Dave_Glaser

What I saw . . . Brown made a couple of the freshman mistakes that he didn’t make last year and wasn’t nearly as accurate as he flashed in 2022, but he’s gritty and that offensive line is the real problem, not him. The RBs are solid, but none of them have any explosiveness. Get Kelly Joiner the ball. Receivers and TEs? No idea at all. Outside of the direct snap on fourth down, the play calling was way more vanilla than I expected. Maybe that’s because they knew their offensive line was so overmatched that they had no chance calling anything that took time to develop. I actually thought the defense was a bright spot. They played better on third down. They tackled better. They were sturdy up the middle. The DBs looked competent, for the most part. But the same problem remains - we have no one who can win a one-on-one battle on that defensive line and disrupt things. We created no turnovers because we’re still not capable at any level of getting a play off schedule and making a splash. We don’t ever dictate. There’s no JPP or Selvie or Kawika or Senat or Nicholas or Jenkins or name your guy - and there hasn’t been for years.

All I’ll say is this: the day we start winning is the day we get it figured out up front. We have to be able to establish a line of scrimmage with an offensive line that’s not always in the QB’s lap and we have to be able to win some one-on-one battles on the defensive line and get in the backfield to make it uncomfortable. I can’t remember the last time I saw a USF defensive end beat the offensive tackle and put a big hit on a QB. Feels like it’s been years.

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I’m just as quick to post a “we look great” thread when it happens, so save your BS

OK, fair enough. I’m just consistently perplexed about why we’re losing to FGCU, Mercer, UNF, Northeastern, Southeast Missouri State, etc. I feel like we should be a program that handles those games more often than not.

How is it living in misery to recognize how consistently poor - year-in and year-out - many of our programs are performing against others with fewer resources? So the idea is to just whitewash it? If you follow USF sports, we’re mostly presented with misery. We, as fans, don’t create it or choose it. if we had clobbered FGCU and Mercer last night, I would have posted that.

So, according to the reports I’ve been able to find, including $18-million now from SMU, the AAC is owed in the neighborhood of $90-million in exit and entry fees from 11 schools that have moved out and in. The “legacy” programs remaining in the league should be making a killing, right?

So good to have the Bulls back! Volleyball falls to 1-3 with a home loss to FGCU tonight and those men’s soccer Bulls still haven’t scored yet this season, shut out at home by Mercer tonight to go 0-3. Oh, brother. Yep, FGCU and Mercer NOT Florida and Georgia.

Not gonna happen. FGCU (USF Fort Myers) owns us. USF volleyball is stuck in the mud, just like several other programs. Bulls under Head Coach Jolene Shepardson = 24-55

No argument here. We need to dominate this conference - and soon.

The AAC is not adding anyone out west. Smart.

USF has no spot in the ACC unless FSU or Miami departs - that’s a pretty well-known fact. So there is no change today in how we’re feeling.

At this rate, who needs TV money? We’ll get rich just collecting exit and entry fees. No break for SMU. Make them pay every cent. They clearly have it to spend. Right now, the AAC has 11 schools paying it multi-million dollar fees.

This guy - and UNC - gets it. Sanity. At least a little sliver.

When Cam Rising is healthy, watch Utah go right back to one QB.

And as soon as their regular starter is healthy, watch Utah go back to one guy.

For every one that’s worked I can give you 99 that didn’t - and just as I said, the only reason you’d do it is if your 2 QBs have very different skill sets - like Utah’s do.

Poor Gators.

He does seem to have the right approach. Let’s hope it translates to big wins and then he lives up to his words and doesn’t immediately go looking for the next big thing. That would make him truly unique in his professsion.

I enjoyed listening. Keep it up!

I lost count of your metaphors about halfway through the pod . . . special teams/door jam, something, something. Enjoyed the listen. Keep it up.

Be-dazzled jeans? What?

Skip sucked, but if you’d given Charlie more time, he would have completely cratered. I work now with a guy who was in the USF athletic leadership under Willie and Charlie, and he said it was obvious that Charlie planned to take the team Willie left him, win big and parlay it immediately back into a P5 job. When that didn’t happen, he hadn’t put any effort into recruiting and wanted out as soon as possible. Didn’t want to be at USF at all. That said, Skip’s recruiting may have been even worse. The team he left Taggart was the smallest and SLOWEST in program history. Scott was in over his head from the start. If he’d taken over a team that wasn’t a complete and total wreck, he may still be here. He didn’t need his first job as a head coach to be a complete rebuild. He wasn’t ready for that.

Nothing scientific about it, but we won A LOT more before we started wearing all these different uniform/helmet combinations. And if it’s so important to the players, maybe we have players with the wrong priorities. Yes, I am an old man.

Uniforms are a part of a school’s branding - and should be consistent, just like all branding. When we wear 12 different uniforms for 12 games, it doesn’t help us, no matter what the kids think.