Danm1983

it doesn't, but still allowed to throw my pipe dreams out there since everyone else is.

Ruffin McNeill, or some random coach from a C-USA/Sunbelt team that has had like ONE year of success (i.e. Todd Berry at UL-Monroe if he has a decent season this year). Why? Because this is USF, they don't make splashy hires, and they don't make good hires. At least not in the sports that count. Accept it. I really have no pipe dream coordinators to offer up. I think the next coach needs to be defensive minded though. I think it's much easier to bring in a guy focused on defense, and offensive coordinators are much easier to come by.

There is some guy named Milo who calls just about every single show I've listened to. Is he on here? Guy is pretty knowledgeable, some of the callers are okay. some of them are plain whacko. also, i'm not really sold on gary shelton. the guy is kind of annoying and he isn't really good at arguing. i also am disliking that 98.7 seems to have some sort of hang-up rule in place where they won't argue out a point if a caller isn't being psycho, they end up just cutting them off. i know justin pawlowski wasn't that bad before, but they hang up on everyone it seems.

Usf fans should show up w bags over their heads

I agree, this is also why the media was wanting to hype us a little this year (not #1, but #2 in many preseason expectations). they see the close games from last year, they see the seniors, they see the development in SOME areas, and they expect that this team should be better than last year and close out games and execute. while it's still too early to say we haven't, seeing the first three games shows some of us that it might not be happening. and i don't get the program age argument some are saying. yes, we're not able to afford certain coaches, but that doesn't mean we can't find one who can develop players and put a winning game plan in place. i think most people aren't frustrated that we lost, or that it was on a thursday...to rutgers....again. i think that most people are hoping things would just click for this team and we'd be better this year, in every phase. no one expected BJ to be a heisman candidate, or usf to win a national championship....national championships are so difficult to come by, it's part luck that the SEC has gotten it so many times as of late. most people are just hoping things click and they see the play on the field and you can just tell that it's not going to light switch into a badass team that goes 9-3 or better this year, and that's what is frustrating - the hope in sight may never get here.

not that they're 5-7, but seeing them play is indicative of how they'll end up. first game was alright, second game was pretty bad but due to circumstances of travel and the offense they faced, third game was just flat and uninspiring. this weekend's game will be tantamount to how well this team can bounce back from failure. and then next week is another test. and it doesn't get any easier from there on out.

hug it out

Right, and lets be honest she isn't the epitome of cool, especially with the video's targeted audience. i just feel like the university is bigger than her, she doesn't need to be in the videos. usf's videos always seem like they have pieces that are really cool, but they still have an element of trying too hard.

i agree. i think she's a great university president, but she seems to be a spotlight/camera hog sometimes. the tv ad irks me for some reason. perhaps she's trying to come off all hip and cool, but i think her delivering a couple of phrases in a serious tone would be better.

I've seen the BULL5 one.

i agree our defense needs some help, but people acting like holtz will go anywhere anytime soon is nuts, they just extended him and i'm sure his buyout is beyond our means right now. and if they did buy him out, no money left over for any sort of good coordinator or coach. usf's bar of standard is set to 6-6, and not even on a yearly basis. if we go 7-5 one year and 4-8 the next, as long as we vary from 4-8 to 7-5, that's "good enough" for woolard and this university.

thing is, i hardly ever hear anyone rag on the BHN stadium except USF fans and the occasional bitter East Carolina/Southern Miss fan, or the always-insultive Miami fan. Announcers always bring it up that the stadium is rockin' or bouncin', but usually they think it's neat. I've been there, and while it does shake (the cameras shake more than the stadium does - someone could fix the mounts/tripods), it doesn't feel unsafe or even cheap. It may LOOK kinda cheap, but if you can fill it up, who the hell cares? FTR, texas A&M's press boxes are pretty high up, and they have warnings that when the students lock arms and do their swaying back and forth, their whole stadium moves a little and the press tower will actually feel like an earthquake. i guess they must have terrible stadium too...

hate doing so, but i'll play this game. ball state. (they did beat indiana last night for the 2nd time, fyi)....we win. but it will be closer than last year. probably like 38-27. fsu. even with us sammiched between clemson and nc state....it's likely to be about 48-17. we're better than wake forest (are we tho? could we beat them?), but fsu might actually be legit with their ranking this year. temple. we'll win this one but it will be one of those games where we all have heart palpitations for a few days. 23-21 with a classic case of "playing down". louisville - teddy heisman is already good, and their young defense is solid and will be even better. they'll be amped for this game. we lose 28-16. syracuse - same as the temple game but at home. classic homecoming nooner with crappy fan support and abysmally boring play. usf wins 20-10. uconn - rutgers 2.0. their defense is likely as good or better than rutgers. their offense is likely as bad or worse than rutgers, but we'll make them look like studs. a good ole shoot-yourself-in-the-foot, hair-pulling game where uconn comes back in the early 4th quarter to win 17-13. miami - somehow we'll pull this game out, it will be an overall solid performance, but unfortunately too little too late for anything other than some bragging rights and further deluding miami's relevancy....usf 31-20. cincinnati - usf somehow pulls this one out and both defenses have stellar days. munchie legeaux is cincinnati's BJ daniels (calling it now). usf 24-20. pitt - defense gets gashed by ray graham and rushel shell, we make sunseri look like a heisman contender, but pitt makes some key errors and "the less deserving team will win"....usf 19-16. field goal fest. by that count, we finish 8-4 much to the surprise of everyone. we even finish 4-3 in conference. but yet again we fall short of the ultimate goal. louisville plays FSU in the orange bowl and USF ends up in the birmingham bowl (BBVA now?) playing Vanderbilt. who knows if we win that or not.

i think this thread is more of a realistic wish list. we all know it's gonna take $300+ million and 10-15 years....AT THE LEAST. they have just rebuilt the entire athletics. an indoor practice facility is next, and is pretty small ($12-15 million) compared to the other big projects. then comes the OCS (someday). at least the indoor facility will benefit multiple sports, so it will improve recruiting and practices across the board. and the last time some of us stood up and started yelling at people to get up and be loud (not even using obscenities), we either got the "shut up, meg" annoyed stare, or the blank stare of obliviousness. or no stares and just people ignoring us. i know some people have been "recommended" to cease their actions by the blueshirts or the armed guards....

agreed. people like to also ***** about having to walk across campus with an OCS....at UCF, you had to do it. but you got to see their campus (and for those who hated UCF they had a great excuse to "see it" as they'd never step foot on there otherwise). the walk across campus might be slightly longer than walking from the back of the farthest RJS parking lot, btw. we sound like a bunch of fat people who can't stand walking very far or standing very long... i still think we could bang out a 50K seat stadium. even if it didn't sell out, it'd likely have bench seating and wouldn't be red. filling it with 35-40K wouldn't look so bad as 30-40K in a 65K capacity. one side would have press box/suites, and club area below it - and be designed for an upper deck above it at some point. opposite side would be all seating with ability to add suites and an upper deck later on if needed. having a full lower bowl like UCF or others (not just the 100's section like RJS does) will not only keep the noise in, but it will allow them to build a 50K seat stadium without having to even touch upper decks probably.

bench seats do wonders for fanbases. just sayin'. there isn't 15K in the corridors. stop smoking crack. maybe 1500. bucs games don't have this problem, they may have people standing along the endzone decks but they're still watching the games. usf can't even get the people sitting down in the seats with good views to pay attn. we had 2 skanks come sit down, take pictures of themselves and leave. then came back 2-3 rows lower. one girl stared at the floor while she clapped and probably didn't know why she was even clapping. this is college. there shouldn't even BE a club level. suites for boosters, and maybe a small club area (like touchdown terrace at UF) where the tier of boosters and alums below the suite ballers can go during halftime for some air conditioning and nicer food. the rest of the club stuff should be blown up. come to the game, cheer loud, or gtfo. there's tons of universities out there who could afford padded, heating reclining seats for 80,000, but they don't. why? because students dont need seat backs (at least most of ours are standing all the time anyways). if you're old, bring the collapsable seat backs that hook onto the bench. season ticket holders will get permanent ones automatically. club areas between the 30 yard lines in ONE section get seat backs and those are for diehard premium season ticket holders. half of our club sections at ray jay are sold to fans of opposing teams if they're not filled by season tickets. the expectation for an on campus stadium should be and will be no more than 50K capacity. expectation at big east conference games should be MINIMUM 40,000 ACTUAL. period. even on weeknight games (exclusions for any future Thursdays since we never win that night). this less than 30K stuff is unacceptable. FSU will sell out for obvious reasons. the next game....syracuse...probably a nooner, and they might even beat us again....i'd be surprised if we break 25K actual that day.

i was going off last night about how pregame and intro, as well as how almost EVERYTHING is handled during games should be scrapped. even up to the PA announcer. i feel embarrassed. i can understand USF isn't full of traditions, but that doesn't mean we need to force so much cheesy stuff into it. even our students are bush league when they don't have any good chants besides u-s-f or the south fl south fl goooo bulls every 5 minutes. they gotta come up with something better.

I like how they made that stupid projectile excuse when if you threw an inflatable flamingo, it has the flight pattern of a weighted feather.... yet they give out a billion "go bulls" handheld banners and by the 2nd quarter the north endzone was getting riddled with excellently engineered paper airplanes.

i saw the one dead center on the south end zone. i realized tonight that usf sucks as a program. the atmosphere at games is so ****** i'm not coming back for a while. the on field product is obviously bad, but even being right next to the band, all i heard was old crappy recycled hip hop, terrible student body awareness of when to SHUT THE F_CK UP, when to stand, when to get loud, they do that cheesy fast u-s-f chant all the time, because we have no **** other traditions to take hold of. hoardes of people are bored, i found myself on my phone for probably 40% of the game, and i usually hate hard on people that do that. i looked up and we actually were driving in the 3rd quarter. i'd love for there to be some initiative by the students, but they have no 'yell leaders' or anything. there's no pep rallies to teach students how to act and chant. i guess rjs and tsa will be nazis and kill off any thoughts about flamingoes and beaches...sad.

maybe u could smuggle one out of busch gardens.

i guess there has to be a way for me to pitch this to student government or whomever markets this stuff. get the students to come out in force and it could take off and be a rowdy beach party. plus, hot chicks on TV would be a cheaper recruiting tool for both athletes and normal students than "hostesses" are lol. plus, the beach theme could easily carry over into the sundome for basketball season, and it would be hella louder in there. imagine the blow up palm trees and such packing the whole floor to ceiling of the sundome...one can dream. beach theme + this idea = something like this

I could actually get behind the movement if they started referring to the USF Student Section as "The Beach." If they could get blow up palm trees, beach balls, and flamingos in there, it would be pretty awesome - just as long as TSA doesn't get all nazi and start confiscating/popping them. With 12,501 students, if they filled it up and there were even 10 palm trees and 15-20 flamingoes, I'd be okay with it - at that point it wouldn't be war flamingo, because that's just f_cking gay, but it would be a whole theme, and students could start wearing hawaiian shorts with their bulls shirts, girls could start wearing bikini tops (fatties gtfo), and maybe wear those cheesy bright colored sunglasses. THAT as a WHOLE would be pretty cool....but also as long as they kept the party theme to between plays and such so they still paid attention to the game. edit - plus a beach theme kinda makes the whole giant pirate ship not seem so out of place.

Points of interest: Notre Dame's NBC contract is up in 2014, when the new playoffs start, and those are designed to exclude people like ND who aren't part of the conferences that are supposed to have a shot. Notre Dame is going to play 5 teams from the ACC...for the 2013 season if they pony up and get out of the BE...or for no seasons if they get out in 2014. What I see happening is that Notre Dame pays the $5 million, maybe a little more than that to get out just under 27 months (July 1, 2014 is closer to 22-21 months), and will end up being a full ACC football member. They'll take advantage of the BCS setup for 2013 and ride it out, then in 2014, they go full ACC. Assuming the ACC decides to have a 9 game conference schedule, ND will be left with 3 spots to play it's perennial games with Navy, Stanford, Michigan, Michigan State, and Purdue, and Army/Air Force. I expect them to either keep the yearly game with Michigan and/or Navy, and the rest get thrown into rotation. ND will be forced to join the ACC, as the new playoff and them being unable to get in without a conference championship isn't gonna cut it. They are already playing Pitt yearly. Maybe the ACC will reshuffle it's divisions to suit ND's needs? At that point, Louisville, UConn, and Rutgers are on the target list as team 16. If it's UConn or Rutgers, UL, UC, and USF become major targets of the big 12 looking to get back to 12..or possibly 14. Rutgers could end up on the big 10 radar once again. the big east is the only store left to shop at with decent pricing, as everyone else will follow suit with the ACC and jack up their exit fees. here's to hoping they pick up UConn or Rutgers, and UL and USF are lucky enough to get invites to play on the great plains.

man how i hope that would happen lol. although i don't know how good we would be playing Texas, OK, OK State, etc year in and year out. Hell we'd be Iowa State in terms of competitiveness lol. yes and no. i mean, we struggle as it is now with the f;cking big east and can't win the conference. i wouldn't think usf is going to be a yearly top 1-2 team in the big [actual] 12, but they would always be competitive. we'd still get to play west virginia and louisville, possibly two of USF's REAL rivalries that have been borne over the last decade. and the big money alone would be great to help with recruiting, marketing, facilities (cue OCS thread), etc. plus, getting a few poundings from real teams (and not **** teams like pitt and uconn) like oklahoma and texas will toughen this program up. either catch up or bottom feed, and i don't think usf is willing to allow themselves that option. play the better teams to be the better team.

if anything, it could potentially help USF's stance if the Big 12 ever came calling. They would very much like that Florida foothold, and adding USF and Louisville would bridge the gap to WVU and have that FL spot. USF wouldn't have any closer games than normal, but I'd definitely jump at a chance to play with a higher quantity of "big boy" programs, and flights to Texas > flights to snowy northeast.