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I sit in seats 13 and 14 in row A. Great seats! Good luck to those that enter.

Its aged roughly about the same as a barrel of Blanton's. Those barrels yield around 240-250 bottles. So we're looking at $2,400 - $2,500 back to Fowler Ave. Not the most lucrative return but, a nice fundraising effort. Hopefully the juice is worth the squeeze.

Switching from a design build agreement to a construction manager agreement isn’t a huge deal. Especially with a majority of the design already completed. Retaining Populous ensures the design will continue. I said here a while back I felt RR Simmons was involved. My only guess as to them not being the CM is because they don’t build football stadiums.

This allows USF to maintain more control over means and methods, but I don’t think it’ll be a “this could be bigger” thing. 

What concerns me is that this could push completion out a year or so. The new CM may be able to meet those existing deadlines, but they’ll want to either factor the acceleration costs into their bid (which would be an increased cost to USF and with a fixed amount borrowed that may be tough) or USF will have to extend the duration for completion. 

17 minutes ago, Mike Stuben said:

UNC is probably gone, agree on that. Not so sure Virginia goes. 

I would think UNC would be appealing to both SEC and Big 10, (maybe more than FSU or Clemson)

Miami is interesting. I think the Big 10 wants into Florida, and Miami is probably the choice, but I am not sure Miami can buy itself out of the ACC, and may be stuck. 

Good call on Miami, I neglected to consider $$$ to buy themselves out. I included UVA because I had been seeing a lot of chatter about them as a potential SEC candidate. 

UNC and Virginia aren't getting left behind if FSU and Clemson leave. You can probably add Miami to that list as well.

21 minutes ago, bull2saintleo said:

I get that we're all passionate fans, but repeating over and over the same schtick in different threads is a bit of overkill.

You must be new here lol

The teams that beat UAB don't appear to be that great when looking at their respective W/L records. I'm also not putting too much into the Tulane game. This isn't last year's Tulane team. They've beaten up on very weak teams and lost by 3 scores to the only good team they played. 

UAB's defense is 124th against the run allowing 219ypg and 114th against the pass allowing 282ypg. They rank 131st in total defense ypg. USF's offense is 15th in rushing at 202ypg and 44th in passing at 256ypg. We rank 19th in total offense ypg.

USF's defense is 67th against the run allowing 143ypg and 90th against the pass allowing 256ypg. We rank 82nd in total defense ypg. UAB's offense is 99th in rushing at 113ypg and 18th in passing at 294ypg. They rank 48th in total offense ypg. 

We've played much stiffer competition and in looking at UAB's games individually, it looks like their offensive #'s are inflated, a lot coming in cleanup time once the game's been out of reach. They also appear to have a tendency to fade in the 2nd half once their opponent makes adjustments.

If we want to win, we just need to limit turnovers and keep the run game going. I like our chances against their run game and our heavy blitzing should be able to disrupt their passing game. 

34 minutes ago, Triple B said:

Definitely better throwinglast year sometimes one regresses before progressing .... especially in a new system.

I can agree with that. Time will tell.

4 minutes ago, Triple B said:

Maybe it's just me but I thought BB had a lot of plays where he had decent time ... especially behind a patchwork line.

I noticed a few also. 1 being the INT in the endzone late in the game. Part of me thinks his youth and inexperience combined with getting sacked 12 times in 2 games has something to do with it. But I don’t remember him being this off last year. 

5 minutes ago, Rocky Style said:

That one hurts because we don't have help coming any time soon.  I think we have to save it with scheme somehow.  Can we roll out or something with a high and low option? 

They’ve gotta find a way to scheme around it. I’m too dumb to figure it out, but that’s what these coaches get paid for lol

USF Student Section. 2 weeks in a row they’ve showed up and showed out. Even through a rain delay. Hats off to those kids. 

Go back and watch the tape. BB isn’t the problem every time he drops back. He’s got an OL that is underperforming, RBs or TEs that miss blocking assignments, and  WRs that can’t get open if their life depended on it. He threw a couple of really nice balls tonight that the WRs should’ve had. A lot of his runs were necessitated because nobody was open. If we still had Horn and Weaver, we’d be singing a different song tonight. 

1 minute ago, bulloni said:

Better than the photo for sure. But 16.8K actual attendance in a 35k stadium is still pretty bad for an opener

Whew, I hadn't seen the official count yet. Thanks for sharing.... that is... not good. LOL

31 minutes ago, bulloni said:

San Diego State in the season opener of the 2nd year in their new stadium, going for 15 years in a row with no losing records. Only SOLD 23,867 out of 35,000....that actual attendance looks under 15k. 

Which one is this?

1. On Campus Stadium doesn't actually fix anything.
2. There isn't much competition to be the best G5 football program in a big market

 

This photo/clip was also taken pre-game. Show me after kickoff and I'm betting this looks much different.

3 minutes ago, Jim Johnson said:

Not just subscribers to AppleTV ... but subscribers to the ADD ON PACKAGE.  Pac12 would not be included in the base subscription -- Apple proposed to make it the same as MLS ... an extra subscription package for the season.

Correct, meant for that to be implied. Appreciate the add on clarification.

Read somewhere on Twitter today that the PAC12 would need to get about 36M subscriptions on AppleTV to equal BIG12 money... but AppleTV currently only has 36M subscribers... Good luck lol

Auction items dropped. Pretty unimpressed IMO. It also seem there were issues in putting the items and/or descriptions together as you've got gameday sideline gear without the size in the description, and descriptions of "Yeti Roadies with wheels" but then the pic isn't of that type of Yeti. Hopefully more items are added in the next few days.

Cool to see NASCAR HOF tickets on there. A few years back I won tickets at this auction to the Coke Zero 400. It think they were donated by Fifth Third Bank. It was such a fun experience. Wish there was something like that up for grabs again!

Also, the construction portion of the contract is based off of the DB contractor's proposal and is likely a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) contract not to exceed a certain amount. It also likely contains a clause preventing the contractor from seeking material escalation costs. So I don't think you'll have the contractor weighing a cost/benefit analysis on material purchasing. There's also likely a cost savings clause that provides savings and/or rebates to USF with the contractor able to collect a portion of those savings. So ultimately it's in everyone's best interests to get this done efficiently and correctly. 

The $22 million is for the entire design phase so the design build (DB) contractor will (if they haven't already) line up their subcontractor's, i.e. electrical, mechanical, plumbing, etc. and all of them will work with the DB to design buildable plans and specs. 

I haven't seen the contract, but the $2M per game is likely a negotiated liquidated damages schedule and I would assume there's additional damages for missing construction milestones. Both parties likely waived consequential damages (lost income, increased costs, loss of business opportunities) against each other. I've never negotiated a construction contract that doesn't have a mutual waiver of consequentials.

On 2/16/2023 at 6:03 PM, Jim Johnson said:

USF comes in #71 based on opponents 2022 records... With 1 team that finished ranked last season and only 6 of 12 that had a winning record last year. 

I will be interesting to see how Phil Steele thinks USF will do this season. One of the more well-inform pundits out there.

 

2023 Toughest Opponent Win %. – Phil Steele

 

Do you know what he had for USF's win/loss last year? I can't seem to find it, but if I recall correctly he had us finishing 9th or 10th in the AAC last year.

IHSV

I know BG made a comment about FTs and if our guys were better at them they’d be playing and better schools, but how have they not improved in FTs in all the years some of these guys have been here???

Refs give us a MASSIVE break and Harris is anything but clutch. 

Our shot selection still baffles me.