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FAMU > Bama

This has been an awesome game. Can't believe we're tied with Bama halfway through the 3rd.

Sidenote: told my students they would get automatic 100s on their next quiz if USF beats Bama as a joke. Now I'm like, uhhhhh.

WE HAVE THE LEAD AGAINST BAMA!

Holy crap!

Best of luck in your recovery!

Willie Simmons wants to beat us bad. We should've hired him as HC.

Todd Orlando is a terrible defensive coordinator.

Recipe for disaster.

Commercials are the devil. 

I used to be able to watch 3, or 4 games a Saturday. Now, I barely get through one and I am exhausted and don't feel like tuning in for the NFL on Sundays.

Wow ET I hope your recovery goes well. All my prayers and best wishes to you and your family.

This game is personal for Willie Simmons.

He will have his team ready to play. 

1) FAMU
2) 30-28
3) Wright
4) Brown
5) 400

Todd Orlando's reputation

Moral victory?

The first season of Publix Stadium at Jim Leavitt Field will be a sellout.

But after year one when the hype dies off, if we're still in AAC...ohh boyyy

I will give it to Coach Go, these are the kind of things you love to see. He's doing right. All it takes to win in a mid-level conference is to out-talent your competition like Taggart did. And idk how Strong and Scott could it get so wrong, but pitching a school like USF to decently talented football players does not seem that impossible to me. 

16 minutes ago, Bull Gooner said:

This will be an interesting litmus test to see if the B10 values academics/AAU status at the same level as athletics. 

We know the B12 will take just about anyone with a pulse and fake nattys, but the B10, unless I'm mistaken, is all AAU except NEB. But money talks and I'm sure adding FSU/CLEM would increase attention which would drive up value for sponsorships, TV deals, etc. 

I believe this answers your question.

And FSU brings in even more $$$ than Nebraska.

The unnecessary space between "accredited" and "university" bothers me.

I am not excited about CAG. Almost no high-ranking experience (and the extent of his actual playcalling at UT is debated) and he hired a DC who is hated by every fanbase he's worked for. He's got a good sense of humor, but that's about it. He doesn't excite me. Also angered me that we hired someone so inexperienced while FAU was able to hire Tom Herman. I don't trust ADMK's coach hiring decision-making anymore. Hope I'm proven wrong.

Skip - I was excited, he had won 2 conference championships at ECU and I thought that success would transfer over. I do believe he was held back here by the academic committee, but he was also a bit of a goofball imo.

Taggart - I was a fan of his swag and knew he would recruit awesome players. Don't underestimate the desire of Black players wanting to play for Black coaches in positions of power. That's just the way society is nowadays. His videos pumping up the WKU fans after beating Kentucky got me pumped. Good thing he was able to put his pride and Harbaugh offense to the side for the GCO. But, yeah, his name is tarnished now.

Scott - Easy to say now, but after he was hired, I looked up youtube clips of his interviews and coaching and was not excited at all. He was giving vibes of being twice the goofball that Skip was. Were players in urban Tampa Bay really going to want to play for this guy? Easily the worst head coach in FBS history, so awful that it happened to us...

I wish we had hired Willie Simmons from FAMU. Whatever FBS team gives him a shot will be glad they did.

6 minutes ago, Jim Johnson said:

1. Well, there are two tests... and in half the country, the other one is more popular.

2. And those same privileges help regardless whether a standardized test is required or not.

3. Perhaps LSAT, GMAT, MCAT and other graduate placement tests should also be abandoned an just use university performance and rankings for admittance into graduate, law, and medical schools?

 

1. Ok, for the two (now three?) tests to rule them all.

2. Agreed! Hence why we should consider student performance and school ranking rather than a standardized test score. IMO, If a poor student went to a crappy school with low resources but still showed the drive to outperform his/her peers and ranked highly in his/her class but got a low ACT/SAT score, they should have priority over some low or middle-of-the-pack student at a rich school whose parents were able to afford an SAT/ACT tutor to drill standardized content for the sake of a high score on a test.

I don't know, to me, personal drive is more important than socioeconomic privilege. Regardless, it's definitely not apples to apples.

3. I was discussing undergrad, not grad school. That's a different conversation.

23 minutes ago, Jim Johnson said:

How do you compare students from different states that have different methods for evaluating schools and students or have teachers with varying grading standards?

There is a reason why education at all levels prefers standardized tests - it allows for apples to apples comparison of students.

 

Especially the apples with parents that can afford private tutors and prep necessary to prepare them for the one standardized test to rule them all.

Those other apples, keep them away.

College Board does have too much power and influence over U.S. education IMO.

Student high school performance + school performance/state ranking consideration - should be the only metrics considered in college entrance admissions.

20 hours ago, Outlaw said:

I mean that is pretty much every big stadium that had student standing areas in college football .

I don't know man. I don't think I've ever seen **** like this with just a random corner hanging off the side of the stadium. Seems crazy to me for a student section especially.

1 hour ago, USF_Bullsharks said:

As much as I hate this school, I think they're doing "stadium expansion" as well as they could be. The planned OCS additions are pretty cool with the new club and expanded student sections. Stinks the entire stadium is actually a tin can and the other stuff is garbage, except that premium tailgating space. We should have a premium tailgating space as well. 

Link below has bad colors and words - 

Link to horrible school with decent stadium expansion plans

 

That expansion to the student section is one drunk fratboy away from tragedy. 

1 hour ago, Bull Matrix said:

With USF I do believe it is an easy fix. Why you ask ? It is because USF now has a lot of positively going on these last few years. Wins usually come last so I do believe we are getting close to the winning part. 

Just something about leaving that whole "winning" part to a head coach with no head coaching experience and only one year as a coordinator that makes it less of an easy fix IMO.

15 hours ago, bulloni said:

Giving to USF

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Supporting Bulls beyond the fields of play

If you search specific funds for "stadium" there is "USF Stadium Project (#509015)"

Is this for the new football stadium? And is this recently posted? Feel like i've searched this before and didn't see anything

Woah. Is this an official thing? @John Lewis

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