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Joey Johnston â€@JJohnstonTBO 21m Sergio Rouco, former FIU head coach, hired as #USF MBK assistant. Annual salary: $185,000. Hired from Ole Miss staff.

Is this considered a good or bad hire?

Respectfully, totally different animal. Baylor had us play on the road, then only canceled the game in Tampa. Baylor was similar to Utah and FIU which canceled the last game of a contract after we upheld our end of the deal. For what it is worth, we did the same thing to Utah State and I think Illinois State. Indiana dropping the whole series is not a big deal, and with the awesome contract we got a great payday. Agreed. Think of it this way: we get to pay Skippy off a year earlier!

Brett McMurphy ✔ @McMurphyESPN Follow #UConn, #Indiana announce home/home football series; 2019 at IU, 2020 at UConn 2:06 PM - 6 May 2014

A few observations from the 2013 report: https://b2.caspio.com/dp.asp?appSession=954515995511030&RecordID=&PageID=2&PrevPageID=2&cpipage=1&CPIsortType=asc&CPIorderby=Athletic_department_operating_ex USF had the lowest Contributions and Donations in the AAC at only $2.4m. UCF had more than double USF at $5m, and Memphis led the way at $11.5m. USF is ranked 69 out of 123 in Total Operating Revenue USF, Cinci, and UCONN recieved Around $13m from NCAA/Conferences last year. ECU received the most of the newcomers at $3.9 mil. USF made ~$3m in profit last year, but when the Big East exit fee money dries up and USF is on the new TV contract, they'll be in trouble. USF needs to reduce expenses to not operate at a loss in the coming years. USF's ticket sales were close to double UCF's at $6.4m and $3.9m respectively. UCONN and Memphis were both over $8m, with Cinci in 3rd at $7.4m. UCF's student fees are $20+ mil, which is the most in the conference by far, with USF in second place at $16m UCONN and Cinci bring in the most revenue and have the highest coaches' salary pools.

I thought I read/heard Woolard/Genshaft say that if schools started providing full cost of attendance then USF would as well. Is this true? Does anyone know what their stance is now?

Very misleading headline: One university is banning students from taking selfies during the graduation ceremony and says those caught doing so may have their degrees withheld. You can take selfies during the ceremony, just not on stage. I agree with the University that it is inappropriate.

The silver lining I got out of the article is this: Permissive legislation -- Designed to allow permissive use of resources by any member to advance the legitimate educational or athletics-related needs of student-athletes. Under this proposed governance model, permissive legislation that is developed and adopted among these institutions and conferences may also be adopted by the rest of Division I at each institution's respective discretion, or as determined by its conference. If USF, or any other institution, wants to give athletes full cost of attendance then they can. This still hurts most non-P5 schools who can't afford it, but at least they have the option to compete with the P5 financially. Donations will be more important than ever if this passes since the TV contracts are obviously minuscule compared to the P5. The question now is: will USF offer their athletes full cost of attendance? Let's go ahead and assume that yes, USF can afford what ever the P5 schools are doing. I would also assume that a majority of the non-P5 schools cannot afford these increases. That may spin off the lower division, which would likely not allow those benefits and leave a handful of teams (likely 10-20) in the middle ground. It's going to be interesting. If USF can pay the benefits and most of the non-P5 schools spin off, we may end up in a middle ground conference like we were in the Big East. We'll see what happens. This would be better than where are are currently, no?

The silver lining I got out of the article is this: Permissive legislation -- Designed to allow permissive use of resources by any member to advance the legitimate educational or athletics-related needs of student-athletes. Under this proposed governance model, permissive legislation that is developed and adopted among these institutions and conferences may also be adopted by the rest of Division I at each institution's respective discretion, or as determined by its conference. If USF, or any other institution, wants to give athletes full cost of attendance then they can. This still hurts most non-P5 schools who can't afford it, but at least they have the option to compete with the P5 financially. Donations will be more important than ever if this passes since the TV contracts are obviously minuscule compared to the P5. The question now is: will USF offer their athletes full cost of attendance?

Aside from getting UF and UM back on the schedule, a home and home with WVU would be great to renew an old rivalry. GA Tech., Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Auburn, or Clemson would be great too. Easy road trips.

Uh, losing destroys the atmosphere. Back during the ranked years, the 'atmosphere' posts were just about non-existent. RJS has never felt like home. Even when the stadium was full.

Good effort. But... I don't care if it looks like UCF's stadium. We need one ASAP. Their atmosphere destroys ours. We need to bring the alumni back to campus, and make it more convenient for students to attend games.

Here is the current bowl lineup: http://theamerican.org/news/2013/12/5/FB_1205134743.aspx 2014 looks halfway decent if we play a Big12 team instead of Army: 2014 Season BBVA Compass Bowl, Birmingham, Ala. – vs. SEC Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Fla. – vs. ACC Miami Beach Bowl, Miami, Fla. – vs. Conference USA Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, Annapolis, Md. – vs. ACC Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, Fort Worth, Texas – vs. Army/Big 12 Bahamas Bowl, Nassau, Bahamas – vs. MAC

They're both in C-USA now. The Sun Belt consists of: App State, Arkansas State, Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, Idaho, New Mexico State, ULL, ULM, USA, Texas State, Texas Arlington and Troy.

Awful.

Most missed this because of their obsession with getting USF into P5. The AAC did plenty to earn respect this year past year in multiple sports. Keep it up and eventually sports fans everywhere will notice. I have said it before, build the AAC into a great conference, USF is in this on the ground floor. If USF goes to P5, last year's abysmal showings in almost all sports will seem trivial in comparison. Become the best of the rest and continue to beat the P5 and be in the top of sports and good things will happen. Stop obsessing over P5. But what about those big time TV contracts!? And even if we do great things, Tulane and Temple might not be able to keep up... This was only the first year of the American. Power 5 schools are all making $20+ million per year from their TV deals. There economic inequality between the Go5 and P5 will only keep widening. For example: June Jones is the 2nd highest paid football coach in the American at $1.9 Mil (Tuberville is the outlier at $3.1 mil). His salary would be 10th highest in the ACC, 9th in the Big12, 10th in the Big10, 10th in the Pac12, and 14th in the SEC. Check out the average salaries for the head coach and his staff (all 2014 American member schools with data were included). It will be very difficult for the American to attract and retain top head coaches and assistants. Conference | Average Head Coach Salary | Average Assistant Pool American $1,525,046 $1,688,219 ACC $2,277,210 $2,660,723 Big 12 $3,072,835 $2,517,264 Big 10 $2,638,213 $2,477,152 Pac 12 $2,237,687 $2,445,485 SEC $3,306,079 $3,171,778 Source: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/salaries/

First things first the AAC is a power conference in basketball. Louisville, UConn alone. Their players were all recruited to play in the Big East. They've won titles before this. The question is, where does UConn go in the next round of expansion (if it ever happens) The argument can be made that the AAC was as good as the power conferences this season, but the reality is that the TV contract is worth significantly less than any of the Power-5 conferences. The Atlantic 10 had 6 tourney teams this year. Do you consider it a power conference? There's no arugment that the AAC is a mid-major moving forward.

4 championships in 16 years. This last one proves that you can win today regardless of your conference. They are the first non-power conference team to win the title since UNLV in 1990. Is UConn better off staying in the American and dominating the conference, or moving to the ACC? They have a less stressful road to the tournament in the American, but they're missing out on a lot of that Power-5 money.

Antigua is making less money than Heath did. They just shifted that to the assistants pool.

I think the most important thing we've learned from this thread is that USF desperately needs a law school! We have quite a few "internet lawyers" on this board that need some formal training.

Agreed. We would have done much better hiring a small school D-1 coach that has a history of developing talent.

Brett McMurphy â€@McMurphyESPN 37m RT @GoodmanESPN: USF also talked to Mercer's Bob Hoffman before offering job to Steve Masiello, sources told @ESPN 126-81 record at Mercer. Only tourney appearance was this year.

What did they say? Tim Tebow went to the mall today. Our story got bumped. Aw man. Well, what are his thoughts on the situation? Have the asked Lebron yet?

What did they say?

USF wins. Game over darren rovell â€@darrenrovell 3m POLL RESULTS: 23% say a college coach who lied about his academic career shouldn't lose his job http://bit.ly/1gpL0EY