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Thats all I said. The next time I asked for him not to respond. His fault. Anyway, you would bash any coach that was 0-10 in your conference too. Wouldnt you? Oh wait your not too bright. herm - I didnt see Ari or Reuben in this post at all? Are you really that dumb to think we are the same people. Wow, get over it. Reuben told me you were the biggest idiot on the site too. I just didnt realize. :'(

Probably told Mac he was a bum. If that was the case, no need to get punished. Should have been upgraded to bench coach. herm - :'(

Someone knows whats up. herm - :'( PS Louisville fan, if Palacios, Dean, and Jenkins do not play I expect we will win.

The point is the team is completely unpredictable. They were blown out by St. johns and Depaul, but kept it close with WVU and Nova. It seems like the better teams are using us as scrimmage. I grew up a St Johns fan, believe me WVU and Nova are 10 times better. Something is up when these top teams come and play us. Like Chris Rock says, "Its like calling a double dribble on a retarded kid, sometimes you just have to let some **** slide" I think thats whats happening with us. Just my opinion. You dont have to respond. herm - :'( very sad of what has happened since I adopted this program in 1997.

I would not know, I wouldnt bet your money on that scrub squad. herm - :'(

Possible? Yes, with a new coach with some new recruits. Will it happen? No, because we will have Mac. NIT? With mac, No. You need a winning record. Big East Championships next year? No, not with Mac. But we will wait and see what happens. herm - :'(

Last time we covered the spread, this time we win. I will have a lot riding on it again. I would love to bet the bball team, but we all know how frustrating that would be, especially for me. herm - :'(

We'll def win at least one in 2007 with mac. When do we play Depaul next season? herm - :'(

Yawn :'(

Yea thats it. Exactly! ???

Last time I checked Bob Huggins went to the NCAA tourey about 1,000 times. His recruits last night looked pretty good against LVille (with more injuries than we have). Produced about 35 different NBA players and names like Kenny Satterfield, Steve Logan, kenyon Martin, Nick Van Exel, Demarr Johnson and many more. How many times has USF been named #1 in the country. When is the last time USF had a McDonalds All-american? When is the last time USF went to the NCAA tourney? When is the last time we went to the friggin NIT? Maybe we should give Mac a 5 -year extension since he got us to the semi-finals of the conference usa tournament last year. How about a bonus for keeping us within 10 of WVU? Your acceptance of substandard performance is embarassing. Man, i wish I didnt share the same love for the same program as you guys. We have a future HOFer showing interest in our school, and we are complaining???? WOW you sure you guys don't go to UF? I bet if coach K wanted to come to USF, you would make up an excuse not to tke him. herm - who knows what the problem is. The problem is people like myself and Reuben have been huge college bball fans before we came to USF. We adopted the program, made it our favorite. Only to watch it regress in complete amazement. Been a fan since 1997, never once had anything to brag about.

If he even hints he would come here. You grab him. It would be an honor to have him coach this university. You must not realize how sick OJ Mayo is. I dont know anything about the recruit from Jville but 7'0" , sounds good to me. herm

Today I googled South Florida and Bobby Huggins in the same search. Uh oh! Look at the bolded paragraph 13. If you are truly a Bulls fan you have to consider this potentially great oppurtunity. It has went from rumored and suggested by numerous people on this site to a reality. What do you think. I think instant credibility in the BE. Herm UC struggles wound Huggins It isn't the sitting around that hurts most, says Bob Huggins. It isn't the throbbing pride. It isn't the fickle friendships. It isn't the stripped opportunity to carry the University of Cincinnati's banner into the Big East. It isn't even the chance denied him to recruit the best players he ever recruited and take them where the leading teams in the new league so often go. Were he still under contract at UC - and had it been extended beyond next year - Huggins would right now be thinking national championship with more vivid anticipation than any time since Kenyon Martin broke his leg. The possibility might not have presented itself this season; but it was coming soon, and perhaps repeatedly. And still, that's not what hurts most. The worst pain is not in the abstract. It is not in the could-have-been. "The hardest thing," Huggins said, "is watching them lose." The Bearcats finally won another Big East game the other night. Andy Kennedy, Huggins' intrepid interim replacement, cranked up the defense, which, in a sad commentary, was needed to beat South Florida at home, an entrée that used to come slathered in gravy. Until then, there had been some question as to whether another victory might be somehow summoned from the Bearcats' ravaged ranks. We all knew - all of us, that is, except Nancy Zimpher and the UC trustees - that the swoon would come soon; but not this soon. Not while several seniors remained. What we didn't anticipate was the quickening of the decline through the unfortunate and unforeseen, such coupled items as Roy Bright and the gun, Abdul Herrera and the NCAA, DeAndre Coleman and the wanderlust, Armein Kirkland and the knee. If the current season is to be resuscitated, it will require mountains more of Kennedy's cunning, Eric Hicks' heart, James White's wherewithal and Devan Downey's derring-do. It's marginally possible and otherwise hard to watch. "I just feel bad for AK and for the kids," Huggins added softly. "But I'm fine." He was back home in Port Washington, Ohio, right next to Gnadenhutten. The canned coach has been using the time off to catch up with his fishing, of course, and also with his family, a mid-life regrounding that has been nice but missing something. In his houses, family has always revolved around basketball. The empty feeling was especially achy at Thanksgiving. In Loveland, the Huggins turkey had traditionally been passed around to tall young men who were far from their mothers' mashed potatoes. "It was the first time, really, since we were married that we didn't have some players over," said the ousted winner of 399 Cincinnati games. "My kids had never had Thanksgiving with players not there for dinner. They said, 'You know, Dad, we miss the guys.' That's all they knew." Next Thanksgiving, there will most likely be big fellows around the table once again. Premature chatter has linked Huggins to such institutions as South Florida, Duquesne, Missouri, West Virginia, Ohio U., Marshall, UNLV and Florida International, all of which have coaches at the moment. Whatever school he lands with will do extremely well if Huggins brings along such surpassing young talents as O.J. Mayo, Bill Walker and 7-foot Floridian Jason Bennett, whose interest in UC was terminated when the controversial coach was. If those big fellows don't follow him, Huggins will do well anyway. He always has, although not well enough to satisfy the policymakers at Cincinnati. He isn't sure how much certain trustees - Phil Cox and Jeff Wyler, for instance - had to do with his untimely dismissal, but he knew from the moment Zimpher arrived that he was no longer in favor. The infamous result was what many have described as a power struggle. Huggins' clout on campus was legendary. Zimpher's will - some have called it her ego - quickly took on similar proportions. It appeared, after Huggins' DUI incident in 2004, that she had given him a temporary pass; but what was really temporary was Huggins' contract. His rollover wasn't renewed. For a basketball coach, a rollover is like a reputation; or a cell phone. He can't recruit without it. Huggins wanted more years. Zimpher preferred fewer. In the end, which was late August, her agenda became the program's cross to bear under the boards and across the open floors of the Big East. "People keep writing about a power struggle," reflected Huggins from the quiet of eastern Ohio. "For the record, there was no power struggle. I'm intelligent enough to know where the power was. "They have the right to do whatever it is they want to do. She's the president. She runs the school. I never had any doubt about that." By offering Huggins a buyout, which was settled at a comfy $3.1 million, the university was able to describe the parting of ways as mutual. Huggins, who kept coming back to UC after job offers and heart attacks, sees it differently. "It was take the buyout or be fired," he stated. "You have until a certain time this day. How can you say it was whatever? "I said numerous times that I wanted to retire in Cincinnati. I wanted to build the best program there is, I wanted it to last, and I wanted to retire there." That was not about to happen on Zimpher's watch. Meanwhile, there was a subtle receding of the support previously lent Huggins by Bob Goin, the recently retired athletic director. The Conference USA Coach of the Decade figured that Goin would keep him apprised of what was going on over their heads. In the end, he pointedly noted, "Ken Broo (of Channel 5) was the one who told me I'd been fired." Nearly six months later, Huggins remains at odds with the why of it all. The winning had continued. The DUI was in the past. The graduation rate was on the upswing. "A good friend of mine said to me the other day, 'Are we to believe that 10 guys can bring down the academic standing of the university, even if all that stuff (about graduation rates) is true?' Which," said Huggins, "it was not." That much is a tired debate. There's no disputing that there were serious image issues during Huggins' 16 seasons at UC, the last 14 of which ended in the NCAA tournament. There's no denying that it is Zimpher's executive prerogative to have the university represented by agents of her ideals. The problem was how it came down. The problem was when it came down. The problem was the mess that was sure to become the UC basketball program, which now proceeds in front of empty seats previously occupied by admirers of the coach who built it. On Tuesday, Aug. 23, the day the deed was done, Zimpher said, "This is exactly the right time to assess where we want to go and who we want to become. There's no good time, but when you're entering a challenge like the Big East, that's a real good time for assessment and for raising the bar." Having played the reassessed Bearcats, Connecticut would enthusiastically endorse the president's position. Syracuse would give it a slap on the back. Georgetown is grateful. "I watch all the games," said Huggins. "It's hard."

Since you guys say, Lets drop the idea. I will. I do not want to offend anyone. Hmmm what can we talk about now? Hey, hows our curling team doing? Do we have a curling team? Herm - Boooorrrriiiinnnnggggg!!! PS - I visit various of my favorite teams forums and have never seen anything like this. There will always be people who bash managers, players, the head coach, etc. Especially when they are losing. Deal with it!

Who cares?

Some dummy from Cincy ties his roommate up and a few other bad apples and then all he does is recruit thugs. Thats garbage. Cincy was preseason ranked #1 plenty of times. He was at the UC game like a month ago being interviewed in the crowd. They asked if he wanted to coach again. The answer he gave was absolutely. Lets get him. Can't tell me a lot more students wouldnt show up opening game with Huggs at the helm. Game would be televised. We need some edge and attitude, lets take a risk. herm

LongDong you are right, very very bitter to the Depaul loss. I understand your pain. I drank enough to kill a small elephant last night to compensate the pain. What did you do? Probably came home, washed off your green and gold face paint and then thought about Herm, Ari and Reubena nd how we can become scapegoats to the loss. I know what happened last night was everything all three of us predicted and moany others. Its hard to be so **** right. Guess who I am going to place the blame on. Thats right! Coach Mac. I was watching Billy Donovan on ESPN this morning and all I thought about when he spoke was, What a class act. Thats who I would want to coach me. Thats who I would want to coach my children. He must make it great to be a Florida Gator. But we cannot afford someone like him, so we will never win. You guys will make excuses and we will repetitively complain. Believe me your excuses are way more tiring than my complaints. Anyway as for your posts of us being the same person, its just insults your own inteligence even more thn your excuses. Great job guys. Herm - Like Jim Rome "I'm out" PS. Coach mac, one more year, one more year! USF 6-15 (0-8) Notre Dame (1-7) - way better coach and light years ahead of our program. I hate uphill battles.

HAHAHAHA that is quite creative trip. The best part is the wink after "64 responses and 50 or so not from me", then the pic of the puppets. Nicely done. Herm - the 3rd personality. (only because I post the least and dont know how to copy and paste what other people post)

UCF guy has a point about our bball team. Really sad

Temple also lost to UMASS :-/

Hey LongDong it is your more intelligent other personality Reuben, I mean Herman. A 10 is garbage, always been garbage. St. Joes was #1 A few years ago because they were undefeated until the end of the season. When they went into conference play I thought there was no way they can lose a game, they did and lost their #1 status. Still got a #1 in the tourney didnt do bad but lost eventually. They would have never been #1 in the BE because they would have lost a few games. Temple is always strong? Since when? Chaney look slike he should be sleeping on newspaper, I hink he is older than dirt. They stink Dayton and Xavier, they are OK but Xavier lost Thad Matta and Dayton would be just like USF in the big east. St. Bonnie hold on. HAHAHAHHAH Garbage. George Washington is falling into the same luck St. Joeshad a few years ago. Great record in a bad conference. When they get to the big dance they always fall off quick. Facts are real stubborn things. Herm - Hey is Lamar Odom still on Rhode Island

LongDong Dong whats with all the "he"! He cheats on me, he is fat. I wasnt aware you were gay. JK

Long Dong the A-10 is not better than conf. USA, maybe this year but all those other years no way. I think you ar thinking of UMASS when they had Marcus Camby, TRavieso and Edgar Padilla. Thse days are long gone. If we give him another year and he doesnt make the touney, no problem. BUT, if we give him another year and we are doormats and being mentioned on ESPN he has to go. It will be a few years with no improvement, we have to put our foot down somewhere. I just look at St johns for example. Norm Roberts is making that team competitive with all their problems, like taping sex activities, probation on recruiting, etc. He is the old Kansas assistant, I just wish we would have gotten a guy like that. Maybe Im wrong and Mac will turn out OK, I just do not see it as of yet at all. Herm - PS BigEastBeast, I like the Jets comments at the bottom of the post. You should learn from that Bulls94, we can draft anyone and Boo, keeps you on your toes you know!

We all know these kids are leaving their heart on the floor. I feel bad for them. It looks like they are scared out there. They have no chemistry. The best players on our team would be role plyers on the other squads. Am I looking for W's? Yes How many? More than 1 Why? To not be mentioned on national television as a joke. LongDong makes a great point even if we were all injured we should be beating Bethune cookman and texas corpus whoever. So if it is not Macs fault then it is the departments fault. Someone needs to do something. If we keep losing and having seasons like this the idea of a 6 year rebuild will turn into a 20 year term. What are some ideas you guys (not on my side) have? How can we get better? and give me an idea besides alum donating money and fans showing up tp games. I am all ears!

WMU, CMU its all the same. I bet the won some conference games this year ;D