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6 hours ago, Rex Havoc said:

I just wish we could play like we do in the 4th quarter in say the 1st or 2nd quarter. Why must every game almost give me a heart attack?!

Well, two years ago we would get up big and watch other teams whittle away at it in the 4th quarter.  That was not fun either.

On 10/7/2018 at 2:09 PM, Rizman said:

Please take us off the poll.

Please show us your top 25.  

17 hours ago, lotsofbull99 said:

CJL would have head butted the officials over that call.

If CFL missed that call he would have choked HIMSELF at halftime.

13 hours ago, Skingraft said:

I was like, WTF??? 

Then they show UMASSs Robinson was from Tampa...  I was, oh, ok.. makes sense 

That dude was fast!  Good thing he got elected.

15 hours ago, El_Toro_86 said:

Bulls win this game in a truly unimpressive manner and like clockwork the ******** and complaining on TBP will ensue resume unabated.

21 minutes ago, NAS Gone to Paradise said:

It’s fairly obvious in that video, that they weren’t fully clothed while in the stall.

I will give him credit.  That guy was downright chivalrous holding off the cops until she got dressed.

As for minor in the restroom area, I might be pissed at first if I had my kids with me...until I remembered having to, unsuccessfully, fast forward through a segment on gang **** on the Today show this week. 

3 hours ago, bullstampede9922 said:

Anyone remember or try to forget the glitter-covered towel guys?  Started out as two guys and then multiplied into a mass of glitter covered fans?  I guess it died out after they graduated.  

 

wow, sorry for the thread hijack...it was all ready running off course. 

I assumed they just didn't want to be confused with the guy wearing a leotard at the Auburn game.

4 hours ago, Triple B said:

Kind of my take on it, too but didn't want to come across as a crotchety old man any more than I already do ...

Well it's just like USF for this to catch on from last year with lots of copy cats and not the girl her who lifted her shirt last year.

2 hours ago, Skingraft said:

Dats the wizard man

Everyone at the games know who the wizard is.  Does it make any sense?  Not really but most people like myself think it is funny anyway.

First game of the season they had a couple of imitators but the Wizard is one of a kind.

It is weird, it is almost like the other teams (coaches and players) are doing everything they can to win the games we play with them and they are exposing our weaknesses.

I think, instead of all the trouble with game where there is a significant chance of injury they teams can line up during the coin toss and compare stars.  The team with the most can be declared the winner.

Personally, it would save me a lot of time and money.  I might even lose a pound or two skipping that beer and BBQ.

30 minutes ago, Skingraft said:

He is absolutely getting slaughtered 

uhm, where?

On 9/20/2018 at 6:16 AM, jchem1995 said:

Troy is no slouch 

23 hours ago, jchem1995 said:

What about Western Kentucky.

2 hours ago, Apis Bull said:

Here's the thing.  Even if the playoffs are impossible, no matter who we schedule (I'm not sure that's completely true, but it doesn't matter for this point), playing and beating P5 teams increases our national perception would may help us in the next round of expansion.

Those would be fun games but it feels like one of those if we win "we should have won" and if we lose we look bad scenarios.  From a national exposure perspective (to Apis Bull's point above) or as a hypothetical playoff booster I so not see what we gain playing those teams.

I would rather play a tough P5 and have something to gain and not as much to lose or a FCS to minimize risk. 

42 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Yes,  you have a legitimate question in your initial post. But it has now escalated into the calls being incorrect. Yeah, some probably were but it just makes us sounds like whiners. Refs make ****** calls in our favor all the time...it all evens out in the end. Also a lot of these “calls” were self inflicted. For example the tripping penalty was  irrelevant for me as soon as the lineman got knocked down on his ass to begin with.  Not singling out this thread, but there are others that sounds like a gripe session 

I guess I would just call it venting.  I got to scream at the TV I've but that didn't seem enough.

1 hour ago, NewEnglandBull said:

My god! “We would have won by 100 more points if was not from those penalties.” Look, at the end of the day we sucked ass in all three phases for a large portion of the game. The most noncontraversal penalties were the offsides calls and those were just boneheaded. 

Absolutely nobody is saying that.  I had questions about these calls.  I personally learned that you can't tackle a QB below the knees and there may not be a running into the kicker rule.  

This is a USF fan board and should the right place for a little venting and clarification about calls like these.

We won the game so this is not sour grapes or excuse making.  I was watching the game in a public setting and could not hear the announcers and could rewind.

1. Roughing the passer - To me it looked like the QB still had the ball when he was hit.  Did the defender do something like lead with his head?

2. Horse collar - looked to me that he had the guys shoulder pads not his jersey.

3. Tripping - happened fast and I only saw it once.  It looked like it was inadvertent.  He certainly didn't stick his foot out as the defender was running by (not that that is the rule, it just didn't look blatant).

4. Roughing the kicker - looked more like running into the kicker and even weak for that.  The punter flopped like a champ though 

Even if all these calls were bad the guys did the right thing and won the game anyway.  It just can be a little frustrating, especially when you have a few beers in you.

Overall, we had 60 yards worth of unsportsmanlike conduct and they all seem to happen at unfortunate times.  Not a conspiracy just a huge hill to overcome.  

Along with being on the road against a big 10 opponent and no kicker, I think we did pretty well overcoming adversity.

26 minutes ago, JimUSFSig said:

I will never understand why anyone would want to stand for three or four hours... I am one of those who would politely ask you to sit down.

There is a reason why there are SEATS in a stadium, after all - they are there in which ti SIT.

Standing WHEN APPROPRIATE (3rd downs, exciting plays, etc) is fine.  Standing when it's just ordinary football will never ever make sense to me.

Do you stand when you go see a movie? Or a broadway show? 

This is how I see it.  If someone is standing and blocking my view I use it as an excuse to stand too.  If they sit down I'll sit down.  If someone says something to me a tell them I can't see over the other guy.  If it's a big play or a meaningful time in the game I'll stand regardless.  

4 minutes ago, Thebullsfan said:

Before the visible curse happened

Yes learned about LRS's passing during one of the rain delays.  

It looked reminiscent of the Notre Dame game.

23 hours ago, puc86 said:

You haven’t seen it? I call it a turnover purse, it’s glorious.

I just don't think they will ever live that down.  

14 hours ago, Triple B said:

I doubt that observation came from a knowledgeable source .... unless the source knew they were wearing white and knew the following:

Heat is not just coming in off of the sun. It's also coming off a person's own, sweating, warm-blooded, mammalian body, which is a lot closer than the sun is. When all that body heat hits the white clothing covering it, it gets reflected right back towards the body. When we wear white, we cook ourselves.

The best color to keep cool in the heat, it turns out, is to wear black. Black absorbs everything coming in from the sun, sure. But black also absorbs energy from the body instead of reflecting it back. Now, the helpfulness of black clothes depends on finding black clothes that are the same thickness and looseness as those summery white clothes. Black clothing also needs a little help from atmospheric conditions. Once it has absorbed heat, it has to have some way to radiate it away. If there's even a little wind, black clothing is the better choice for those who want to keep cool, like goths who understandably don't like sweating through their make-up. So find something black to wear this summer.

 

1 hour ago, BayIslandBull said:

Black as a color does not intrinsically absorb more heat (from any source) than other colors, it reflects less light which generates more heat. If it were that easy, we'd just paint **** black to generate energy.

Please site your sources.  If I get my kid to pick this all up somehow for his STEM project I will get to read this forum more frequently at home so I can help him with his homework.

Just now, Dave_Glaser said:

We've always worn green at home. I can't remember a home game when we didn't.

I thought the home team got to pick which jerseys they wanted to wear?

I was wondering about that myself.  I seriously don't think the equipment manager has anything to do with choosing the color the team wears.

I'm curious how it came about.  

16 minutes ago, Ricky the Bull said:

A lot of where we currently are is based on where we started.  This is one of the major fallacies of preseason rankings....conjecture. 

Yea, the die is cast.  

On 9/2/2018 at 12:27 AM, Bulls On Parade said:

I didn't know he ran a 4.3 that is blazing.  I know Horne a freshman receiver ran a 10.2 in the 100 so yeah we will have some serious speed at receiver can't wait to see it get used.

 

Its funny, in the highlight they kept talking about how it's been a while since they had speed like that at Michigan.  I don't know how accurate that was but here we are like "meh"

10 hours ago, MikeG said:

oh

my

gawwwd!

 

No wonder they struggled against Samford.