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A G5 playoff would essentially be what the FCS playoff is now...
 

Load up on P5!

Taggs was a great recruiter and a motivator...he was below average at actually coaching. The positives eventually outweighed the negatives at USF. I don't know if FSU is going to give him that much time.

Meh, it's just a style thing but UA seems way more hip. Adidas has always been a bit boring. Nike is where it is at.

They played their hearts out all season despite poor coaching. Props to them. Not really interested in what bowl we go to now. As a fan, this was a failed season. Good luck in the bowl game. I will not be going, but I wish the team well...

This team blows...feels like I'm watching a holtz team...

18 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

What makes you think we have not taken notice? 

Our schedules. We are still scheduling two or three non P5 a year. We can't really do that with the current P5/G5 rift. We need at least 3 P5 games a year to get any respect.

1 hour ago, JTrue said:

Where are our two biggest wins ranked?

I think what we are seeing is that the CFP committee cares more about who you beat then the number of losses that you have. 6-4 with two big wins is better than 9-1 against creampuffs. We should take note and schedule very tough OCC games.

2 hours ago, CPR said:

Are there really P5 schools that are dumb/crazy enough to want Strong as HC?

I think there are enough job openings where somebody with fatter pockets will bite.

2 hours ago, Dave_Glaser said:

Knight's obsession with attendance is ridiculous. Just report on the game/team.

When your attendance for a 9-1 team, at one of the largest Universities in the country, looks like a bad FCS team's attendance, it is a story. That is the only thing I kept hearing from my friends who were watching the game with me..."where are all the fans!?" We might get exposure from the weeknight games, but it is bad exposure in my mind.

1 minute ago, jjlovecub said:

With all due respect most of us go to and watch all the games and playing with passion does not equate to winning a game. Have we played our best ball - No. could UcF beat us - of course. However we are the better team which we will prove on friday. 

The better team with worse coaching i'm afraid.

I've got a hunch that there will be some big splash recruits coming soon...either that or they know that Strong is out the door...

I'm kind of hoping a team takes Strong and we get the money from the buyout...

16 minutes ago, Rex Havoc said:

Just checked the weather forecast... 0% chance of rain tonight with temps from 68 to 63 degrees. The weather is going to be perfect for a football game.

63-68 is probably too cold for some of our fans. Temperatures need to be around 73-74 with low humidity, no clouds, playing on Saturday night, team wearing cool new uniforms, and against a ranked opponent to draw crowds.

I'm guessing 15,000 - 18,000. Thursday night + USF = FCS crowd unfortunately.

I'm ok with this. We are running low on scholarship room and have some big prospects still in play.

31 minutes ago, Bullshiznitz said:

I forget, can we shun are AAC bowl tie-ins in favor of filling other conference tie-ins where they don't have enough teams?   The Big 12 looks like a real possibility, if Oklahoma gets into the playoff, and TCU gets the NY6 bowl, they are looking at possibly 4-5 more teams bowl eligible with 6 bowl tie-ins.  All 6 bowl matchups are slated against P5 conferences. 

...but...but, we could potentially add the Badboy mowers trophy next to our Magicjack bowl trophy in the case!

Hey guys, here are the most recent bowl projections. It appears that everyone is nearly unanimous that a two loss Bulls team will end up at the Bad Boy Mowers Bowl in St. Pete against F_U. Obviously, I want to go to the Peach Bowl, but a game against F_U would be a good chance to get an in-state win and good for recruiting.

https://247sports.com/college/south-florida/Bolt/Bulls-247-takes-a-look-at-which-bowl-games-the-USF-Bulls-are-projected-to-appear-in-110187814

21 minutes ago, Capital H said:

I'm not even sure if there is a response to an argument that is this silly. Its like the people who thought USF had a shot at the playoffs and were pointing out a hypothetical Houston team that didnt exist from last season. At least UCF will get to be the team that gets the P5 bone.

But its convenient you changed your stance from the G5 is just as good as the P5 to, take two of the top teams from the top conference and have them magically change school colors and some random person wouldn't know the difference.

Do you know how I know the product isn't the same? The half empty Ray-Jay, Bright House Stadium,  Liberty bowl......

I would argue that the half empty stadiums are greatly a product of the P5/G5 perception. We had nearly double the average attendance when we were in the Big East as compared to now. Was our product that much better back then!? I would argue that it was worse...the difference has to do with perception of conference. The teams that left were not much better or possibly even worse than the replacement teams.

2 minutes ago, Bourbon Bull said:

And there we have it.

The root of all (P5) evil.

9 minutes ago, Capital H said:

I mean everyone is entitled to their opinion, but this is just wrong.

I bet you can't name half of the Sun Belt without looking it up.

Haha, I bet that I could name the full sun belt without looking it up. I've been watching college athletics my whole life and have actually attended a few sun belt games in recent years. However, I think that you missed my point. If you put two AAC teams in Tenessee and Florida jerseys and in a packed stadium and had them play each other, a casual observer would probably not be able to tell the difference in the product on the field and would buy that this was a top flight match up. Most of the issues we are facing concerns perception and marketing (not all I will give you). However, we need to not accept second class citizen status just because we are being marketed that way by the company (P5 and networks) with more money.

3 minutes ago, ambienknights said:

same here and add to that fact that both of us most likely won't be able to keep talented coaches bc of the tv money gap and access to the final prize

 

You think Taggart leaves if the Big12 decided to invite the USF-UCF package last winter? Nope and UCF would feel much more confident in keeping Frost right now.

 

G5 schools have to keep cycling through good coaches until we find a bad one.

12 minutes ago, deadudea said:

The realization of this whole thing is really starting to turn me off from college football completely. If my team doesn't have a chance, what's the point? Might as well be FCS so at least we can win a title there.

I also wonder how much athletes are aware of this, and how much it kills/drives their motivation. We've already seen coaches repeatedly leave for better schools, how long before the players start to give up?

...but...but we have a minimal chance to play in the Peach Bowl!!! Isn't that enough!? ::sarcasm:: Lol I would love to see  the G5 representative bring a fake national championship trophy to the Peach Bowl and lift it if they win. Troll them hard. :P.

I'm boycotting P5 games. Been doing this all year. The G5 product on the field is just as good in my opinion. Screw them and their greed. No need to accept being second class citizens just because someone else tells us that we are.

2 minutes ago, Apis Bull said:

P5 teams stink for the most part also.

Every conference has a 3-4 good teams and a bunch of stinkers...this is true whether G5 or not. People never point out that the teams in non-p5 leagues have a winning record against p5 schools in major bowl games if you go back 15 yrs. or so.