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Or Doug Waecter, Chris Davis (good choice btw Chris you've done sooo much at FSU), Drew Weatherford, or any of a hundred QBs USF has offered in the last 5 years. It reminds me a bit of Cardieri. Recruit the very best even though you have little chance of getting them into the program and have very little in the way of back up plans. Im not saying we shouldn't recruit the very best but we need to look at who is doing it, what is going wrong and what we need to do to fix the problem. (I know about Grothe, we'll see how that works out.)

If history has tought us anything its that USF can beat (or lose to) any team no matter how good (or bad). We usualy play to the level of the competition, so lets go Bulls stuff that WVU run and throw the ball well and you've got a chance to ruin thier Christmas.

Addae Takes Charge By JOEY JOHNSTON jjohnston@tampatrib.com Published: Nov 29, 2005http://bulls.tbo.com/bulls/MGBMF9ILLGE.html This story got me going this morning. There are so many untold storys on USF roster that I think its a slap in the face to run this kind of feature on a returning local standout playing for the other team. It rewards him for going away and playing against USF while our guys are equaly deserving of that kind of article and get nothing. @#$% You very much Joey Johnston

UConn would be more deserving as a team because they beat us head to head when we controlled our own destiny and they were basicaly playing for pride. As fans, if we really wanted a bowl we should have turned out for the Cincinnati game when the Bowl commitee was scouting the crowd. 23K at a home game when the team is rolling was not a strong endorsment of our traveling power. I can see why they would wait for UConn. The team blew it, the fans blew it and I'll say it again the athletic dept blew it by not creating a stir for that game.

Let me see we beat UL and UConn beat us so yeah UConn has no chance right? It would serve us right to miss out on a Bowl game. It would be sad, but appropriate.

When can USF expect an invitation? Before the game to get the word out I hope.

What if Rod Smith didn't want to use this offense but didnt have the time to put a new one in this year. He bungled things up pretty good this year but maybe he has a master plan . . . . ok I was just kidding but there is no way CJL fires him. Its not his style. Get used to the defense having three coordinators and the offense having none.

lol that is awesome

Its Monday morning November 28 and last night I still could not sleep right. I have been miserable, literally miserable, for about 48 hours now and now I think I have finally reached the end. Usually by now I have recovered from a loss and start loking forward to the next game but this time its different. This game ripped my heart out and I am actually considering giving up football entirely. The end of a lifetime passion, the last dose for a football junkie. It wasn't love at first sight. My football passion all started with the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Rocky Blier. I was six years old and my father was a disabled WWII veteran who couldn’t have cared less about sports. He would look at the baseball box scores about once a year just to see how far the Indians had fallen out of first place, but that was the extent of his sports interest. Just as it is today, he was my hero and even though he never spoke about his time overseas I aligned myself with him and was always more interested in playing war than ball. Then one day it happened. He and I were watching the news and saw a story about a veteran that had lost part of his foot in Vietnam. Blier wasn’t in a wheelchair or hobbling around some hospital, this particular war hero was playing football now. He wasn’t just playing football; he was a Pittsburgh Steeler and a Super Bowl Champion. I took up the game immediately and became a Marshall Junior High School Fighting Kitten. After a year of learning the game and becoming accustomed to verbal abuse, I had become a fullback and a defensive tackle. As a Kitten I went 0-4. It should have been a sign. In 1987, I played football for St. Petersburg Catholic High School Barons and head coach Mike June. It was my senior year and was coach Junes’ first year as a head coach; in fact at 24 years old he was one of the youngest head coaches in state history. I think we had about 33 guys on the team, including freshman, and together we worked hard, we played ten games and were able to score a total of 17 points. We gave up about 500 points (SERIOUSLY 500) but those 17 points were the ones that mattered. We were 0-10 when the football gods smiled upon us and Okeechobee had to forfeit its 47-0 win against us because they had played an ineligible player. 1-9. That should have been the end. Needless to say I went back to playing war. I joined the Army and spent the next two years watching as the Army went to Panama to get Noriega, Iraq invaded Kuwait and the Army was on its way to Kuwait too. I stayed at Ft. Drum but I was finally on the right side of the rout. In those two years I packed and unpacked my gear and dreaming of the days when getting injured just meant icing my ankle. Losing didn’t really matter that much anymore and I was a casual football fan and that was about it. Then in 1997, immediately after I took my last final exam at USF I walked across the street to the Sun Dome, met Mike Stueben and put a deposit on season tickets for USFs’ inaugural season. Since then casual has nothing to do with football. I’ve been a rabid USF fan since then. Jumping and hugging strange men at Raymond James when an Illinois States FG attempt went wide became just another Saturday night. Personally going bankrupt while diverting my time and energy looking for a way to raise money for USFs’ proposed athletic facility. It has been a hell of a ride but now I am wondering what’s it all about Alfie. Why do I ruin my weekend and my anniversary over a football game? Why am I still sick to my stomach 48 hours after a football game? Is there still something in my psyche that connects football and heroes that was formed in my youth? Is it a need to connect to success where success has always eluded me? How about some altruistic allegiance to my Alma Mata? At this point I don’t care anymore it’s not worth it. I’m too old to re-up and play soldier, but I know that I need to reevaluate my passions. Does anyone know how to become a casual fan again? Is there football re-hab? How can I become that fan that says good effort after a loss and moves on? If you know how to do it please post your prescription here and I will follow it otherwise I’m going cold turkey. Football free since 11/27. ( I was at the Bucs game yesterday too) Thanks for the forum and opportunity to vent.

I'll take WVU for $5K.

. . . irrelevant? Yeah thats what it will be like irrelevant.

Nice post Bulliever.

Redefining America: 6-5 is now GREAT Awesome.

I dont like horror movies or "Faces of Death" is that a good enough reason. The Bulls will mail it in again (like they did at U Conn) and WVU will pummel us. I am going and I bet that I will regret it. When I leave I may actually HATE the 2005 version of the Bulls.

Yes youre right its happiness and joy in Bull land. We are now the undeserving that will knock a deserving team out of a bowl game. We will lose and embarrass our program but will will extend the agony into fresh territory. See you at the Bowl Game @#$%^

Half of the "team" I saw yesterday deserved to win that game, and may have been deserving enough to beat WVU too. Its disgusting that the offense, that same crappy offense that has been a blight on the team all year and last year AND the year before that, was so inept or inadequate that they couldn't kick in thier 1/4 share of a game and win it for the deserving D. The offense has been problem. The offense will be a problem next week and (hopefully) in a bowl game and you know what it will be an albatross around CJL neck until he finds one of his HS buddies to hire that coincidentaly has become a great college offensive coordinator. I waited 20 hours to post to give me time to settle down. I think I will wait another 20 or so and see if I calm down enough by then. Oh BTW good job Uconn. You played a good game. It must have taken you ten minutes to gameplan the defense to stop the albatross.

No matter what happens today or next Sat. I would like to congratulate the coaches on using the off time to get the team playing good football again. If like I said the spotlight of fault would have been on them then they should also recieve the glory. GREAT JOB COACHES!!! THANK YOU!!!

Great coach and possible head coach replacement?

When the Bucs averaged 20K was it the fans fault?

E.T. to me the fact that we have a great football team, with roughly a hundred kids a year, busting thier bodys up and running through walls for a coach that has sacrificed most of his adult life to this point to build the team for a school that doesn't recipricate that same kind of effort and dedication to exposure that hard work to the community pisses me the #$%* off. When I see that many empty seats after a two month lay off, when the team is about to become bowl eligible I just want to puke. I choose to try puke in the general direction of the problem.

How about I put a TicketMaster terminal up my arse? While Im at it should I beg them for money for USF too?

This kid was hustling and hitting out there on Saturday.

Was that you on the sidelines this week? Thought I recognized you.

Thanks for all you hard work, its very important if this thing is to ever take off. I have been here for years and time has not been the answer. Maybe its a new era and things will happen but I am losing faith.

They should just call them the USF Bull Awards.