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Bull94

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  1. Tell that to Bobby Knight. I believe he has won 3 Nat Champs his way. Sound basketbal, team before player. I believe if CJL were more disciplined, we would have won more games. We certainly wouldn't lead the NCAA's in penalties every year.
  2. Any proof of this? Top 150 players in the country? Several others? I thought he was a good recruiter but that doesn't win you anything. BB was from Lakeland, Altron from Sarasota, Leather from St Pete. Could this have factored in their decisions?
  3. dabull, I'm sure the players appreciate the fact that you make that drive to come see them as much as I appreciate it as a fan. Sometimes it can be downright difficult watching them play.  Penders is an excellent coach. He coached at Texas so I think he has connections in the area. Mac moved from a different geographical area. I believe we tried to get the assistant from Florida but he wanted no part of this job. If you look at Houston's roster, most of the contributing players are Juniors with a senior leading scorer and a soph. I'm not sure he gutted the program like CRM did. I imagine that if we had B-MO around we might be about at their level.  He has 3 recruits and only the soph 2nd leading scorer contributes. The BE will be a huge challenge and probably will be a rocky road for sometime. Anyone believing we can find a coach to come in and compete (recruiting wise or record wise) in the BE right away is somewhat delusional. Especially when we are hiring on the cheap. We are the only team in the NBE to have never been in the Final Four!! We only make the tourney every other decade. How do you sell that to recruits? I think the only way we will build a competetive team is to do it with role players and maybe a superstar every once in awhile and most importantly solid fundumental coaching. We will never win anything on talent alone. Markey Mark, Syracuse holds over 30,000 screaming fans for basketball games. They have been to many final fours and have won a Nat Champ. That's an easy sell to recruits. Most of their players come from the NE. Heck if you asked any top 100 recruit where they would rather play Syracuse or USF what do you think their answer would be? We can't expect the same. Not now. CRM is rebuilding the program from the ground up. I expect it to only get better. Until he shows that he has hit his limits(i.e. Greenie not being able to get over the hump and get us into NIT or NCAA in years) then I think we need to give him a chance. I like his philosophy and coaching style. I'm sure CRM is doing everything he can to improve this program.
  4. Markey Mark, You honestly believe that CRM should be able to recruit the top class in the BE??? Do you believe it is possible for any coach to do that at USF??? Put Calhoun or Boheim in this same situation and I would bet anything they wouldn't be able to recruit even a class in the top half of the BE. I want some of what you're smoking!! We are lucky to be smack dab in the middle of the hotbed for college football recruiting. Location is everything as far as football is concerned. Let's see Leavitt recruit the same top class in Syracuse. It has nothing to do with his ability to recruit and everything to do with location. Florida is a football mecca. The facilities alone give Leavitt a huge advantage over CRM!! All CJL has to say is come play for me in one of the nicest NFL stadiums in the country. CRM promises them that we will replace the bulbs in the scoreboards some time soon and not to worry about the 900 fans. They don't make much noise anyway.
  5. Turkey, I doubt many if any of those names listed were considered a top 100 recruit in the country. Did you see where the bottom of the top 150 go? They go to places like Wake Forest, Alabama, and Gonzaga not USF. Besides top recruits don't always make for good team players. Just ask Billy D up in G-ville about that. Half of those guys chose USF because of the closeness to home. What is wrong with CRM trying to build a "team"? It seems to work well in the NFL for the Pats. No real superstars just pieces of a puzzle that work well together. We never saw that with Seth's teams. CRM is a much better floor coach in my opinion. I am pretty excited about seeing CD progress. He looks like he could be real good with a little confidence. Teams are built with role players not superstars. Jimmy B is a good guy. Never blamed him for leaving to concentrate on Track when he knew team would be rebuilding. Suprised he didn't do it before the season started.
  6. Beastie, I wouldn't expect much more than that when rebuilding a program from the ground up. Look at Providence. They were supposed to compete for the BE crown and they only have 1 win in conference. They should be disappointed. This was the year they were building towards. I don't think CRM is looking for instant results but I know we would have more wins if our 2nd leading scorer from a year ago was playing. Did you see the STL game? They looked like the walking dead. Half of them probably should have been in the infirmary. It happens. Get over it. It was an exception not the rule.
  7. We'll probably never get a game with ND. Who cares. If FSU, UF, or Miami want to play in Tampa then they should have to play the Bulls. That is our home stadium. If they want to treat their local Alums to a game then play USF. I think we would have no problem selling those out. If they want to treat it as a neutral site game and split tickets and revenue so be it. Do whatever it takes to get them here.
  8. beastie, I'd be willing to bet the Sundome ranks near the bottom when comparing BE facilities. How about our attendance? Even in Greenie's heyday it probably doesn't measure up with the bottom of the BE numbers. How many top 150 recruits did Greenburg bring in while he was here? And more importantly what did he do with them? The bottom 5 of the top 150 according to rivals are headed to UCLA, Rutgers, Wake Forest, Gonzaga, and Alabama. Do you honestly believe that CRM should be able to recruit against these basketball rich schools? Greenburg left. Some of you need to get over it. He makes $170k + incentives more than CRM. Break out your checkbook and bring your savior back. I think he gave us everything he had. Horrible floor coach- decent recruiter.  We brought in one of the top coaches from a lesser conference and are paying him peanuts to do the impossible. He is much better at getting the talent out of team players.I think he will be able to build a "team" with time. Look at how many probowlers there are on the NE Pats. Not a lot of superstars there but they have a great coaching philosophy that preaches team first. It took Belichick some time but he built a winner. I bet the Browns wish they still had him as a head coach. Maybe some of you should be more realistic with your expectations. http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?SID=910&Year=2005&ra_key=768 http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/college/news/2003/05/30/bkb_coaching_salaries/
  9. Turkey, Now that you have uncovered our problem (CRM's recruiting) how do you suppose we fix it? Do you honestly think it is easy to recruit to USF? "Hey kid, I know you are a top 100 b-baller why not come play for me in a decrepit arena, in front of 900 silent fans, and get your head handed to you by the top teams in the BE." Yeah I could see kids jumping at the chance!! The man isn't even paid as much as some assistants in the league!! I think the guy took a no win job. Odds are he will never be able to compete in the BE even though all the fans are delusional and think he should be bringing in McDonald's All Americans. Why do you think the assistant from Florida didn't want to touch this job? Who do you think we could bring in that would want to be paid lower than half of all D-1 coaches, try to recruit against the top conference in all of basketball, and have his team play in a decrepit arena in front of 900 pissed off fans against some of the top teams in the country? Not many. I for one am willing to give the guy a chance. After all basketball is a team sport and it takes time to build a "team". How many top high school players would even consider USF regardless of who our coach is?
  10. Gary SJ, I don't understand. The Gator Bowl goes to the BE #2 or ND?? Their football program is not in now so what difference would that make to the Gator Bowl if their basketball, baseball, olympic sports left the BE? None. The GB is BE vs ACC. Notre Dame has been to 2 GB since 1976. I say let them join 1/2 for football or take your other sports to the ASUN or CUSA. They don't have to play us. Let them play the same 3 teams every year + 1. Pitt, Syracuse, WVU plus one rotating team. Use the one rotating team as their neutral site game. Concessions could be made. Notre Dame is living in the past. They are no longer head and shoulders above everyone else. Kids grow up wanting to go to Miami, OU, USC, FSU, etc before they even think about ND.
  11. I agree Howie. Time to force the issue. The basketball money is good enough for them to split. Why not the football? Let them go play all other sports in the ASUN. See how they like playing in high school gyms. The BE bends over backwards for them and I believe they need the NBE more for all other sports than we need them for football(although it wouldn't hurt us much!!). They could easily work out a situation where they wouldn't give up any of their NBC TV money. I'm sure they could come up with a compromise on the bowl revenues. How hard could it be to add one more BE football game??
  12. Why is ND so high and mighty? They've done nothing in 25 years. Why don't they join the BE as a 1/2 football member? All they need to do is add a 4th game. Maybe we could get Army to take the other 4. I say the league gives them an ultimatum. Join as a 1/2 member or leave the league in all other sports. mini bowl game?? How arrogant. Quit living in the past.
  13. dabull, I like some of those names but what makes you think they can do any better than RMC? It's one thing to recruit and coach against teams that have similar operating budgets  but  let's see them win consistently against teams that spend 10 times the amount on facilities, coaches, etc. Look at the difference in what goes into our basketball program and that of Cinci or Loiusville. We haven't given him a fair chance.  I think I saw where Utah's guy gets paid $500k base .Almost double that of RMC's. Zags guy probably gets paid just as much. Plus they would lose all their pipelines by moving to the southeast. The NE guys seem interesting but again what have they accomplished that RMC wasn't able to at WMU? I  attended Rider for my first 2 years before graduating from USF. They looked sharp on the deuce the other day. When was the last time they went dancing? All they have to do is win the MAAC. How about Drexel? They are barely .500. I say beggars can't be choosers. Give the man a fair chance. I bet we could get Calipari. He would want to coach in the BE over CUSA. We only have to come up with $1 mil plus put up with the thugs he puts on the floor. The arrest sheets would make interesting reading.
  14. Pull out your checkbooks, darksiders!! You get what you pay for. I think all of the dark siders might want to double or triple their donations. That is if they donate anything at all. They don't seem to be very supportive of anything USF. They definitely aren't very realistic. I am happy with the way things are progressing. Will we ever be a competitive hoops team year in and year out in the Big East? Probably not. Our coach is the lowest paid, our facilities are probably some of the worst in the league and we have absolutely no basketball tradition. Hell, the coach that most wanted to run out of town is now making $170 k + perks per year more than the current one. He couldn't get us into the tourney and he actually got a raise!! Does that mean that we won't have a team that suprises some occasionally? No. Look at Miami for example. Not a perrenial powerhouse but able to put together a team every 5 or 6 years to make a run. This is what we should expect. One year, every 5 or 6, where everything falls into place and we make some noise. We will be playing in the best conference ever assembled for basketball. Get used to some tough years unless you're willing to donate the brand new state of the art $25 million basketball facility that holds 25,000 screaming fans, the private lear jet, and the $2.0 million a year for a coach that will attract the biggest recruits in the country. You get what you pay for. Time to put up or shut up. I'm behind CRM all the way and I'm glad he was willing to take a chance on what seems to be a no win situation. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/college/news/2003/05/30/bkb_coaching_salaries/
  15. If they aren't 100% sold out then I will be pissed. I donate $2 k per year and only have one ticket this year and they told me that I couldn't get in the lower bowl without sitting behind the basket. I would get a better seat if I took that money and signed up for classes and attended as a student. There have been plenty of games that the student section was not even close to being full but I still sit in the 2nd level by the visiting teams fans (it isn't much fun to hear them talk smack when our team plays as poorly as they have lately). They should let the fans down to fill the seats at half. Starting with the donors and then allow the students.
  16. Let's see..SG has beaten the bottom 3 teams in the ACC. Virginia, Clemson, and NC State are a combined 4-16. Real impressive. I'll give him the GT upset but they look like they are overrated as well at 3-3 in conference. Wait until the spring swoon he is so known for. he can't finish..never could. same old seth. glad he moved on. we should have kicked him out long ago.
  17. Why doesn't anyone think a split ticket is a possibility? I say force ND to play 4 BE games a year. Let them keep their NBC deal(2 home on NBC;2 away for BE TV). If they go to a BCS bowl then let them keep the proceeds. Allow them to go to a BE sponsored bowl only if they split money with conference. Don't give them any TV money or a share of any BE bowl money. Invite Army to take the other 4 games. It would definitely lend some credibility to the conference without costing the BE much. Force ND to take the deal or let their other sports go play in the A-10. As far as USF is concerned, I think you might want to consider potential. We have hardly had a chance to get our feet wet as far as D-1 a football is concerned. Bowls and big wins in the past don't matter. I think the BE sees what they did for a Miami program that was almost extinct back in the 80's. The past is o.k. for Louisville. You definitely would not be considered a powerhouse.  Look at  the number of national champs in the last 25 years  from the state of Florida compared to the number from Kentucky. I think you'll see why we were invited.
  18. I say let Army and Navy split a spot. They could each play 4 conference games. I know they are opposed to joining a conference but if they only had to play 4 games out of a 12 game schedule then they might consider it (if there was an incentive-say a 1/18 share of bowl revenues). Or maybe try and get ND and Army to split a spot. Force ND into it or kick them out of all the other sports. With 8 OOC games they could easily play all of their traditional rivals.
  19. I was able to sneak one in. I don't know how because mine crashed too. Here are 2 he mentions us in. Rich(Tampa,Fl): Ryan, How about the University of South Florida? Dawsey has some talented, young receivers for you to work with not to mention the opportunity to start for 4 years and play the likes of Miami. Why not create tradition instead of following it? Imagine taking a program that has been around for less than 10 years to a BCS bowl and possible NC. Talk about being THE MAN Ryan Perrilloux: (1:30 PM ET ) South Florida has an alright chance, I really just like the receiving Coach Duffey a lot. That's really what's keeping them on my list. Dan New York, NY: Ryan, Which are your final schools? Ryan Perrilloux: (1:34 PM ET ) Miss. State, South Florida, LSU, Texas, Florida State and Miami.
  20. I would run a promotion where the first say 200 people to show up get a free ticket. The next 200 get in for $5, the next 200 get in for $10. Promote this for all games. Start giving away the tickets an hour before tip off. I don't know what the increased overhead would be but I believe all these people might spend money at the concessions and for parking. It would actually bring in additional revenue and I think the players might appreciate seeing some people in the stands. I think the hardcore fans and boosters would not mind this because it would increase attendance. I don't know what our walkup numbers are but I don't imagine they are very high.
  21. I think UAB beat S Miss by 8. This will be a huge game for our confidence. Hopefully we don't lose on a miracle 3 at the end like we did last year.
  22. $10 might not increase attendance all that much but they have to consider this when talking about walkups. I don't mind paying $16 because I am a donor (heck- I donate $2k per year and can't even get a seat in the lower bowl-not even when there are tons of empty seats). Give the donors who pay $16 the ability to use the empty seats in the lower bowl.The gators tickets are only $10 and they put a much better product on the floor. Charge $5 for the first say 200 walkups. Then go to $10 for the next 500. Then go to $15 for the remaining tickets. Start selling to walkups 1 hour before gametime. First come first served. Run this as a continuing promotion. The hot games will bring in the most revenue(not to mention lines at the ticket booth). When we play no name opponents we can still draw a crowd (we just won't make much money- rightly so).
  23. I think it would be cool if our first bowl game is a BCS bowl game. I don't think teams that finish 7-5, 8-4, etc. deserve to go bowling. You should have to finish with no more than 3 losses.It used to be a reward and something special to get invited to a bowl game now half of the teams in D1 go.
  24. Oops. sorry bullman. I forgot optimism is not allowed on this board. We're all supposed to realize how hopeless things are this year. I hope our players don't have your attitude. Thinking like that is a guarantee for failure. Might as well call it a season, huh? I'll be happy if they believe they can win every game, work hard trying, and never quit. Sounds like you're ready to.
  25. All 3 of them played against ND. Horton was their leading scorer (hit the game winner) and Brown was their leading rebounder (and 3rd leading scorer). If we can contain their guard Harris then I think we may have a shot. Mac should be familiar with these guys.
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