and that's why the old timers would love to see Leavitt back. He took a used traier and a sandspur lot, and a bunch of want a be high school players that nobody else wanted and beat a ton of top 25 rated teams. It was a pain in the neck having to leave early to get through the traffic to have to stand in long lines to get into the stadium, or wait again just to get a coke, only to have to stand up the entire game in order to see over the loaded stadium, only to be stuck in another traffic jam getting away from the stadium. But it was nice seeing the team every week on Game day, and seeing people who were proud to have USF stickers on their cars.
It was also nice to be able to go to a home game and have more USF fans than UCF fans. Leavitt never lost to them. Even when we were under 10 years old, and they had a 20 year head start on us.
He beat teams that thought they were using us for an easy win. Teams like FSU at FSU, Auburn in Auburn (at night), Louisville, Cinci,WV,NC, Kansas, and Pitt when they were all highly ranked.
We looked down on most of the teams that caught us, beat us, and are now walking away from us.
Yes I miss that, and if you need someone to beg him to come back, I would do it gladly.