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I think Michael Kelly should go to Miami and hire Kerwin Bell. 

Western Carolina football is surging in Kerwin Bell's first season at the helm

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After an 0-6 start at Western Carolina, Kerwin Bell has the Catamounts on a three-game winning streak. The future is looking pretty good, too.

Somewhat better. We just watched a complete teardown of a program and now we are starting to see semblances of a rebuild. 

Timmy McClain is probably the best thing we have seen thus far. I really like how he can roll to his left and nearly fall out of bounds and throws that left handed pass right along the sideline. 

Our very own Jimmy Chitwood. I like it.

10 hours ago, Skingraft said:

Why did the land shark come here from the SEC?

Land shark...still think of this every time I hear that term. 

"Candy-gram"

So Cincinnati is leaving the AAC and USF is adding. Interesting. Coincidence? 

Other members, ECU & Temple. Associate members UF, ODU and Vanderbilt. 

3 hours ago, smazza said:

this is equivalent to winning the lottery

 

You could make the case of all the schools involved in conference realignment, Rutgers had the best outcome of anybody. 

11 minutes ago, Friscobull said:

I have always referred to him as a turd as well.  He was lazy, stupid and a cheat both as a coach and husband, did this pos have even one redeeming quality? 

He clearly was a great con man. He got both Texas and USF. 

4 hours ago, USFRaider said:

The only thing that Scott might be stressed about is that it is going to take him much longer to get to the P5 than he probably envisioned when he took the job.  He isn't getting fired anytime soon, and his resume is trash right now, so the P5 will be ignoring him for the next few seasons.  He may realize that he is stuck in G5 purgatory hell for awhile.

Our non conference schedule next year is UF, Louisville, BYU & Howard. I see 1 win there. 

9 Wins would mean you are going 8-0 in AAC play. Not going to happen. 

Jeff Scott doesn't appear to be too stressed about any of this. This is not a man worried about his job. There is no president, nor will there be for a while so Kelly has no pressure on him either. 

Plus we just won a women's soccer title so in the minds of our admins, everything is going great. This almost feels like a Lovie Smith at Illinois situation where he is going to get 5 years no matter what happens. 

35 minutes ago, BayIslandBull said:

I can't think of any BCS team that has dropped 2 tiers in conference stature like we have (BE > AAC > AAC 2.0), let alone a downward spiral.

We will never move out of the basement of college football without significant investment in the program. If we do not build an OCS, then start paying players NLI money directly...

I think we have a few examples of teams that have made upward and downward movement. 

The obvious downward teams are USF, UConn and Southern Mississippi. USF was never "viewed" as a BCS team. UConn got in because of their basketball and former relationship with the Big East. 

Louisville and Cincinnati continued to invest. As did Houston and UCF. 

Is it cyclical or clinical? 

Michael Kelly doesn't generally say helpful things. 

Remember when everyone was happy to blame Sterlin Gilbert for all of the problems of 2018. 

Then Michael Kelly channeled his inner President Camacho:

VP Kelly: Now I understand everyone's emotional right now. But I've got a 3 point plan that's going to fix EVERYTHING.

USF Fans: Break it down, Michael Kelly!

VP Kelly: Number 1: We've got this guy Kerwin Bell. Number 2: He's got a higher IQ than ANY MAN ALIVE. and Number 3: He's going to fix EVERYTHING.

Sun Belt, Conference USA considering adding teams amid AAC expansion - CBSSports.com

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Another battle could soon emerge between the two FBS conferences over James Madison, among other schools

JMU is the key!

7 minutes ago, E.T. said:

WEST

SMU

Tulsa

Memphis

Tulane

North Texas

USTA

Rice

 

EAST

USF

East Carolina

Temple

FAU

UAB

Charlotte

Navy

I wouldn't be surprised if Navy requests to stay in the West. 

I get why the rivalry was created as much as I haven't really wanted it. Two schools about the same size, created around the same time. Unlike say FAU or FIU.

However, even if you want to have a "rivalry" with UCF ….I just don't like how we have gone about it. 

To me the "War on I-4" is always a game between the Storm and the Predators of the AFL. The name is a rip off. 

The trophy is stupid. This belt thing is stupid. It shouldn't involve all the sports on some points based system. If you lose the football game, nobody cares if you still win the trophy using Golf or Tennis or whatever. It should be based on just the football game. 

If you are going to do it, based on how the rivalry started, it should be based on some kind of "stupid and futile" symbol. Like a bushel of oranges or a keg of trolls.  

There was a time that we were left behind in a conference with just Cincinnati and UConn. Just sayin. 

1) Ben Moffitt INT TD against WVU 2007

2) FSU 2009

3) 100 yard rusher

4) Yes

5) No, not a hairnet. But a swim cap might be nice. 

I don't see how this really changes anything. Aresco was hoping to make the AAC stronger by making the MWC weaker. It doesn't appear to be working out. As far as fan support, CSU and Air Force were like the #4-#5 schools in the conference.  In the grand scheme of things, it's like losing out on UAB or ECU....or dare I say....where USF is currently. 

11 minutes ago, Brad said:

 

15 hours ago, CousinRicky said:

So there are a lot of families with kids living on campus after they graduate?

It's possible that they do live right there. It would be like all the houses just to the East and North of Campus at USF.  Rutgers' main campus (New Brunswick) is actually 5 separate campuses. The College Ave campus is basically in downtown and there are all kinds of houses, condos and residential around it. The free bus to the game is pretty easy if you don't live on the Busch campus.  

In my time at UGA, the stadium is right in town and everyone just walks to the game from their houses. There really isn't any parking. Athens shuts down more or less on game days. Madison, WI also has the same vibe. 

Florida is such a sprawling, car committed environment, I am not sure you could truly mimic it. UF and FSU are "similar" but it is a bit of a walk. 

It almost feels like the Big 12 is just going to gobble up whomever has any support and facilities. Would they also take Boise State AND SDSU along with USF and Memphis and create a 16 team conference? 

East: Cincinnati, Memphis, Kansas, KSU, ISU, WVU, UCF, USF

West: TTU, Ok State, Houston, Baylor, TCU, BYU, Boise State, SDSU

An OCS that is properly sized and located will greatly help with the connections that the students make. In the 2007 - 2010 seasons, that was the vibe at USF. We haven't really had that since. 

When I have been to a Rutgers or UGA or Wisconsin games on campus a lot of the people there don't care about the actual football game. It's a community, it's family and friends. It's a party. Oh by the way, there is a football game too. 

Was just at a Rutgers game the other day and the section I was in had dozens of late 20's/early 30's former alumni with all kinds of babies. I counted at least 10 kids ages 0-3. Sure they mostly all left by halftime but you get this is just what they do. This was their family. 

You cannot reproduce that environment in a massive stadium far from campus. 

Well if there are classrooms attached, you will likely have more than just bleachers around a track like Mackay Stadium (Reno, NV) or Kidd Brewer Stadium ( App State). 

Wasn't there talk that they were looking to put the stadium around the current track? That wouldn't be at either location mentioned in the feasibility study.