CyberBull

You are obviously entitled to your opinion, but I see nothing but upside with this potential option. This would be a home run hire and IMHO....could work out even better than the aborted Masiello hire. Excellent recruiterGreat X's & O's guy NBA experience as a head coach, scout, assistant Family business: hoops is in the family's blood Experience as P5 conference assistant has given him a great apprenticeship for the college game Reputation as a great TEACHER of the game that gets the most of his players. If I am Perry, Egbunu et al I am salivating at this possibility Another great thing about this guy is that his pro background would work really well with the dynamics of having to coach a college team in a heavily saturated pro market. He will essentially run this program like an NBA team which would be appealing to recruits. This could be a Larry Brown type of hire with the ability to turn this thing around quickly by taking advantage of existing talent base, great facilities and University. He just needs to fill in the holes with recruits on twitter who are already saying that USF would jump to the top of their list . If the college basketball gods on Mount Olympus have any mercy and sense of decency.... please let this rumor be true! I would 100% support this hire. Which recruits are saying USF would jump to the top of their list? Not sure but there was a tweet from an NBA/College beat writer that tweeted about the potential immediate impact of Musselman taking the USF job. IMO, the most important recruiting needs to be done at home to ensure last year's freshman class stays home. USF has a front court already in place with Egbunu and Perry and the two kids that didn't play this year. We need Musselman to shore up our guard play.

Is that necessarily a requirement? We all had a blast watching Stan's plodding 1950's era style offense two years ago and were stoked that we almost had the Sweet 16 in our grasp. With Musselman we'll get the same defensive intensity and effort, but we will run fundamentally sound sets that make sense based on the personnel on the team. IMHO......Winning >>>> Style points

You are obviously entitled to your opinion, but I see nothing but upside with this potential option. This would be a home run hire and IMHO....could work out even better than the aborted Masiello hire. Excellent recruiter Great X's & O's guy NBA experience as a head coach, scout, assistant Family business: hoops is in the family's blood Experience as P5 conference assistant has given him a great apprenticeship for the college game Reputation as a great TEACHER of the game that gets the most of his players. If I am Perry, Egbunu et al I am salivating at this possibility Another great thing about this guy is that his pro background would work really well with the dynamics of having to coach a college team in a heavily saturated pro market. He will essentially run this program like an NBA team which would be appealing to recruits. This could be a Larry Brown type of hire with the ability to turn this thing around quickly by taking advantage of existing talent base, great facilities and University. He just needs to fill in the holes with recruits on twitter who are already saying that USF would jump to the top of their list . If the college basketball gods on Mount Olympus have any mercy and sense of decency.... please let this rumor be true!

Five years this would have been the home run hire we are looking for today. Amazing what five years does to your coaching career.

The offense is still basically the same, I just noticed that they look more like they know what is expected and more up tempo. Lots of work still to do but it looked night and day better than last year spring Game. I am encouraged heading into the summer. Swanson leading the way for our two incoming freshman backs is good to be fun to watch.

BINGO!!! Most of the media loves to report a negative story anyway. As a USF fan, I just laugh at the media types that bash us when they get the chance. It is comical. And the sad thing is that they never have to come back and apology for their own mistakes. USF is free to do their coaching search anyway that they want to. Not sure why we have people crying about how USF conducts their own busines affairs. It is like they are entitled to anything that USF does and if they dont get an answer they whine. yeah it is the media's fault No.....I don't care what the media says.

So what you are suggesting is that USF refute every rumor that pops up on Twitter? Gotcha.... Honestly, who cares what the media thinks?

Some in the USF blogosphere have decided to make it a lifestyle decision to bash USF.....

Who had ever heard of Tom Jurich before he arrived at UL? He inherited a Louisville athletic program that was a hot mess . Jurich quickly got to work in building facilities that would attract good coaches and made UL competitive in conference and nationally in just about all sports. This ultimately helped UL get an ACC invitation. however, Harlan's jib one is to win back the trust and support of the fanbase. I see way too many longtime Bulls supporters who have given up tickets, have tickets and don't go to games...or just flat out stop caring. These are going to be the toughest ppl to win back.

That would perhaps be a valid point if UCF hadn't been busted twice over a span of three years, along with other questionable behavior by your administration over the years, nevermind the reputation of your football coach. Any links or sources to prove this? Sounds like a lot of conjecture... The source is my own observations. All of the "elite eight" matchups had huge shifts Sunday Morning and the NCAA posted a statement that lots of people appeared to be running illegal scripts through email voting and all the emailed votes would be thrown out. Regarding point #1, I was keeping an eye on the votes throughout the week. In our matchup with UTPA we had about 75% of the vote throughout the week and it didn't really change much. Then Sunday morning we suddenly dropped to about 22% of the vote. Regarding point #2, as I said I was keeping an eye on the votes throughout the week and BYU's lead over NDSU stayed between 52%-54% for most of the week. Then Sunday morning BYU's lead jumped up to about 75% of the vote in their matchup. On Sunday morning the UCF Nation facebook page (has about 100k subscribers) started posting that we had fallen behind and asked people to vote. Our vote percentage versus UTPA started to rise and it looked like we would overtake them with time to spare, but then our rise started to stall. I checked out the BYU message board and they had about a dozen threads about shifting over and focusing on voting for UTPA so that UCF would lose and they would have an easier opponent this week. Yep, a couple fans running vote bots (just like fans of every other school still in the competition) is certainly indicative of the culture of an entire university. Just like a USF recruit being arrested must mean that USF has a thug culture, right?

Seems like cheating has become part of the culture up in Orlando....

Those were good times. My wife and I were basically in every frame of the video.

Yet another reason why many longtime posters have abandoned this board...which is too bad b/c when it's not overrun by idiotic threads like this it's really the best online USF community. Were you by chance anywhere close to Doug Woolard's car on Friday? smh....

Being transparent doesn't mean complete disclosure. Genshaft and the old Big East made the right call in trying to keep the league stable enough to simply survive. In fact, considering how UC, USF and UCONN positioned themselves to receive a lionshare of the exit money and giving up the 'Big East' name you could argue that USF did as best as it could have done.....since we didn't have ANYONE asking to join their league. BTW, what P5 team was really going to invite USF. SEC? -- next.... B1G? -- next.... Pac12? -- I'm sure we were on their short list if they ever decided to add a team in Tampa... ACC? -- this would seem like a natural fit for many reasons other than FSU and UM blocking our admission... Big12? -- this really our only hope but if the Big12 didn't make a serious run to expand into Florida by adding FSU....what makes you think that they will would have invited USF? Again, this is our only hope....and we need to position ourselves by building facilities to match our competitors....and obviously getting back in the business of winning football games. ..

I think my problem is that I use Chrome and keeps me logged in on any internet device I use throughout the day. Plus I also check regular news daily which eats up my site views as well. It's funny b/c despite getting a paper version of the Times of years I still read most of my news online. All I'm saying is that they need to re-think their approach.

So do you think I am making it up? I of the Times over reached in starting to charge for online content, especially for paper subscribers. I have regularly run into page view limits since they made their change...and btw I check the Times from home, work and multiple mobile devices. In regards to his UCF article.....you can't blame ppl for being surprised b/c we never saw this with Auman.

No comment on the UCF story but the biggest problem he has had is that most folks can no longer read his blog. Which is royally frustrating b/c I am a Times subscriber...but I am not going to pay an additional monthly fee. The Times needs to re- think their online strategy b/c they are going to lose a lot of readers. It seems somewhat greedy to have their blogs become 'premium' content...especially for folks who are already subscribers to their paper. Especially when there isn't a lot of blog activity to make the expense worthwhile. My$0.02

Incompetence gets my vote...

I hate the use of "killed the program" b/c it implies that our condition is terminal. We are having a bad couple of years like almost all programs go through.

Petrino wouldn't last more than one half on our sidelines. The moment he realizes that USF plays down the street from the Mons he would hand over his headphones to an assistant and spend the second half sliding dollars into a dancers thong.

Great post! Unfortunately most of our fanbase got drunk on the instant fame of 2007 and don't really understand how hard it is to build a solid football program that is consistently good. When you yell obscenities at 18 year old kids leaving the field it's not going to make them play better but rather make them accept the idea this is how its always been like at USF. There are only a handful of players left that have had any positive winning experiences as a USF player. It's our jobs as fans to remind them of all the great thing this program was able to pull off as a brand new program. As a season ticket holder from day one this is the lowest point of the program on the field...and some of our 'fans' are trying the hardest to turn this into the lowest point off the field as well. I think Willie Taggart is going to take us back to the style and success we enjoyed under Leavitt. However, our fans need to stop feeling sorry for themselves and stop treating these kids and coaches like lowly scum b/c as you said it's only making things worse. Do these people not realize that recruits that would make our program better are watching theses drunks badmouth our players from the stands? There are too many Bulls fans that would make the 'cute' tweet or post bashing their school than try and support the program when it most needs the support of a positive fanbase.

Brad - I wish your son and your family nothing but the best. Sounds like a complete recovery is well on its way .

I hate to hear about him transferring out but remember his career has been cut short due to injury more than anything else. Secondly, he was moved to WR b/c that is where the team needed him and he openly welcomed that opportunity. Remember he played Safety in high school so when he arrived at USF he was learning a new position. Finally, his hands as a WR and punt returner got himself on the bench. How many easy passes did he drop and how many poor attempts at fielding punts put the offense in bad field position? I am not trying to bash the kid or give the old coaching staff a pass but this is not ALL on USF current all previous coaching staff. There was a certain amount of lack of accountability that got suspended...and unfortunately he is now going to play peewee football. I wish him well and hopes he gets his degree and I will always consider him a part of the Bulls Family.

If by 'none' you are referring to 20k USF fans in attendance at that game then I don't think the word "none" means what you think it means...

Absolutely, this is a failure of the AAC. I fully expected to have a bowl game matching the AAC champion against the SEC champion. I can't believe the AAC couldn't get that done. SEC? Really? I was thinking NFC South. We deserve another shot against the Gapper's Bucs.