No, Populous is still involved. they are the design phase. Barton Mallow were the ones who were terminated. Barton Mallow was essentially a contractor to manage the design and construction including Populous. Now that Barton Mallow is not involved, the university will act as the point person, allowing Populous to handle design and a new bid for the construction phase is expected in the near future.
I know that whole situation from last week when Barton was terminated was confusing, but a friend explained it to me as USF wanted to have direct control and connection to design and construction, but with Barton there as a middle man it could make things challenging.