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2 minutes ago, Triple B said:

It's scary that even a small portion of our fanbase doesn't get this. I shall not opine here as to where this dangerous outlook spawned from ....

Please don't.

Frankly, I cannot believe that people that routinely sign multi-million dollar contracts would be dumb enough to sign a GOR at any point.  Maybe if you are a Big 10 school it makes sense.  But why would you lock yourselves into the ACC or Big 12?  Stupid, really.

We seem to have less "winners" each week.  By design, or are things getting tougher?  Who makes the cut?

Someone with more energy than I needs to come up with a list and the end of the spring of who made the cut and how many times.   Then we can cross reference with performance during the season.  Not what I would want to see, but it would be hilarious if the big grit winners ended up stinking it up during the season.  

24 minutes ago, I like GOOOOLD (and green) said:

We’re getting only about 6m total.  Probably half that nowish and the other half spread out.  

I meant the exit fee from each team that is leaving.

I was concerned about the 14 years, but getting $10mil up front makes that much more palatable.

Football students need a lazy river to "recover"?

I don't think I would pay $2500 just so six tailgates per year can happen in a lazy river.  I can find a lazy river to use far cheaper than that.

On 6/7/2022 at 10:30 AM, Outlaw said:

2) New dc. He has to improvement  from previous. The temporary  one against ucf proved it was terrible.

I still miss the legendary Chris Cosh.

3 minutes ago, E.T. said:

I thought we were 2026-27 season.

I thought at first it was "hoping for 2025 but it might be 2026."  In any event, kind of curious the two schools are headed for the same time frame, although that is largely because the two are at the same point in the project.  However, of all the AAC schools, these two seem to be the ones looking at this right on the heels of the previous B12 expansion, and there were some comments about future expansion and facilities being needed, etc.

I guess my real point is it starts to feel like maybe some discussions behind the scenes have taken place.  Or, chicken or egg, the fact that Memphis and USF are pushing hard in the stadium arena is what makes them top of the rumor mill.

49 minutes ago, E.T. said:

 

Pure coincidence that both schools are hoping for a 2025 completion date?

We are in May.  Isn't it a bit early?

9 hours ago, USFBULL_08 said:

Willie had one year where he recruited well. Jim found all kinds of players, but otherwise we have recruited at the same level the entire time.

Scott has been underwhelming for what he was supposed to be. Maybe its him, maybe it's the facilities, but he hasn't been all he was cracked up to be. Hopefully its changing.

Scott has been underwhelming.  I have no idea why he couldn't immediately recruit for a struggling team.  I mean, it's not like there was a pandemic going on which kept the coaches from visiting players and players visiting the school or anything like that.  Anyone holding that against him is being really unrealistic.

1 hour ago, Triple B said:

Better than having no rules at all when it comes to that ...

Virtually impossible to enforce.  Alabama will never get investigated, while USF will get sanctioned.

19 hours ago, Brad said:

It's more economics than red state.  Should there be a shortage of college football players, there would need to be greater incentive or compensation.  But that's not the case.  It's just players crying for more.  They're taking whatever and anything they can get.  And that's the society of today.

Unfortunately when you let that rule a sport or institution, fairness evaporates.  It becomes one-sided. Not all institutions can support paying players.  We can't just keep stealing from those paying their own tuition, can we?  To me, college football is not worth doing that.  

I agree red state has nothing to do with this.

95% of college football players are not in it for the money. Most of them know they will never get to the NFL, and are happy to play. There is not alternative for the star players, so they are making their money.  This is capitalism, and we are a capitalist society. So I see no use in blaming the players.

The problem is that the NFL and the NBA to a lesser degree don't want a farm system, so that leaves kids with nowhere else to go if they have NFL talent.  College baseball only has kids that aren't good enough yet to turn pro or really want to go to college, so that works the way it should. Same with most other sports. Kids should be going to a university to get an education, and many things like sports can be part of that experience.  But selling yourself to the highest bidder shouldn't be.

Brad and I don't always agree, but it happens once in a while.  

Don't pay players!

And get off my lawn!

On 5/3/2022 at 10:27 AM, Grateful Dad said:

This topic was discussed many times here and there seemed to be two sides - those who regard this whole NIL thing to be a potential demise of major college sports (I'm in this camp) and those who see this as an equity issue, as in "they make millions for the university and get nothing in return".

I would appreciate those in the equity camp explaining how, if these allegations in the news reports are true, this NIL thing is still good for the sport and will ensure that there will be college sports in the future.  I'm not seeing it.  I'd like to hear from the proponents of the NIL policy.

The answer is both.  We can now dispense of any pretense that college sports (at least at the D1 level) is about amateur sports.  Sports teams will merely represent a university wearing colors and logos, but these aren't students in the classical sense.  At this point, I don't even care if they attend the university. 

Club sports are now the classic school sports teams, NCAA is huge business with paid athletes.

Let's just be real and stop pretending.  

Go Bulls!

On 4/26/2022 at 3:20 PM, bulloni said:

Bob Shoop reversed is Bob Poohs

Isn't Bob Shoop reversed Poohs Bob?

23 hours ago, Brad said:

Reduplicants will lead us to the ending of democracy!

Hey, take that to the Mad Cow!

24 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

So the results of the team are on cjs this year. . . And he can't blame CCS or covid.  Let's hope he steps up. It is interesting that two his first class oline recruits have left.  I imagine the transfers drove them away or they are seeking to play elsewhere and get time. 

To play the other side of the coin.  CCS guys should be JRs and SRs this year and dominate at least the 1st string.  The two deep is loaded with young players and transfers brought in by CJS.  Just look at that defense.  Things should turn positive this year, but you need a lot of guys in the system for two, three four years to have real success.  We aren't really there yet this year.  Should start next year if things are more stable.

She taught English at Hillsborough High for many years.   And is also a published author.

2 hours ago, Peatearpan said:

Yea, updating the depth charts to current years and swapping out the playbooks for custom ones usually cause our games to crash.

 

we did a service academy season where we could play any playbook we wanted against CPU, but when we played each other we all had to play the triple option. Those games were some how shootouts. No one could stop the triple option, that was probably the most fun we had

LOL.  We actually figured out a weird scenario where if someone saved the file before everyone had played their games that week, the league file would crash.  May not have been exactly it, but something like that.  Knew someone in a position to do something about it, and passed it along.  But then they shut down the game before they fixed the bug.  Life is weird.

2 hours ago, Peatearpan said:

Madden is not fun too me. The game feels so slow and clunky.

 

NCAA was always better than Madden. Maybe we can get a group season on the board with some of the others?

Did that with a group from work.  We would pick a conference each of us drafting a team to start. Then we would play three seasons, or five, I don't remember.  Something like two or three games per week until we got tired.  Head to head games had to be live.  One guy would spend hours on the playbook, then substituting the optimum players for each play. Then a glitch would blow up the league file and he would get all upset. LOL

1 hour ago, Rizman said:

Jim, you and me.  Love it. 

You two have it covered?  Awesome!  I'll save my money for the season ticket deposits.  

3 minutes ago, BulledOver said:

Alright!! Great stuff and appreciated by Bull's Fans. Only $190mil to go it's all downhill from here on. 

More like $290mil from what I understand.  But the reality is that there will no doubt be financing involved.  So we really don't need all of it from donations.  Not sure how much is needed in donations to be enough to get it going, though.

1 minute ago, smazza said:

wow

how generous

thank you

Will your $5mil donation be announced soon?  

8 minutes ago, Peatearpan said:

**** I miss that game. My copy was somehow lost in my last move, and to replace was expensive AF.

Returns next year!  I am hoping it looks and plays more like the NCAA instead of Madden.  NCAA always seemed more realistic to me.

On 10/20/2021 at 3:51 PM, Rocky Style said:

I have never heard of UTSA.  That is all.

I built them into national champion contenders several times in NCAA Football 14.