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3 hours ago, Jim Johnson said:

Clearly Rhea is getting it right, along with VPMK.

Oh boy, as soon as that Marquette player let go of that nice-looking game-winning attempt, the thought of "USF gonna USF" ran through my head. Definitely as close as it gets to losing. Can't believe we got a nice thing.

But what has Bubba the Love Sponge said?

1 hour ago, CousinRicky said:

Without getting political I think Will Weatherford was some high ranking conservative so not everyone there is what you are calling woke.

Isn't conservative the opposite of woke?

Too conservative would mean too anti-woke, no?

How long until McCullumiscoming shows up?

2 hours ago, Dave_Glaser said:

Lol hiring a coach with experience and a winning overall record?

You must have forgotten how we do things around here…

Wait, all of our major sports are some of the worst in the country for several seasons now?

If only there was some sort of administrative individual who should be held responsible for all this failure who maybe we should part ways with. Maybe someone who not only hires failures and inexperienced coaches but also extends them for failing with even more money. 

If only…

It's hard to argue "don't watch" when you post every single "hype" tweet by USF Athletics on this board for us to look at.

Sweet. Let's hang the banner now. 

22 hours ago, Gatorbull325 said:

 

And what Offensive Coordinator awards or finalists did CJS make? I'll wait on that one.

Alex Golesh is the 247Sports Offensive Coordinator of the Year

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Alex Golesh turned Tennessee into the darling of college football with an electric...

Uhhh

4 hours ago, Gatorbull325 said:

Also, CAG actually called plays as an offensive coordinator for the country's #1 offense.
 

This is debated:

Who will call plays for Tennessee’s offense? It’s a secret for some reason.

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Tennessee coach Josh Heupel and offensive coordinator Alex Golesh declined to identify the offensive play-caller heading into Tennessee’s opener against Bowling...

In fact, many Tennessee fans did not feel as though Golesh was a huge loss because they believed he did not actually call plays.

So if that's true, it makes Golesh's inexperience even more glaring.

And yeah I guess we'll agree to disagree, but on paper alone, CJS's resume is better than Golesh's. Being the TE coach at Toledo/Illinois/Iowa State/UCF doesn't move much of a needle.

On 2/15/2023 at 3:47 PM, Gatorbull325 said:

I compared the resumes side by side - 

CJS -

2006 Blythewood HS (HeadCoach)
2007 Presbyterian (WR)
2008 Clemson (WR)
2008–2014 Clemson (WR/RC)
2015–2019 Clemson (co-OC/WR)


CAG -

2021-22 Tennessee Offensive Coordinator/Tight Ends
2020 UCF Co-Offensive Coordinator/Tight Ends
2016-19 Iowa State Tight Ends/Recruiting Coord.
2015 Illinois Tight Ends/Special Teams Coord.
2014 Illinois Running Backs/Tight Ends/Recruiting Coord.
2012-13 Illinois Tight Ends/Recruiting Coord.
2009-11 Toledo Tight Ends/Recruiting Coord.
2008 Oklahoma State Graduate Assistant
2006-07 Northern Illinois Graduate Assistant
2004-05 Ohio State Student Assistant

Apples and oranges.

The best place Golesh has coached besides his one year at Tenessee has been UCF (gross), for one year as a Co-OC. That's not impressive at all.

Sure CJS had spent most of his time at just Clemson, but he was part of a transformation from a mid-major ACC to a top-tier blue chip program and has a couple of National Title rings - one as co-OC - to go with his resume. Clemson was not what it is today until Dabo came along, let's be honest. So this whole "Clemson recruits itself with blue chips" is something that became a thing only within the last decade.

Obviously, CJS was in over his head and he will probably go down as one of the worst fbs HCs in history, but if you were to give me those two resumes in paper alone, the one with the NCs and the rebuilding background is way more attractive as a candidate. Coach Go might be even more of a risk than CJS was, which is scary af.

12 hours ago, hm101 said:

I really hated that excuse last year

We have an incredibly easy schedule. An average team with our schedule makes a bowl game. We should expect the same. 

No more losing, no more excuses. We need to make a bowl this year.

We are at year one of rebuilding the worst fbs team in the nation.

29 minutes ago, bulloni said:

 If you take the worst defense of his 17 year DC career its still 10 PPG and 100 YPG better than USF's defense last year.

 

USF under Scott: 2020 39.9 ppg, 2021 34.7 ppg, 2022 41.2 ppg

Orlando’s career as DC:

UConn 75 games; 21.9 ppg

FIU 25 games; 25.3 ppg

Utah State 28 games; 18.4 ppg

Houston 27 games; 22.0 ppg

Texas 40 games; 24.9 ppg

USC 18 games; 29.8 ppg

FAU 12 games; 26.7 ppg

Seems like other than USC he's been an above average DC

Curious what would be Bob Shoop's career averages at all his other stops compared to last year at USF? 

That would seem like a more accurate comparison between the two.

On 2/5/2023 at 2:50 PM, hm101 said:

My faith is in this man to fix our atrocious defense. You are doing God's work coach Todd. 

Well, let's just hope every other fanbase is wrong about this guy.

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Make no mistake - Todd Orlando ******* Sucks - Page 2 - Football - Surly Horns

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Here's to him proving all the doubters wrong.

1 hour ago, USFRaider said:

This is what i am hoping as well.  But if Golesh ends up shyting the bed, Kelly shouldn't be allowed to hire a third coach IMO.

If Golesh doesn't pan out there might not be a program left to hire a coach for.

Our existence relies on Kelly's 2nd hire of a young inexperienced head coach. Welp.

10 hours ago, gibbsak said:

Wow.

Watching CAG's NSD presser.

He is not holding back about what he was left with and what he went after!  

Threw out "borderline criminal" and "negligent" to describe things.

 

Haha he actually has a pretty good sense of humor.

"We're gonna have a player intersquad softball game by class, and then the winning class plays the coaching staff. After the coaching staff wins, then we're gonna get started with winter workouts and..." 

Said it nonchalantly and didn't even pause to acknowledge the joke, and it seems like the press missed it.

Pretty intelligent guy.

Breath of fresh air from xCJS's overbearing southern hospitality demeanor. 

Remember that time we had the #1 transfer recruiting class in the nation last year?

Lol.

Let's pick an easy FCS win like McNeese State

53 minutes ago, smazza said:

for a coach not as bad as hitting a student

for a human worse than hitting a 21-year-old man

3 hours ago, Gatorbull325 said:

Where we are at - 

HC/OC – Alex Golesch

1.       QB/Passing Coordinator - Joel Gordon

2.       DC - Todd Orlando

3.       OLB - Chad Creamer???

4.       DL – Kevin Patrick

5.       OL – Tyler Hudanick

6.       TE – Clay Patterson

7.       RB– Matt Merritt????

8.       DB – Matt Birkett

9.       WR - Marcus Davis????

10.      Special teams –???

Other - 

QB analyst - Jared Peery???

Strength & Conditioning - George Courides

 

52 minutes ago, Dave_Glaser said:

Odd that he was committed to FAU. He was reporting MAJOR offers - but maybe none of them ended up commitable?

 

That usually has something to do with academics.

2 hours ago, Skingraft said:

Matt Birkett Named Cornerbacks Coach For USF Football - USF Athletics

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Brings 16 years of experience to USF.

Not a great resume at all. Let's hope he's better than his resume suggests

 

 

The 25 year old O-line coach? Yeah, his eye-sore lack of experience is worrisome. Oh wait, you mean the QB Coach/passing game coordinator? Yeah, seems like the ISU fanbase is glad we took him away. Oh wait, you mean the D-Coordinator? Yeah it seems like the FAU fanbase hated him. Oh wait, you mean...

Kidding, kidding. 

Btw, I'm joking. Let's give Coach Go the benefit of the doubt. I hope his work-a-holic nature rubs off on the rest of the program from all the coaches down to the players and waterboy. GBs.

I'll just leave this here. Prepare yourselves, everyone. Have a fantastic day :).