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  1. 13 minutes ago, Gatorbull325 said:

    BG is out of here. I dont even know what was said by the other coach, but if all those players are leaving it probably wasnt good. We suck too much to have a coach not smart enough to watch his mouth. If BG didnt fire this man and knew about the incident lost the then he has to go. 

    there was premium content from a certain well-connected basketball coverage guy  on TOS about this with explicit details of what was said and what was done about it. I have read it, I believe it, but I think board rules don't allow me to post details here. All I'm saying is that it's very likely you are correct-and it's possible it's for cause. In today's hyper-race-sensitive environment not doing enough to address ongoing problems with a coach making racist remarks, and to the point that 7 players have abandoned the program? CBG is gone. 

    It's bizarre though. CBG rescued the program from Antigua's roster hemorrhages his first three months on the job. He rebuilt us into a CBI winner. And only two years later, everything he did fell apart, down to most of that young core moving on and facing the same problems we faced when this all started. 

    Hey, I wonder if Stan Heath will come back. I can't help but notice he inspired such loyalty in his players that half of them quit the team and transferred when he was fired. 

     

  2. Washington State isn't a 9 seed. 

    They finished 7th in their conference and got blown out in the 2nd round of the conference championship. I'm sure they'll bring everything they can, but NET on its own would place them as an 11 or possibly even a 12 seed, at best a 10 seed. RPI wouldn't see them in the tournament at all (ranked 96 in the RPI). USF will rampage against them assuming the team is ready to go physically. A 12-11 team doesn't belong in the tourney in the first place. 

    As far as NC State-they are the weakest #1 seed in the field, with a NET of 7. that's not to say that they're a weak team but any means, but assuming we shoot like we did against UCF, I like our chances against them just like we played against Baylor. 

    And if you're looking for a bright side-beat both teams and we have the inside track to the final four as we wouldn't face the 2 seed until the Elite 8. Assuming we face the higher seed in each round, the track is 45, 7, 9, 15, 11. All of those teams are within fighting range if we can play at our pre-COVID best. 

     

  3. I suppose if we were going to get shafted with an 8 seed, at least we get shafted with a relatively weaker first weekend. while it's not a perfect indicator, Washington State is 45 in the net, meaning they're par for a 9 seed, while NC State is 7th in the NET, thus far the weakest 1 seed. We played Baylor fairly close early in the season and it looks like the women had something to prove against UCF, so it looks like their competitive edge is restored. We just can't afford the team to go cold. A week's break will probably benefit given the fatigue of late.  

  4. 9 minutes ago, BullyPulpit said:

    Tulane was ranked 59th in the NET rankings, so they are no slouches. I expected a tough game and we got one. Our shooting has been atrocious in the two games from the layoff. It will improve. Just have to beat UCF. Never going to get higher than a #4 seed from the committee, they showed us that already. 

    The committee punished anyone who had a COVID layover-they punished Michigan too. 

    If we run the table in conference and do it again in the conference tourney, no reason we can't get a top 4 seed. I suspect beating 3-4 top 60 teams twice more will be enough evidence with the early season successes. 

  5. Keep in mind we are essentially already paying players with full cost of attendance plus allowances. I maintain what I said before-every student athlete should be able to sign marketing deals, although thinking about it further, they do need to not conflict with existing marketing contracts-IE you can't have a player endorse Winn Dixie when our corporate sponsor is Publix. 

    For USF part of the issue is that marketing deals go through Vinik. 

  6. I can't help but notice that we were much more  competitive in all the weeks we had some kind of bye the week before. We dominated the Citadel of course, but we were in positions to win against Temple, Memphis, and UCF, all of which we had an off week before the game. that tells you that this was a matter of getting more practice in. With a full spring camp and perhaps some development in how to manage and win games late...we could easily take an 8 to 9 win quantum leap next year. Please remember that CJS is a first year head coach. It's one thing to not understand it fully now, but if he learns it for next year, that' sokay. 

    The schedule is stupid hard again though. An undefeated USF next year (yes, yes, I know this has never happened), would be locked in at #5 next year in the CFP rankings (seeing as they can't afford an American team entering the playoffs unless we beat UF and UF wins the SEC). BYU on the road will be an enormously difficult game, and NC state's not bad either. 

  7. As far as I'm concerned in the end CWT did exactly what was best for USF-he rebuilt the program to a successful point, got a bigger job that made us look good as a stepping stone, and got us money back on the buyout so we essentially made money off him. While the roster balance wasn't great when he left, whoever the next head coach was going to essentially get a free year to recruit hard and rebuild the roster while we had the best team in USF history on hand to push the envelope. Had the team kept winning after the first half of 2018 then fan support would have continued to grow steadily and we're likely looking at 2020 being a power year for the program. What CCS did was utterly horrid for the program-his losing caused a lot of people to lose hope right after three and a half years of winning had finally caused some people to start getting interested again. I wonder how things would have gone had CJS been hired in 2017 instead of 2020. 

     

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  8. I'm trying to figure out what we were going to expect. The team is rebuilding, we've lost a ton along the trenches and front seven. I had some hopes but it's glaringly obvious that we're not even getting out of our own way right now and team confidence has to be at an all-time low right now.

    The good news is that this won't go forever. I almost don't want the FAU game to get canceled next week because if this is a motivated team they will be very determined to prove that this blowout isn't who USF is. If the game does get canceled you get a bit of a reset button with a chance for the missing OL to come back with Fortin two weeks from now.

    You can expect 8 in the box the rest of the game offensively and I'm not sure McCloud or Johnson have what it takes to beat that. They'll need to bring Miller in as a slot guy to generate something in the passing game.

    Marsh shouldn't even be exposed against this. He'll be eaten alive against this rush. I'm stunned we haven't committed any turnovers. The special teams have been terrible. 

    For those of you thinking we won't recover from this-well I disagree. UCF got blown out at Michigan in year 1, an elite, powerhouse Michigan. We can also improve. 

  9. If it was Boise, BYU, and Air Force, I would do it. Boise and BYU's deals are already close to the AAC contract and Air Force would likely value up as every school would be able to get a military appreciation game every other year. They haven't been willing to join, but if it means being left out in the cold...I think BYU and Boise would do it. Boise's problem is that they pretty much dominate the MWC most years-so they would probably lose some profile if they moved to the AAC. If the AAC is the only path to a NY6 every year they will join. 

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