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I think it's the job of the school to sell itself to the kid. This is a major decision in a young man's life. This guy is what, 17 yrs old? His friends and some family are probably saying something like "USF? I would go to UF or TN, or one of the more known schools." If we want the kid we have to reassure him and his family why we are the best choice and that we are interested in him as a player and in helping him become the best man he can be out of football. I hardly think saying something like "oh well, if you are reconsidering then the offer is gone." would help much. I'm glad you guys aren't the recruitring department.

nah, we should just shut down the football program and go back to playing intramurals. Why even bother any more if the program is so cheap and sucks so much?

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Get real. The guy hasn't even had his team play a game yet and he is almost crucified. How about a few years ago when this BCS school hired an untested coordinator. - Compiled from Times wires © St. Petersburg Times, published February 10, 2001 Chudzinski to coordinate ’Canes offense CORAL GABLES -- Miami coach Larry Coker began rebuilding the Hurricanes depleted coaching staff Friday by tabbing tight ends coach Rob Chudzinski as offensive coordinator. "I feel fortunate," Chudzinski said. "It's not too often that you get a chance to go from being a graduate assistant and stay at the same school and progress like I have had the opportunity to do. I feel real lucky." Coker, Miami's offensive coordinator before becoming coach, said Chudzinski will bring great understanding of passing and running games and intelligence to the position. "No doubt, he was the No. 1 choice," Coker said. "It was his job to turn down." Chudzinski, 32, who spent the past five years as tight ends coach, becomes one of the youngest offensive coordinators in the country. After playing for the Hurricanes from 1986-90, Chudzinski joined the staff as a graduate assistant in 1994 after three years as a health care consultant for Anderson Consulting. So how did the guy do? Chudzinski Comes To Cleveland January 12, 2004 The Cleveland Browns today announced that University of Miami (Fla.) offensive coordinator/tight ends coach Rob Chudzinski has been named tight ends coach. With the hiring of Chudzinski, Steve Hagen, who had coached the Browns tight ends for the last three seasons, will move to quarterbacks coach. Chudzinski had been working as the Hurricanes offensive coordinator/tights ends coach for the past three seasons (2001-03). Miami enjoyed another productive season in 2003, averaging 27.8 points per game and finishing with an 11-2 record, including a 16-14 victory over Florida State in the FedEx Orange Bowl. Chudzinski enjoyed his best season with the ‘Canes in 2002. Under his direction, the 2002 Miami offense set new school records for points (527), total yards (6,074) and rushing touchdowns (33). The Hurricanes appeared in their second consecutive National Championship game and finished with a 12-1 record. The 2002 Hurricanes averaged 40.5 points per game, while averaging 284.2 yards per game passing and 183.0 yards per game rushing. The truth is we don't know how good Smith will be. He may be the next Spurrier, and then again he may not be.

a MUCH better gift purpose than for something so trivial as sports. Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Patel.

I remember when we were going to adopt that FSU sod cemetary tradition that I thought a better idea would just be a photo of the team pointing up to the scoreboard, which would show the result of the victory. Of course the thing would have to stay on long enough to get the team together and snap the photo.

At Florida they have the athletic fee and also charge for tickets, but at a discounted rate. They have a lottery to see if you can buy a season ticket. From the UF site http://www.gatorzone.com/newstudent/ STEP TWO: If you wish to purchase a season football ticket you must register for the student season football ticket lottery and pay for a ticket when registering. If you do not win the lottery your money will be refunded back to your credit card. The student lottery registration period will begin on Mon., April 11th at 6:00 p.m.

It's hard to say for sure, but I think your baby is saying "go bulls!"

that should have read "in the win column.", but after last year I have to retrain my fingers to type WIN.

Hey, I know a Penn State guy in the area who was asked by the team to record and forward a tape of the USF spring game. I hope the PSU coaches think they've got this game in the in column.

I also think the old logo is better looking, if the graphic shown is actually the new logo. I have no idea how long the old one was around, but it gives some sense of tradition when looking at it. The new one just looks like somebody cranked it out in 15 seconds.

Penn State will be tough. I'm not predicting a win or a loss because there are just too many unkowns on both teams, but I will say if we come out with a win it would be a major win for our program. As for the rest of the year, I think it all comes down to how well the qb play is and whether the defensive play improves. To be honest I think the defense was a bigger letdown to me than our passing game last season. If we don't improve much we may not even beat UCF. That said, I have confidence we'll be much better on both sides of the ball this year. We could win 8 or 9 games, or 2 or 3. It's all a big mystery to me right now.

and what makes you think coaching young men isn't being in "academia"? The lessons that He and the other coaches teach can make an astonishing impact on the lives of those kids in and out of football.

It could well be embarrasing to have the new conference officials there if attendence was anything like last year. I say we should do something really simple like promote a fun family night for something like $10 a car load and let people cram however many they can into the thing. Charge at the parking lot entry ways (it was free parking last year) and give them the tickets there. The off stadium lots probably won't even be open, but if they are it could be $5 a ticket at the gate.

There may be waiting lists, but if you give $10,000 a year I'm sure you could get seats. It's all about the green and gold.

If what I've read can be believed, the top drawing game may be FAMU. I agree that $32 may be too much for the casual fan, especially if the game is televised locally. I'm just happy that the donations are for a block of seats and not per seat like at some other schools.

It's not dogging our program to state the truth. The fact is up to now we haven't contended for much of anything other than progress and a playoff berth. Of course he may not know it, but players on our team would have no trouble being noticed by the pros, being in an NFL town and in a major TV market. Add to that the BE affilation and he would have had plenty of chances to be seen playing as a Bull. LSU has tradition, the best football conference in the nation, packed stadiums, and national prominence. We have potential, but that's alright. Maybe we'll be playing for the NC before LSU does again. It would have been nice to see him sign with us, but you can't blame any kid for choosing to play for a school like LSU. I hope the kid makes it through college and has a great life. With that said, Go Bulls!

I doubt he is doing this to seek attention. It is a big deal and he should take some time to make the decision. Give the kid a break. One thing we have going for us in competition with LSU is that we do have guys who have made it to the pros, and that was before we were a BCS school. He'll get a good amount of exposure at either school. And as far as paying your own way through school, isn't that what a scholarship athlete does? He or she gets paid by a scholarship for the "job" of being an athlete. It is certainly not a free ride.

I'm glad the qbs came through. We'll have a nice class this year.

It's nice to see good press about a USF player. We need more like him - excelling in the classroom as well as on the field.

I think Auburn would spank SC this year. Oklahoma is basically repeating their performance against KState.

Next year should be the best ever in attendance with FAMU, West Virginia, Louisville, and UCF here. I expect good draws from each of those teams, with the best surprisingly from the FAMU game if all the preliminary hype holds out. We should easily average over 30K per game for the year and the students will be out to be part of the crowd.

Even if the game was in Orlando and against a big name team I don't think we would have more than 5-6K of our ticket holders going. We just don't matter that much to most people out there, even our season ticket holders.. I'll bet almost half the season ticket seats go unused during a season.

Are you by any chance a coach who was fired and is now looking for a new job at USF?

maybe we should bury a little patch of sod from RJ in our "cemetary", if we are still doing that. We beat ourselves at home quite often this year.