Grateful Dad

At least it's not a bus

Nice! Jenkins led Western Kentucky to 30 Sun Belt and Conference USA team championships, was tabbed conference coach of the year 21 different times and was selected as the USFTCCA Southeast Region Coach of the Year five times. Jenkins has coached seven conference freshmen of the year, 26 conference most outstanding performers and guided the Hilltoppers to 174 individual and 22 relay championships since 2008. In addition, Jenkins has coached 215 NCAA preliminary participants, 121 NCAA final participants and 84 All-Americans.

confused + medicated = conficated. I've been there...

And a rousing rendition of the National Anthem and picture of the flag preceding the test pattern. Although, the test pattern was a very popular show back in the Sixties. We watched it for hours

You know, at one time you could have been run off this board (or at least gotten a talking to from Smazza) if you ever offered the idea that we should be courting peers to join our conference and our peers were the teams we are mentioning now. On the other hand, ain't nowhere to go but up.

Army, Air Force, and BYU. Have all of the major service academies in the American. At least the name would make sense.

Being a USAF vet, I'd get to see my Bulls play my Falcons at Ray Jay? I'm in!

Is anyone here going to the USF afternoon game?

I'll entertain any options that provide a way to separate from Central State in Orlando.

You put a lot of thought into that. If only...

Ok. I have some 1933 Deutschmark notes that I was going to contribute, but be that way.

Robogoat is cool! Still have the license plate I believe. Definitely an excellent throwback uniform.

Heck, when I graduated we had to go done to the quarry and chisel it ourselves. And we were THANKFUL!

I'd like to be part of this, too. Cool and thanks for taking this on.

They probably couldn't have seen "propelling the ball forward" in our future. Ruck Futgers and the Schiano they rode in on.

We made a few sports "experts" look like fools. I believe that they got gunshy on us for a while, not willing to take anymore hits to their reputation. But, I also believe that we are far enough removed from it to be considered a Darkhorse-underdog-Cinderella again if we earn it.

Nice! I wonder what his offense will consist of?

Never made it out to one, so I guess it's time.

Man, I really like Kelly and what he is doing. I see good things coming up. Essentially, I think you are right, Brad. Everyone get one or three. But you can't make them go. The program has to do its part. I believe we will get there sooner than later. It's just that with the Groupthink that naturally occurs in a relatively cohesive group of people, we need to do reality checks once in a while to calibrate our expectations and ensure that we are not denigrating those who "ain't one of our'n" yet.

When Ford sent his tweet about people waiting to see if we will be successful, these are the people to whom he was referring. I think you are both right. You know, we need to make some term distinctions here. USF fan, casual USF fan, college football fan. I don't think there are many AAC fans out there so we won't worry about that one. The reason I say this is as USF fans, I think we are vastly overestimating our fanbase. Of fans like us (spend time everyday hanging on every conjecture, speculation, eventuality and then believing all of it to be true), yes, they will attend the games with the fanatic gusto that we require of people who desire the title USF fan. But I don't think there are that many left. The high water mark for this program seems to have been the 07ish years. That was so long ago that I still had color in my hair. Look at how many posters here are sick of hearing about it and how many weren't even sentient human beings when all of this happened. After thirteen years, we didn't lose only bandwagon friends, but die hard fans whose lives outside of Ray Jay got complicated and a floundering team couldn't be a priority. Then we have fans of the university, but not big on football. They're good people, too. You can't sue them for that. A winning team might intrigue them. People who just like to watch good college football? Well, we haven't provided that for a while, so there's potential there. They are good people, too. My point is, we are all subject to Typical Bias - we believe that we are typical of how people should be (hello, Puc? ) We have found great joy in our Fanpsychosis and can't understand why everyone doesn't rise up to our standards to qualify for the esteemed title of USF fan. That's not how it is. Our fanbase has dwindled to mostly just that hardcore. If we want to attract more numbers we have to stop being boneheads and stop judging who is and who isn't a "real fan". Everyone is invited. Even if you don't stand, even if you can't make every game, even if you like the new uniforms. Even if you wear green on a whiteout day. Even if you leave early. Even if you schedule your wedding during football season. You know - all the other stupid criteria we use to exclude people that we want as fans. No, we aren't typical at all of the general population of Tampa Bay. And most don't care about our expectations of them. We have to make the product so good that it competes with the general population's lives and becomes a priority.

Good God, will the offseason ever end? Look what it's done to my friends, Ma! If I read anymore of this thread, I'm going to start sitting down when I pee.

I have a beautiful guitar (Les Paul) in Cherry Sunburst. I look like Dicky Betts playing it. I can't play guitar worth a poop. Win the games. I don't care if we wear potato sacks.

The USF HoF will always lack complete legitimacy until it acknowledges one of the most important figures to USF athletics. Punitive history may be all the rage out in society right now but we don't need it in the HoF.

Ok, that's enough for me. Let's get it done.