Gismo

The reason we went with a small stadium is to make sure we have more fans viewing on TV from home because the stadium was sold out. Increasing TV viewers is what gets us into a better conference, game attendance doesn’t.

There is no way I will believe Oregon State or Washington State are better for todays big12 than USF.

Alabama agreed to a 2:1 with us. Weren’t we supposed to have that with Florida as well? I like the 2:1 scheduling and getting some marquee opponents at home that might not agree to a 1:1.

Alabama is next to be added to this list. Never dismiss the Bulls as underdogs. We have beaten top 10 teams before. Wins over top 10 opponents: 3 Rank. Opponent Year 9. Louisville 2005 7. WVU 2006 17. Auburn 2007 5. WVU 2007 13. Kansas 2008 18. Florida State 2009 20. WVU 2009 16. Notre Dame 2011 21. Temple 2015 22. Navy 2016

He upped the talent at Colorado and beat two bad teams. TCU was a big upset, but TCU lost the game before Colorado by a score of 65-7… so TCU could really end up being a bad team, will have to see how the season goes. One of the more interesting comments I saw about Sanders was waiting to see how well he does when his son is not QB.

Do players even need to substitute anymore with modern commercial breaks? Playing fast helps because you get more plays! It’s like taking more shots in basketball. If you average 5 yards a play, it’s obvious that more plays correlates to more yards. If you can’t gain yards and keep punting then playing fast can just end up putting you behind and tiring out your defense, which is where “ball control” comes in, but that’s an antiquated style of play. I think people underestimate the effect of endurance and conditioning. Defenses will get more tired if they have to defend more plays. The speed also puts pressure on the opposing coaching staff to call plays or make adjustments. Coaches make errors too, and they’ve also got multiple things to be focused on throughout the game, so running plays more frequently makes this attention splitting even more taxing and increases the likelihood the coaches will make errors either in personnel or scheme.

If they are priced out it means their was enough demand for USF to raise prices. That would be good for the football program. It means we have more rabid fans. What kind of fan wants to keep the program down for their own selfish cheap tickets? Would they also wish the team lose so they can keep buying cheap tickets? Because when the team wins tickets get more expensive.

Get seen by SEC and Big12 recruiters to transfer to big NIL pay day. Amazing campus. Beaches and babes. City with stuff to do.

Saban coming off of a loss will have Alabama at peak discipline. Alabama is going to steam roll us. There isn’t a need to scout, it’s known every year they have big and fast athletes at every position. Top DBs to play man coverage to free up lots of rushers to pressure our QB. Big O-line to give theirQB time to throw to their big fast receivers or block for their big and fast running backs. This will be like a practice game for them where they just practice the fundamentals since we have no match for their size and speed.

USF leadership really screwed up not beginning the stadium planning back in 2009/2010. I feel like they should have announced a stadium build under Holtz. I have always been a proponent of a 40,000 seat on campus stadium all the back to 2008. In hindsight, we probably would have built it too large considering our higher attendance in the 2005-2010. But if we had a stadium completed by 2015, I think our attendance and program would have been a lot stronger since that time. The biggest value the OCS provides is a much better fan experience for students which will increase the number of graduates who are football fans. OCS will absolutely increase attendance. While USF was not my first choice when enrolling, but I’m so proud of USF and glad I attended. Honesty it’s hard to imagine any other university being a better experience for me because USF allowed me accomplish everything I wanted and more. But I do believe an OCS will increase the the student and alumni experience, making USF even better. An OCS is long past due! 35,000 is the perfect size. Football game attendance is down across the board, empty seats benefit no one. I think USF will eventually be in the Big12 or ACC within the next decade. It will be a long wait, but we will step up in competition from the American. The landscape might just the the P2 by then, but we’ll at least no longer be in the lowest tier.

It’s true. I don’t even plan to catch the beginnings of games anymore, I’ll do other stuff and just watch the second half of a lot of games. 4 hours to watch 1 hour of play. 75% of the time is filler!

Yep. This is a huge negative to the transfer rules. “Student” athletes are now basically free agents.

USF would be a money maker for the Big12 with an annual USF-UCF match up getting huge ratings. Also helps give a stronger Big12 presence in Florida for recruiting. I’d much prefer USF play in the the ACC though. Much more respected universities and more same time zone travel. But does USF want to be in an ACC without FSU, Clemson, or UNC? And that needs to travel to Cal and Stanford? If we eventually end up in a power conference (Big12 or ACC) I’d like to resume the annual matchup with UCF. It doesn’t benefit UCF until USF is in a better conference and a better team though so UCF won’t agree to it until then. I think the match up is good for both programs because it brings the fans out and has good ratings. Ratings drive the media deals.

Lol, There are 85 new players this year for Colorado. Entire roster and coaching staff is newC it’s not the same 1-11 team at all. The coach only kept less than 10 players from last season. also, TCU has given up 40+ points in their last two games.

all we need is a QB who can hit open receivers. there were way too many incompletions from bad passes that receivers couldn’t reach.

I watch the SEC and Big 10 and their QBs actually can hit open receivers. Much better football. QBs can’t be that rare can they?

Can one of these coaching hires recruit even an average QB. QB play has been nothing but cringeworthy since Flowers left.

Poor o-line play. A lot of inaccurate passes. USF has had below average QB play since Flowers. The last two coaches haven’t been able to get even an average QB. All we need is an average QB to win some games, and let our quick receivers and running backs do the rest.

Offensive line needs work. QB play could use some improvement.

It’s better for the university budgets and STUDENT athletes to not be spread too far geographically. As a conference without huge media deals, I think being regional is the right approach. There is more to an athletic conference than just football matchups. Our conference football matchups just aren’t pulling in enough dollars to be worth spreading out geographically for the rest of the athletic programs. Having traveled coast to coast a lot for my employer, and then living on the opposite coast from family, I do have an appreciation for the distances and time zone changes. There aren’t any programs we can add that make the distance worth it.

SMU isn’t that valuable clearly since they have to forgive 9 years of revenue. SMU, Standord, and Cal hardly raise the ACC average school revenue which is why they are all not taking full revenue for a number of years. Stanford and Cal are only taking 30% in year one. This is all about media deals, and these additions to the ACC are only to add new states to their TV network subscribers. It’s not about the schools being particularly great, the only deciding factor is their geography. Even then the ACC is not giving members equal revenue, because these new schools don’t add that much. Don’t forget the Big10 and Big12 passed these schools over. The ACC is only taking them out of desperate to stay relevant faced with their own big revenue members looking for an exit.

Our only hope is to get invited to the Big12 or ACC one day.

I don’t think SMU gets added to the ACC… seems like a choice with very limited growth potential. This talk of the Big12 taking the PAC rejects doesn’t make sense. The Big12 is already taking PAC schools, why would they not take the PAC left overs before, what caused a change of heart? Nothing. They aren’t going to the Big12. They should join the MWC. If their brands had media value the PAC wouldn’t have collapsed and they wouldn’t have been left out. Re-alignment leaves behind the schools with small fan bases and fewer viewers. Academics don’t matter. The PAC schools left behind are left behind because of lack of viewers.

If they have to bribe their way in with 7 years (!!!) of revenue, I would seriously question their worth as an expansion candidate to begin with. Doesn’t that mean they really don’t add a lot of value? Must only be to have another more western team for Stanford and Cal. 7 years of Revenue…!?

Only media money matters. They’ll invite whoever can help them cash the biggest checks. AAU, doesn’t matter. FSU has a good academic reputation, just might not be as big in research spending. (USF will never be invited to the big 10)