slowdown

29 minutes ago, jchem1995 said:

Hope he loves where is is now versus walking into a frying pan. I mean USF has to be one of the best gigs in the land cause there ain’t no pressure here. Live in the sun, go to the beach, great pay and no pressure. Willie, as an example , would loved to have come back to us cause he knows. 

Where is the pressure?  The higher profile jobs pay you much more when you fail. 

On 1/12/2024 at 8:47 AM, Bob Loblaw said:

I think the topic is stimulating interest on the board due to the brave new world of college football we’ve entered with the realities of NIL and the transfer portal upending the sport. In addition, not sure there are too many cases of kids wanting to go back to their original school after chasing NIL deals. Interesting all around, in my opinion.

Plus, what the feck are going to talk about until the Spring game

I too wish Battie well. He seemed like a good kid on top of being a hell of a player. I’m sure he’ll end up fine at Auburn.

 

Bingo and for me I would also add that I'm always intrigued of how you build a team psychologically and so the idea of a player leaving and then coming back and that locker room dynamic and weighing that against just taking the best talent is an interesting discussion. 

48 minutes ago, The Sheriff said:

I've had similar scenarios with workers at my company. I believe every situation is unique. I lost my best employee last year - he called me back after spending eight months on his own. Bringing him back was the best decision I could have made for multiple reasons. 

In your example was your company short staffed and struggling immensely when he left, and then suddenly better staffed and operating much better when he wanted to come back?  Was that guy really the BEST employee or just top producer at an underperforming company (with respect to your company - just hypothetical) etc.  Just trying to put some context in to your example. 

Im good with whatever coach thinks here. The NIL and transfer portal stuff is new and this is the one opportunity for coach to build this team.  So I find no need for blame, hard feelings or any of that.

In this day and age it's a legitimate concern as we all adjust to the new college football.

But he is out there playing super hard and leading THIS team.  He doesn't look like someone who is trying to leave.

Similar to a coach leaving for a bigger check or a player getting injured on the field, it would suck but it happens. 

1 hour ago, Triple B said:

In our year one, we were 2 wins away from a New Year's bowl game ....

we also beat two "P5" teams with winning records and were 1 win away from bowl ineligible and in any case we went to a conference that had lost its top two programs and another that was consistently top half of the conference.  2005 is a good example of beating one good team and calling it a season.

Houston wasn't very good anyway, Cincinnati lost some key players and coach, and UCF under Malzahn was already on the path the mediocrity.  So add the tougher schedule and it tracks. 

In year one you can't expect all the improvements that the money and recruiting/exposure would bring. 

13 minutes ago, TromBull12 said:

When they say beating/facing a top 25 opponent once a season is the only reason we can/do show fight and the ability to win when we do?

Yea, basically.  It's not that a team isn't good it's just a different beast to do it every week over the course of the season facing injuries, depth, most teams play poorly at some point, etc against strong opponents every week

2 hours ago, Outlaw said:

I gave Golesh a B+ for that exact reason. No excuses to get blown out by UAB or FAU. It was year one and we have to keep moving forward.

B-.  Everything is ultimately on Golesh and those losses really stink looking back and seeing how beatable those teams were. 

That said, I take those games as the ultimate example of how deep the psychology of winning and losing runs in a program and the attitude that Golesh had and still needs to purge from the team. 

Just now, Rocky Style said:

Stats nerds, where you at on going for it on the 9?

Against this USF defense?

how drunk is the production crew

good God.  just run it up the middle hahaha

hmm I hate to complain about getting points on the last drive of the half after starting at our 1 so i guess ill just say that was better than one of those Holtz end of half FG's to bring us to within 25 points.

I don't see our offense being able to score every possession.  We have to figure something out on D

13 hours ago, Cat941 said:

No surprise.  FSU will spend almost as much on their reno as it will cost to build our OCS.  

 

Yep, these university's(athletic departments) bringing in 3-5x the revenue of USF are going to keeping building and/or upgrading facilities.  If things go our way for a couple decades we might be able to slow the growth of the gap.

9 hours ago, CousinRicky said:

I'm sure that extra practice will help some but if you play Dec 16th we're not talking a huge amount of sessions. 

2 weeks of game preparation is like an extra ~14% depending on how you want to do your make believe math

3 hours ago, puc86 said:

It benefits the 50 percent that leave too, just not us

To be fair the ones who are moving to a higher profile school would probably sit out and the underachievers don't practice hard anyways.  So we are talking about like 1 player that matters

11 minutes ago, Bulls On Parade said:

When game was about over team turned it up glad to see that. 

Bowl game still in play. 

Definitely hoping that turning this game around got some confidence back.  We need the bowl game + extra practices so bad

hard to wrap your ahead around how awful we are at everything on defense

When you get your ass kicked like we did, your supposed to put in the backups and run the ball to run the clock out.  We didn't. We were throwing it with our starters.  The onsides kick or an aggressive call has always been the response. 

No issue with it.

19 minutes ago, CycleBull said:

You know what’s funny, we had the potential for so much momentum with our lapsed fan base. These last two games I’m sure have turned people off to USF football. I personally went from becoming a season ticket holder again, to probably not. It wasn’t the three wins that grabbed my attention, but the big plays and fight in the team. I hope we can turn this around.

Yes exactly.  I didn't buy this was a great defense or a team that was going to win out two weeks ago but they were playing hard and looked like they could give you something worth watching every week.  The effort the last two weeks really makes you want to find anything else to do besides watch. 

Wright runs so dang hard when not being gang tackled 3 yard behind the LOS

1 minute ago, Cat941 said:

Have to steal momentum back.  Turnovers are killing us.  Protect the ball.  Be creative on offense.  Keep the defense off the field.  

Where is the confidence?  

we had one turnover where we gave them the ball at their own 16, and they turned it back over.  turnovers are never good but i dont see them as a big story of this game so far.

wow I didn't think we had a particularly good defense 8 days ago but everything that I thought was improving is undone. 

really sucks seeing so so WR's look like Megatron against us every week and our WRs killing us this game.

1 minute ago, Bullrush33 said:

So stupid with this pretend going for it. CAG is so predictable 

the delay of game penalty was wanted.  no reason not to line up and see if they jump.