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Schedule sets up nicely, but don't sell Houston short.  If they get the right coach they have some talent, including Kyle Allen (5 star qb) waiting since he transferred from A&M.

25 minutes ago, lotsofbull99 said:

CWT doesn't seem to work well with transfers, if USF is going to truly shine, we are going to have to have a coach who can rehabilitate other schools problem children.

Worked with with Rodney Adams, Valdes-Scantling, and seemingly AJ Legree (before injury).  Transfers will always be a coin toss as there is typ ically a reason they didn't stay at their first choice. CWT took them because of their talent, hoping to mold them.

He's done a tremendous job, but if temple wins it's hard to ignore watt their coach has done.

Brett likes us - has us at 18.  

Looks like we are currently losing a fan poll conducted by a Tampa station.  Retweet to show USF support

4 hours ago, lotsofbull99 said:

I'd cover USF for the right price.

What would you guess they pay Knight?  45k?  Not to mention he gets all the hot dogs and nachos he can eat at each event.  He puts together a few two paragraph stories a month, tweets a bit, and triple checks attendance numbers.   

Overpaid for what he does, but who else can you get for that?  

I've seen Jeff Odom just today criticize someone's misinterpretation/misreading of something as lack of reading comprehension, which was a cheap shot on a fan that hadn't been a *****. This was done even after the fan admitted the mistake and was polite.  Everyone gets on Twitter and becomes a snarky assclown.

He's been much more positive lately, but tends to be very defensive if anyone questions him.  He's 100% on the Flowers train, but I think he's just a glass half empty person who thinks he's always right.   

To his defense being a beat writer is a tough job and from what I understand isn't a ton of money.  However, you get to watch and write about sports and from what I see regularly (via video) can wear shorts or dad jeans at all times. 

For the past few years as we hit rock bottom and were rebuilding we had the best writer we deserved and we didn't really care who it was.  Now that we have some momentum and the fan base is becoming more engaged we just expect more and we still have Joey.  

I think Willie, being a better, recruiter would have been able to leverage the talent and immediate success, assuming the same start (was it 9 wins and a Clemson bowl win?) to quickly rebuild and reload.  There may have been a divide, but winning solves a lot and if you kept the momentum and replenished the team with the talent he could have gotten in a BCS conference at the time, I think we never would have dropped past 7 wins.  Just my opinion.

1 hour ago, BDYZR said:

2016-2017 NCAA Women's Basketball Rankings - Preseason (Nov. 4)

Shows all teams at 0-0

Sorry I wasn't clear I was meaning the drop.  The rankings were current, #21 is where we finished last year explaining the "drop"

11 minutes ago, BDYZR said:

I wonder what happened to drop us from #21 to #34 in the AP?

That was last years ranking.  Considering our leading scorer graduated and moved on to the WNBA, it's not surprising.  26 is more surprising than 34 considering that, although we've recruited well, there will be several new players

One week at a time.  Hopefully BYU takes care of business and we do our part.

Should be fun, but not sure how packed. I got tix on 50 yd line behind USF bench for $20 a piece yesterday.

1 hour ago, Bull said:

Regarding a NY6 bowl, if we go undefeated and win the AAC championship game and Boise state goes undefeated do we have a chance or is it Boise that gets the spot?  Memphis and Navy ( or Houston in the championship) are the only teams that might propel us high enough in the rankings. I'm wondering if that would even be enough. 

Just root for BYU

They will expand eventually or be dismantled.  Remove TX and OU and you don't have much better than the Mountain West.  Their are only so many brands that can carry a conference each has 2-3, except the SEC. 

What is this basketball you speak of?

40 minutes ago, Paisa el Toro said:

I hear complaints about our conference affiliation so often now that I don't think people would show up if we had something on-campus. Our fan base's problem is "cultural," not the location of where we play our games. I'd love an OCS, when we show that we'll actually support our football team through the good and bad. 

I agree it's cultural.  I just believe an OCS could build behavior and culture, becoming the thing to do.  I also think that it really would only impact student attendance and have only marginal impact among any other ticket sales/attendance.  The primary thought behind it is students are lazy and unplanned. I sure as hell was and I went where the drinks and girls were, an on campus stadium helps with that as it creates a local "party" within a short distance of dorms and student apartments.  

Alumni and local support is a different issue, that I'm not sure an OCS solves.  It could bring some back to campus, but would it be 1%, 5%, or 30%.  I tend to think it's in the lower tier.  However, the OCS and would help create the culture and pride that students would hopefully keep as they graduate.

5 minutes ago, flsportsfan83 said:

0% shot

Unless they mean AAC championship with us and the National championship with who ever (not us).  Just that ray jay hosts the games 

Interesting how some that voted for us last week dropped us from their ballot.  Including one from CT

Forgiven me if I repeat something as I browsed a lot the thread;

First I believe that an OCS would increase attendance, but the primary driver would be students. If you don't plan to be a ray jay you won't go.  However if it's on campus, and their is an atmosphere, or plans change, the walk up crowd for fans would (in my mind) be much larger on the regular.  Also eliminates parking costs, some dui concerns, and time.  The time helps for early games where students have to plan to be there and after a drunk night have difficulty making it early to Ray jay, but could walk up (even a little late) to an OCS.  Look at student crowds for noon games at large programs and the difference between 1st quarter and 3rd is noticeable.

Relating to marketing we do a good job digitally, but that only reaches the following we have. Which is small.  I'm not local any more, so I can't talk to the outreach, but it seems to be lacking.  People may not agree, but a successful team with an OCS, would draw the community to USF.  Mainly because they look at it as a marketing or financial opportunity.  It has to be a two way street and right now it appears one-way with the hope of future gain.

More male students would come if we had "fan zones" sponsored by Mons and 2001 

Too much locker room talk ...

Western Michigan and Boise play relatively easy schedules the rest of the way to.  Need to win out and get some luck (including FSU winning out).

5 minutes ago, Dogma said:

Speaking of local media...

Great job by Joey calling USF ucf in the pregame show

This is just because he's and assclown.  If he worked any other job, he'd have been canned a while ago.

1 hour ago, Rex Havoc said:

I think having a stadium on campus would greatly improve the atmosphere for the games. Id love to tailgate and walk around the campus. An ocs would allow more people to see just how nice our campus is. The atmosphere at Ray Jay sucks. 

I agree 100%, but not sure that solves the "it's too hot" or "it's a noon game" problems.  Need alumni to be motivated to go and plan 6 Saturdays a year around the game regardless of time.  I've lived out of state for years and plan 2 home trips and a road gam every year.  If the local alumn, not only the diehards on this board, planned 4-6 saturdays like most other major schools we'd average 40k no matter who we played.  

I only think OCS helps with students.  Support from Alumni has to be rebuilt and communication, events, etc. is a good start