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47 minutes ago, belgianbull said:

On the question of Philadelphia or Hawaii; Hawaii all the way. UNLV and Hawaii should be two of the top teams in the country.  Never understood why these teams don't recruit better. I know if I was a kid I would never sign for Alabama, Nebraska,... since these places would bore me to death.

Can you imagine a full ride scholarship and get to live in Honolulu or Las Vegas. 

Making a lot of assumptions. Yes you get to live in Hawaii for free. But UH is academically an average institution (170 in USNWR rankings). You have to travel to the US mainland for half your games and you're way behind on time zones with the rest of the country. And as a G5 school UH is not likely to get the best scheduling which would get you to the NFL because most bigger schools, even on the West Coast, are not likely to travel to Hawaii given travel costs. 

23 minutes ago, bulloni said:

its established academics are against spending on sports in general for universities so that has to be considered.

But concern #1 in the doc makes no sense. 

20.5-5.3 is 15.2 million, did he then subtract the money we aren't earning from Raymond James instead of adding it to get 13 million? Am I missing something?

It's a bizarre claim implying that USF would make less revenue from the new stadium than from RJS. If we have a big Alabama or UF opponent we can roll them over to RJS if that gets them on the schedule, it only costs 200k to rent RJS for a game, maybe 300k if we need the whole stadium.  We had 18 million in football related revenue during 21-22 which was a horrific 2 win season. It's using zero based budgeting to assume no revenue growth whatsoever. We could theoretically afford that debt service just with the concessions and parking increases. If we actually start winning I'm pretty confident the real revenue number will be much higher, closer to 30 million a year or so. 

22 hours ago, Outlaw said:

Would be a big donor and stadium rights. Publix stadium where we serve pub subs, publix friend chicken, sweet tea, and Yuengling beer.

There are a few left. It is weird Harveys bought some Winn Dixies but not all of them.

There's one on Nebraska and MLK. Good because that area needs a good grocery store and they do pretty good. 

WKU comes down to how much progress BB has made over the off season. We cannot realistically hope to stop Austin Reed and the air raid barring immense defensive improvement. Every team that beat them last year with the exception of Auburn did so in a shoot-out where they scored 30+ points. I would have like last year's offense to pull this off better. The weird outlier was UAB-they held them to 20 points but forced WKU to play from behind all game, forcing the Hilltoppers to win the game in the 4th quarter. 

If you can force turnovers that will help too. Reed did throw 11 INTs in 12 games which isn't a whole lot given he had 602 attempts last year-basically 1 every 54 attempts. 

Their defense was average which gives me some hope-61st in run game, 85th against the pass. I think the key will be to jump out to an early lead and use the run game to keep the offense off the field. I do think WKU is plenty beatable. 

And that my friends, is why USF is a preeminent university and UCF will forever be known as the Oviedo State Citronauts. 

Two fouls on DFM in the first quarter? They must be using the same refs they used in the Florida game in September. 

Not surprised SMU fought so hard. They were unbeaten at home before today. They played their best game, we played as bad as we could have and still won. 

3 minutes ago, BullyPulpit said:

Not only that, but the other team would have to account for it on every kickoff, making it possible to pin them back by kicking it deep. 

Or track racing our fastest guys down the field in hopes of a downfield recovery 

22 hours ago, bullstampede9922 said:

If we could just figure out a way to keep the offense on the field the entire game I think we'd be okay.

Needed to keep DDP for that. We could just onside kick every possession. Imagine being so well practiced at onside kicks that even if you only recovered 50% it would technically be a stop, plus the defense would only ever play on short fields. Even if the opposing team scores they stay fresh because they have less snaps. If your D gets a 3 and out then they have to attempt a really long field goal which isn't a guarantee for an AAC kicker-and suddenly your offense gets the ball between the 30–40-yard lines. 

Just now, E.T. said:

 Can I borrow?  

You can rent it like everyone else. Pm me and we can discuss. Willing to give you a USF discount. 

1 hour ago, Rocky Style said:

I BULLieve we need a few more UM boat parties and a turo Lambo to get a few extra transfers.

I have a McLaren. Not a joke. What do we need to do. 

12 minutes ago, Rex Havoc said:

USF never does things the easy way 

The Refs seem to enjoy calling way too many fouls. Not watching live but that looks like they're screwing a bit much with the game. USF had this well in hand but the refs kept calling fouls. 

Refs been calling waaaaaaaaaay too many fouls on USF. Feels like a fix up. 

15 hours ago, Bull94 said:

Unfortunately college athletics are all about the money now. I'm not a big fan either. It is the future though and if USF wants to compete then they will have to find a way to play the game.

Money will shift from coaches/schools to players now.

Free agency (scholarships are only 1 year contracts) will happen every year now. Players will go to the highest bidders.

College ball was always about the money, who are we kidding? Millions for head coaches, millions for TV contracts, millions for ADs. The only change is now the players are allowed to operate in a free market for their marketing value where before they were expected to shut up and be grateful for a scholarship that could get pulled annually. 

5 minutes ago, Local Bully said:

It better be Leavitt as DC

Sure it is, if you want to break the program in 2. Every failure CAG has will be scrutinized in light of the program founder standing next to him. You can't go halfway with CJL. Either he's the man in charge or he's not coaching. At this point we probably need to make him a program ambassador of some kind. That would still leave CAG with the opportunity to mold the program in his vision. 

26 minutes ago, Jim Johnson said:

For what it's worth, the original plan offered by JD was to make that USF Lakeland's campus.  Judy declined and actually fought JD trying to move USF Lakeland.  (I was a legislative aide in the early 2000s and still had friends in the legislature that gave me some info at the time).  JD wasn't trying to create a new state university.   He was definitely in it for himself -- he and his family also owned land that would have been part of the Heartland Parkway that he tucked into the budget one year.  (Then again, what do you expect for the grandson of Ben Hill Griffin?).

I was in the room when JD Alexander brought Don Gaetz (yes, Matt Gaetz's daddy) to basically threaten the Board of Governors for the State University System. Michael Long, the student rep exposed him utterly then and there. 

I need to add that this isn't the first time Alexander and his family pulled that stunt. If you go down to FGCU, you'll see street signs for Alico Road-that's the name of their company. That used to be USF Ft. Myers. It was probably the right move to separate FGCU (way too far south to  be part of USF's ecosystem), but USF Poly was essentially a money grab engineered by blackmailing USF. 

4 hours ago, Dave_Glaser said:

I would applaud Jim’s return. It ain’t happening. Get ready for heartbreak. Everyone who wants to blame Judy Genshaft for the original firing should consider this: The woman is one of the university’s top 3-4 donors. Gonna risk that to bring Jim back?

A legitimate point, one of the few beyond "his time is past" that I've seen. She still comes to athletic events too. 

And well...yes. Yes I would. I have no end of respect for how she boosted the school academically. But she despised athletics and wilfully let woolard tank it into the ground. And let's not pretend that she was entirely perfect. Her management of the branch campuses was poor and allowed JD Alexander to create the circumstances for the biggest corruption boondoggle I've ever seen in the state of Florida with USF Poly. Is she going to write the ocs check? Or heck, the CJS buyout check? If so then fine. But otherwise, it is beyond past time to fix the mess she made with usf athletics. Do that and I guarantee this university will take its next huge step forward. 

13 minutes ago, Rocky Style said:

Who would be the interim coach?  From our staff?  So we would have fewer resources?

Da Prato seems have some competence. I don't hate trickett either. 

23 hours ago, bullstampede9922 said:

So you bet against them, but complain about the team when they lose?  

I mean, I don't gamble, but if we all gambled and bet against USF repeatedly I suspect we could literally fund the OCS with won bets. Talk about getting our opponents to pay for our stadium! 

I joined after the Miami win in 2010. Hard to believe it's been nearly 12 years on here. Unfortunately it's been mostly downhill from here.

Fortunately-I still love USF and I'm grateful for this website giving us all a place to vent. 

19 hours ago, Jim Johnson said:

A circular field doesn't fit well in the same footprint as a football field.

You could have removable seating to close up the gap. Put the students there and drown the opponent in constant noise. We could call it the bullring. 

Cricket fields are larger anyway. 

On 7/23/2022 at 9:25 PM, Paisa el Toro said:

We are quidditch national champs after all.

And cricket national champs too!

Too late but, but building the stadium to accommodate cricket would keep the stadium busy in February to April with international matches from England plus short format matches in July/August with the Caribbean Premiere League. 

22 minutes ago, Jim Johnson said:

Yes, but you could do that with the player directly without going through the collective... as in what The Bulls Pen is doing... and then it would be deducible as a business expense, as you indicate.

The membership itself might not actually be considered a business expense, however... something that might only be a problem in an audit.

For profit businesses can deduct certain business expenses.

Agree there. Memberships are in that gray zone though usually not considered deductible. You'd have to show some kind of income production or business purpose (I.e. Resulted in new contract or whatever)