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Thanks, but I would be making better use of my time bashing my shins with a tack hammer. 

Well, look on the bright side.  If he was such an influential kid, at least he's leaving for a ****** team.  I'm pretty sure we won't see some mass exodus of high school talent from Tampa to Nashville.

Maybe they're in on it

He told everyone he was going to do this.  Just have faith that at the end of the day, he pulls that USF hat out on signing day.

I have a feeling we'd be 2-3 right now if we played them instead of one of the teams you listed.  Not to mention losing further ground in the recruiting battle.

Keep it going, this is great!!!  I'm sure ol George has some more stuff on his resume!

BTW, I am an IT guy, but damned if I don't know how to photoshop stuff (not that that's what is being done in this post) very well.  What do you guys use?  I've always just used MS paint and made it look almost purposely crappy, but I would like to know how to do it more seamlessly as well.

He was also a "legend" on the basketball court...

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Seriously, laughing out loud right now at work!

This is the funniest thread ever.

Too bad we don't have a follow-up story from Hubert Mizell, on how wrong he was.  This just proves that just because you have a computer and work for a newspaper doesn't make you an expert in football or in any sport.  Great find BullswinBucswin.

Not that I am condoning a stampede on a 70 year-old guy, but the St. Pete times just did a follow-up story on Hubert last month.  He's a Gator, living in Gainesville doing a couple of sports commentaries, one of the local ABC affiliate called "The Mizell Minute" and he writes features for a mag called "Gator Country."

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/article773004.ece

It would be funny to get his thoughts on that story.  I wonder if he even remembers writing it, it was over 14 years ago!

That's awesome.  Got me curious, so I searched the St. Pete times archives quickly, and came up with this gem from Hubert Mizell.  I got a kick out of it, and I am sure you will too:

USF can't play top football

[CITY Edition]

St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg, Fla.

Author: HUBERT MIZELL

Date: May 22, 1994

It's not that I'm against the University of South Florida spending $5-million to create a football team. It's just that my slick-from-wear senses tell me to not hop a community bandwagon to shout "Yes!"

USF has big enrollment but not a big national reputation. Bulls people understandably hunger for a big-time ego fix. For universities in our state, big football comes to mind as a visibility vehicle.

Until now, men's basketball has been South Florida's prime athletic investment, but the bouncing Bulls are yet to escalate to the NCAA Final Four or worldly celebrity.

Football is a monster tease.

Plato, Curie, Edison and King have historically preached that it's good to be a dreamer, but USF's football inventors owe it to students, faculty, alumni, fans and taxpayers to fully consider major-college football reality.

Bulls football zealots, openly or not, surely imagine an eventual stadium smash in the standing-room-only league of Gainesville, Tallahassee, Tuscaloosa, Columbus and Lincoln.

Football's birth at USF is virtually assured. Five-million dollars is all but raised for the great ego chase. But I wonder, are Bulls financiers being realistic about where South Florida football can be by, say, the year 2020?

If the Bulls are crafty, nifty and lucky for 10 to 15 seasons, USF might approach the status and appeal of the football program at the University of Central Florida.

In Orlando, the Knights play a schedule all but devoid of major football names, drawing 15,000 on a good Saturday night. Just now, after a generation of dues-paying, UCF is straining to get enough attendance and other vitals to jump to Division I-A, where the big boys play. If that brings snorts of excitement from the Bulls, they should put up their $5-mil and go for it.

But c'mon, isn't USF fantasizing about far more, including eventual year-to-year football schmoozings with the 'Canes, Gators and 'Noles? Have they examined how long that could take and how much money it could cost?

Hey, teacher, call on me . . .

Aware of the costs of playing NCAA major football, my answers to those questions would be "forget it!" and "forever" and "megafortunes." Big-time college football is too expensive, too complex and too competitive for USF - for any school - to initiate in the '90s.

There are alternatives.

Mid-sized NCAA football, including divisions II and I-AA, might be realistic. But how long would that be acceptable to USF's ego? This is a big school in a big metropolitan area. Small is a word that makes for a bad chew. Could the Bulls be content to spend the 21st century trying to compete with Troy State, Georgia Southern and Eastern Kentucky?

If so . . . go for it!

If USF itches to become a party to UF-UM-FSU-style football, even 20 or 30 years from now, the odds-against are horrendous. They'd have a better chance for success by plunging for 5-million $1 tickets in this week's Florida Lottery.

Here's the big question:

Among the 50 most prominent Division I football efforts, including FSU, UF and UM, along with Notre Dame and Penn State and all the other heavies, what program is the newest?

It's FSU, heading to a 48th football season since the Tallahassee school went coed in 1947. Miami is also one of the younger programs; the Hurricanes are in their 65th year. Most big-name football universities were already deep into the game by 1912, when Arizona became the 48th state.

There was a 1950s exception. Air Force Academy football was christened 38 years ago, but that was a federally funded case. I doubt the Bulls can expect football financial aid from the Clinton administration.

I'm for USF doing the right football thing. Who has the heart to give a total thumbs-down to Lee Roy Selmon, the Bulls' chief football fund-raiser and former Tampa Bay Bucs defensive Goliath? But it's too much of a longshot to gamble on USF ever swimming with our state's big football fish.

USF could probably better spend $5-million, but if the FootBulls have minds made up, they should work at building the best mid-sized NCAA program around, understanding the FSU-UM-UF level is permanently out of reach.

Unless, of course, USF wishes - once the Bulls rise to current UCF football ilk, well into the next century - to sign an occasional deal with the 'Noles, Gators or 'Canes to be a homecoming opponent amenable to 60-point clobberings.

If it tips your tankard, Bulls, go for it.

This is killing me.  What's w/ the green helmet talk???!!  I haven't heard anything about it.  Can someone shed some light?  I'm not sure I like the idea of green helmets.

Thanks for the info Jim.  I do recall seeing those guys getting pretty rowdy whenever we would get tickets to go in the Miller Lite deck for free beer.  I remember the Pitt WR flicking them off.  That's my kind of section right there.  We may be joining you soon.

I'm going to be purchasing season tix as soon as I can coordinate with the 3 and possibly 4 others that want in as well.  I believe we are going to get the South endzone due to the fact that a couple of the guys are non-USF grads and it would be a hard sell to get them to donate and/or pay for higher priced tix, but hey, we're getting the foot in the door w/ them, right?!

I was wondering if anyone knows approximately what row I would be looking at if buying in the South endzone for 4 or 5 together?  I know there are quite a few season ticket holders down there already......are tickets becoming scarce there?  And how's the rowdiness factor?  We usually sit in the student section so we can get loud.  Any ideas on what section would be appreciated as well.  Thanks in advance.

My wearing of a Gators shirt in support of UF's football team after it won the national championship in January, or in support of its basketball team - for which I will be cheering Saturday night during its Final Four game

And I do wear USF shirts from time to time, usually during a big sporting event.

Textbook definition of a typical bandwagon fan.  Makes me want to puke.

Nobody has posted any comments yet?  I'm too disgusted to post anything rational and without obscenities.

2001 MIS

Dickie V  ;D

He...uhh you mean she.  My bf works in the building.  That's where I get the info  I do the best I can.  Look for me as a diamond doll.

The Building

What times will you be working this weekend?

;D  Walked right into that one!  

If they walked Laporta it wouldnt have been bases loaded it would have been 1st and 3rd

You throw a better 0-2 pitch and who knows how it ends up.  

Exactly.  Like I said, I initially was calling for the intentional walk, and still think it would have been a solid play to set up a possible DP.  But I also like the fact that Prado has faith in his ace and wants to be aggressive and go after the other team's best hitter.  Would have sent a hell of a message if it had worked out.  

Gutsy move pitching to LaPorta with 1st base open and 1 out.  I didn't agree with it at the time, but it appeared to be sort of a statement move......our ace up against their stud hitter.  If he strikes him out, and it appeared that he had him guessing after the first two pitches, then we are in the driver's seat mentally and probably go on to win the game.

Murdock plans transfer to USF

TAMPA - Former Middleton receiver O.J. Murdock, a nationally coveted recruit who spent two seasons at South Carolina, plans to transfer to USF this summer.

"I want to be closer to home. My family needs me, and this is a better fit for me," said Murdock, a first-team all-state selection ranked as the nation's No. 10 prep receiver by Rivals.com two years ago.

Murdock, 5 foot 11 and 187 pounds, redshirted his first year with the Gamecocks, then played sparingly last season, catching one pass for 8 yards before he left the team in December. He will have to sit out the 2007 season and will have two years of eligibility with the Bulls.

Murdock was arrested in October in Tampa on a felony charge of grand theft, accused by police of shoplifting about $420 in clothes from a store at University Square Mall. Murdock said he expects his legal problems to be resolved by the end of this summer.

USF has not received a release from South Carolina, so coaches cannot yet speak with Murdock.

he must have good hands

But obviously not breakaway speed

The show really sucked.  Wasted about 45 min of my life waiting for the 2 minute section on USF.  Nothing new though in regards to that show's coverage of USF.

Headline:  "Scientists find cures for cancer, AIDS, and all other major diseases"

Smazza:  "Still no cure for the common cold. "

Is it just me or do we get better press from the Lakeland paper than we get from our own hometown papers???  It seems that they always have positive things to say about our program, which is good since there seems to be alot of high school talent in that area.

the team didn't even celebrate with us.

Probably a good thing.... Wouldn't have looked too good having more players than fans that stormed the court out there.

Trip,

You've had a lot of good ones, but that might be your best post yet...

That was pretty dang funny.

Is he still playing or have they started playing 2nd string?  If so, how did he do?

ultra-competitive Big East Conference

Not that I don't agree, but just sounds ultra-funny to me.   ;D