Mizzou

Hey, Tripp...

I just saw your invite for coffee the next time I'm back up north.  Thanks, I'd like that.  I couldn't tell you back in February why I was traveling through your area, but I guess it's OK to now...I was moving Jim from Boca to Dallas.  I finally get him at a school with a stadium that is less than 10 minutes from my house and he up and changes jobs moving 1,300 miles away.  Well, it will pay off because SMU is about to explode on the national football scene.

Poor Jeff Scott is the one locked in a dumpster with a raging fire.

It's hard to throw away and conceal the truth when I was the first to be be absolutely right all along.  Your latest football fiasco does not stand isolated alone.  It's just an extension and continuation of your sins from 13 years ago.  USF's rapid tailspin and nosedive into the depths of College Football Hell has been an interesting lesson in what it takes for a team to be a consistent winner.

What was unbelievable to me is there is talk of bringing USF into the Big 12.  I couldn't believe these people were actually in reality, but then I got to thinking, every league needs a doormat team, so the good teams will have at least one scheduled win during the conference schedule.

6 minutes ago, puc86 said:

It took you long to enough 

I was relishing the win.  I can't believe Leavit let USF score 17 points.

53 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

Any chance we can bring back CJL to at least run and develop this defense?

I can promise you...No chance in Hell.

Man...What was an ass-whoopin' today.

Hey Trip...I thought about you last week as I was driving up I-75 and I saw the Temple Terrace exit signs.

Because I've always been a thorn in Trips' side and he can't get rid of me.

And...If the dog hadn't stopped to take a dump he would have caught the rabbit...

No, Reiter was talented enough for a more established football school, but Leavitt and his coaches convinced him to stay home.  Then he got Skippy, but overcame the mistake.

Leavitt has the rare ability to identify young talent and persuade them to come to him.  Too bad Reiter had to endure such mediocre (at best) college football.  Maybe if USF had a better football program he would have gone higher than the seventh round in the draft and wouldn't have bounced around the League so much.

22 minutes ago, Triple B said:

The USF player that may have more impact that JPP is the Skip Holtz product Austin Reiter. If he can control Suh/Vea's push, there may not be much JPP/Barrett can do ....

Actually, Reiter was recruited by Leavitt.  Reiter then had the misfortune to be stuck with Skip as a coach.

Geez...I just axed you a simple sports question and you got your panties in a twist.  Since I am Missouri born and bred and have close ties to Kansas City, I definitely want the Chiefs to win.

The only way the Bucs can win is JPP contains Maholmes.  Brady and the Bucs cannot outscore him.

On 1/28/2021 at 4:57 PM, Triple B said:

Wasn't it his brother that CJL was Co-Def Coordinator with at Kansas State?

Actually, it was Leavitt who recommended Stoops to Taggart.

On 1/27/2021 at 10:38 AM, BiggTipp said:

But But But....I thought he wanted to be close to his mom????? 

Right now on Southwest, NS fares from DAL to TPA are $49.

Which player will actually have more impact on today's Super Bowl?

1 minute ago, brybull1970 said:

If Mizzou was any good at anything he wouldn't be here.

I'm good at posting on football message boards.  

1 minute ago, NewEnglandBull said:

How?

Willful ignorance.

4 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Ok so what do you want me to do about it? What’s done is done. We have to carry on with a new coach. You come on here to laugh at us but we had nothing to do with it. What’s your point? What are you trying to accomplish? This is just weird. 

Yes, you did.

7 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

So we fired him...he is gone. Do we all sit around piss and moan about? What good does that do now? What good does it do to listen to some dude from Missouri come to the board hoping we lose every game because Leavitt was fired? Us fans did not fire him (and those who wanted him gone are probably not around anymore anyway), the ones who fired him are long gone. So what is the point to this futile discussion? 

I guess it doesn't matter USF was just embarrassed by Notre Dame?  10 years later USF will continue to pay the price. 

2 minutes ago, brybull1970 said:

This is simply the predictable outcome of a situation put in motion by our AD 20 months prior when he retained CCS. Everything that happens this year should have happened last year, and been behind us.

It's a revolving door when you start the cycle of firing and hiring coaches.  Look how long it has taken SMU to even get moderately successful once they were killed by sanctions.  Woolard and Genshart trashed the USF program putting it into a tailspin that continues to this day.  In another 3 or 4 years Scott will be fired and the clock will be reset...Wash, rinse, repeat...

5 minutes ago, brybull1970 said:

Amen brother! Preach.

And that is why USF deserves to be regarded as a patsy for a scheduled win...

3. A lot went wrong for the Bulls

As you'd expect, when a team loses a game 52-0, it wasn't just one thing that went wrong for the Bulls. The offense was mostly ineffective, finishing with 231 yards on 3.7 yards per play. Defensively, as noted above, they couldn't do much to stop the Irish offense. Notre Dame only punted once in the game, and that was with its third-string QB in the game.

And then there were special teams, which was an absolute nightmare for the Bulls. USF punter Trent Schneider began his day with a 20-yard shank, and things only got worse from there. Later in the game, a snap went over his head, and while Schneider was able to get the kick off, it didn't go anywhere. Later, another snap went over Schneider's head, and he once again got to the ball and got a kick off. Unfortunately, this time he wasn't lucky enough to get more than a foot to the ball as the punt was blocked and recovered in the end zone for a Notre Dame touchdown.

35 minutes ago, Friscobull said:

I guess a slap, punch, or choke by a coach used to not be that big a deal and it is a shame that it cost him his job.  We used to fight in school, the teachers would take us out to the hallway and paddle us and then we would get sent home for Dad to tune us up for good measure.  Every good coach that I have ever had, I hated while I played for them but later grew to appreciate them.

Except it never happened.  Don't you find it odd no one ever asked Leavitt for his side of the story?  Not Woolward, not Genshaft and not the sham investigator.

41 minutes ago, The Sheriff said:

In some respect, if everything played out as such (and I'm friends with Brett McMurphy - he'll swear to his dying breath that Joel got ***** slapped by Leavitt), Leavitt should not be hired as a head coach. If even a little bit of it is false, he should be running a program.

I spoke with some former players from that team years ago and they said Jim did hit Joel. However like me, they weren't fond of Jim at the time - so they could very well care more about Joel. Most players liked their teammates more than Jim during my playing days. They'd run through a wall for Jim, however he wasn't someone on their Christmas card list. I tend to like Jim more now because I'm 20 years wiser from when he was coaching me. I hated him then. I understand the bigger picture now and the role I played (such a minimal role at that). His main goal was getting the best out of everyone on his roster - and his ways of doing it didn't sit well with many who played for him - but it makes sense to me now and I can't fault him for his methods. It's funny how age allows us to see situations in a different light.

BM is a lying POS and had an ax to grind.  BM blamed Leavitt for him getting fired from his job with the Tampa Bay Times.  Woolard had never been AD before at a university with a football program and greatly disliked how a coach was the center of the media's attention instead of himself.  Woolard saw an opportunity to smear Leavitt in order to fire him for cause so he would not have to payout his contract.  The whole episode was about Woolard's ego and money.

Simple question:  Whose version do you believe, an FBI Agent or Joel Miller?  It's just that simple.

2 hours ago, The Sheriff said:

Hey @Mizzou... long time no see. We'll still agree to disagree on the Leavitt fiasco with Joel Miller (RIP). However I would agree that Leavitt deserves another head coaching gig (as he's been held in the assistant coaching clink way to long for the coaching acumen he possesses). Hope things are going well for you and the family... and remember... vote Trump/Pence in 2020. On a good note from some of us stinging from the STD known as Notre Dame, "Mizzery" won't be having any company from USF fans this evening as the powers that be cancelled the FAU game. Missouri opening with Alabama spells for an all around bad evening for you.

If you only knew what really went down with Woolard, then Genshaft going along with it, you would be enraged like me.  With these false accusations, Jim was forever stained in the hiring environment of the last few years and branded forever as an abuser.  It's truly sad how Woolard destroyed a once in a lifetime miracle that was happening at USF and it's even sadder that Genshaft allowed it to happen.

And I just wanted to point out Notorious RBG is Stone Cold D-E-A-D.  She was an accomplished woman and made great advances for women in the field of Law, but she should have never been appointed to the Supreme Court because she was notoriously biased and political.  She should have instead been a US Senator so she could pass legislate rather than legislate from the Bench.  I think turnabout is fair play, though, so Trump should appoint a Justice who is just as political and biased as RBG was. 

Missouri Fans are still scratching their heads how we drew two short sticks when the SEC was choosing the two out of division teams for each school to play.  Somehow, Missouri drew both Alabama and Georgia.  **** the luck!