Danm1983

UCF tailgate will be at Fletcher Wal-Mart

lol what?

Saw Mike in Zaxby's on Waters last week, with I'm assuming another player. He ordered chicken, and was wearing a Mastrole Passing Academy shirt. His hair was parted to the left. He was in good spirits (likely due to anticipation of enjoying delicious Zax sauce). This is about as good as my journalism will get.

Useful as in we could have a hole cut in the side fencing of it over Fowler so infuriated fans could jump to end their misery after the team goes 2-10 again? I'm sure some forum members would make good use of this, probably a good sponsorship opportunity.

Should be good then, only need four OOC games now.

if anything, our marketing and athletic dept look like they know what they're doing for once.

Because St Pete's leadership (kudos to the new mayor being less of an arsehole than the last guy, but ultimately the council is the judge in this decision) are holding on to the fact they think they'll be able to get some magic bank vault full of coins to Scrooge McDuck backstroke through to allow the rays to LOOK to leave. Yes, the Rays and MLB and sports owners in general are good at pulling the wool over the eyes of municipalities in order to get Joe Schmoe to pay for his grand stadium build, the St Pete leadership seems at times like they'd rather the Rays move out of the area than concede the fact that moving to Tampa would likely save the franchise from bolting away to [insert popular destination in need of MLB here]. Supposedly last time, the Rays were not offering enough in incentives if they were to find a suitable Tampa location, specifically in helping to cover the costs of demolition to the Trop...I can see where St. Pete would like the Rays to pay a few million dollars to turn the Trop into a nice piece of property to entice future property owners to buy...the Trop is built fairly low around that creek, and just the design has a lot of multi-level going on, so I can see where filling the sloping parking lot and stadium site with a LOT of fill would be expensive. Expanding downtown/Central Avenue area would be good for St. Pete, as they seem to be going for a hip, cultural, artsy type of downtown. I have heard Jabil, a big sponsor of the Rays, also would love the Trop site. The Rays aren't staying past 2027 regardless, so St. Pete really isn't going to get very far demanding a bunch of money if they move "as if they never did"...that's on St. Pete to deal with, and it's not like millions of people going to Rays games are staying in Pinellas hotels, as it's a fairly local fan base. That's my take. The population density in many of the Tampa areas should more than keep the current attendance figures and might help boost them during the weekdays, when they really do struggle with people trying to get out of work and manage some traffic to get to the Trop. Traffic is inevitable in a region that isn't very effective at public transportation.

we're only allowed to have 3-4 good teams at a time. women's hoops is good, soccer is good, tennis/track something is good...baseball is improving, therefore the Rule of USF states that softball must suck now.

Naming a starter now or later won't matter if Taggart gets trigger happy and pulls him in the 3rd quarter against FAMU because he's struggling...

Best of luck to White. I wonder if he gave any thought to staying and joining baseball, or if USFs baseball team is full, or he still just wants to stick with football? He could probably find a nice landing zone in a SunBelt or C-USA type school. Don't know if he would be allowed to hit up another AAC school.

Watched most of the second half. I didn't see much that was over the top, but seemed like the running game and defense had some flashes. Qb play seemed ok w Flowers, jury is out.

2nd rounder, skill set of the 2-3 above him is too good to pass up, kid's fast though, would be a great deep threat on certain teams

give it a year, seems very promising at this point for once. conference play is where i'm really hoping they can make some noise. obviously ucf and uconn are really solid teams, but usf should be pushing for top 3 in conference every year imo

Rooting for Dayton at this point, but all roads lead to UCONN. I'd have been okay if USF lost to UCONN in the Elite 8, means we would've gotten there, but not one part of me thinks Louisville loses to the Huskies by less than 15-20. USF likely doesn't beat UCONN for the 4th try this year, but I think we would've kept it to a 2-7 point margin at the end. That alone (our play vs UCONN) should warrant some preseason love, if the voters open up their **** eyes.

Ferreira in particular, but some of the girls needs to work on their passing and the use of pass fakes and not being telegraphs. Also, I know it may be a scheme thing and certain players do not dribble well, but why do some players (men and women) take a pass or hand off and not dribble? Then they start to panic when there are no wide open passes and they end up committing a turnover. That's frustrating, was the reason for at least 6 Louisville points last night.

This is the Occam's Razor, agreed.

So does Flowers' issues with long balls raise red flags, or is the offense being tailored to be more spread and utilize our speed and athleticism to garner YAC, and still provide some midrange passing pop to keep the running game effective in chunks? I know we're nothing like Oregon, but Mariota isn't a deep ball cannon arm either, so if QF is even 10% of Mariota's ability and the staff is utilizing him and tailoring this "spread" offense around him a little, then let's go with it. At the least, we could dink, dunk and run our way down the field and win time of possession. The problem with that is the red zone may be harder to score six in because we are a short passing spread team, but we may also excel better since we won't be known as that team who runs or bombs it and then can't get the final 5-10 yards when the defensive zone is tiny and easier to defend. Winning some ToP and putting points on the board is a start (hopefully someone fills in for Kloss decently), then we'll see if the defense can help us out. Those things coming together, hey we might win 5-6 games.

I'm hoping to make it to the spring game, but even that is an uneven assessment since they're still playing against our defense. though perhaps this year with the new DC and supposed attacking/aggressive 4-2-5, the defense will look better. catch 22, if offense does well in spring, defense sucks, and vice versa. i'll be looking for execution and fundamentals, hopefully they translate to the games that matter in September.

But you're a millionaire, hotel owning, philanthropist. Those who truly have the big money, never talk about it.

I have high doubts he would have had USF dancing anyways, who knows if defections happen or not (probably some still would). And who knows if he somehow had gotten USF turned around to get some miracle dance bid, if he would stick around longer than a year or two before running off to an ACC or Big Ten job or something?

Pitching in softball is crucial. Lost Sara Nevins. Girl behind her is still solid, just not as ace it seems. Could just be a slow start too, perhaps they'll mop up in conference.

At this point, does running through the conference tournament and having another [edit - quality] loss to highly seeded UCONN (perhaps by an even smaller margin this time [wishful thinking]) help the team's cause to get a better seed in the dance, or would only beating UCONN (or whomever if somehow UCONN was upset [not happening]) and winning the AAC help?

**** move, **** him. clearly wasn't the guy.

Wouldn't have to get a reduction for UCFers, they're used to taking the big ones.

Airfield was a ww2 thing, so by 56 when USF started out, it was already shut down and there were industries on the property. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/FL/Airfields_FL_TampaN.htm#henderson