Oldsmobull

There are many college athletes who have the talent to play multiple sports, but now days most sports take an all year commitment and it is difficult to do more than one sport in college. In the old days for instance Jackie Robison played football, basketball, baseball, and track and field at UCLA...he was national college champ in long jump...baseball was maybe his worst sport.

In fairness to Aaron Lynch...he looked good at game. He's big, he's quick, he's agile...he's going to do a lot of damage to opposing teams. I wouldn't want to be a quarterback with him chasing me. I'm glad he's a Bull!

It was pretty funny the White Team guy dumping PowerAde ice bucket on coach at end of 3rd period thinking it was the end of game. He slinked back to bench after realizing he was off by a quarter left in game and he sorta sank down into bench and tried to camouflage himself and disappear. Good fun...the team should give him a new nickname like 'Ice Bucket'.

One thing interesting about Applefield is that his school, Weeki Wachee HS, is only a couple of years old...its first class of seniors graduates this spring. The football program is next to new, not very established...Applefield is maybe kinda flying under the radar with college scouts and could be a sleeper. http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1494999/#highlights/29689377

6' 7', 270 lbs. Rutgers apparently just offered him. USF is talking to Marcus too. Apples shouldn't fall too far from the tree... Weeki Wachee is just 60 minute drive to USF. Rutgers is still sniffing around in USF's backyard for football recruits! http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2013/04/rutgers_recruiting_rutgers_off_5.html

Nothing really wrong with new American Athletic Conference name. The AAC should do something big every 4th of July to help promote itself nationally.

The only money making college sports are the ones shown on TV with paying advertisers.

No one will ever confuse AAC with ACC...not!

The I-4 corridor is destined to grow and develop much like southern California. Too bad the bullet train wasn't allowed to be built between Tampa Bay and Orlando.

What is House Speaker Weatherford smoking thinking USF Poly could maybe hookup with Stanford or MIT? I'm sure MIT engineers want to build a pipeline to funnel millions of dollars to a bottomless sinkhole in Lakeland. UF would probably like to get the Lakeland school...UF is built out in Gainesville and UF is always looking for sources of additional revenue, turning Fl Poly into a UF branch/diploma factory would fit the bill for UF. Fl Poly should be shut down and turned back over to USF or even Polk State College before giving the Lakeland setup to UF.

Going from FGCU to USC/L.A. is a heck of a lot bigger leap than Kent State to Fayetteville!

"Somebody gotta problem with pinkys?"

A few years ago when the Steelers were using USF's football fields practicing for Super Bowl, my kid's friend and her visiting mom were taking shortcut through the woods in back of old practice fields when security guards stopped them because the mom had a video camera in her hand. The mom wasn't using camera to film Steelers, she just happened to innocently be walking by to get somewhere else on campus with her daughter and was carrying the video camera. The security guards scared the baloney out of the mom and treated her like she was some kind of dirt bag spy filming Steeler secrets. The mom ended up giving them whatever video recording cassette was in her camera and then she and her daughter got the heck out of the woods by the practice field.

The USF campus is over 1000 acres in area...there's plenty of room to run off the track with its expensive surface that USF can't afford to have people drag racing on. USF's parking garages' ramps are great for hill work running!

USF I'd bet has thousands of graduates who have over $1 million in assets...add them together and you're over a $1 billion. What's more important than how many billionaire alumni USF has is number of alumni cracking their checkbooks open and writing checks to USF.

The track on campus for USF's track and field team was built as a joint project with the local Hillsborough county school board. Local high schools use the USF track for meets regularily. USF is pretty good about working with community's kids, but some fields have to be fenced so they don't get vandalized, etc.

The Alico Company donated the land for the FGCU campus. JD Alexander, who pushed for the creation of Florida Folly Univ, is CEO I think of Alico today. Ben Hill Griffin started Alico. UF's football stadium is named after BHG? http://alicoland.com/history.html Florida Folly is having a really tough time getting off the ground since independence/split from USF last year and since JD isn't in office with the state's checkbook in his back pocket anymore. Fl legislative leaders are maybe getting ready to turn off state funding faucet for Florida Folly and the school could end up back in the USF fold.

USF doesn't need to go to the extreme of hiring a new bkb coach, maybe just hire FGCU's Coach Enfield's former Victoria's Secret super model wife as USF's new official team mom..she's hot! I know I'd play my best on the court wanting to look good if she were sitting behind the bench watching during a game!

Good for FGCU...they had everything in high gear against Georgetown last night. I'll be rooting for them in rest of tourney, but that sure doesn't mean I've abandoned the USF Bulls. The FGCU campus located way east of Ft. Myers and I-75 is isolated out in the everglades and they probably do get a lot of wild animals on campus...and I don't mean freshmen. The beach at FGCU is an old rock mining quarry...walk a few feet into the water and it probably drops right off to 100 ft deep in the water! Couldn't help laughing when TV announcers described FGCU working out of trailers only a few short years ago...I've heard of that somewhere else before.

I'm sure there are student-athletes at USF with ADD or ADHD. The Athletic Dept. has a lot of resources in place to help them and other student-athletes succeed academically. Academic advisors in the athletic dept help them, there are tutors, the athletic building has a study room, many of the kids have mandatory study hall if needed, professors send reports to the athletic dept that the student-athletes are attending class, etc. Too, those with ADD or ADHD who might need any special prescribed medications get them with assistance and supervision of affiliated athletic dept. doctors The tools are already in place at USF to help these kids do well with school work and work toward graduating. Last fall/summer of the approx 3750 new freshmen enrolled at USF less than 2% came in with high school GPAs of less than 3.00 and only 00.1% had GPAs less than 2.50...this included new student-athletes. The kids being admitted to USF now are bright, including the athletes. If an athlete has ADHD he/she can succeed at USF if they have a track record of proven effort in the classroom while in high school or transferring from another college. http://usfweb3.usf.edu/infocenter/Surveys/cds/CDS2012_2013_Tampa.pdf

There are almost 500 USF student-athletes doing varsity sports at USF. For the most part they all work hard at their school work and they don't deserve to be libeled as poor students. The athletic dept. and USF's academic committee that oversees academics for student-athletes I think do a tremendous job getting the kids through school working toward degrees at USF. Many of the student-athletes are outstanding students in the classroom and go on to success in the real world. Academics now in the USF Athletic dept. are stronger and better than ever.

Odds are both USF and FSU will never be AAU members. USF I think even has attainment of AAU membership in its official mission or vision statements. Striving toward standards of AAU is right for USF, but actually getting invited in as an AAU member involves luck and the right alignment of the stars too--it kinda just happens. Georgia Tech didn't get invited until just a few years ago. USF can strive for AAU membership, but USF may never get in as member. USF has applied for a Phi Beta Kappa chapter numerous times and has always been denied PBK membership. USF has to keep swinging though for both Phi Beta Kappa and AAU memberships; USF will be a better university even if it never becomes a member of either simply by doing the things it needs to do to improve. Not a big deal im my opinion if we never get in AAU...lots of outstanding universities and colleges are not AAU members.

It's never too early in the day to have a beer when you're talking about conference realignment...circumstances allow it.

I'll get some of those fenders when my ship comes in. Or, you could get 'em now and hang them from your kitchen ceiling as St. Patrick's Day green sausages.

Kinda like USF Fighting "Androgynous Bulls."