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I personally think any team willing to sign him should force him to commit to a redshirt year to build him up mentally and physically. There were reports he would hide in the bathroom to avoid practice. All the talent is there but he needs time to mature and adjust to college. Do that and in two years he will likely be an All-American with a shot to go back to the P2 with serious NIL or get drafted into the NFL.

Absolutely not. We've spent 25 years building equity into this system. First it was having a national championship game. Then it was getting the smaller schools opportunities for New Years bowls with restrictions. Then it was guaranteeing a G5 spot. Now it's guaranteeing a G5 playoff spot. A G5 playoff wipes that all away. And by the way-Aresco may have had his flaws, but that was far and away his biggest win-protecting AAC access while giving a shot to the other conferences.

Tell South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa that. They're massively increasing in population and are frequently overlooked when people think of "all over the world".

It appears this door has been shut:

In fairness we also had 2 sacks, 10 TFLs, and the team forced 3 fumbles (recovering 2). Those can't be attributed necessarily to bad QB play, we just dominated Syracuse.

Could have been worse.

Home game this weekend!

VCU on a 10-0 run, up by 7. Let's see if they close it out. They look a lot like us. Great ball movement, great shooting. They close out on rebounds really well. Going to have to be extremely active on defense and forcing turnovers. Villanova hasn't pushed them on turnovers like we try to do with teams-they seem to want to force more bad shots than anything else.

Analytics has its place. We are a good team that still has flaws. It's rare to have a team that doesn't. They've been covered over by the fact that we win and we know what we're doing at the end of games. I think the biggest difference between this year and last year is that we know how to close games out. I'm sure, if you all recall, how many times we would be pulling our hair out with 10 minutes left in a game during the CBG era. USF is ahead or tied. It almost always ended up being a choke job. I feel like the only time we didn't choke was when the team felt like it had a clear goal on the line (i.e. beating UCF). These days we're not particularly concerned with 10 minutes on the clock-we'll either close this game out, or the opponent will suddenly become incapable of shooting due to excellent defense and the offense finds open gaps where they weren't before. Do keep in mind that for most the year we were still working our way up to beating teams ranked in the 100s and 200s in the net with ease. We're doing that NOW, for sure, but we weren't doing it in January. The team to its credit has consistently gotten 2-3% better every game, r we wouldn't be doing what we're doing now, but it takes work.

Definitely need to raise the rate for sure. I would at least boost his pay to $1.5M, make the bonuses a bit bigger (say double them as they're fairly small), and raise the buyout to $3 million. A bigger school will pay it and that pays for our next coach. With that said CAAR will look for the right job. I think he would want to target a place like UGA where he's coached before and Mike White will be on the hot seat going into next year. Leonard Hamilton is about to retire at FSU, but that's historically been a fairly dead-end job with poor facilities and recruiting. But for the ones saying we should triple his pay...get out of here. Even if we sell out every game next season we're looking at $3-4 million in revenue at most not factoring in any expenses. The licensing agreement with Adidas helps some too but how much I'm not sure. You still have to pay full cost of attendance for the players and salaries for assistants and managers. If we breakeven on MBB after all that we're doing well. The TV revenue is pretty much getting paid to the football coaching staff and I'm hopeful there will be way more ticket sales for FB next year as there's way more marginal revenue opportunities there. I don't think we're paying anything more than we're already paying on fixed costs for football currently.

I had told my dad it was a sellout there and rushed him there. He was asking me for a while where everyone else was but he eventually got his answer. It was probably the weather and weeknight road traffic.

I got 4 2nd level tickets on TM plus parking for $97. Mind you, I bought them a week ago.

Okay, typo, 12 teams, but even so. Those 20 are going to generally be ranked higher in the NET because of the way things are set up.

It's pretty much tournament or bust at this point. In past years the NIT would have been a viable consolation goal, but with the P5+BE mucking things up to benefit them, you're going to have teams ranked in the 60s and 70s in the NET who will be on the NIT bubble since the field has effectively shrunk by 20 teams. I'm sure CAAR isn't overpressuring the players, they have so much self-confidence and belief that they can and will win. I just don't want them to go from being on the verge of dancing to potentially not going anywhere because of the early season gelling issues. That's why winning the conference tourney is so important. At that point the question is "where are we seeded" not "are we going".

Did we even bring that many for FSU in 2009? UF let us bring a ton in 2022 and the turnout was quite solid. If we manage to generate 20k even with secondary market for Bama we might get invited into the SEC lol. It would also be insanely loud.