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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)

Given only money matters, can USF bring enough viewers to raise or maintain the ACC payout? That’s the only question that matters. I don’t know how much “new” states makes a difference or not like it did 10 years ago. Today everything is streaming and cable packages are being dropped. You still want a big market obviously but it’s more about number of fans. Lots of schools with huge fan bases that aren’t themselves located in a big media market, just they have a lot of alumni and fans (most of the SEC). In that respect when looking for expansion candidates you have to give weight to the for sheer size of the student body as a proxy for how many new fans they can create each year through alumni. Basketball… there is probably some small weight here. Recruiting might also be a factor for football, but I’m honestly not sure the decision makers consider this at all. Travel costs, this I think is a big one. Travel is a drag on athletic departments. Being close to Miami actually is a big saving here if Olympic sports can play USF and Miami in the same weekend. Academics don’t matter as long as the school is an accredited 4 year institution. Overall USF is a pretty solid expansion candidate for the ACC because of geographic location and student body. At 50k+ we have one of the largest student body populations of any non-P5 university. I think Stanford is a good example how despite location and academics, their student body and fanbase is just too small to be as valuable as the much larger USC and UCLA. I think SMU has the risk of being too small to be a high growth expansion candidate. Do ‘new’ media markets still drive media rights values? I honestly don’t know, and does it matter if the fanbase is small or large? One thing is certain, as long as FSU and Miami are in the ACC, USF is not getting an invite. We’d have a better shot at the big 12 in the mean time (knowing SoFl - UCF would be ratings gold every year).

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.