Chucky Atkins Thinks Eric Musselman A Great Choice

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The former USF star has known Musselman since his early days as a pro.

Instead Harlen picked Orlando Antigua which was started the downfall of our basketball program.  What if we picked Musselman....

Encouraging - 

Not a big fan of football stadiums with tracks as it pushes you too far away from the action.  Looks like they could retro fit a track around the soccer stadium and reuse the stands / lights etc...  

Put a tack around the soccer stadium and move the tennis courts by the softball stadium then you would have plenty of room for the football stadium.  It would be cool to have the football stadium in this location as it would be close to the students and connected to Athletics.  

USF paid Judy over $1M and the USF job covers multiple campuses.  I would say its more of a lateral move but not impossible and would depend if she wants to come back to the Tampa Bay area etc... 

#1 choice - USF background and got UH into the Big 12 - 

Renu Khator - Wikipedia

On 8/31/2021 at 11:13 AM, T-Man said:

Hope the hire has solid background in Big 12...

 

On 8/31/2021 at 3:32 PM, &rew Bull said:

That's a recipe for our colleges of business and medicine to defect to UTampa

UH was ahead of realignment and invested ($300M) to get into a power conference.  I hope this recent kick in the balls gets USF thinking big and we get our on campus stadium as this is what it takes to play with the big boys. 

Inside UH's $300 million quest to join a Power Five conference

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Cougars have spent nearly $250 million on new facilities and committed $40 million to...

USF is one of the schools that the Big 12 is considering regarding expansion and I would not be surprised if an on campus stadium is a requirement for a future Big 12 invite.  I would bet good money that Weatherford and others have had this conversation with the Big 12 executives and have some type of agreement if we build it then we get an invite when they go to 16 teams.  Now that we have the indoor practice facility underway let's go all it and build a 40K on campus stadium so we can elevate the USF experience.  Game day would be awesome on campus!!  Everyone on this board should get behind this initiative.     

https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2020/12/09/student-housing-project-university-mall.html

https://www.tampabay.com/news/hillsborough/2019/12/20/hillsborough-commissioners-eyeing-museum-of-science-and-industry-site-for-community-catalyst/

5-10 years from now maybe we see a stadium across the street from a live work and play district - USF's downtown / uptown and gathering place before and after games.  It make too much sense  - show me the money!

Day late but I'm sure they will take my money for the IPF.  

A construction manager has already been hired which is a very good sign.

https://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/facilities/design-construction/in-procurement.aspx

Construction Manager

USF 581 Football Center

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The truth hurts:  https://medium.com/@stholeary/12-reasons-why-uconn-will-regret-the-new-big-east-6a90b9a00043

Check out the realtime RPI rankings this week!!

http://realtimerpi.com/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2018/09/08/amway-coachs-call-week-vote/1241330002/

Amway Coach's Call of the Week: South Florida's Charlie Strong takes home award

Even without P5 money we would be competitive in this conference.  Give us access to P5 TV money and we would compete for ACC championships over time.  

USF Wins vs. ACC:  

GA Tech

UNC

NC State

Syracuse

Florida State

Miami

Clemson

Louisville

Pittsburg

Not much of a chance for the AAC or G5.  After an AAC team goes 13-0 and does not get in then the odds seem about right.  Where is the access outside of the P5?  

This is one of the best article Bianchi has written and you could substitute USF / UCF if you look at the big picture.  This G5 / P5 separation sucks and it needs to change or its going to ruin college football.  USF not being ranked in the College Football Playoff poll is directly related to this article.     

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/open-mike/os-sp-ucf-college-football-ranking-mike-bianchi-1109-story.html

 College Football Playoff Committee, why don’t they just change their name to the College Football Playoff Cartel for the Privileged and Powerful?

At least then determined and diligent men like UCF coach Scott Frost and his unbeaten Knights would understand that this unfair and inequitable system is not designed for teams like them. They could then come to grips with the fact that there is no room at the inn, no seat on the bus, no opportunity for them to reach the pinnacle of their sport because they are not a member of the Power 5 conferences’ privileged class.

The Knights, even though they are one of the most dominant teams in the nation, are shamefully ranked No. 18 in the latest College Football Playoff ranking – the same as they were ranked last week despite the fact that several teams ahead of them lost and UCF won a tough road game against a good SMU team. UCF athletics director Danny White told us a few days ago that his team’s ranking is an insult to what the Knights have accomplished this season.

“Look at the games we’ve won and how we’ve looked as we’ve won them,” White said. “To have multiple two-loss teams ranked ahead of us is disrespectful to us and our conference.”

What’s even more disrespectful is CFB Playoff Committee Chairman Kirby Hocutt taking us for a bunch of fools when he claims UCF’s “strength of schedule” is the reason for their low ranking. Except UCF’s strength of schedule is almost exactly the same as fellow unbeaten Wisconsin, which is ranked No. 8 in the poll.

 

That’s right, UCF is the highest-scoring team in the nation and has essentially played the same schedule as Wisconsin — and beaten its opponents more decisively than Wisconsin — and yet UCF is ranked 10 spots below the Badgers.

Why? Power 5 politics and privilege, that’s why. College football continues to run the most archaic, asinine, exclusionary system in all of sports. Because the Badgers were lucky enough to be around a century ago when the major conferences were formed, they will get to chance to play for a national championship if they go unbeaten whereas UCF won’t.

Good grief, can you imagine if the rest of American society was as antiquated and discriminatory as college football? … Sorry, ladies, you don’t get the same rights as men because you weren’t allowed to vote 100 years ago.

It’s an absolute joke that there are eight — EIGHT! — two-loss Power Five teams ranked ahead of UCF. How is that the two-loss Virginia Tech Hokies — beaten by double digits in the only two games they’ve played against ranked opponents — can be ranked ahead of UCF? Puh-leeze! The Knights are not only unbeaten, but they destroyed the only ranked team on their schedule (Memphis) 40-13.

Let’s face it, for schools like UCF, the relatively new College Football Playoff system is really no different than the old BCS (Bogus Cartel System). It’s simply the same old song with different voices singing it. Today, it’s current AD White talking about being disrespected. A decade ago, it was former UCF AD Steve Orsini.

 

“Every sport in the NCAA except football is built on the idea of inclusion,” Orsini told me a dozen years ago. “Football has been exclusionary. I think all anybody wants here is a fair shot.”

But that’s not the way college football works. As crooked and corrupt as college basketball is, at least it’s a sport that doesn’t discriminate. If college basketball were like college football, Villanovawould have never upset Georgetown for the national title because the Wildcats would have never been allowed in the tournament. They would have been relegated to playing Gonzaga in the first round of the CBI.

Sadly, Cinderella continues to be black-balled by college football.

She’s back at home washing the dishes, scrubbing the floors and turning down the beds so her Power 5 stepsisters can get ready for their private and privileged postseason ball.

USF lands ahead of many Power 5 schools and tops in AAC....

http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/best-in-college-sports-florida-state-edges-rival-florida-for-tight-win-in-2016-17/

In 2015 "other" for UCF revenue was $3M and 2016 it jumped to $12M.  Not sure why it would increase that much in one year - we need Joey to investigate this one.