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We held them 21 points under their scoring average. We've been pretty good defensively all season, but 3 point shooting is a clear up and down situation. This game isn't in question with a minute to go with 70% free throw shooting. Don't like it but this is who we are right now. Uconn will use the exact same game plan on Wednesday, they have a really deep line up. Their back ups will be hacking all game.

It's a great play. fantastic play. you gotta mix it up with dives, tosses, and clear the box with passes to the TE and bubble screens, it won't stand on its own, but as part of an offensive package, it's a great way to impose your will on teams and run out the clock when you're up 28 in the 4th quarter.

Taggart only tossed kids if they did something egregious enough to attract media attention. With his fascination for recruiting DBs he couldn't afford to lose the trench talent he had.

After last night's beating this puts a smile on my face. CBG has this team on the right track and they don't hold back anything. Only flaw I see is that Collins has been cold lately. Wonder what's going on with him.

Fair enough but Terrence Horne was a guy CCS recruited and he actually played a role in the offensive game plan as well (caught a TD pass.) We won't take that away from Strong, he saw the talent, the talent came through.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into this statement, but I think he's trying to sell CCS to the fan base. Saying "I believe" is completely noncommittal. It's hoping, it's praying that CCS actually has the will and desire to be here. He hedged it with the "we'd still have to do it for any coach" and "why wouldn't I build on it..." comments. No, nothing is instantaneous, but CCS hasn't gotten our team in position to win football games. With the exception of the GT game (I will give full credit to CCS there, he beat a team that finished with a winning record, and it was a positive, exciting, generally well-called game), even the first half the season felt like we were playing 2014 SMU 7 weeks in a row (and that was a BAD football team). We looked good, we had an undefeated record, but it was as thin as wrapping paper. We hoped that it was just the team learning and trying to get better, but it didn't show up in the win column the last six games. The only highlights after the UConn win were leading at the half against Cincy and Temple, and hey, if we win those games, then we have something to sell and not all is lost. But we didn't.

After Leavitt won his lawsuit and proved he was not at fault, I find it hard to agree-they got rid of the golden goose.

Yeah take that away from opponents and he'll be nigh unstoppable. Alcorn State and FDU won't be a problem, but I expect UConn to hack him all night long.

All that foul trouble allowed fiu to stay in the game. They couldn't compete with us without it. Kill the turnovers and foul problems and this team has a chance at the NIT. it's like a game of whack a mole. Fix one problem and another springs up. Props to the excellent defensive play, FIU shot 37% from the floor and 16% from the 3 point line.

At what point does FIU start fouling? Need to keep the lead up as they have several players with fouls available.

As does essentially taking Brian beard out of the game.

At least he hit two free throws before his cramp.

Need to stop wasting possessions. Law of averages favor us when we shoot.

No lead is safe against teams that love the 3. The good news is the lead is so large that they will still use most of their energy coming back. Just tighten it up and slow the game down, and FIU will get frustrated.

Oh my that's wild.

That's more like it!

12-2 App state run to open the second half. Get it together Bulls.

Clearly we need to recruit some Nigerian princes to raise money for an OCS.

No he wouldn't have. An outstanding year would have had him taking a job at a bigger school as an OC or as a G5 head coach.

The issue with that is that teams can make moves between 5A and 6A relatively easily. We've already seen how hard it is for a G5 team to move to a P5 conference. The only ones to do it in the past ten years would be TCU and Utah if I'm not mistaken. We won't count the BE since it was a power conference.

Maybe they should just run the offense through him the first 5-7 minutes of every half. Get their starting five in foul trouble and then we can capitalize down the stretch-and maybe in the mean time he'll learn to make free throws with how often he'll be shooting them.

Oh, I'm still in a "let's make a difference" mode. There's no excuse for what's happened the past month. That not a single person has been fired in the last week is stunning to me unless they're waiting until after early signing day-and it's not like we have an amazing class coming in as is.

Normally I'd be too. But Miami closed the season strong while we flamed out. Wake we may have a chance but Miami will roll us.

Except he's no longer the guy who got canned by Texas, he's now the guy who lost five straight to close the regular season at USF. I would argue there's leverage to renegotiate that buyout and a pay cut.

If nothing else there should be the leverage to get CCS to take a paycut. Most around here were predicting a 7-8 win season back in July/August and that is what we got. The problem is how it happened. Had we gone 3-3 to the start the season and 4-2 to finish the season with wins over UCF, Tulane, UConn and one of Temple/Cincy I don't think anyone would have had a problem. It's the five losses in a low that show that most of the team wasn't developing and gelling as the year went on. Get rid of Gilbert/Mattox/Williams/Burke, drop Strong's salary next year to 1.5-1.8 million, and that's how Strong stays. And I'm still not sure with all that if he sees any progression to assure a 10 win season next year (which is what we should expect with a team of upper classmen).