MatRatUSF

We are still the Student Bulls CLub but the group of students at the football game are known as Bullies and will have special t-shirts just like at basketball games they are the 12th bull and they have t-shirt ...

Thanks for doing the article mike!

Their son/daughter might attend, you never know ... they could just be a big fan?

Ask my dad, he's the one who said it. Thanks for bringing it up!

Can't we all just get along?? When i played baseball people were constently telling me i suck

A friend who works for best buy told me a Best Buy is going in where JC Penny is now

I think you're all full of crap, you can post picture of cheerleaders and female athletes at this school and make sexist comments about them and nobody says anything about it? but when you criticize a player you all go ape ****? WOW

I read that paper this morning and there was no such article in the paper, they previewed the first game of the season for every school in florida except USF. Don't know what their problem is. I know they are sent material from our SID department, but for some reason they refuse to put us in. I've sent e-mails to them about it but have gotten no response. Maybe you guys can start your e-mail bombs and find out!

That JEWBULL is a silly *****!

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my sources tell me different ...

Hall is rated higher cause washington splits time with booker. they should be rated as a duo.

if you want to go bowling at usf, go to university lanes, they will give you a discount, just tell them Mike B sent you

Way to go putz!

You guys are silly bitches! If it wasn't for this bored i wouldn't have made it through my 3 surgeries this summer.

Gators is a good place, it just happens to be named after a reptile that lives in the the state of florida. Now if it was named Florida Gators dockside, then you can rant and rave. The place isn't even dockside! No water. It's a place with good drink specials and food. They have a gators poster yes, but i'm sure they will have the bulls schedule poster when it comes out too. If not i'll make sure of it!

I don't like clowns and stealing and i still grab a double cheese in the middle of the night from McDonalds.

Shout out to Mike B in in Detroit!

It's the dolphins year! A.J. Feely and Gus Ferote will take us to the promise land!!!

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-guides05aug05,0,7893074.story?coll=sfla-sports-headlines

By Ted Hutton

Staff Writer

Posted August 5 2005

Oklahoma's 2004 football media guide won top prize in the annual contest sponsored by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

The problem was that many of the reporters who covered the Sooners quit hauling the award-winning guide because at 404 pages it was just too bulky.

"I thought we had reached a point where something needed to be done," said Kenny Mossman, Oklahoma's associate athletic director for communications. "The books had gotten completely out of hand."

Mossman has spent the past couple of months cutting 196 pages from last year's guide to get the 2005 version down to 208 pages. He is not doing it on his own initiative, but because the NCAA decided to put a stop to the ballooning guides and adopted the 208-page limit in April.

"Where there is abuse there is regulation," said Steve McClain, the Florida assistant athletic director for sports information who is nearly done chopping 132 pages from the Gators' guide to get it to the new limit.

The genesis for the 208-page limit came a decade ago, when the NCAA said schools could no longer publish separate media guides and recruiting brochures. Only one item could be produced, and that would be the only publication a recruit could receive.

The solution was to combine the two, and the binge began as the media guides quickly became part of the arms race, where colleges try to get an edge in recruiting by a variety of means, whether it be a bigger stadium, new practice facility or producing a bigger media guide.

The page limit came after complaints from mid-level schools about the bigger guides being published in the major conferences.

Missouri's reached 614 pages last year, the unofficial record, and the average Big 12 guide was nearly 400 pages. Florida's was 340 pages and Florida State's 336.

It turns out that at most schools, the media get the fewest copies of the media guide. More make it into the hands of recruits, fans and boosters.

That is why when FSU began looking at what to cut, football Sports Information Director Jeff Purinton went to the coaches who do the recruiting first.

"You've got to have your NFL stuff in there," Purinton said about the advice he was given. "That and facilities, since we have a new weight room and training room."

When told the space given to the biographies of the coaches might get cut, Purinton said the coaches told him to hack away.

"The challenging part is that it is the one printed publication you can put in a recruit's hand. That drives a lot of decisions," McClain said.

Most sports information directors said their athletic department Web sites will be beefed up, and any material cut is being posted there.

Proponents of the page limit cited potential cost cuts as another reason for the rule, saying some schools could save as much as $20,000 by trimming down. How much will be saved is unclear because many schools are still collecting bids for printing.

Oklahoma recovered a lot of its costs by selling its media guide to fans at local bookstores and on its Web site.

"We charged $35 when it was 404 pages, so the price will have to come down now that it will be half the size," Mossman said.

"This is not going to be the financial windfall some say it is," Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Wright Waters said. "Texas is not going to send us their savings on the media guide."

Ted Hutton can be reached at thutton@sun-sentinel.com.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-guideside05aug05,0,6865234.story?coll=sfla-sports-headlines

Need help trimming? Consider Fuller

By Ted Hutton

Staff Writer

Posted August 5 2005

Those sports information directors struggling to find a way to cram 400 pages worth of material into the new NCAA limit of 208 might want to give Marty Fuller a call.

Fuller's 2004 Kenyon College football media guide was 36 pages and won fourth place in the College Sports Information Directors of America contest in the Division III and NAIA category.

"They recruit so hard they need whatever edge they can get, so maybe a 27-pound media guide helps," Fuller said about his Division I-A brethren.

Kenyon, a private school with an enrollment of 1,600 in central Ohio, may be small but it has 115 years of football history. The Lords' first win came in 1890 when they beat Ohio State 18-10.

The media guide includes the basics, including season-by-season results and a list of every letter winner in the program's history.

"I doubt we'll ever get over 50 pages," said Fuller, who has been putting together the guide for four years.

Kenyon's media guide cost $2,200 to produce and print, while Michigan State's 300-page volume cost more than $65,000. Fuller said Kenyon printed about 1,500 guides last year.

Florida expects to print 20,000 media guides this year, with 13,000 going to boosters as part of a package of perks for supporting the program and 2,500 going to the football office for distribution to recruits, high school coaches and others.

Like Fuller, Florida Atlantic Sports Information Director Katrina McCormack's summer is free of the angst of editing down a media guide. FAU has been playing for only four seasons, and McCormack used 164 pages to chronicle the team in the 2004 edition. The 2005 edition is expected to be the same.

i'm in

Jim is right, half my HS went to UCF and i heard of a lot of people who are going to this game ..  there should be a decent amount of ucf students for usf students to fight with.

*USF like UConn, Louisville, and Pitt plays their football games off campus*

UConn has an on campus stadium right behind their arena ... just FYI

I do think it is important that former athletes get recognized for their accomplishments, but Markey is right, the only way we know about it is if someone tells us, or by chance we hear about it. Not to knock down soccer, but it's not something we would come across on a regular basis.  

I'm sure if one of our former athletes does something important or gets awarwed with something, we will take care of it. I believe we did a little something on J.R. and the superbowl. If we didn't i know we thought about it

If you do hear something about a former athlete that you think would be a cool story for us to do, contact anyone in the SID department and let us know. We might be able to track them down and do a little feel good article on them. You never know.

I was just being a jackass about the 8th inning thing. I was just pissed cause i had Konerko on my fantasy team.

it's not sids job to report about pros, it's their job to report and promote about current usf sports and players. Ross gload had a hit the other night, came in for konerko in the 8th.

hazy??? i'm suprised you remember you were even in birmingham!

arrrrrrrrrrrr me think it be fun to plunder and pillage with the reaper! arrrrrrr