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That is what Taggart said, but doesn't seem to be true. he also said that absolutely Mack would play today--not yet.

Well, look at that.

No. My friend. That will never happen. "Federal funding" in this case means student financial aid. If they want any student to get a Pell grant or a student loan they have to offer women's sports. I can guarantee you Stanford students get more $$ in financial aid from the federal government than the entire Stanford athletic budget. Perhaps you missed this part of the article: "Group of Five and other non-football playing Division I conferences can opt to enact the proposals passed Saturday as early as next fall." You can expect the American to follow suit. Of course they CAN, but they are still excluded from the P5. I am not really sure what that means. If the G5 can do everything the P5 can - what are they excluded from? Even their TV contracts are based on the perceived value of the teams and fan bases... from where I sit - there isn't any difference between the rules that apply to Texas and Texas State ... Florida and South Florida. Not just federal financial aid of various kinds, but federal research grants, too--think NSF, NIH, etc. Total prohibitive for these kinds of universities.

He may get one more year. I doubt he gets his 4th season if he does not improve on 4-8. 5-7 might get him his 4th if those losses are competitive. I know it does not seem fair to the coach to have just 3 seasons to correct the Holtz New Error, but this is a new AD and Harlan may not trust that CWT can get the job done. If it was the AD that hired CWT then he would have a better chance at getting a 4th season. You people love to blame Holtz, mainly because he is the one who followed Leavitt, but he actually coached games where he beat major programs: 2010 CincinnatiRutgersMiamiClemson - our last bowl game 2011 Notre DameOk, from that point the wheels fell of Holtz's bus. However, many of those losses were close. Taggart would not even sniff a win against any of those teams. The excuse that "those were Leavitt's recruits" does not apply, because as far as I know, the players were not coaching themselves. Also,several high profile high school coaches in the area publicly stated that they would recommend their players not sign with USF after USF fired Leavitt. Holtz had a hard enough time following up after Leavitt, and that did not help at all. Sure firing Leavitt was the initial error, if you discount the premise that all he had to do was not try to cover up his actions and just say "I'm sorry" and he would have kept his job. However, firing Holtz was the second major error. It stank of DW desperate to save face. Instead it backfired in our face. CWT was what, 7-5 in his last season at WKU? That is not an "up and coming" coach in my book. And to see that USF had bigger wins when Holtz was the coach then what CWT has had is very discouraging to all of us USF fans. Seems that we traded a coach that is better game day coach ( that can win some big games) for a coach with little experience but can recruit good. We have to get it right on the next hire if there is going to be one. Holtz got to play with Leavitt's players; Taggart has had to play with Holtz's. Tough spot for CWT to be.

Or recruitable here, I fear.

Obviously we need to improve the oline, but I would go for a JUCO transfer QB (I say that having no idea who might be available), but surely we need someone with a record of accomplishment at that position.

I guess I'll watch some real football now. So sad.

Honest question, Why are you upset with the donors? The influential ones who wanted Leavitt gone because he'd "taken the team as far as he could" and we needed a new coach to "get us to the next level." Pres and AD didn't think up dumping Leavitt by themselves.

if we fire him, we'll be paying three coaches next year. Can we possibly afford that? I think we're getting better but slowly and not much. Cant afford to fire him. Can't afford to NOT fire him. Well put.

Scoreless. We're just pathetic. I jam so mad at the people who brought us to irrelevancy in college football, influential donors, the president, and the AD. We are embarrassing.

if we fire him, we'll be paying three coaches next year. Can we possibly afford that? I think we're getting better but slowly and not much.

Yeap. What good is a 5 yard pass when we need 10?

I didn't think his knee was down, but definitely he ran back only to the 1.5 or 2 and they tackled him back into the end zone.

Oh dear. Couldn't make 4th and 1. How demoralizing.

I wish I drank . It would make watching this crap easier Problem with these early games--too early to start drinking.

Can't even make the field goal? i hope they don't again in what's left of this half, but fear they will, putting us down 21-zip.

My first thought about the uniforms was also that they looked like Oregon's.

I guess this is the game thread? Not impressive so far.

I expect that every Bulls fan would like an OCS, but under what circumstances is the question. A stadium like UCF's would be awful. We don't have the resources now to build what we would really need, so we're going to stick with RJ. We need more money to build the right stadium. how do we get it? Like this: Winning --> Improved Attendance --> Increased Interest including from donors --> sufficient attendance and money to build OCS. I'm betting it's still 20 years away, but I hope I'm wrong.

Oh, and they're hyping this game in the hope of getting attendance up, which will produce some small revenue.

we probably should have played UCF during those years, but a rivalry with Miami would have been much better and seemed plausible. Anyway, it wasn't Leavitt who screwed up our football program. He was the one best thing about it--to date.

In fairness to SMU, they played a lot of very good and pretty good teams, which we aren't. They're probably delighted to have us in town.

Makes no sense to me. Why not score first?

This is about it for me to keep up with the game.

I'm hopeful about this evening but not optimistic. SMU hasn't won, but they've lost almost entirely to teams that are better than we are.