SattyBull

Down 6-1 in the 4th. What a joke. Bats better get going.

For those who don't know what is being referenced. Go to a Juco, get your AA and you can turn pro in 2 years. Go to a 4 year college, you can't turn pro until after your junior year. False. Juco players are eligible after their first year as well. Ok, I didn't know that ... sorry for the bad info ... But the part of those who chose a 4 year school having to wait 3 years is true. So the correction further makes the Juco even more attractive. Baseball is weird in the there is so much incentive not to get a 4 year degree (for those talented enough to have pro aspirations.) And yet every other school in the state has been able to largely overcome this, besides USF (and FAMU but they suck at everything). But let's not get it confused, the best players out there are not choosing Juco over playing for a solid D1 program. It's mainly the fringe guys that choose to play at a Chipola JC or Polk State rather than go somewhere out of state and pay out of state tuition to play at some crummy program. Or the guys that were drafted in high school, want to improve their draft stock and don't want to wait 3 years. A friend from high school was going to play JC ball in florida until Rice scooped him up. He played 4 years, got his degree and was drafted in The 10th round last year. Another went to Polk State instead of going out of state. He pitches for Bethune-Cookman now. It obviously depends on the kids situation, however. A lot of guys start out D1 and then transfer out after a year. There are a lot of factors at play. Go look at a solid juco or D2 program roster and look at "previous school" and chances are there are about a half dozen that came from top tier programs.

For those who don't know what is being referenced. Go to a Juco, get your AA and you can turn pro in 2 years. Go to a 4 year college, you can't turn pro until after your junior year. False. Juco players are eligible after their first year as well.

Don't get why they put Thomas in there. He crumbled against FGCU on Tuesday and crumbled again today. I know you need to trust your guys, but that's 2 awful outings in a row.

And of those there how many are UCF predicted to win "0" How many would USF be "predicted"to win?! Lol

UCFs scheduling is top notch. They have home/homes with penn st, Maryland and South Carolina coming up.

Can't ask for more than a point. When (and yes, it's WHEN) the US finally wins a qualifier at Azteca that city will burn.

Truth So far this year we've beaten Purdue (7-14) UCF (17-9 against horrible schedule) Toledo x 2 (9-12) Boston College (3-17) Valpo x2 (9-13) FAMU x 3 (1-24) Cincinnati x 3 (7-13)

True and they done it with less talent then this season's USF team. How do they do it? They also did it with less talent than this seasons UNC, Gonzaga, Georgetown, and Butler teams. What's your point? It's March Madness.

They should start to rack up the wins. The Big East sucks and we don't have to play Louisville. Pitt and Notre Dame will be tough, though. We get 3 guaranteed wins against Alcorn St in a few weeks. Even the midweek Florida teams that we are playing are having down years (UF, Stetson, BCU, UCF...everyone other than FGCU pretty much).

Don't really agree with that pecking order. It pretty much ebbs and flows after you get past the big 3(besides USF, FAMU who seem to be stuck). UNF has been d1 for a couple years and hasn't made a D1 tournament yet. Not sure why you put Webber in there either. Assume it's a joke. This year we may actually be better than Stetson, UNF and Jacksonville. It's a down year for UF as well. Miami isn't their usual selves either. Eckerd baseball is garbage. St leo is mediocre. Tampa and Florida Southern are top tier d2 programs. I'm on my phone so excuse any mistakes or caveman grammar.

Welcome to the team! And danm, Prado's buyout is $50k per year left on his contract. Chump change, no matter what conference we are in.

Oh I know that. But when I was at USF it was never a big deal. My brother is a current USF student and hasn't even heard of it. My sister at UCF knows all about hers because they send out tons of mailings on it. This. I'm graduating in May and you never hear of it in the general student conversations. My parents never had much use for it because they came to most games anyways, but friends at other schools would always post pictures online and talk about it. I've heard some pretty interesting stories involving Parents Weekend and Kens Tavern up in Tallahassee the night before an FSU game. I think it plays into some of the commuter school situation...like you said, it's for parents of kids who are likely from outside of the Bay area. Welp, that probably eliminates half of the student body right there.

Yep it's a joke compared to how a lot of other schools do family weekends.

Yeah, they only had 3 home runs total going into that inning.

Not sure why I was responded to...I was making a joke in response to Greg that this is USF and not Harvard because HE was the one who pointed it out. My best friend has ADHD, is dyslexic but is now an Orlando Firefighter. The kid cant spell for **** and misreads things all the time, and I couldnt really care less. No harm meant.

Dis Skool iz usf not Harverd

Our pitching still can't be trusted, sheesh. Good win regardless, and glad they hung on!

Don't totally understand putting Lovecchio out there, but ok.

And just like that my buddy Mikey Clarkson shows up and pitches a great game. Maybe he can work his way into the weekend rotation? Let's go!

Oh yeah, I know they won't fire him right now... Would make a bad situation much worse. I have lost faith in Prado but I really hope the boys can turn things around. I have a couple friends on the team and hope they can at least go out there and have a good showing themselves. This is the hard thing with college sports. When you aren't a fan of a coach, you almost find yourself rooting against 18,19, 20 year olds. Unfortunate catch 22.

And this isnt just the case of "man, they're getting beat by amazing teams. Not much they can do." the brand of baseball they're playing is atrocious. Game 1 vs Louisville: 5 errors, 5 walks, 3 hit batsmen, 3 wild pitches Game 3 vs Indiana: 6 walks, 5 wild pitches, 5 hit batsmen Game 4 vs FSU: 11 walks, 5 wild pitches, 5 hit batsmen, And FSU pulled their starters about halfway through. Game 5 vs FSU: 6 walks, 2 wild pitches, 3 hit batsmen, 2 errors. Game 6 vs FSU: 5 walks, 1 wild pitch...and look at that, we only lost by 3. It's amazing what playing fundamentally sound baseball can do for your chances of winning, no matter who you play. In those same 5 losses, here are the combined stats of the other teams, 13 walks, 4 wild pitches, 1 hit batsmen, 5 errors.

Well, I was expecting it, but I was hoping they would not be absolutely embarassed in all but one of the losses so far. Oh, and those neutral site games were 45 minutes from campus. The other teams were from 1,000 miles away. Don't understand that excuse.

You would think the mafia could help us fix some games.

I hate him.