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59 minutes ago, BDYZR said:

 

Pretty much exactly what I said, well, except for calling someone a fool for not chasing money. That's not the most important thing in the lives of some.

No, it's not but $5M goes a lot further in MS than it does in FL. Quality of life? Well, Houston and Atlanta are short hops by air (and New Orleans isn't too far by car), and I'm sure an SEC school will make a private jet available for his family's personal use if that's what they want. I suspect if Strong stays it will be his wife not wanting to leave Tampa-and again, that argument can be pushed away if a private jet or free flights are available. 

I just hope that if CCS gets hired away we don't go after another retread like Butch Jones. With an IPF (and more to come) in place there will be some good options from CUSA and the Sun Belt. Butch Davis has done the difficult and turned FIU around (and this guy was gunning for the USF job-perhaps people will listen now?). 

I also like the job Neil Brown has done at Troy. It's possible he's in the running for a mid-tier SEC job, but if he's not he would be ready to go here at USF. They're on track for another 10 win season after going 10-3 last year (with a 6 point loss to national champion Clemson), and beat a top 25 LSU team this year. His QB regressed this year, however, which is cause for concern. 

The only reason they are that high is because so many teams ahead of them lost. Of course, if they let them into the CFP with that ridiculous schedule, they'll probably excuse it away with "they beat Ohio State". I personally think they get boat raced by Ohio State. 

4 hours ago, footnfan1 said:

Frost is clearly resting players, probably because of fatigue and the schedule. I agree, scheduling AP, in hindsight may have been an error, but you do the best you have with the info at the time.

Frost got Killins 1 TD, then he sat. Starting TE, never played, resting him. I think at on one series, he had 6 O starters sitting. 

It is an odd day when you score 49, and feel like you did not deliver your best performance. Gata's would kill for 49 points and the QB having a QB rating of 189.1

 

Valid points, but unless you guys get up 28 on Temple in the first quarter, I suspect your players will have to play the full game.  Temple's defense has finally woken up and it's going to be tough sledding in the cold weather with the rain. I don't think they win, but they sure hang with you for three quarters. 

If Frost was resting players in the third quarter yesterday, that was a mistake. USF has been doing much of the same with the defensive starters and that is what has kept games close in the fourth quarter. That said, the talent gap between UCF and UConn was massive yesterday. There were so  many plays where UConn just didn't have the ability to take advantage where USF will be able to (assuming Sterlin Gilbert designs some better plays). 

Did anyone forget that this is lob99's typical good luck habit? Per him every team will destroy us but somehow we never get destroyed. 

BOOM! That was fun! 

Team keeps running hot and cold. They get out on a big lead and then give up a big run. I'm enjoying their effort level for sure but you have to close things out and not play for the half. 

21 minutes ago, bullsfan1983 said:

Probably would, but the polls they use for CCG home/away decision are the Tuesday before the UCF game. 

So right now it runs through Orlando but if we beat them Memphis will host-but if we win out and Memphis loses a game then most likely we will host. 

That said, Q turned the Liberty Bowl into his own personal showcase last year. I'd love to see it happen again if we can't play at home. 

DOUBLEHEADER!

#22 USF WBB vs. LSU

USF MBB vs. FAU. 

GREEN!

35 minutes ago, Bourbon Bull said:

 

????  That works out to $40 million.  At least according to my Bowmar Brain.

I am an accountant and it makes sense to my brain. Put together all the zeros (there are 7 of them) and put the 4 on the front, that's $40,000,000. 

UL was invited for its football prowess. The ACC wants great academic schools-they made an exception for UL, and it paid off for them. That said, USF and UCF would not get in there yet due to the same academic reasons. Miami won't get booted out, they have substantially improved their academics and their football team is back to being a conference headliner, but I could see UL getting booted if they could find a replacement-perhaps they do a double invitation for Texas/Texas Tech?

If we go out of town for the CCG, it will be a convenient excuse for me to finish my my Delta Silver Medallion requalification for the year. 

1 hour ago, Bullrush33 said:

Its risky because Manny has never been a head coach before but I like his Miami roots.

This is the state of Florida. I don't see the rationale behind Sumlin when he's never won a conference title at Houston or TAMU, both of which I may add are Texas schools. He would make much more sense for a school like SMU. Not here. 

3 hours ago, Bullrush33 said:

Hey we can take Sumlin then! 

Sumlin is a Texas guy, he wouldn't fit here. How about Manny Diaz or someone else from the Hurricanes coaching staff? They're going to be hot and looking to win for a bigger job. Richt isn't the youngest guy, if he wins a national title at UM I think he could retire satisfied-and there's be a hot, NY6 winning coach in Tampa ready to take the gig from him. 

And if we win then we get to face 3 seed Florida, which somehow got a 3 seed despite six losses. Eh whatever, win this entire thing ladies! 

We should encourage them to poke Quinton Flowers on Facebook. Maybe even send a fool wandering around campus in UCif gear. 

15 minutes ago, MaltLiquorBull said:

64 - 12

and 44-3 and 48-31. 

5 minutes ago, Apis Bull said:

I would love for this law to be placed on the books.  (Disclaimer - I know it won't happen.  Forgive my attempt at legalese):

Until such time in which the University of South Florida (USF) and/or the University of Central Florida (UCF) are members of one of the, "Power 5" (P5) conferences, the University of Florida (UF) and Florida State University (FSU) are required to play, on an alternating basis, USF or UCF in a home and away series.  Once the home and away series is completed, then UF and FSU would alternate to a home and away series with the school not played in the prior series, ad infinitum.

Additionally, USF and UCF are required to play, on an alternating basis, Florida Atlantic University (FAU) or Florida International Univeristy (FIU) in a home and away series.  Once the home and away series is completed, then USF and UCF would alternate to a home and away series with the school not played in the prior series, ad infinitum.

I don't think USF wants to play FIU after the stunt they pulled with the Indiana game a few years ago. It's one thing to not play because you don't want to risk a loss to a team on a lower tier than you. It's another when the other school's administration stabbed you in the back to rob you of a P5 opponent. 

On 11/5/2017 at 1:18 PM, ambienknights said:

If Memphis didn't throw to UCF defenders

 

 

If SMU didn't drop passes

 

seeing a trend here. living rent free in your heads. Ferguson is more scary to UCF fans than regressed Flowers

It won't be as funny as "if McKenzie Milton hadn't just thrown 4 INTs after Senat and Hector and the defense pressured him all day long". Remember, you are UCiF! The "if" excuse was invented by you tinheads. 

We'll see. I can make the peach bowl. I can't make any other bowl game because I'll be 8,000 miles away in South Asia (unless they're commissioning a bowl in Dubai that I don't know about in the next two months). 

3 minutes ago, Bullrush33 said:

Plus Milton has a delayed hitch in his throw that can be blocked.

If you pressure Milton, he will turn the ball over. He's fine when he doesn't have pressure in his face, but as a shorter QB it's harder for him to see the field. 

The question is where the pressure is going to come from. UConn attacked the blitzes fairly well with screens and the like, and that intermediate to deep middle was open for Shirreffs all day (I think at one point he was 8-8 on throws over the middle). 

This is the one downside to an aggressive defense. A team that's good at handling the blitz and running screens will blow up a lot of blitzes. Auggie and Sawtelle are going to need to have baller games against UCF's running attack. 

Wouldn't we want Stanford to lose? Given that we're stuck in the 20-25 range the more teams that lose around us, the better it is for us. 

You can kick yourself about the drop and be happy about the TD at the same time. There was no excuse for that drop, fortunately it didn't cost us as we still scored a TD, but beating the tackle and sprinting 95 yards for a TD is a great play. 

Tulsa is known for poor defense. Assuming they continue with the same offensive philosophy after the bye week, these small things getting fixed will have us putting up 50 on Tulsa. 

21 minutes ago, Flowers4Heisman said:

Comparing USF vs. UConn, and SMU vs. UCF ==== I would give the edge to Both SMU & UCF right now.

I don't like how we play. Granted, we lost a heart breaker. But we are not firing on all cylinders.

Tell me something that we do really well all the time. Okay, maybe stopping the run. Anything else?

Intercepting the ball and getting pressure. Also, Tyre McCants will truck DBs.

Give Sterlin Gilbert some credit. Yeah, he still ran up the middle the bunch of times. But he recognized that UConn can't defend the pass well and opened up the offense by attacking with bubble screens, and even a diamond pattern and the offense responded. The offense was still sort of inefficient, you got to score TDs when you get inside the 20. But this was a better called game than last week and the offense responded. I will admit to some concern at how often the pass protection broke down. 

A wild pass to the tr appeared! It's super effective! Uconn flinched!