Danm1983

At least his tires didn't get slashed.

lol whambulance

the UCF defense was good but the #s were inflated bc of the schedule. You guys and SMU's offense helped that ranking There are a lot of rumors going around that a few more assistants are on the way out. O'leary should have retired after the Fiesta Bowl on the highest note so the next staff can get long term commitments. From the outside, this doesn't look good for UCF. What's your take? In the short term it's easy for USF fans to want UCF to struggle, but I think long term success for both teams is best for both programs. Hope you guys figure it out. I'm worried to be honest. O'leary seems like the type that will overstay his welcome and like I said last season would have been the perfect time for him to walk away. The frustrating part is that GOL seems to neglect the recruiting side of things so while Summers had a few hiccups with x&os , he's made up for it by being one of the few player's coaches on this staff that had a chance to be one of the best recruiters. It's going to be hard to have a good recruiting class with GOL and a bunch of his old fart friends that he brings in for a season or 2 Next year may end up being an 8-4 type of year. The offense may get better (Worton is gone I think, Perriman is back, right?), but the defense may get worse with youth, but with how GOL coaches, I could see the team starting out slow again, and the last 4-5 games may get it together. Honestly, I'm curious what type of interest would be in the UCF job if GOL left. With the recent successes, it could attract some quality P5 coordinators or recent coaches who have taken a year or two off and looking to get back in the game. On the other hand, whereas a school like Boise lost a coach or two and has had continued success, GOL not being a "young" coach looking for a better job may end up backfiring in the end. While it's great for the stability of the program over the last ten years, if he wears out his welcome and recruiting and other aspects suffer, UCF may have to endure an era of rebuilding (hopefully not as bad as USF's), but then that all depends on the future hire, and it's somewhat a crapshoot these days. Just wonder if the Mario Cristobal types would be looking to jump on UCF, or if they'd end up hoping to hire the next young coach on his way up to bigger and better things. At least the facilities and investments are there to lure in someone decent.

Lateral, but I bet that buyout money doesn't hurt (from UF for McElwain). Looks like Summers was a GA under Bobo, so there's a personal connection. UCF was losing some pretty good personnel this year anyways, their defense was really good, kept them in games. Maybe that DB coach moves up to DC now (seeing UCF DBs get burned during the year makes me not want their DB coach).

Revisit this next year when holtz is in year three and has his guys playing.

Dummies guide to how bowl games work. Chapter 1...

Horseshoe. Good luck. And instant access to field level. I think it would depend on location. Certain parts of campus would be nice to have horseshoe open to, but being it's likely to be oriented north-south, who knows. If it were in the area of the Greek housing north of the practice fields, leaving the 'shoe open to the south wouldn't be terrible, gives view of SunDome, other areas. I'd likely choose bowl. Better initial spread without resorting to upper decks, better noise acoustics, and usually you see horseshoe designs with a nice building at the open end, don't think USF is going to angle for that setup, already have the LRS. Building materials aside, open bowl such as FIU/UCF/FSU is nice, some upper seats are a bit far away from action compared to an upper deck that might be closer but higher, but it's a wash really. In a way though, I do like the design of the FAU stadium, it's a bit open, could definitely help with some breezes during warmer times (could give kicking games a fun twist).

Technically, the area Vinik is developing isn't that big of a tract in the grand scheme. The crown jewel of the area is the ConAgra flour mill. It employs 35 people but runs 24/7 and pumps out a million and a half tons of flour every day. THAT is your future baseball/soccer/stadium site, if there ever was to be on in the downtown area. The company is open to relocating their mill, possibly down near the ports southeast of downtown, where rail access is available and necessary, but it's not an overnight process. Were that to ever get done, that land would be quite valuable, not just as a stadium site, but possibly for more commercial and residential buildings. Vinik-ville may take up to 10 years to complete, and by that time, if the area between Meridian and downtown is available, expect that to get gobbled up - Tampa's downtown will look entirely different in 10-15 years. edit - and none of this has much to do with USF other than the new Health and Heart Institute going up across the street from the Channelside Towers/Aja.

If we build an OCS, I'm pretty sure we're going to use it for its entire lifecycle, which will be significantly longer than 30 years, I hope. The Yale Bowl turns 100 this year I'm thinking 50 years minimum with planned renovations/maintenance once or twice in there (@ 20 and 40 years). Design and materials have come a long way, I guess it depends at what point would the operational costs start to rise (25-30 years and beyond?) to warrant something else, but who knows state of program at that point. That coupled with the fact it won't be as large as RJS, and upkeep would be different entirely.

I would surely hope you sell out being a short driving distance and having many alumni living in the bay area.

Too bad they can't renegotiate and lower the rent and consider the upper bowl invisible. I have to imagine not having more people (yes, I know many are volunteers) and security in the 3rd levels would help a little bit, and having 41,441 capacity is about what USF would need in an OCS - would almost give them a sample capacity to do a study on. If the team returned to winning and the stadium only held 41K, they could really see how often they could pack it (I would also change the student section from 12,501 down to say, 8,000 or whatever fits along the lower 100 sections, and keep the band in the middle of them to free up that north east corner section). Even if they didn't lower the rent, I'd love to see that as an experiment next year to see how fans react and if the atmosphere improves (granted, the team has to win and bring in more fans). Edit - perhaps an agreement could be in place to have upper bowls available for the FSU game coming up, otherwise I don't think they'd need to expand for any games (possibly the UCF game in 2016 if USF is drawing fans to fill the lower bowl).

one game sample size with terrible coaching and O-lines. better write that one down in sharpie, nostradamus.

I definitely chuckled watching the tubby kid belly-out the tall kid.

He's talking about football - st pete bitcoin bowl. i don't care. both teams essentially blew us out at home. if 'good' jacoby brissett shows up, it's a good game. if not, it's an easy win for ucf.

A 12 team playoff this year (top 4 get 1st round byes) would have been pretty awesome: #1 Alabama plays winner of #12 GA Tech and #5 Baylor #4 Ohio State plays winner of #9 Ole Miss and #8 Michigan State #2 Oregon plays winner of #6 TCU and #11 Kansas State (rematch, who cares) #3 FSU plays winner of #10 Arizona and #7 Mississippi State Even if they flipped the seedings of K State and Arizona to keep the matchups from being rematches, they're good games. I would like this setup. Even an 8 team would be fun as hell. Doing the math, even if they did a 16 team playoff, out of 128 FBS teams, that's the top 12.5%.

Have fun with your BYU rematch in Miami. I'm sure you'll get two fumbles in a ten second stretch, or a non call pass interference, or some other dumb **** to win. Also, co champs, that was common in the big east. Yeah we didn't get one, but no one is talking about you this year. This years Boise is....BOISE. LOL ok, back to drinking.

Paul Bryant, Jr. is what JD Alexander is modeling himself after...

I don't think they were all football recruits, it never stated so in the tweet. They bring in recruits for other sports to showcase the student atmosphere and what sports can be like (unfortunately, taking them to football is the worst atmosphere out of the major sports). I saw a retweet of a kid who seemed like a baseball player (could be dual sport, but whatever), so it's possible some of them were coming in for hoops or baseball or something else, and that was the sporting event they were able to come witness (possible some of them were around for the basketball games too?).

Seems like cooper goes as his DC goes. Isn't it Jon Chavis at LSU, aggressive and good. Schwann and his DC, crappy. Bresnahan, crappy, er, well whatever. Cooper seems like a guy who if he got a shot at DC would play man to man and have fierce DBs. Seems he is at the mercy of Bresnahan and his Cosh/Snyder cushion schemes.

Yup, came from Jacksonville State, a good FCS team, and whom had an upset of one of the Mississippi schools. Also, **** Alabama for forcing this on UAB.

Willies answer, while not the PC as some want it to be (I like it), could be correct. Don't model after UCF, model after Stanford or Alabama. Yeah we're not in big conference and don't get those recruits, but he wants a program with that success. UCF has some success, who knows if it will be sustained. In ten years it could be flipped again and USF writers could be saying where's the smug and etc. cyclical. Also, who reads the papers? Lol

It was ranked almost as low as USF's till they put up points on Tulsa and SMU. The UCF offense despite the oline problems is more talented than USF's but as jdbash mentioned GOL refuses to give up on the power runs off tackle that just hasn't worked all season. It's averaged something pathetic like 2 ypc but GOL will usually stick with it too long till the offense is forced to spread it out and just let Holman sling it to a very talented WR group. Also UCF at home for whatever reason just plays on another level, they dropped 53 on SMU but I bet if that game was in Dallas it would have been a 24-10 type game...yes home field helps every team but with this UCF group it seems even more tilted At least you guys can win a game at home that isn't in a deluge. 6-0 is impressive, would love to return to the era where USF home games are a good time and a good chance at a win.

Not worth your time, save the brain cells. Your own fans are good for that. I guess both fan bases are still in the maturing phase. I think the 4 years off helped temper the original angsty teen vibe it had. Those first four games were retarded when it came to the fans on both sides, lol

I haven't seen that phrase posted for a while lol because lately it's been USiF lol /now i'm sad

USF defense way worse this year, UCF offense not as good this year. So the recipe is there for this to still be somewhat close due to the emotions and USF trying to get one more win/end the year on a high note/etc etc etc, but I think UCF will manage to get some big plays just because, and unless USF gets some breakout success on offense, the end score will not be as close as the game was probably.