWS, and let's just say I wasn't impressed with USF's strategy. And how do you use all your timeouts like that in a close game so you can't set anything up at the end of the game? Side note. Al Keck - possibly more annoying than ever.

There's no way Woolard doesn't care about men's basketball, not in this conference. He may even be hearing about it from the Big East - something like "we brought you in for the media exposure and you're absolutely terrible in our most important signature sport". Woolard just isn't going to be drawn offsides by message-board knee-jerking in the middle of the season. The anti-Mac crowd has been saying the same thing since Thanksgiving and he knows it isn't going to change in March.

They only had a one-run lead at the time. I said it last night and I'm staying with it - I would have walked LaPorta to load the bases. Any ground ball goes home for the force-out and hopefully to first for a double play to end the game. Even if you don't get the runner at first, there are still two out and then it doesn't matter where the runners are.