TrujilloBull2013

im not superstitious. if threads i make could alter the outcome of games we would be undefeated, but i haven't harnessed that cosmic power yet apparently.

regardless of the interception he has tons of potential. even good quarterbacks lose games. this kid is our best bet right now to win.

wow this kid is very talented.

yeah we do. i probably would have taken the points, but i see what Taggart did there and dont blame him for it.

What a dumb call.

i think in hindsight u would like to take the 9 points...

but nobody has the foresight to expect the QB and Center to s*** the bed and drop the snap on a 4th-and-1 conversion inside the 10.

as a coach with a struggling offense, there are two choices: play it safe and kick and lean on the defense or try to take full advantage of one of the few times your team has been in the redzone all season (last in FBS), in the #19 ranked "rival" stadium, and show the offense u haven't given up on them.

i can't blame Taggart for his call. i wouldn't have blamed him for playing it safe either. it was a call that u just cant tell how its going to turn out in advance.

this rebuilding USF squad is wretched, and UCF is struggling to put us away.

i've seen discussion on this board about whether or not UCF has "passed us by"...

of course the **** they haven't.

have they had a good year? of course. will they get a BCS bowl bid, something USF has never done? it seems highly likely.

but a few things need to be considered...

1) the AAC's BCS bid is a technicality. one of the few bones the conference got from the Big East split and the Power-5 realignment. would USF love to have it? bet your sweet ass. a trophy is a trophy. but despite a likely BCS bid, UCF cannot claim to do what USF couldnt: win in the Big East. a Big East BCS bid far would have surpassed anything won in the AAC.

2) the Big East, as constituted during USF's tenure, was a solid conference with national title contenders with winning regular season records and BCS bowl wins over power conferences. the Big East was, arguably, as good if not better than the ACC. the AAC is not. UCF would not have come out with a BCS bid after an in-conference gauntlet of WVU, Louisville, Cinci, Pitt, Cuse, Rutgers and UConn with all those cold games up north.

3) we were ranked #2 in the BCS for a week. suck it bitches.

that's not **** it's authentic UCF Knights memorabilia.

holy **** the one on the left is pitiful. where's #datass? her back connects directly to her legs!

She is definitely NOT overrated ...

very overrated. there is very little about her that is NATURALLY above average: fake tits, fake tan, airbrushed stomach and i'm gonna take a shot in the dark and guess the carpet doesn't quite match the drapes... 

i'm not just trying to be the typical internet douchebag that logs on and pretends to be overly critical of women i would slap my grandmother for a chance to smell their bicycle seat in real life, but in all honesty this chick does nothing for me. just a tall, gangly bottle blonde with rubber tits and a cute but not stunningly gorgeous face.

and maybe i've been in Peru too long, but i prefer natural copper brown skin, not oompa-loompa "sat in a booth and got sprayed head to toe with a can of Krylon Burnt Orange" body paint.

way to honor the troops guys!

Coach Willie T turn rusty water into wine, praise the lawd!!!

Jones has played in the NBA in all 7 seasons since he was drafted by Atlanta, including 3 with the Hawks, 2 with Indiana and brief stints with LAC, NOH, NYK. he finds a way to stick around the league, mostly by rebounding. his career numbers (3.1 points, 2.4 rebounds, .6 blocks/ game) aren't stellar but that production has come in only 11 minutes of playing time per game. the thing Sol needs to do is stick somewhere. hopefully Orlando so close to home will be that place.

^ i LOL'd

From the AJC in the heart of SEC country.

 

I was sitting at breakfast with my 91 yr old mom the other day and she said "there's an article about the Bulls in the paper". I was thinking I would have to spend the rest of the day looking for a home for the old girl, but lo and behold, I opened the paper and here it was.

 

http://s1335.photobucket.com/user/billreef/media/Bulls_zps88fa6478.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

they clearly confused us for UCF again.

It seems like we will never wear green-green-gold.. Oh well, dont care what combination, just win! Go Bulls.

would be nice to see again, wouldn't it?

wish they'd bring back the urine-grellow-gold helmets. they always had a unique shine under the lights at Ray Jay during night games.

plus the black logo and black facemasks pissed off the Football Fashionistas, which is always a plus. LOL

the white helmet is a great choice.  it can double as a surrender flag once Bridgewater starts slicing up our secondary early in the game and we can get that running clock moving for the 2nd half. 

i already used my one negative vote for the day, or you'd have a -4 in that little red box at the bottom of your post.

When did we change our colors to Green and White? I want gold now! I want it now!!!

nothing against deters in specific, his is simply the first post i saw in this thread so im using it for a more general response...

but the "white isn't one of our school colors!!!1!!!!one!!!" cliche is so ridiculous it's borderline retarded.

EVERY. SINGLE. TEAM. incorporates white into its color scheme, and very few if any have white as an official school color.

why? because it is a basic color that EVERY team uses as their jersey color when on the road (or in LSU's case, at home).

why this is so hard to comprehend is beyond me.

if every team ONLY used the colors in its "official school colors palette" for their uniforms NCAA rules would prohibit them from playing. it is impossible to use ONLY school colors. impossible.

any kid named Wanky should automatically receive an offer from USF.

Cool vid. Bad car selection.

but it had magnetic FGCU decals on the doors!

those 3 or 4 dropped INT's at the end of the UConn game need to start turning into actual INT's.

that's my only complaint at this time.

well that, and the fact that we allowed a team averaging less than 50 yards per game on the ground run for nearly 200 yards on us...

Funny how he doesn't want the Florida team that repeatedly beat him to join the Big 12.

not really, because according to this article the power of his advocacy of a Florida school joining the B12 is incumbent upon his becoming AD of UTexas. we've never beaten UTexas. UCF did come close, however.

if anything his familiarity with USF would be a bonus: he knows about our school, our facilities, our academics and our program... this is also one of the reasons i believe the article's mention of UCF was arbitrary; just look at the ratings/rankings/exposure of the current season and name the Florida school at the top of the list. if FAU or FIU were having a break-out year and UCF was "down" as is USF, those schools would be mentioned. it is purely supposition based on the current landscape... very little to do with the broader reality of what goes into conference expansion.

one thing i will say, tho, is that USF certainly picked a **** time to hit the lowest point of the program. not sure how much foresight into realignment Dougie Dub had in 2009 when he shitcanned Leavitt, but if he had any foreknowledge whatsoever it probably would have been a smarter move to stick with Leavitt, maintain continuity and ride out the McMurphy-fueled media "firestorm." whatever did or didn't happen between Leavitt and the kid in the locker room is less relevant than perception, and a he-said/she-said hearsay situation could have been weathered with a little patience. instead we got Kragholtzed and the perception of the program is no longer a step just beneath the "Big 3" and above the "other 3" but well beneath the Big 3, beneath UCF, and wallowing in the squalor of the "other 3" F_U land. sucks, but it is what it is.

 

New article discussing UCF and Big12 via Oliver Luck

http://www.bluegoldsports.com/power-struggle-oliver-luck

 

This is my worst nightmare. UCF goes (maybe with Cincinnati) and we are left behind. Not saying it will happen, but up until about 2 years ago it wasn't believable, now it is a very realistic possibility.

 

i don't buy it. the article is highly speculative with no real factual basis for any of the speculation.

it's basically "Oliver Luck wants access to Florida market to increase profit. Oliver Luck could become Texas AD. Texas runs the Big 12, so if Oliver Luck becomes Texas AD he would use his influence to convince the Big12 to expand into the Florida market."

UCF is an afterthought, included in all probability exclusively because it is currently the non-Big 3 Florida team with the most exposure and on-field success. if this article was written 3 years ago USF would have been included for exactly the same reason. basically a "look at the current ratings/rankings and throw in the name of the school with the most current clout."

realistically it's not that simple, and if/when Big12 AD's/presidents sit down to decide on expansion one season, much less the current season, isn't going to make or break that school.

i'm not going to go into some long-winded spiel about why USF is/isnt a better candidate for the Big 12 conference, but any expansion committee or particular AD (eg Oliver Luck) pushing for new programs to add are going to do their due diligence and look at all options available. hard to believe Oliver Luck, as great of a business man as he is portrayed in this article, has called UCF to gauge interest in expansion but NOT USF.

I see what the system should look like. We just don't have the pieces up to par

i really think there's more to the offense than what we're seeing, i'm just not convinced Taggart is confident that Eveld is capable of executing.

Shaw has really been a bonus for this team as well. he has overachieved, especially given that he is not quite as big of a back as you'd normally expect from a power run game.

the D is improving every game. special teams are magnificent.

this team needs a QB, some WR's and an OLine that can run AND pass block. there are pieces tho.

it's always a good thing when members of the established media recognize and interact with forums like these.

TheBullsPen is truly an accurate microcosm of what Bulls fans in Tampa and across the country think about USF's athletic programs.

a wonderful tool for a beatwriter or columnist, and a good way for "average fans" to have greater access to the media.

welcome.

We beat UCONN at their own game

yes. shiddy, mistake-prone, penalty-riddled football full of field goals and punting.