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Playing in G5, you just can't lose games when it comes to the Heisman voting and unfortunately, Bortles lost a close one to South Carolina. He also was pretty overshadowed by Jameis Winston that year. I think if Keenan Reynolds had won out at Navy, this year, he would have had a shot at Heisman.

Oh me either. I don't think Taggart saw this coming. I'm sure he's a million dollars times as happy as we are with the result.

Not really fair to call out Smazza-from-December for something Smazza-from-May said. Smazza-from-three-minutes ago isn't even the same person as Smazza-from-right-now, let alone Smazza-from-May. Don't pick on people with mental disorders like that.

We're doomed. CFN has sealed our fate.

I don't think this is true. If we had been undefeated this year and next year -- I think, then, they might let us in.

Oh man... talk about unintended consequences of ill-planned marketing stunts.

You're a saint.

USF students also get free tickets to home football games, so the WKU free bowl tickets are still a good deal for your students. WKU students just have to travel MUCH further to the game than USF students, so it's nice of WKU athletics to take that into consideration and offer a middle ground for those who are interested.

It's really nice to have our defense back.

I think the AAC has to find a way into the playoff. Other than that, I don't think there's anything we can do to raise a proper stink. Make it into the playoff, start winning and play cinderella a la March Madness -- people will love it. AAC doesn't need to win a championship game, but it needs a team to play for it. As of right now, that is a colossal task to pull off. With the current setup, it starts with scheduling. We need, as a conference, to find a way to schedule more P5 teams and that's growing harder with each day.

Game hasn't even started and Tom Allen is already halting their offense.

Storming through Conference USA is not really something to brag about this year... five bowl eligible teams out of 13 is not great -- AAC on the other hand turned in eight out of 12, which is pretty d*** impressive. We've both got bad beats in Indiana and Maryland -- those are not good teams. Note: I'm not counting 5-7 teams for either conference, because that's ridiculous and the entire NCAA should be embarrassed for allowing that. Allowing 6-6 bowl teams were/are bad enough.

Trop layout was rough.

We're not as poor as some people think. Student Athletic fees, alone, cover more than $15 million a year in athletic expenses. Are we flush with wealth? Absolutely not. Is it a burden to be paying previous coaches long after they've moved on to different positions? Absolutely. But, we have enough revenue streams to afford giving our head football coach a market-value salary adjustment. This isn't an OCS we're talking about.

What a fun game that was. Good times.

Louisville was certainly a big help. As long as we aren't playing them at the moment, I'll never wish them anything but the best. They've been a great supporter of our program through the years and a great adversary. I'd love to see them back on the schedule. Miss those toothy birds.

To donate to a charity, yes, but if you're just putting them up for sale or gifting to someone, it cuts off two hours before game time. The gift/sale part is all pretty easy to use, click, click, done. You have to call about the charity aspect as it involves more human intervention/organization.

I don't think it's necessarily about the college football experience for me, personally. It's more of a cost and reward thing. While the other university season tickets I do have are certainly more of a traditional college football experience than the USF football experience gives, I don't know if it is necessarily more enjoyable. RJS has better seats, better sight lines, better parking, beer and liquor. It's a different experience, sure, but I'm not sure if it is inherently better or worse. For me, I know that I can always get a pretty good seat at a USF game without season tickets and that RJS can up and change anything with little notice and the experience of my season tickets seats could, then, be vastly difference without USF even having a say in the matter OR USF could decide to build an OCS stadium and then the seats that I had chosen at RJS would be a completely different experience at the new stadium -- I just don't feel like I'm reserving anything long term with a season ticket at RJS. My other season tickets are for stadiums built in the 1800s and pre-WW2 1900s and are passed down from generation to generation -- if I gave them up, it could take until my great, grandchildren before the quality of these are available again. So, for me, a USF owned stadium would be something pretty special as it would be me adding my alma mater to this collection of tickets that I can pass down when I assuredly die in the next 10 years or so. I'd be very interested in securing a seat for a USF-owned stadium whether it was on or off campus. The RJS experience is nice, but the red and pirate ship don't make it feel like USF, to me, and in the back of my mind is the nagging annoyance of knowing that my money isn't primarily going into USF's pockets as I spend money at the venue.

The professional team actually has an entire package built for out of towners that includes access to the online video and radio live streams, which is a nice touch, which is what I have. I essentially have season tickets that hold my seats for when I'm there, but can watch every game online in HD or listen to the radio stream on my phone if I'm not able to make it. It's also cheaper than regular season tickets, as it doesn't come with all of the perks from local businesses. They also make it really easy to donate my tickets to local charities for games that I know I won't be able to attend, which I really like. Donating my ticket to a charity gives a member of their charity a ticket to the game and a complimentary team shirt to wear to the game.

Only one of them is a university -- the other is a professional sports team. I have the option, though, to trade-in any ticket that I can't use for the organization to resell/give-a-way and accrue points for doing so which can be used for priority access to non-season ticket events/games (home, away, neutral site) and/or redeemed to get away tickets in lieu of buying them. I also can gift the entire season to a friend/relative and make modifications to it at anytime. Also, I can trade them in for tickets to other university sports games/matches on a ticket-by-ticket basis. So let's say I can't make a football game, but I can make a basketball game. If there is a ticket available for basketball, no problem; just a phone call and points are removed from my account and I have a basketball ticket. Both of these teams don't have any problem selling out home games, though, so I imagine that's why they have this luxury. From what I've seen, no one that I've spoken to at USF has had knowledge of anything similar for USF football, but I recognize that I may just not have spoken to the right person.

Always one of my favorite parts of flying into Lexington or Louisville -- both of them make sure you know that you've entered Bourbon country.

I think I'm holding off on season tickets until however many years in the future sees an OCS. With how often I end up traveling out of the country during CFB season, it just doesn't make sense to have season tickets to Raymond James Stadium where I'm no going to use them half of the time. I already have season tickets for two other sports teams that are mostly just given away, but both of those teams have stadiums that pre-date our entire university. I do have to say that both of those teams give plenty of perks to out-of-towners and travels that make it worth keeping the season tickets, as well. From what I see, USF doesn't seem to offer similar benefits. I'd more than love to hear from any out-of-town season ticket holders who find it worthwhile and the reasoning behind it -- I'd be more than happy to be convinced to pick up a pair instead of purchasing a ticket whenever I'm in town.

Never would have thought it was that low. Nice find on the map. Props to you as well, BDYZR, I didn't see your post until after I posted.

Great looking stadium, Hilltoppers.

What are Robert Smith's S/P+ numbers like?