Bobcat99

I certainly hope they don't jump to any conclusions. This hurricane will be weakened severely by the time it reaches landfall, which will be on Sunday, long after the game will have been played.

The only people who think that area is "bad" are racists. Friends, just because black people live there, that doesn't make it a "bad area." Go to a real big city. Go to Detroit. Hell, go to FLINT. Gary. SOUTH BEND, even. You'll find "bad areas." University Mall area is fine. I have no idea what you people are talking about.

It's actually pretty ingenius and a very noble attempt. Unfortunately, the massive amount of data pushed by live video requires multicasting, which requires ISPs to configure their routers in a certain manner to repeat data to their subscribers. Some ISPs have cooperated. Some haven't. *shrug*

They head to Pittsburgh as 2-point underdogs to a team that's 2-4 and lost to mighty Ohio University. ****.

The black logo on the helmets looks stupid. Our colors are green and gold... except for white road jerseys, there shouldn't be any other colors as part of the getup.

Video on ESPN360 will almost certainly be overlayed, so capturing it to re-route through a NetMeeting-type application would be impossible. Now, if you had two computers, one with a video capture card, and routed an S-Video out of the ESPN360 feed toward the other computer, captured, broadcast, etc... that would work, though the frame rate would be very slow (10 frames/sec or so) and, again, it would be up to the upload bandwidth to dictate how many could watch. That's why ESPN360is limited to certain ISPs... it's the ones whose routers are set up for the complex multicasting that is necessary for that much data to flow that quickly.

You won't have enough upload bandwidth at your dad's house. Cable modem uploads are SLOWWWWWWWWWWWW.

Sorry, Rice and Vanderbilt also play 1/2 games a season in Reliant and Adelphia, respectively. Again, their attendance is not the best, nor is their onfield product (though Vandy has been good this year; but, frankly, we do not even deserve to be discussed in the same sentence as those two schools, being as they are small elite private schools compared to our huge public commuter school).

I'm not sure we'll ever have that many students come to a game, unless the university vastly changes its mission and evolves into less of a commuter school. Frankly, the priorities of the majority of our students aren't that in such that regardless of athletics success, they're not going to pay attention to USF sports. That's just the nature of the kind of students our university recruits. I've learned a lot about the USF student body in the short time I've been teaching here, and that's one of the big things I've noticed. Heck, it would be a step in the right direction to recruit students who aren't actively OPPOSED to intercollegiate athletics. If the administration is really that focused on getting us into the top tier, they need to: a) build several thousands more dorm rooms recruit students nationally c) build an on-campus stadium (i know this is a conversation for another thread, but let's look at other D-1 schools that play in pro stadiums: Temple, Pitt (gets lousy student attendance), Minnesota (ditto; barely fills half of the Metrodome in total attendance), San Diego St. (AVERAGED 17,700 last year), and Tulane (barely broke 20k on average). Is playing in a pro stadium a recruiting advantage for Temple? Tulane? PITT!? Until then, the best chance for student involvement is basketball. Look at UC; while they're far less a commuter school than we, they're about the same size, and urban. They get NOBODY at their football games. Of course, most of the crowd at their (obviously sellout) basketball games are non-students...

We are one of only a handful of stadiums that actively attempt to prohibit fans from rushing the field and, by my estimation, the only one that would taser and beat students who attempted to rush the field. Fans rush the field at stadiums around the country and have for a hundred years.

Multicasting. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/ipmulti.htm is a good explanation. Basically, an ISP's routers have to be set up to handle the multicasting, and apparently Verizon's not willing to make that happen.

I think we've finally learned the lesson that I've been complaining about for two years: throwing the ball as hard as you can every time you pass = bad news.

Will Barnacle's have the Tarver/Jones fight? I really want to find a place where I can watch both, side by side.

UC is awful. Look at who they've played. Miami is okay, and admittedly, I was rooting for them hardcore tonight... so I'm happy with the outcome. I will have MAC pride over Big East pride for a long time... probably.

To be honest, I've never found a good place for USF gear. I have a shirt from Bealls and a few t-shirts and a sweatshirt from the bookstore, but the sweatshirt I want, the classic grey "UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA" sweatshirt that is available in every bookstore of every major university on earth, is nowhere to be found. My roommate has one (and doesn't remember where she got it), but the only ones I can ever find have the godawful university seal on them.

That's officially the stupidest thing I've ever read on this board, and I've read every one of smazza's posts. How many college football games have you attended? Eight? I've been to probably fifteen games where fans stormed the field, and there were never any problems as after they got out there, they calmed down and went on their way. I'm only 27. I've seen it happen at Michigan's Big House, the Horseshoe in Columbus, at BGSU, UT, Ohio (many times), Miami... not to mention high school games and NCAA Division III games I'm not even counting.

<i>Running on to the field is not a tradition.</i> I'm not sure any of us are in any position to say anything is or isn't a tradition. We've had a football team for NINE YEARS. However, storming the field <i>is</i>, in general, a college football tradition. <i>Tradition: In 1968, the most famous "loss" in college football history occurred. Both teams entered the game with 8-0 records. Harvard scored 16 points (two touchdowns and two two-point conversions) in the final 42 seconds and the game ended in a tie, 29-29. The headline in the Harvard school paper read: "Harvard beats Yale, 29-29." Harvard fans stormed the field after the final touchdown.</i>

C'MON, DUFFEY!

volleyball is one of the sports my original alma mater owns USF in... we've been killing nearly everyone this year in Athens.

SO I wasn't able to attend the game due to the play I'm in up in NPR and when I showed up at Brew City I asked if anyone knew the score... I assumed it was Louisville with the lead when he told me, but then he looked at my USF shirt and gave me a high five. WOW! Add in the following, and it was a great day for me! OU win EMU win Cleveland Indians win New York Yankees loss Marshall (aka Stupid Cow) loss TO UCF!! AHAHHAAHHAHA A great day to be me. Hope all of you at the game had fun. Sorry to hear the cops busted heads -- that's inexcusable.

I can't change the channel, as 620 is the only sports channel I can receive here in New Tampa. And I've lived in a lot of "sports" towns, and I've never heard as much attention (heck, ANY attention) given to gambling like there is here. Not in Detroit, not in Cleveland, not in Cincinnati. It's like Tampa Bay is full of degenerates or something.

Yay! More discussion of gambling in a state where it's illegal (yes, it's still illegal to make wagers online) ... I wonder if he started talking about how to score some crack if his employers would let him continue on the air. It's pronounced "Akrin," dumbass.

Unfortunately, 620 has a monopoly (unless you live in Pinellas County) and there's nothing to change the channel TO.

I agree, his articles & blog have been awesome.

It's the GREAT GAZOO!!! "dum-dums..."