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thebouncer1898

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  1. Giving up my tickets after year one of CWT was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I wasn't stuck wasting a Saturday at the stadium watching USF...I can sit on my couch and drink cheap beer and watch USF until its unwatchable then move on to better games.
  2. Blackwell is a coach at UF...Why would he even be on here?
  3. I think they tempered everyones expectations with a Louisville Slugger to the back of the cranium on Saturday. If they pull the same crap against UConn this week, a two win season would be a reach.
  4. How do you expect any of the five that he has used in 15 games to get any consistency? Pick one and stick with that one. If it is White, then it is white. Live and die with him. If it's Bench, let him get all of the reps with the 1's all week in practice and let him play the entire game. And if Flowers was the answer on Saturday, he should have been in there from game one. Or at least from the 2nd play of game two. There is zero consensus as to what the eff is going on over there. Nobody has any idea of what to do, or where to go from here.
  5. I think he's getting the Matt Floyd treatment. Banished for life. Or until he transfers somewhere else. There will never be any consistency at the QB position If Taggart throws three QB's in the three games. At this point, through 15 games, it seems like he's just throwing poop against the wall to see what sticks.
  6. @dansidwell Sometimes inapropriate, but always on point.
  7. I felt that way after 2011....Then I was a dummy and got my hopes up for 2012.
  8. Does anyone else look back at the class that is graduating and wonder what if: -Evan Landi stuck at one position, instead of playing QB, WR and TE? He was a hell of an athlete and I fell like his talents were wasted learning new positions yearly. -Lindsey Lamar started more often than just a handful of times? He was the most explosive player on the field... -Maikon Bonani getting hurt at work and missing a year....If he would have had been able to play without interruption, he would be maybe the best kicker in USF history. I don't want to say that this group was a disappointment, but I wonder with better coaching, better decision making from the coaching staff, etc, how much better this squad could have been. Bah...I can't wait for next season. The past two have left an awfully bad taste in my mouth.
  9. Good to know. Not sure how necessary they really are here in FL though, unless I'm not understanding the true purpose of an indoor facility. Seems like they'd be great for bad weather but it's not like we're getting 4ft of snow any time soon? It's almost a necessity here with the amount of practices that are delayed, shortened or canceled because of the daily afternoon storms...
  10. Apparently Butch is going to FIU...!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-butch-davis-emerges-as-frontrunner-for-fiu-coaching-job-20121205,0,6294257.story
  11. Holy ****. I agree with you.... But, I do feel like there are more people in play than just these two. Woolard has never been one to announce anything before it happens, so letting the cat out of the bag about these two possible candidates might just be the admins blowing smoke up everyones arse. At this point, there are more people who I'd not like to hear mentioned - Jim Tressel, Tommy Bowden, Mario Christobal, Plant HS HC Robert Weiner.... Nutt, Taggert, Butch Davis, Chad Morris are names that I'd like to hear. Mostly, because they all recruit like mofos and with all of the talent around here...
  12. I agree with him that the program isn't what it was when Holtz got here, but it just takes the right guy to change it in a hurry. Louisville was sittin' pretty when Petrino bailed and looked like a hella pile of doodoo after being Kragthorpe'd, but when Charlie Strong came in he turned it around pretty quickly and they're in a BCS bowl in his 3rd year...
  13. Tom Jones takes his typical overly negative stance... http://www.tampabay.com/sports/usf-bulls-might-be-tough-college-football-coaching-job-to-fill/1264497 "Just a couple of days removed from USF firing Skip Holtz as its head football coach, the rumor mill keeps churning out the names of who could become the third coach in the program's 16-year history. We're hearing about hotshot coordinators and small-school sensations. We're hearing about up-and-comers or down-and-outers. We're hearing about coaches with hopeful futures and those with mediocre pasts. Don't expect a sexy hire here, folks. At the moment, USF is a lousy job. Put it this way: the Skip Holtz of three years ago would not be interested in the current USF opening. Part of that is Holtz's fault. He took a decent — not nearly as good as USF fans like to think, but still decent — program and ran it into a smelly mess. USF's bigger issue is college football played a giant game of "Musical Chairs" and the Bulls ended up without a seat in a major conference. They are stuck in the ever-weakening Big East, a crummy team in a cruddy conference. What sounds enticing about that? Here are some more of the issues USF is dealing with and where it might have to go in its search for a new coach: Jobs are plentiful in college football There used to be a time when head coaching jobs in college were hard to come by. Coaches would line up for any opening because who knew when, or if, the next offer would come? Not anymore. Impatience has taken over the sport. Jobs open up all the time. Really good ones. There have been 16 openings in the past few weeks alone, including big-boy jobs such as Auburn, Tennessee, Arkansas, Cal, Boston College, Colorado, Kentucky, North Carolina State and Purdue. Remember when the big programs would go decades without a coaching change? In just the past few years, we've seen coaching changes at some of college football's most storied programs, including Florida, FSU, Miami, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Southern Cal, Notre Dame and UCLA. Such openings led to other openings as dominoes fell. A young candidate such as Florida defensive coordinator Dan Quinn or Western Kentucky coach Willie Taggart or Florida International coach Mario Cristobal might be better off waiting to see if a better opening comes along than settling for USF. USF is too risky for a non-destination job Coaches see USF as a stepping stone to a bigger and better job. Heck, back when the Big East was still a big deal, coaches at programs better than USF didn't stay put. Brian Kelly went from Cincinnati to Notre Dame. Rich Rodriguez went from West Virginia to Michigan. Greg Schiano left Rutgers and Bobby Petrino left Louisville, both for the NFL. When Holtz took the USF job, it was in good shape. Now that the program needs a major overhaul, it might be too much of a risk. If your goal is to end up at, say, Auburn or Nebraska or Oklahoma someday, USF might have just gone from a stepping stone to a road block. Think about it, will Holtz's next job be better or worse than the one he just had? A candidate might worry that his inability to turn around a dilapidated program in a so-so conference could be a career-killer. The patience might be gone at USF If USF athletic director Doug Woolard offered me the job, I'd have two questions. The first would be about the future of the Big East and USF's conference plans. The second would be, "How much time do I have to turn this thing around?'' Quite frankly, I'd be a little nervous about job security. Holtz didn't even get a team full of his own recruits before he was blown out of town. He took over a solid program and was dismissed after three years, as well as six months after he received the affirmation of a contract extension. Would the new coach have more than three years to fix a program in way worse shape than when Holtz took over? Final thought USF would argue that it remains a great job. The university is respected. The facilities are good. The market is big. The weather is superb. The local high school talent is outstanding. The pay is competitive. The conference situation could change. A weakened conference is ripe for the taking. But in the end, I think the only coaches interested in USF are those desperate for a head coaching job. That would be out-of-work has-beens looking to get back into the game, assistants who are tired of being assistants or a young coach simply bored and antsy in his current job. But an established coach with a solid resume? A really sharp coach with a bright future? A coach like the one Skip Holtz was three years ago? Don't bet on it. That seems a little out of USF's league. tom jones' two cents"
  14. I was wondering the same thing. I didn't know if this was just a one time reaming or what.
  15. http://www.gousfbulls.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?id=1084927&db_oem_id=7700 Give that one a try...?
  16. Say it ain't so... http://www.gousfbulls.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?db_oem_id=7700&id=1084910&catid=10509
  17. And you have two of the best rookies in teh NFL playing for the Bucs in Martin and David...C'mon bro.
  18. Usually players come to schools because of a coaching staff....so how would firing him save the recruits?
  19. I'm having a hard time **** near giving seats away for this weekends game...
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