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I just missed him because I was rushing through. He actually had a good spring. I just talked to Todd Chandler so I got a few good tidbits of information on the Dline. I was thinking about talking to a couple of the other guys I'm still friends with and maybe writing something up. But Hector is definitely in the mix. From the looks of it the Dline will go really deep this year, especially early on. We could see as many as 8 to 9 people in the rotation at various points with the starters playing the most minutes.

You think 311 and 318 are on the light side? Here were there weights as of spring http://www.gousfbulls.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPSID=37330&SPID=2981&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=7700&SORT_ORDER=6&Q_SEASON=2014&PRINTABLE_PAGE=

Yup... I think Vincent Jackson will see significant playing time as a true freshman at the Buck LB position. I'm willing to bet he opens up behind Cliett at #2 on the depth chart there.

Wikipedia: "A defensive tackle who lines up directly across from the ball (and therefore is almost nose-to-nose with the offense's center) is often called a nose tackle or nose guard. The nose tackle is most common in the 3-4 defense. Most defensive sets have one or two defensive tackles." SBNation: "There are varying roles for defensive tackles -- whether you're a nickel pass rusher, a nose tackle or a base down run-stuffer -- and gap (one-gap or two-gap) assignments and general roles vary in the 4-3 and the 3-4." Football 101: "Nose Tackle: A defensive tackle who lines up directly across from the center" You're not wrong but neither was Bullphin or GA... Also, just to add to this, nose tackles also exist in 4-3 defenses, so the black and white distinction is just not there. Do you remember Booger McFarland? You're grasping at straws. I honestly don't think you knew we were running the 3-4 this year to be honest. You likely thought the 3-4 was a training fad for camp which is understandable... but it wasn't and that is not what that statement was referring to. It's easy to tell. I mean nobody refers to the NT as the DT... he could see time in the DT rotation... whatever... I call BS. I just corrected a wrong with someone who doesn't want to admit that they dks.

He ran the 4-3 in Cincinnati (at least part of the time) and in Oakland (at least part of the time). I haven't followed his career enough to know, but it seems from what I can find online that he has shown a lot of variation, which is consistent with the philosophy I mentioned (as did you): the personnel will dictate the scheme. Re: recruiting, I think they are desperately recruiting any d-linemen they can get after whiffing on several over the past couple years. We are lean and have been for some time, even for a 3-4. I do not think that is by choice. Raider fan here... No we did not run the 4-3 when he was with Oakland. I'm from the bay area (not tampa though I did cross the land to go to school at usf). We ran the 3-4 when he was our coordinator. I mean you literally just made that up. I would be silent but you're spreading that as gospel. I don't know about the Bengals so I'll give you that. But the entire time he was with the Raiders, which was very short, we ran the 3-4. We ran it in the Super Bowl when the Bucs whipped us. But yeah... that part of your statement is BS so I'll take the rest with a grain of salt.

We run the 3-4 now there are no DTs... A nose tackle.. aka NG... but no DT. We'll probably not see the 4-3 again while Taggart is our coach. He doesn't normally run it. He ran it last season because of personnel, but it's not what he does. Semantics. A NT is technically a DT. Not even technically. A NT IS a defensive tackle. You hide as many things behind semantics as you desire. If he/she meant NT, he would have said it. The implication from DT means are speaking of the 4-3 defense. Nobody ever refers to the NT in a 3-4 defense as DT... They call him a nose guard... NT.. etc. I mean people play dress-up when they get corrected like it's something wrong with someone pointing out they are not totally right. To many thin skins.

We run the 3-4 now there are no DTs... A nose tackle.. aka NG... but no DT. We'll probably not see the 4-3 again while Taggart is our coach. He doesn't normally run it. He ran it last season because of personnel, but it's not what he does. Semantics. A NT is technically a DT. We run the 3-4 now there are no DTs... A nose tackle.. aka NG... but no DT. We'll probably not see the 4-3 again while Taggart is our coach. He doesn't normally run it. He ran it last season because of personnel, but it's not what he does. Taggart isn't really a defensive guy, though. Coaching staff is on record as saying the reason they switched to 3-4 this year was because that is what they had the personnel for, and that decision will be a flexible one made based on what scheme they have the personnel for. (Quite a contrast from the offensive strategy...) Bresnahan has run the 3-4 every place he's been at. Last season was the first he didn't. Also if you look at his earlier interviews when he first got in, on Scout, 247, and rivals... the ones from last spring... when asked would in run the 3-4 he said personnel will dictate that. He said with four stud ends you want to maximize their ability. But he said we would be running it in the future. Our defensive recruiting has been for the 3-4... has nobody not noticed?

Flowers will not be able to learn this offense quick enough to be given a shot. The only reason Bench and White played last season was because Bobby and Matt were absolutely terrible. Flowers doesn't not need to be rushed. White actually had a terrific spring and just an average spring game. That was a mixed bag because you had Wulffe calling plays on one side and it showed. When the 1s are running together with White they look terrific. I've been to the practices and seen what the 1s look like and between White, Davis, Dunkley, Price, McFlarland, Adams, and Welch they will be really good. If you're looking for guys to not redshirt on offense look at the following names and plug where you may McCants, Bronson, and Johnson will not redshirt on offense. They came in college ready. Defense... You'll once again see a few freshman in the rotation. Like Vincent Jackson, Black, Nichols, and Sawyer. Just because they are college ready and really talented. Also in positions of need for us. We need their size, speed, and talent at the positions they play.

We run the 3-4 now there are no DTs... A nose tackle.. aka NG... but no DT. We'll probably not see the 4-3 again while Taggart is our coach. He doesn't normally run it. He ran it last season because of personnel, but it's not what he does.

QB Mike White, Steven Bench RB Tice, Pierre, and Johnson (Johnson will be starting before the 6th game) FB Swanson LG - Thor, Hall LT -Williams, Amichia C - Reiter, Ruff RT - Gundsmundson, Djulbegovic RG - Eatmon, Threatt TE - Mcfarland/Price/Pope WR - Davis, Adams, Bronson WR - Dunkley, McCants, Welch 4-3 WE DON'T RUN THE 4-3 AND LIKELY NEVER WILL AGAIN CONSIDERING TAGGART IS A 3-4 COACH. WE ONLY REAN IT LAST SEASON BECAUSE OF THE DEFENSIVE PERSONNEL. MLB - WLB - SLB - DE - DT - DT - DE - CB - CB - FS - 3-4 DE - Watson, Calloway, Love NG - Chandler, Senat, Calloway DE - Hill, Love, Perry LB - Cliett, Jackson LB - Harris, Whitehust/Black LB - Sanchez, Swain, Holeman LB- Legrand Harley, Holeman CB- Robbins, Nichols, Sawyer DB- Ward, Childs, Sawyer S- Byrd S - Godwin NB- Saffold PK/K - Kloss P - Ciabatti I'm pretty sure that I'm right with the starters. I could be off on the depth chart a bit with the incoming freshman. But the ones that were here for spring ball... I'm confident I go those accounted for correctly. I'm not sure what cool aide people have been drinking of Bench but he's not going to start. He had a good spring game but he was a pick 6 machine for most of the spring and was outplayed. He'll push White, but White is going to start.

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Impressive... I got a good feeling about this season.

The Lou Groza Award is presented annually to the top place kicker... The CFPA literally means the college football performance award. It's not just for kickers.

We don't have the academic advisory committee anymore. They got rid of it last year. Lol. I'm actually fully aware. lol...that's cool. I'm just making sure.

We don't have the academic advisory committee anymore. They got rid of it last year.

In what way is this "epic"? Yeah I was wondering what was so epic about it. The AAC is one of only six conferences who's media days are being covered by ESPN. Not quite a P5 not quite with the rest. It's a place that I'd thought we'd be use to having been in the Big East. We're not in as bad of a conference as many think but we aren't in a conference we want to be in. Like a transition. I think we'll be fine... we just need to win some games and get this thing going. I'm also going to be prescribing Xanax to a few of our fans, it appears they need it. Its being covered by EPSN3, just like the Sun Belt's. BTW, it was easier to find info about the Sun Belt's Media Day than the AAC's. And CUSA's will be on Fox Sports. Maybe you should be taking some meds too. http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/07/tuesdays_sun_belt_football_med.html http://www.theamerican.org/sports/2013/7/11/FB_0711135801.aspx?id=10 http://theamerican.org/sports/2014/6/3/FB_0603141557.aspx Well you could have started with the American home page. What are you internet illiterate?

I searched the forum and the internet. I found nothing on here and what I found online seem to all be from last year's media day. And one of the places I looked was on the official conference website. Contrast that to other conferences which have their Media Day info plastered all over it. But hey, next year I will make sure I check an obscure website that has nothing to do with the AAC to get their Media Day info. Talk about a bizarre post, if you knew about the media announcement a month back, why didn't you post it here? Obscure? Si... as in Sports Illustrated. It was also on ESPN... It's been listed in their future programing since May. I just don't think you looked to be honest. Do you even watch sports bro?

I would be willing to bet that we average more than 12-15k the first 3 games. Just looking at season ticket sales right now...

In what way is this "epic"? Yeah I was wondering what was so epic about it. The AAC is one of only six conferences who's media days are being covered by ESPN. Not quite a P5 not quite with the rest. It's a place that I'd thought we'd be use to having been in the Big East. We're not in as bad of a conference as many think but we aren't in a conference we want to be in. Like a transition. I think we'll be fine... we just need to win some games and get this thing going. I'm also going to be prescribing Xanax to a few of our fans, it appears they need it.

This thread is actually pretty bizarre and could have been avoided by checking. The media day lists were released a month ago... smh In case you missed someone I pulled up this Si article on guess what... media day schedules. I swear we have some of the most depressed or lazy fans I've ever seen. Like an old lady that just complains about every single thing and never bothering to check to see if something is actually wrong. Go Bulls http://saturdayblitz.com/2014/07/12/conference-media-days-schedule-fo4-2014/ <--- media day list

There were only around 200 students that showed up for the last home game...that is telling. The only thing telling about it is that we were 2-9 at that point. It just says we sucked last season and for the past 3. If we win, people will come out. We just haven't been winning. I'm a die hard fan, never miss home games and make a few away games. I still talk to other people who just didn't want to see he rebuilding last year after having atrocious seasons prior. We get off to a decent start and people will come back. We just need to show we can beat other decent teams and not finish below .500 again.

agreed

Great comment.

It's crazy... I don't know how anybody can look at that team in hindsight and think they could have been any better given the QB situation. I'm beginning to think nobody knew how bad Bobby and Matt were. It's crazy... We had to literally use a soph transfer who didn't know 1/5 of the playbook because the guys we had coming back, who knew the playbook a little, were complete garbage. Bench was thrown into the fire and didn't respond well... I didn't expect him to, he didn't know the offense. White was a 6'4 185 pound true freshman who barely knew some of the offense when he was thrown in. He wasn't ready but he was all we had. I think he performed well considering the offense and what he had to work with. It's delusional to think this team was 4 win team. It was a 2 win team. I don't know how any rational person expected anything else. Silliness is what it is. The team Taggart got was terrible. This is the year you pull out the grading markers.

Lord... do you really know that much about recruiting. First most didn't know if White was even going to play football in college and then he committed and shut down his recruiting. What you don't know is he was offered by Mississippi State, La Tech, and Houston. He wasn't the typical recruit in that once he committed he shut it down and stopped taking calls. So saying White's best offer was from Eastern Illinois tells me you don't really follow recruiting. Secondly he tried different plays to get the power game going but without the threat of play action and blocking from the offensive line it's for nada. Our offensive line was waaaay undersized and too weak to run a power offense. I don't think you know what that takes. Do you think that it's a coincidence that the line has gained almost 15 pounds per man across the board this year? It has increased in strength and size. This year we are made to run the power offense. Our line from tackle to tackle was 287, 305, 273, 312, 310 and all very weak and coming from a spread system. This season we're looking at the biggest line in school history that looks to line up 308, 332, 295, 321, 320... that's what it takes to execute this offense. I don't think people believed him when he said "we have to get bigger and stronger... we need bigger bodies.. people movers." I mean you can only run so many reverses and gadget plays. We were drastically undersized on both sides of the ball and that was Skips doing. Taggart ragged on the guys about it and they took it to heart. He said they didn't look like Division I football players and they were not strong enough nor were they fast enough. I guess people ignored that hoping for a12-0 season. You are saying he should have run different running plays in a "power offense" with no power. If nobody noticed, the offensive line got pushed around last year. Even by our defense in practices, spring ball, and fall camp... this year not so much. So I stick to what I said.. unless he ran the spread, he didn't have the personnel to run the offense. Shaw is not the typical back he wants for this offense. McFarland went up to 260 because he was too small... he trimmed Price out so he looks like a TE not a fat boy with wheels. I mean I get what you want to get at but look at the entire picture. This was an 0-12 team last year and Taggart did a decent job with crap. The QB recruiting under Holtz was so bad that a true freshman had to come in and play and that's sad. In regards to a the penalties and long plays... there is a reason that no true freshman has started in this offense, it is complicated and takes a while to learn the entire scheme. Any time Andrew Luck has to redshirt in this offense it's tough. Taggart did everything he could to keep White off the field because he wasn't ready... but he was the most talented guy we have. Also he grades high as hell... He's not 6'4 210 and that kid looks the part. Just for a little perspective. As I said there were too many unrealistic expectations last season. This is the year where you can start judging Taggart. Not a year with little talent and players not constructed to run the system. If you don't see the momentum that is being built you're either so far away from the program you can't or you're jaded after years of failure. As a donor and Alumni I see it. Things are happening and I'm sorry you're not a part of it but that appears to be of your own volition. This is the first time I've looked forward to football since fall 2011. Excitement was at an all time low last season. One we open up things will be just fine. Lord....... So you're telling me schools didn't offer Mike White because they were unsure if he was going to play baseball instead? If the recruit is good enough they offer him and let him make the decision. I do know he was offered by those schools, but to my knowledge those offers came AFTER USFs offer and AFTER he verbally committed to us. If you actually read what I said above, I said at the time of his commitment to USF his next best offer (according to recruiting sites, was Eastern Illinois or some tiny school like that). Not sure how to respond to your entire second paragraph. I completely agree our team needed to get bigger and stronger, especially the oline and I'm glad they did. I wasn't saying he should try different plays in the power run game, I thought it would've been nice to see him run some plays that catered to the strength of the personnel we actually had... And I'm not talking a few gadget plays where they put bench in at QB in shotgun and ran QB draws.. So, implement his power run offense, use that 90+% of the game because that's your philosophy and the offense you'd like to run, but on very important 3rd and 9 plays or whenever, run a 5 wide quick bubble screen play or some type of play that our players actually were fit for. I didn't ignore anything and expected a very bad season. I didn't expect 2-10, but I guess 4-8 was unrealistic. Especially a win week 1.. I completely agree that the talent on the team last year was very bad and that recruiting in general was god awful with Holtz. I never "judged" Taggart. If I don't see the momentum? Haha. We had a very good recruiting class, but I'm just realistic. Things are going to get better because they have to, and he's got some young talent to work with at this point. But we are still without a reliable QB. I understand White was young and still is, but looking at the whole picture, his year last year is not something you look at and say, OMG WE HAVE THE QB OF THE FUTURE HERE. I like him and he works hard, but he still has a ton to prove. I am not saying he's not good either, I'm just saying we really don't know what we have with him. We also lost a ton on Defense. So 1 year at 2-10 and 1 good recruiting class = we have momentum? Sorry I just don't see it that way. I follow USF football religiously, go to every game, etc. so I'm plenty close to it and I'm not jaded. I guess we just have very different ideas of what momentum means. I read what you said and it doesn't mean a thing. Nobody knew how good he was at the start of the season and most thought he'd either go in the MLB draft or he'd focus on baseball. I mean that's common knowledge and that affected his recruiting. Besides, his senior year was his first year as a starter and teams took a long hard look at him. He also left no time for other offers after the season because he committed at the State Championship game. The one he won. What you're saying makes no sense. In 10 years we've recruited 2 quality QBs... BJ and Grothe. I'm saying what Taggart has done is gotten 2 good QBs and one exceptional QB in, in less than a year and a half on the job. Something the previous coaches couldn't do. We could never recruit QB... I mean I don't get what you're getting at. We have never had balanced recruiting like this. So year... "Lord" I think casual fans with limited knowledge of recruiting and players on the roster normally speak from emotion and have no idea as to what is really going on. The season will tell. This is all silly talk and I'm convinced you have no idea as to what is going on in the program. We've actually had 2 good recruiting classes under Taggart. We cracked the top 50 in back to back years for the first time since 2009. So would you like to rethink and post again? PS... For all practical purposes either White or Flowers is likely the QB of the future... so yeah... the future QB his here. I guess you're going to say next Flowers isn't good. smh