Gismo

For me it’s Rutgers in 2007. Not even close. I was at a watch party with about 30 people and man that loss was brutal. I was also a student and we just came off the high of beating WVU in a full Raymond James (I camped overnight for tickets with hundreds of other students for tickets). The nature of that season, the experience as a student, the excitement and the let down. No other season will come close to that unique fan experience of being the underdog who rose to the top. To actually be in the running for the national championship game… if I could extend the high and excitement with a win over Rutgers I would.

This reporter is about ten days behind.

Also, Bama can sleep walk through our match up. literally the most winning programming of late against the most losing program. a USF win is only possible with divine intervention. What insurance companies refer to as an “Act of God”.

Wow, the offense really does reset in the blink of eye! Never seen anything like it, can’t wait to see our new offense.

Unfortunately Brett McMurphy is the only reliable source in this mess.

If there is any lesson here it’s that academics don’t matter.

You don’t see it? Stanford and it’s billions in endowments are buying the votes by taking less money.

How about the AAC teams and the MWC teams just black ball the orphaned PAC teams for a year or two? this coast to coast conference talk makes zero sense. Is a hardship on everyone except for football revenue. I really wish the world didn’t revolve around money all the time.

They will be the same when they lose the old PAC money and USF gets new merger money

I don’t think USF makes sense just because of geography. What would this new conference look like?

Confused what is being proposed exactly. 1) is this a proposal for the PAC teams to join the American? What happens to PAC brand? 2). Is this just a proposal for a scheduling arrangement between PAC and AAC with no teams changing conferences? 3). Is it a proposal for teams to leave the American to join the PAC?

Build Wins. Build a trophy collection. Build a list of NFL draft pics. These things we can measure. But how do I measure culture?

Thank you for this insight!!!

This years schedule is truly depressing. I must say, this is a new low since losing Houston, Cincy, and UCF. Our thanksgiving game is Charlotte who I never even heard of until I checked the schedule this morning. I’m not convinced some of the additions to the conference really increase the value. Any coach we have should be able to dominate our conference simply with better athletes with our recruiting location. Admin needs to be all in on building up our fanbase from the existing students and the OCS. An increased fanbase and TV viewers is our only way to up our revenue either by AAC media rights or hoping to a conference with higher revenue. This is why the Big12 took UCF, they’re way larger with more engaged fans and students. More viewers.

The weekday curse.

Hard to beat the troll rigging on display here.

The only way to increase our athletics income is to increase our fanbase and win games. More fans, even if we are stuck in the AAC, we can maybe negotiate more media revenue. I think the many years lacking an OCS kept us from maximizing our fanbase growth. We should have started building one sometime from 2007-2010. We’re a decade behind in a crucial time of realignment. I think the OCS will produce more fans as students graduate.

Is USFs fanbase large enough to bring value to media companies who carry our content for the ACC…? Literally the only thing that matters is dollar figure flowing from media to universities. Academics, fans, athletes, students, those things don’t matter in realignment. The only value USF might have is for recruiting exposure in Florida. The ACC already has Miami which has a bigger fan base and provides Florida media market. USFs fanbase isn’t big enough to make a dent in the media contracts. Our only hope is winning, and the OCS printing more fans. Then maybe we somehow get enough interest to be invited to another conference, or we make our destiny and the AAC teams somehow increase their fans and negotiate a better deal themselves for media rights.

This. We should have the highest recruiting classes among our G5 peers along with a much stronger fanbase. Hopefully the OCS puts us on that course. Our biggest problem should be keeping winning coaches, not getting conference wins.

Looks like it, but you really should practice like you play. How do they practice real tackling these days?

Face it. USF doesn’t add value to the media rights for the P5(4?) conferences. We just need to dominate our G5 conference. Keep the students engaged with the OCS to grow the fan base. Maybe we’ll get the G5 playoff slot every few years.

The big10 has FSU.

SMU? Seems random.

Take away the finances. Is the big 10 or ACC better for FSU?

Also a bit shocking how much Rutgers ticket revenue has decreased since they’ve been losers in the Big 10.