SpeedBull

I never said he wasn’t an a-hole. He is arrogant as hell and a lot older now. The Knicks are a train wreck. But in his prime, he is arguably the greatest coach in NBA history. Championships don’t lie. Yeah, he had MJ and Kobe/Shaq...but those teams weren’t winning before he took over. They called him the “zen master”, which is corny, but he brought a different perspective to coaching and leadership.

Rodney is a very talented kid. The Vikings are stacked at WR unfortunately. I would really like to see him get another shot in the NFL. He’s a classy young man and an electric player. I wish him the best. He is the best receiver in USF history in my humble opinion.

Hahahaha...that was some funny shizz

You have to be kidding

The best coaches are usually intelligent guys. Belicheck, Bill Walsh, Chuck Knoll, Nick Saban, Phil Jackson...The list goes on and on. The best of the best are very intelligent guys in addition to being great coaches. I believe it is necessary.

The Bucs play on Sunday in the same stadium. We are competing against an NFL team in their house on back to back days. We need an OCS. We need to become a unique game day experience that isn’t competing with the Bucs. I will keep ringing the OCS bell until we get one.

Ahhhhh...you are right. I just re-read it. I thought they were talking about hiring UCF coach. Either way, any talk of getting rid of Strong is absurd. College football is about recruiting. We will be hard pressed to get a better recruiter than CCS any time soon.

They’ve won 4 conference titles. They have an OCS. They have a Fiesta Bowl win. They’ve probably put more guys in the NFL and the program has been around longer. So enlighten me as to what makes USF superior.

Most coaches leave a program for a step up. USF would be a lateral move at best, and could be argued a small step back. I don’t see him having any interest here.

Reporter: “Coach, what’s are your thoughts on the offensive execution?” Coach John McKay: “I’m all for it” One of the great quotes of all time and very fitting. This offensive game plan needs to be taken out back and shot. That sh**ty draw play every 1st down was making me crazy. This offense makes CWT’s first year look like the Greatest Show on Turf.

EXACTLY! No OCS means there will never be any tradition. That fact that this is not universally understood on this board will never cease to amaze me. And no, I don’t have a “link” to support this view. It is just painfully obvious to me.

This is the attitude that makes me crazy. Some people just want to be contrarian. Good use of sarcasm, props to you. Bad use of any actual thought. Have you been to an actual campus that has a stadium on it? It’s night and day. The ridiculousness of a “homecoming game” at Ray Jay is enough to drive me crazy. None of us attended classes at the Ray Jay. I never took an economics class at the Mons Venus. I never had a statistics class at the Burger King on the corner. That area has NOTHING to do with The University of South Florida. There is no effing tradition at Ray Jay. There NEVER will be. Plain and simple. God**mn some of you people are really not paying attention to the big picture. Lee Roy was an incredible man, Jim Leavitt built the program, Skippy nearly destroyed it, Willie got us back and Charlie is the best possible person we could have right now, make no mistake. Some of you should stick to talking about flamingos, wizards, and Publix subs. Because anyone with any love for the program, and college football in general, could deny the importance of an OCS.

The University of South Florida needs to do whatever they can to keep Coach Charlie Strong. This man is a helluva coach and clearly a great recruiter. The time is now. We will NEVER get a better recruiter for the state of Florida than CCS. An OCS is clearly an important point for Coach Strong. Important enough that he mentioned it at his initial press conference. This absolutely needs to happen, and something needs to be announced soon. I believe the only way that we keep him for more than another year or two is to get this thing in motion. We will never have a better opportunity to become a big time program than right now. When you catch lightning in a bottle you need to capitalize on it. If/when Coach Strong leaves it will set this program back to a place that will be tough to recover from. Coach Willie Taggart was a gift, he was a rare local guy that was a great recruiter. A guy ready to make a name for himself and show the world of college football what he could do. He set this program up for success and brought excitement back. The fact that we got CCS right after CWT left was a once in a lifetime stroke of luck and opportunity. USF needs to capitalize on it. They need to capitalize now. Work with Jeff Vinick, do whatever it takes. We need to get started on “The House That Charlie Built”.

If we don’t build an OCS and act like we really want a football program, he will be gone. And I would not blame him.

OCS.....it’s so obvious. Build the f-ing stadium. Make some tradition on campus. I’ve heard all the arguments against it and I don’t care. If we don’t want to look like a Mikey Mouse program we need to build a stadium. I don’t care if we were in the SEC. Ray Jay is not, and never will be, the Bulls stadium. Oh yeah, Joey Galloway called the fans out too....saying “all 4,000 of them are upset with the false starts.”

It seems to me like Charlie Strong is making a statement with the uniforms. The statement being, "let's focus on football and not the uniforms." I also have to believe that the Gold helmet, Green jersey, Green pants combo is no coincidence. To me that was our classic uni combo back in the day. Granted, the Gold has now changed to Gold/Chrome, and the pants now have stripes etc. I'm guessing that CSS remembers the old unis and may be trying to bring back tradition. Also, since the school that basically started the different uni every game concept was Oregon, I think CSS wants to be the opposite of that since CWT went there. I have no facts to support this, but it makes sense to me.

If he did nothing but get CSS to USF he did a lot. That was the biggest score possible at the biggest possible time. I hate to see anyone leave while we've got some positive momentum going. That said, I'm glad he got us CSS before he leaves, if that's what in fact happens.

That's better

Insightful as always JTrue. You never disappoint.

Sometimes the truth does hurt. A 1/3 full NFL stadium with red seats, a pirate ship, and a band so far away that you can barely hear them is quite a bit different than a sea of neon green and yellow with 54,000 packed in. Their stadium used to seat 41,000. They developed a passionate fan base and a brand then expanded to 54,000. (Yeah Nike doesn't hurt) Instead of us being offended we should look at them as a good example of a brand and experience to emulate. We are already like UA's version of "Oregon" with all the different unis etc. If we don't do something to change it we can kiss CSS goodbye in a few years too and he will say the same thing when he leaves.

What is it about that data that has you convinced that an OCS will crippled USF? I see them at #59. UCF at #55. A lot of well known programs ranked below us, most, if not all, on the list have an OCS. Revenue and expenses are tight but that seems to be very common up and down the list. I don't think this data as presented tells much of anything.

Great point. It speaks to the apathy of the Tampa Bay sports community and many on this board unfortunately. Keep fighting the good fight Memphis. Wear a helmet, you will feel like you are beating your head against the wall. It never ceases to amaze me when I check in on this thread.

It all just seems like a cop out to me. If Ray Jay is the standard which the new OCS will be measured against then there will never be an OCS. The idea that people won't go to games because it's not as nice as Ray Jay is incomprehensible to me.

THIS is the real problem. When it comes to an OCS, I don't care if it's made on a "wine cooler budget". I just want it to be on campus. That's where college games should be played. If you have an article about donor levels, that would be a very nice bit of information for this thread. Perhaps you could post it/them. Your implication is that you've read one or more of these articles. Based on half of the posts on this thread, they must have read the same article(s). It must say we are the poorest University in the country. I call B.S.