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I feel like you mixed a couple of metaphors there or something but I totally agree. I do have a question for the board because I am not up to speed. Who are our power backs and who are the shifty fast guys?

He is upset that the line coach did not give him reps, I am sorry but most of us have played football right? Did you behave this way when things didn't seem fair to you? Anyway, he went to the head coach who naturally would defer to the guy he actually hired to manage this kind of thing. As for the voting thing, that must be something they do. I think it is pretty telling that they actually cut him loose though. That means his peers agreed with the coach - red flag number 1. The guy sounds a wee bit entitled to me and that he wasn't good enough to start and the kid didn't agree - when I read between the lines. He then proceeded to take to twitter which is another red flag.

Can anyone refresh my memory about the personnel moves for that game?

LOL, even 2 for 1 sounds expensive but I will consider your offer.

“Everybody would tell me I was the best player for the position, but still, I’d never see the field,” Larkin said. “Other players would tell me they were most comfortable when I was on the line. Still, I’d never even see ones (first team) action during practices.” My wife forces me to watch American Idol but every season the interview people who are outraged that the judges don't see their talent the way everyone else claims to.

Whistleblowing or disgruntled? I hate the term disgruntled but it seems to fit in this case since it seems to be all about him and his starting time.

Kind of yea. I mean he has been in games which is much faster that practice. I mean, who knows? Its off-season and this is all speculation.

Right, we are talking about exactly the same thing. In order for them to be equal, Chris O would have to be showing more potential just to be in consideration. In other words, outperforming Kean somewhat in drills and practice. Maybe showing more spark. At this point, I would expect Kean to be outperforming due to his experience.

Kean has more game time experience and more college experience overall and that should give him the edge. If they are tied at this point, at least to me, it implies that Chris Oladokun will win out.

I agree with both of these HOWEVER, and I should have said this originally, even when he ran he seemed less effective. It could be due to not having a future NFL RB in the backfield (the defense more focused on him) but was that always the case when he had Dynamic® plays in the past?

I am not even following how combine. He ran a 40? From what I hear he wants to be a QB at the next level and that is what my comments are based on. He does not have what they are looking for in that position because his skills will be neutralized at the next level. Could he be a good wide receiver? I guess so but is he even catching balls out there? Running routes? There's no film of him doing any of those things so now is the time. I'm not counting him out as I'm as big a fan as anybody. Go back and look at my history here and there's no bigger cheerleader regarding his play or his character even in the year the offense struggled and people wanted Bench or Woulard. I'm a fan of the team and rarely single out players because I know they're human beings and I don't go in for hero worship. My wife always ask me whose name I want on a back of a jersey she's getting me as a gift and I always tell her nobody. Next time I might actually say Flowers because I have that much respect for him. Here is with my kids and I I'm not even sure I have had them take a picture with any other bull. This is the only picture we wanted. He was elusive against FSU and South Carolina but last year he lost a step in my opinion because he didn't have as many Dynamic plays, either they started to figure him out or something else was going on. That's not a character flaw it's just something that I observed. Maybe the statistics don't back me up I don't know. Either way with his build he would take some serious hits at the next level and I don't see him or any QB with his build taking the kind of pounding he would be subjected to for very long.

At the pro level, everyone is fast and last year teams started to figure out how to address QF's elusive moves. He has a lot of strike against him, most glaring are his height and arm. What he has going FOR him is neutralized at the next level due the the shear athleticism of the talent he will face. Not to mention the injuries that his type of play puts him at risk (guys are bigger and stronger hitting harder).

I note your sarcasm but the attendance for all those teams would be pretty insane and there are several teams in that league that would be in contention every year for the NC. I know it's a pipe dream but it would be a really fun league.

It seems to me that people are less interested in football in general. I have had trouble watching the NFL since the salary cap. I think now I struggle with watching it because I know these guys are destroying their bodies and minds.

I think this looks good, I just hope we land a few JUCO's or a grad transfers at LB. I am sure the coaches know how shallow we are there.

I am not sure if you are serious and even if you are I will give you credit for being a die hard CJL fan and USF Football fan. That being said, Judy is one of the best things that happened to USF. The school has really flourished under her. I know we like to look through the prism of athletics but she views them as a means to an end - which is smart IMO. We do not have a nationally well know name or identity. One of the ways to do that is though athletics. As for Holtz, I was never a fan of the hire but he seems like a good coach and I have no idea why he is successful seemingly everywhere but here. He has a great agent that took care of him and you can't begrudge him that.

Q is the best player in USF history IMO. That being said, he seemed to lose a step and was not as dynamic a runner this year. If my observations are correct I would not attribute that potential decline on Gilbert.

Up ding for honesty.

You beat me by a couple of minutes. As a supporter of a G5/AAC team I am pretty pissed that UCF was not part of the NC discussion. We are eating the garbage they are shoveling if we think this is all on the up and up. I said this in another thread: "UCF went undefeated and we see the ceiling. All the teams playing for the NC have at least one loss so the message is they don't need to be perfect to play in the NC. All these G5 schools are killing themselves to achieve perfection when their big prize is the Peach Bowl - maybe." I wrote that before UCF beat Auburn who beat Alabama. If you don't want to get on board with an undefeated G5 team shouldn't be left out of the NC discussion under these circumstances that is up to you but I (and a lot of people I talk to) don't think its embarrassing, I think it is pretty smart.

Its funny, if you read the article, UCF is the latest in a long line of teams to do this. Sometimes athletic departments look back at do it retroactively for decades old seasons. Alabama has done it twice but they are not alone. http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/21954302/ucf-not-first-school-call-national-champion

UCF is undefeated and beat Auburn (who beat Alabama no less). I think they should have fun with it. It is a nightmare for the P5 which will do all kinds of spinning. We have to remove our UCF hate glasses for a moment and get some satisfaction where we can get it. If it were us we would be doing the same thing. Remember the Big 4 billboard?

It's not unusual

Me too. Sorry if I'm out of touch but where is Justin? I like Rock.

It's going to be a completely new team next year.

He flipped the ball straight up. I think it was not the most egregious call/non call. Senat was being held AND grabbed the face mask. Alaka hit some dude with his towel. Dumb on his part but he was defending Q. The targeting was a bad missed call. I thought the non call on the intentional grounding was a makeup on the next play. The refs were horrible, I just saw the players doing a lot more talking and after the play dramatics. Almost like they were too good for us (which they weren't).