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First Baylor, now Indiana.
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!
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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.
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This is good news. The only way this flies is if they give schools criteria to get into the Big 5. If USF wants in, we'll get in.
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?
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Made the national NBC News app! No dancing, selfies, ect at graduation or they will hold your degree. Draconian. I opened the app, didn't know what school and as soon as I saw WFLA my stomach sank.
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.
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If you really want throw up read this
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?
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If you really want throw up read this
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?
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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 -
Sun Belt? Nice. Who is that? FIU and FAU?
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.
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Its being reported that the AAC will play a bowl game in Orlando yearly vs a Sun Belt Team. Announcement supposed to come out by Wed. Not sure if it will start in 2014 or 2015. Game to be played in Citrus Dump before the Other 2 bowls already being played there.
Awful.
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Actually the AAC is doing well in its first year. In the major sports, football won its BCS game against a P5 championship team, Rutgers won the WNIT SMU finished second in the NIT and Uconn has a shot at both the men's and women's NCAA titles (no worse than 2nd). I believe that this year has outperformed a number of the P5 schools. Hoping that Uconn pulls off the sweep this week.
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
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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.
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.
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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.
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Antigua is making less money than Heath did. They just shifted that to the assistants pool.
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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.
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usfvictor: The NBA is obviously complicit, but again, you know the recruiting pitch at Kentucky is a simple one: "Come here for a year or two and we'll make you an NBA lottery pick." You know when USF officially announces the hire, Antigua's "recruiting prowess" is going to be at the top of the news release. How does that translate for him at USF? That was the selling point for hiring Willie Taggart, but he was recruiting at Stanford and Western Kentucky where there were challenges. It's not the same atmosphere - and we have absolutely no idea if he can make a decision as a floor coach. I'd probably look pretty good too if I had a roster full of McDonald's All-Americans. How does he recruit and coach players who don't have that kind of talent level, because that's what he'll have at USF? We'll find out and maybe he'll be great, but there's not a thing on his resume to me that relates to the situation he's walking into at USF. Bottom line is the same to me - if you were going to give up on Stan Heath, you'd better bring in someone with a track record that says he has a good chance of getting it done. I don't see anything that says that with Antigua. All I see is a guy who's followed Calipari around.
Agreed. We would have done much better hiring a small school D-1 coach that has a history of developing talent.
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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.
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SportsCenter currently is about to talk about it (11:40AM). It's two stories away on their list of stories on the left hand side.
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?
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SportsCenter currently is about to talk about it (11:40AM). It's two stories away on their list of stories on the left hand side.
What did they say?
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Even Darren Rovell is getting in on this. Outside the Lines next?USF wins. Game over
POLL RESULTS: 23% say a college coach who lied about his academic career shouldn't lose his job http://bit.ly/1gpL0EY
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Yeah, but Betty Castor did not have a PhD, and she became president of USF. A lot of hay was made about her lack of a PhD, but she was a very effective president at USF.
Rules are made to be bent, especially something as pathetic as no degree. He has the work experience that makes up for the lack of degree. Besides, his job title was BB coach, not professor or teaching assistant.
Did she lie and say she had a PhD?
I never said she lied about that, but you have to be old enough to know what was going on back then. There were university elders (old fart professors) who did not like that she did not have a PhD, and they complained that it was a defacto standard for a university president to have a PhD. They also did not like that they had a PhD, but their boss did not.
IS THAT CLEAR ENOUGH FOR YOU?
You are not getting that in one case the person lied and in the other it was a defacto requirement and a open discussion took place where she was awarded the position.
In the former case there is an integrity issue that cannot be overlooked by a university. It would be like hiring an embessler as a bank teller.
If university hires someone who lies about getting a degree what does it say about their ultimate product?
If this were professional athletics then it wouldn't be a big deal. University coaches are educators, and you can't hire an educator who lied about his academic credentials. What if this came out after we hired him, let's say a year from now? That would have been really bad.
Brett McMurphy â€
Antigua Names Rouco Assistant Coach
in USF South Florida Bulls Athletics
Posted
Is this considered a good or bad hire?