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22 hours ago, thatBULL said:

I want an OCS as much as anyone, but I always find it interesting when someone says “The fee would go away, but the stadium would stay.”  

Does anyone believe we would give up revenue that is basically accepted once the bonds are paid?  

We need to have a true fundraising effort for a stadium.  If that’s successful and students feel they want to pitch in (more than then large % they already do today) then maybe that’s ok.

Yes, yes we would, just as the Marshall Center fee eventually went away. I paid that fee. I saw it on my tuition statements for a few years-then not long after it got built, by the time I graduated, it had stopped. 

If this fee is per semester, you're talking at the low end $6M per year, to possibly as much as $14M-$15M per year (could be over $20M if USF charges for summer semester too). That's not chump change, and assuming we build the $200M stadium that Harlan put out in his proposals, the interest cost (just estimating at 4% per year), would be $8M. You better have some extra funding in place. USF is struggling to raise funds here. The CITF could pay out $15M when the time comes, but it can only be used once (can't be used for debt service, just for initial construction). USF needs to find $50M in donations, then you add the $15M in CITF money, then perhaps the other $135M can be debt serviced. 

Here is why it's possible it won't go through-the only way that fee is getting approved is through a ballot measure in the student body elections. The soonest SG can do that is the midterm elections in the fall, and it STILL has to pass. Even if you only have 5-8k students voting, it's going to take a lot work-and for whatever reason, USF hasn't gotten enough Greek buyin on football if they're still doing rush in the fall on home game-days. 

But will there be a TBP credit card with a 50,000 point bonus we can spend on a road trip game? 

I would have preferred someone else over Yuengling, but not sure who we could have gone with. The Gonzmart Dome? Outback dome (probably not because that group has no cash)? 

At least it isn't the GEO group like what happened with FAU-they still haven't found a new sponsor. 

I guess it's the best that could be considered under the circumstances. 

Just now, mjadams said:

Not looking good. Maybe the selection committee didnt disrespect. 

Buffalo has been pushing and shoving all games. Ladies are starting to push harder back but going to need them to power up. 

Unbelievable. Their 3 shooting has gone hot. 

4 minutes ago, Bourbon Bull said:

The weird thing is that Rader and Shae played okay in her place.  But the mo definitely changed when she went down. I called that last 3 going in by Buffalo before it left her hands. You just knew it.  Hopefully they make some shots in the 2nd half.

It was roughly even while Rader was in there. Buffalo plays very physical, Tamara took that fine, Shae seems to have some issues with it. 

Unbelievable. After Henshaw went down buffalo went on a 24-15 run. Ladies need to wake up. 

4 minutes ago, charsibb said:

Score?

 

29-23 at 5:19 left in the second quarter. Henshaw is down. 

Started and ended the first quarter with runs. Buffalo likes that press coverage, but they left more threes open than I thought a team with such high level 3 point defense would. 

Whip around coverage, seriously? 

Currently at 103-3 about 60% of the way through the innings. On pace for 180, hoping for 200 to defend. 

22 minutes ago, Old_Bull said:

Wow! we don't want to be a "Directional School". Look what happened to schools like North Carolina, South Carolina, University of Southern California.

 

Are you trolling or do you seriously want to push that line? 

1. North Carolina is a flagship school in the STATE of North Carolina. 

2. South Carolina is a flagship school in the STATE of South Carolina. 

3. Southern California is a PRIVATE school with a long established athletic history. 

I like the curtain of distraction idea as a home court advantage. We were already 31st in the country in free throw percentage allowed (that means we were good at it), so a 9% drop in FT percentage saves 2 points per game-we would have won at least a couple more games this season that way, not to mention it will be a pain in the butt to opponents late in games. You already have the pressure of a close game, then a distracting pair of fans behind the basket would probably set you off. 

Down 15 with five to go and seeing a fightback! Maybe that night is tonight! 

Have to appreciate the fight even as down as we are. Wondering though if we can ever beat Uconn. 

10 minutes ago, Bausfkid said:

This tourney needs to be held in Tampa.

They won't as long as Uconn keeps selling out the stadium. Would love for them to do it at the ice palace. 

On 3/3/2018 at 9:54 AM, bullsfan27 said:

Espn has us as a 5 seed playing in Mississippi states side. The 4 seed is nc state.

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/bracketology

NC State is practically identical to us except they don't have any bad losses. They even have two common opponents, Tulane and Notre Dame. We lost by less to Notre Dame and won by more against Tulane (comparing home games to home games), but home court advantage neutralizes that. Of course you have to win the first round but winning against NC State is definitely realistic. 

25 minutes ago, Calibull said:

nothing against ucf... but a win over Memphis in basketball is much bigger.  ucf sucked his first year, they fired the coach  and hired J. Dawkins.  So no... not the same. I actually don't remember anyone dumping praise on coa after the ucf game.  this is literally the first I've read of it. 

I just remember this board being pretty excited about it. 

I remain happy. 

Also for your viewing pleasure: https://247sports.com/college/southern-methodist/Board/SMU-Basketball-Recruiting-Message-Board-Forums-105958

The women win 80-44. Absolute dominance. 

Usf running over ECU 60-33 at the end of the third quarter. 

THIS is what I wanted to see. This team didn't quit all season and they're grabbing games by the horns at the end. Fine SMU is depleted, all it means is that with quality depth we will keep winning next year. It will be hard to make it to the semifinals of the American tournament but I refuse to rule them out the way they've played these past two games. 

1 hour ago, George_Bullnard_Shaw said:

Yup. To the consternation of the nation.

And most definitely as a sixteenth seed. 

If they played like they did last night in every game, we'd probably get to the semis of the conference tournament and ruin some tournament dreams. The funny thing is that the team has been close on some games all season-if they bring it not a stretch to believe they could get there. 

I am very tempted to go on their board right now and tell them "look, USF's fan base is making fun of you! Go challenge them and defend your powerful Tigers team!" (and increase traffic on TBP. and have some Friday fun). 

23 minutes ago, Calibull said:

Favorite part was looking at the game thread prior to tip-off... "USF is cupcake city"... hahahaha beautiful!  We literally ran them.  Coach G is our guy.  I think the team will improve immensely over the coming years.  I think he'll build a real contender. 

I'll advise caution here honestly. We saw the same thing after xCOA crushed UCF at the end of his first year. Difference is that Gregory seems to be doing the right thing in terms of building the team. 

So I am enjoying the Tiger meltdown: 

http://csnbbs.com/forum-499.html

This board is so much fun to read.