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    Team discipline

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    Dude, puc, you're outta line. We all hate to see USF lose. Jeff Scott was an absolute homerun hire. Good changes are happening. I feel your frustration, but perhaps you wouldn't be so much if you just admitted to yourself that this year was going to be rough on the W-L record no matter who coached. It's a full chop-down rebuild. I have felt it is refreshing to see all the true freshman being played. That alone should demonstrate to you - this rebuilding will take a few years, and you can't let impatience get to you. CJS & co will right this ship. It will take time. Cool off, the future is bright.

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    The Gap Between USF and the Orlando School

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    1 minute ago, bullsfan27 said:

    The difference is they went the young energetic coordinator route after oliar left while we went with the old dinosaur retread after taggart left

    Absolutely. Mark Harlan was a pretty face out on a date with us, shook our hand with one hand while texting his next date with the other. CCS was a gigantic failure of a hire. I will admit I was initially supportive of that hire, but also then one of the quickest to call myself wrong in CCS' first year.

    Team looks lost

    in USF South Florida Bulls Athletics

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    Grammar

    23 minutes ago, cmhatter said:

    Props to you for trying to see positives.

     

    I had very low expectations for this season... despite that I’m still shocked at how small our team looked/played. I’d still grade the coaches pretty poorly today. Didn’t do enough to account for the mismatches.

    Yes, we looked very undersized in comparison to ND. We have looked quite undersized since the Leavitt era, but it got far worse under CCS. There is definitely no way around the fact that we need bigger linemen in the future. We can't do anything about that outside of recruiting, except coach the players we have up as best we can. We have always had difficulty recruiting big linemen to USF, and I don't have any false hopes that we will weigh the same as Wisconsin's lines in the near future. But JPP and George Selvie and Austin Reiter weren't/aren't playing in the NFL because they are giant walls of flesh. My only hope there has been we get a coach willing to stay for a while, coach the best players we can get to be the best they can, and stay through some sustained success so recruiting will build over time. The jury is out on that for a few years, of course. That would be a truly beautiful development, but like I said, that's a pipe dream for us, always.

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    Team looks lost

    in USF South Florida Bulls Athletics

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    15 minutes ago, puc86 said:

    If you are staying in position and making tackles the only way you get rolled by 52 is if the coaching staff has you completely in the wrong position, there is no way you honestly saw what you saw what you are pretending you saw, I think you got some of that green and gold glitter in your eyes.

    I think your bitterness with the loss and your dashed hopes for a rapid turnaround have you in the dumps, and I don't blame you one bit. My heart feels trampled on every time USF loses. But I honestly believe I saw steps in the right direction in many small ways. The type of steps we have been lacking in for years. Despite the bad loss, there was greatly improved discipline. There was grit and mettle despite overwhelming odds. There were signals for the right kind of character, instead of the opposite we have had through 2 sets of coaching staffs. It was there to see, if you were looking for it, but I don't blame you for feeling terribly after that loss as a USF fan.

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    Team looks lost

    in USF South Florida Bulls Athletics

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    20 minutes ago, puc86 said:

    Exactly how strong of a microscope do you have to have to see that improvement? Think of all the bad teams we have had, now think of all the good teams we have played, this performance managed to be worse than any we have had ever with any coach with any team against any competition, that's not typically seen as improvement. 

    Wow. How quickly you forget Wisconsin last year. And McNeese St. At Pitt, in the rain, at the end of the Big East era. Taggart's first two years were nothing but dreadful. As was CCS' final year and a half. Believe me I could go on; I have bled as much as any USF fan with our teams.

    It doesn't take a microscope. Players sticking to assignments, when they used to fail at that constantly. Players actually tackling, even if ND players were generally much larger and more difficult to tackle than our average opponents, we weren't arm tackling, we weren't giving up before trying. That was a major issue the entire time with both Taggart and Strong. Our OL and DL were far undersized compared with ND but they stayed with it, hard, til the end; they were just outmatched by bigger, heavier guys. The holes the OL opened up against Citadel was refreshing compared with the entire back half of the CCS era. The players overtly showed supporting each other despite adversity. Under CCS adversity made us crumble, immediately. Just watch player and coaching staff interactions; CCS lost his locker room in year 2. CJS and co have this locker room solidly behind them. We tried running a fake punt, which was refreshing. Yes, it didn't go as planned. But we tried, and that's something which to me shows ambition, intention for growth, and a willingness to take chances even with a younger, less well-trained personnell with lots of need for coaching for improvement. There were jitters and boneheaded plays, like with our long snapper today, no doubt. I'm not saying everything has magically turned around. But with a solid culture installed, the chemistry will build, the recruitment will come, and later the wins will come. This is the first coach since CJL who has even TRIED to install a culture FIRST. It is real leadership, gentlemen. That is what leads to wins. Swallow the tough year we will have this year, which we were always going to have no matter who coached. Things will improve, because now we have real leadership.

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    Team looks lost

    in USF South Florida Bulls Athletics

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    Take it easy, y'all. If you've been watching closely, you've already seen improvement in the VERY short time CJS and crew have had to affect change in our program. We are moving in the right direction overall. Yes, we are completely outmatched by this ND team, but it wasn't a fair fight to begin with and we all knew this going in. ND needs a nice box score for the playoff committee. In exchange we get them at home, and chances to beat them when CJS & crew have more time to lay foundation and create a new culture from the toxic ones left behind by Taggart and Strong. Give them time. Of course its frustrating as a USF fan to see our team get ploughed, but Michael Kelly and CJS have us moving in the right direction, finally, for the first time in years. I am happy to have this post quoted this time next year and the one following; mark my words, to the discerning eye, good things are happening. The scale is so small and the time scale long enough that it's hard to tell right now if you're not looking real close.

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    The TBP Official In Game Thread: Bulls at Notre Dame

    in USF South Florida Bulls Athletics

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    14 minutes ago, USFBULL_08 said:

    It's quite amazing rooting for a team that had the chance to beat anyone anywhere to knowing you have zero chance. 

    By amazing I mean depressing.

    Those were the Leavitt years. We haven't been that team since Holtz's 2nd year. 

    But for the first time since CJL, I believe that can happen again. Jeff Scott is the real deal. I don't think he will leave USF at a minimim until he wins a conference championship.

    Michael Kelly hit a grand slam with Jeff Scott. Better days are ahead for USF football!

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    Biggest Upset in USF History

    in USF South Florida Bulls Athletics

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    On 9/17/2020 at 8:53 PM, BullsWinBucsWin said:

    This Tampa Bay Times article says we were three touchdown dogs against Louisville.  That was an awesome game..........second (and last) time I stormed the field after a game

    https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2005/12/31/usf-s-five-biggest-wins/

    I am among those dubiously distinct for having rushed the field each and every time it has happened for USF, including against Urban Meyer-coached Bowling Green and at Miami as a UM grad student. I might have been the only person rushing the field once or twice....

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