Jamie

From what I've read on this board, the Beef Studs would be completely out of place at a baseball game and would stand a chance of getting thrown out of the stadium.

If you want to see how other schools do it... well, there are lots of schools in Florida that play baseball. As much as it pains me, go to Gainesville and listen to those hillbillies get on the "Earls" who pitch against them. Or go to Tallahassee and see what those guys do (they're super-organized). Go to a school like Stetson that basically has nothing but baseball.

And tell your friends (especially the students) that these games are some of the last chances they'll have to spend outside in the sunshine before it gets all miserably hot and humid. It's even free.

Not to mention what that does to Oteri psychologically to blow it that badly in front of a huge crowd.

Three-run triple. 8-5 Gators. Oh and there's another one. 9-5 and Oteri has given up all six runs in the ninth.

If USF loses, it's going to be psychologically damaging to the team, I fear.

Oh dear, meltdown in progress. Why didn't the Bulls walk LaPorta to set up a game-ending DP chance?

I just hope there's some guy screaming about EAAARRRRL'S INNNN TROUBLE!!!! anytime the Gators pitchers get into a three-ball count.

* NOTE: This joke is only funny if you've been to a game in Gainesville *

Another #12 leaving us way, WAY too early.  

duke lacrosse had 6500 in attendance

So you're saying if the USF baseball team throws a party and the players get accused of gangraping a stripper and the Hillsborough County DA goes crazy trying to prosecute them and the program is shut down and the investigation gets a month straight of mainstream national media attention, they'll get 6500 people to show up to their first game back?

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Bulls win 60-51. Important W against a fellow NCAA bubble team.

TCU fled a few months after the C-USA raid. I think the comparison looks like this:

Old C-USA > current MWC > current C-USA

I wish him luck trying to check Dirk Nowitzki tonight.

That would be Neil Dougherty head coach of the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs...

Exactly right. This isn't some kind of "look what big name you just fired!" trick. I wanted everyone to think about what you would do if you were looking at another program whose coach has a history that is remarkably similar to Mac's. If it wasn't your program and you weren't so close to it, would you feel differently?

By the way, here's some more information and opinions:

- TCU made the NIT in 2004, not the NCAA.

- Their roster has three seniors (one of whom is the coach's son), four juniors, one sophomore, and four freshmen. Dougherty lost two players this season because of their involvement in an on-campus ****.

- Considering how they support their football team when there are only about 9,000 students on campus, I'm guessing they should have more than 1500 people actually showing up to their basketball games.

- They beat #13 Air Force on Saturday.

Jaspers have been to the Regionals three of the past four years (if I remember correctly) and only lost one starting position player from last years team who beat Nebraska in the Regionals.

No offense because a sweep is always a good thing... but saying Manhattan made the NCAA baseball tournament is like saying Monmouth made the NCAA basketball tournament. Someone has to go from every conference.

After arriving with a fine coaching pedigree, this coach is 59-90 in his five years at his current school. He spent the first three seasons in a major conference and his team held its own, but then they moved to a better basketball conference where they've struggled mightily. In two years, their total conference record is 5-25. However, one of those wins was over a top-15 team and they have shown some modest improvement this season.

The team has been beset by injuries and academic ineligibility, and two players were thrown out of school for disciplinary reasons. They have played hard, but have not always been competitive and there is a great deal of apathy for the basketball program. They play in a large urban area and have been overshadowed in recent years by their football team, but they should still be drawing more fans than they are.

Question: Without me naming the coach, would you let him keep his job?

This guy's also saying West Virginia will run the table, Steve Slaton will win the Heisman, and TCU will win at Texas. So there's a good chance he's talking out his rear end.

Nice 6-0 start by the basebulls. In years past they probably would have given away a few of these games.

And the program was not in shambles when Seth was the coach.

We had RPI's in the 40's and 50's.

We just struggled against ranked teams and with free throws.  A few years we actually sniffed the tourny.

We must have been sniffing REAL hard since he couldn't win C-USA Tournament games.

Don't forget, leading boosters (read: financial donors) boycotted the games.  They organized a boycott - which of course I disagreed with - to rid the school of Seth.  It doesn't get much worse than that.  He was failing to deliver and some of the kids were out of control.

I don't recall those RPIs but I'll take your word on it.  Maybe once or twice.  He did a good job early and ran it into the ground.

Yeah, maybe he had an RPI that high in December or January. I'm pretty sure they ended up around 70-100 when the season was over.

Seth's teams always peaked way too soon. By the middle of February they couldn't beat anyone on their level and they always had their pathetic 25-point butt-kicking at Southern Miss or some other lousy team. That's a different kind of failure than what we have right now, but maybe even more damaging.

Unless Leavitt changed his name to "Tony Dungy" this wouldn't work.

Do stadiums up north cost more to build than a stadium in Florida? Rentschler Field and Cardinal Stadium have to be able to get through the winter when it gets really cold, like it is there now. They probably have to account for that in construction. Meanwhile it hardly ever gets below freezing in Tampa.

Also, how much site preparation would you really need if USF already owns the land? If I remember correctly, the big reason that the CITS cost so much less than every other new stadium ($168M vs. $400M+) is because TSA already owned the land it was built on.

We shall see, I think most of it is recruit talk but he has lowered his decision to Iowa and USF.  

But at the same time he really called Iowa out on their "High School" like facilities.

Funny how much harder it gets for guys like Ferentz to recruit Florida when their team goes 6-7.

Do you know how difficult it is to beat a ranked team?  quote]

what!!!!!!!!!!!! it happens every week all over the country happened in los angeles this week when ulca and usc beat oregon

You moron, UCLA was ranked HIGHER than Oregon.

If it came down to beating Pittsburgh to get into a top-flight bowl, or losing so Wannstedt would keep his job... well, I'd still pick winning but it would be awfully close.

Also to note this is the last "friendly' schedule Pitt has for awhile.

This is probably leftovers from Walt Harris, too. You can't just call up a big name and say "Hey, wanna play a game this year?"

Wow, they're not even playing an OOC road game until November, and even then it's like an hour away. That's going to bite them if they think they're going to compete for a national title.

Wow, considering CFN's long, well-documented history of lowballing USF football (how many wins did they predict this year, like 4 or 5?), this is quite a surprise.