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12 hours ago, slick1ru2 said:

The Florida Coast to Coast Throw Down Up

ftfy

The Peninsular Pillow Fight

8 minutes ago, Triple B said:

They're 0-3 in conference while collecting twice as much money that as a fan, I'd never see ... racking up 4-star commits that I guess is cool in a D&D sort of way ... playing and losing to relevant teams weekly ... and building their national brand by giving up 60 unanswered points over two straight games.

Honestly, I expect them to eventually do okay in the Big 12 but I just don't suscribe to the "it's better getting your ass kicked in a higher conference" thingy ..... losing sucks.

I dunno -- I'd rather be getting my ass kicked by 4-1 Kansas than 1-4 UAB. I'd rather be making $50 million in revenue vs $9 million. I'd rather have the #28 recruiting class than the #56 recruiting class. I think the ceiling is higher in the Big 12 than the AAC. A 10 win AAC team is going to get less national attention than even an 8 win Big 12 team. Most news outlets only focus on power conference teams. The question was do I find solace in the fact that UCF is not succeeding in the Big 12. The answer is no -- this is a temporary setback. I'd rather be struggling to find my footing in a power conference than trading blowouts with the dregs of FBS. The advantages they're gaining by being in a better conference outweigh the growing pains now. If you'd ask them if they'd prefer to go back to the AAC, I'm sure the answer would be hell no.

3 minutes ago, hightechbull said:

I prefer to just ignore UCF, but does anyone else take solace that Kansas hammered UCF and that UCF has yet to win a conference game? 

Solace in what way? Like, does it make me feel better about the fact that we're in a watered down G5 conference that's fighting for relevancy and got spanked by a rebuilding team that's one year removed from CUSA under a first-time head coach in front of one of the emptiest stadiums in college football? Not really. Or do I feel better that they're 0-2 in the conference while collecting twice as much money than in the AAC, racking up 4-star commits, playing relevant teams weekly, and building their national brand? Not really.

Just now, Bullcocky said:

At least we are better than ucf! Sucks to be them...

Are we though? Not sure losing by 21 to a nobody team in an empty stadium is much better than losing by 31 to a power conference team. At least they’re earning big TV dollars and racking up 4 star recruits. We’re getting embarrassed by a team that is only a couple years removed from shutting down their program and are in the conference as an afterthought because we lost three meaningful teams to realignment. 

We spotted navy 14 last week so I’m not panicking yet but we look sloppy af so far

UAB playing for sick kids today…

22 hours ago, Friscobull said:

It is either this guy is Bear Bryant or the last guy was the worst coach in the history of college sports, I am thinking closer to option 2 however CAG has been impressive. This team shows up prepared and hungry which was the polar opposite of the last few years. 

Could be both. ICJS is objectively one of the worst head coaches of the past 30+ years — he had a 0.133 record, took a bad team and made it worse, and failed to show any improvement after 3 seasons.

On the other hand, CAG took that team, tuned it up with transfers, and looks to have completely overhauled the culture and attitude of the football program. With any luck, after today CAG will have exceeded the win total of the entire CJS tenure midway through his first year.

3 minutes ago, jchem1995 said:

I’m a sick kid  too so I wanna Bulls win.

Pretty sure I've been sick of USF football for a few years. The only remedy is more touchdowns.

4 hours ago, Gat-Rat Bull said:

Position-by-position breakdown for UAB vs. South Florida

WWW.AL.COM

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UAB faces South Florida in the 7th annual Children's Harbor game at...

 

USF: Advantages in defensive line, linebackers, and coaching.
UAB: Advantage in receivers and secondary.

Their conclusion: UAB wins because it's playing for sick kids.

40 minutes ago, Bull Matrix said:

UCiF will never be able to forget about the Bust in the Rust against Baylor. USF has had some bad losses but not as bad as that ultimate choke job against Baylor lol

We let an FCS school reel off 33 unanswered points on us in this game.

With as bad as we’ve been for the last 4 years, we shouldn’t take any team lightly but there’s no reason to be more scared of UAB than of Rice or Navy.

45 minutes ago, USFBulls12 said:

Just give him the extension now. We won 2 games in a row, that’s worthy of getting locked into a few million dollars. 

VPMK gave CJS an extension after winning 3 games over 2 seasons so the least he can do is extend CAG.

Sanders is name-brand Willie Taggart. He can recruit above his weight class, run an offense, but lives and dies by the shoot out. Can build a program but gets out coached in the big games or lacks the wherewithal to win as an underdog. Wouldn’t go so far as to say we got the better coach out of the deal, yet. Golesh has made some dumb calls so far… 

Just now, LrdNorman said:

Off topic, but what is the advantage of triple option?  Has any triple option been close to winning a national championship / conference title?

The only other triple option I remember is Georgia Tech...

I think it’s best suited to offset the fact that the service academies are relatively smaller on the line

I guess the D would hate for us to get too comfortable…

Atkins:

All of this work to overcome two bonehead plays…

Run, run, home run pass attempt.

Less than half way into the first quarter and facing a potential must score drive seeing as we’re just as likely to go 3 and out and give it back to them as we are to score.

Too early to be that aggressive, especially with that field position. Stupid stupid call that could put us down by 2 scores before we have a chance to get going.

Terrible call. If you’re gonna run in that situation use Wright.

Wrestling puns on TBP? If you ain’t down with that…