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and I wonder if Joey Knight was the one to tell Richard about the comments CWT made. I wouldn't doubt it. The way the quotes came about it seems that way. Gonzmart is a passionate man and Joey saying CWT banned USF from Ybor could bring those "" from Gonzmart but then it seems like Gonzmart was pretty quiet when Joey went to follow up by saying "got a very nice email"

Data- did you read the quotes from Richard Gonzmart in the Joey Knight piece? it is pretty clear what happened.

Let's see Gonzmart go to Ybor anytime after midnight if he thinks it is so safe. and walk to one of the parking lots off of 7th or 8th. Ybor is a great place to go around 12pm-9pm but if you go after midnight it is dangerous.

I think it is pretty obvious that Willie blindsided Harlan. No reason for Harlan to be ticked if Willie hadn't blindsided him. Harlan is running the show these days. The only question about that is that CWT made the declaration around noon. Harlan's press release didn't come out until 5. If Harlan was truly ticked by just what CWT said, why did he wait 5 hours? cause it took Gonzmart to get off his private flight back from Germany to say he was mad before Harlan responded. I think this is a huge black eye for USF. I am a 49ers fan so I am fully aware of what happens with front office and coaches aren't on the same page.

and i just read that Gonzmart was in fact the booster who complained. That is such a joke. He knows **** well Ybor isn't safe at 3am. My friend worked at the Columbia and got robbed at gun point leaving the Columbia. It is a known problem for servers there because they leave with cash. Yet Mr. Ybor Gonzmart does nothing to protect them. Anyone who has lived in Tampa for more than 1 year and watches the news knows Ybor is home to many homicides. And they all are late night violent deaths.

of course, i didn't mean it to come across as hollow. i think Willie believes what he said 110%. and that is why he recruits well. Not that he was making a statement with future recruits in mind. I guess I should have said 'the reason CWT recruits so well is because the spoke from his heart about the death of a former player, someone he truly looked at as a son. He wouldn't let his own kids go to an "after party" in Ybor and he wouldn't let his players either."

Reason why Willie does as good of a job recruiting as he does is because these families believe that Willie will treat the kids like they are his own. This was a recruiting statement as much as it was anything. Willie isn't silent about protecting his players and making sure his players make good decisions off the field. This isn't Urban Meyer we are talking about.

plus we've never dealt with a player death like this....at an "official USF football game after party" Players on the football team have no business being in Ybor after 10pm. The city market's Ybor like it is a tourist destination and that is the problem that USF/Buckhorn have with Willie. You can bet that that "ban" stays in place but Willie just should have kept it in house.

The cupboard for Harlan isn't as full as it was for Woolard in terms of season ticket holders. And we wanted a coach who spoke his mind and didn't give "coach talk" not an AD to keep the coach out of trouble.

markharlan@usf.edu Send Harlan an email. He probably doesn't read it but if he gets 200 emails from diehard fans he will hear it. It was a bad move for him to rebut Willie's statement in such a brash fashion. i like Harlan and think he is moving our program in the right direction but CWT is just now in his 3rd season, and out recruiting the performance on the field. We have a team that could get 7 wins and who know what he can do from a recruiting standpoint since he is dealing with 2 and 4 win seasons yet putting up top 40 classes. I love the new hurry up offense. maybe that is harlan maybe that was CWT smartening up. either way....Harlan was playing too much on the political side today. Let him know we stand with Coach and with the safety of our players. As for those saying Gonzmart was behind it, i seriously disagree. for one, Columbia's business is supported by college age kids, secondly- Columbia isn't an after midnight spot. This probably came from Buckhorn.

So at what point do we have an answer one way or the other? I'm guessing if we haven't heard anything by kickoff then he won't be getting one.

The brewery was real nice. Plenty of room and seating areas. The bar was big and they had plenty of beers on tap.

it was packed!! great turnout. hopefully they do it again.

Anyone going?

that is the thing. just because you don't live "on-campus" doesn't mean you are commuting. Hell, how many "off-campus" apartments have Bull Runner stops in front of them? I'd be curious to see some official study from the university about just how many students live within 3-5 miles of the campus.

didn't the guy need like 18 credit hours in one summer session and he some how got that done?

i think those rainbow jerseys are awful

Fewer offensive penalties doesn't equate to more points. We still have to be able to put points on the board. nothing kills a drive worse than offensive penalties...especially an offense that is so dependent on the running game. hard to get the running game going when it is 1st and 20 or 2nd and 17.

I think it comes down to a very simple stat...... Offensive Penalties. I don't have the time to back this up with actual research so I am going just off of a hunch...... But I am willing to bet that if we have fewer offensive penalties than our opponent then we will win the game.

The Texans are the team featured this year. they drafted Reshard Cliett and Mike McFarland is in camp as an UDFA. The coaches spoke very highly of Cliett and just when he was about to get some shine on special teams he tore his ACL. Tough break for him on having a season ending injury during the first week of your pro career. The HC and GM talked about him and said they still like him and he is a lock for the roster next season. They showed McFarland briefly and he spoke on camera about missing his girl and baby back home.

growth spurt plus the right nutrition program and you never know. maybe when he was in high school and living at home he wasn't eating the right things to help his muscles grow. it is possible. don't discredit the kid because you wouldn't be able to do it. he is 6'3". he has the frame to easily hold 225 lbs without much fat.

if you go back to my original post on this topic you will see that i said "win and it won't matter" but you have to time it right and capitalize on the winning to sustain it. we had success in 2006-2009 but we weren't able to sustain it. the OCS plays into this more from a revenue standpoint. We need the budget to hire the coaches that sustain winning. We will never get a solid donor base without an OCS. If it was simple to build a competitive football program then every school would have one. We seem to have an athletic director who is moving in the right direction finally. I just get tired of the "well Ray Jay is nicer than any college football stadium in the country so we don't need our own stadium" argument. Red seats and a giant Pirate ship 15 miles away from campus doesn't provide a college atmosphere...WVU game included. WVU game was loud and it was great but it still wasn't what you think of when you think of a classic saturday matchup in the college football world.

Because no mid-majors play in an ocs ... It's a want not a need. Whether we remain a mid-major or not has nothing to do with where we play. You forgot to point out how the Miami Hurricanes are nothing more than a mid-major because they don't have an OCS. Or the Pittsburgh Panthers... Or the UCLA Bruins... who play farther away from campus than USF does! Tell me again how many National Title and Heisman Trophies that the Hurricanes, Panthers, and Bruins have?? Tell me again how they were 'starting up' in the BCS era where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. OCS is not the only thing that brings success but in today's environment we will not be able to climb into the upper echelon of football teams without one. We need an OCS for atmosphere, we need it to give students more of an attachment with the program, we need it to bring alumni back onto campus. Sure, Ray Jay was rocking when we beat WVU but how long are we going to hold onto that as an "example of what could be". That stadium was filled with fairweather fans. OCS brings diehard fans because the attachment isn't just to the performance on the field. It is tied to memories and culture and experiences. If you guys don't understand that then I don't know what to tell you but you can't compare USF in 2015 to Miami playing in the Orange Bowl or UCLA playing in the Rose Bowl.

free Wi-Fi is going to be completely obsolete in the near future. More and more providers are switching to plans with heavy amounts of data and besides- have you ever tried to access a wi-fi network that 30K other people were on? When the Super Bowl was here they spent like $1 million to boost up the wi-fi at RayJay and it is still pretty shoddy.

no matter how nice a stadium is....if a college team is playing in an NFL stadium then most people feel it really isn't "college football" atmosphere. win and it won't matter though. we will get fans back into RayJay and eventually have enough of a donor base to build our own OCS. We need to be able to have an OCS at some point in our future if we ever want to be anything more than a mid-major.