BasketBull2012

Man, three degrees from USF (BA, 2 MAs), and so much of life has been connected to USF and USF sports. I think this is a new low for me. I can't recall a day (time period) as bad as this in USF athletics. Sure, we've had terrible things go down. But at least you had football to deflect the basketball pain or the other way around. Now, there's no escape. Here's an interesting thought or maybe naught: Right now, at this very moment, which is worse, the football team or the men's basketball team? I guess we've got the facilities to be thankful for. "Build it and they will come." Uh, I guess somebody left out the winning part. I need resuscitation!

I've not felt this bad in a long time. And that includes all the football losses this year. Blown out by ucf??? TWF??? I love you guys but you messed up royal!

Something really good must be in the works for USF --I'm of the belief that (+) and (-) have to even out. I'm expecting something HUGELY POSITIVE to happen to USF soon. That, or something is really messed up because things can't get worse!

The guys have no team identity -there's no team. No defense, and they have no offense. I'm glad the guys got some exercise. A few more nights like that and they can join the guys on the football team when we bring the torches! That was worth about 5 home losses. I'm shaking this one off. But Stan needs to get these guys to play any sort of basketball.

Frankly, I just can't accept the fact that we are moving backwards. I think in the last three years we have regressed at least five years, some of it couldn't be helped with the realignments. But we could do so much to help ourselves by not stinking it up on the field. I mean, c'mon, we barely beat UCONN at home. And the odds of us going to a bowl game are almost zilch. Making a bowl is nothing special, more like a benchmark for being so-so in college football, given how many bowls there are every year. 1) USF does nothing. The same coaching staff stays. I think this is a major mistake. Next year is going to be average at best. You're talking about a new and young QB taking charge. Plus, we lose so many starters. Only in fantasy land do you say it's going to be a stellar year. The biggest downfall will be this: Fan support and national attention will drop even more. All of that will equate to dwindling dollars to support the program. When the money goes, you've got major problems. 2) USF bites the bullet and cleans house and reinvests in the future. USF has never done this, ever. But this is the only economically viable move, before it's too late. This ship is not going to sail any faster than right now, not with the current captain and crew. What's going to happen? Let me ask you this, if USF were West Virginia, Louisville, or Pitt, would the school keep the same coaching staff going into next year? You know that neither of those schools would sit tight and wait. And if USF were an SEC school, heck, we'd probably have an interim coaching staff right now. My biggest fear is that USF is going to just stumble along and revert back even further. And then we'll have no money to do anything. Think about it. Where will USF be in two years when nothing has changed, just the same old stuff for two more years? --Oh, and what about when UCF beats us? It's going to happen without changes! If there were a scandal, USF would act. Sure. But not when football is bleeding from the neck! I would be shocked if USF did anything.

What gives? This is the craziest thing I've ever seen. How many players have we had over the years with license issues? Okay, who was the first? Brian Fisher, right? We need to start a HALL OF DRIVING SHAME on the site, Brad. Every time an athlete gets caught with a license issue, he or she gets added to the hall! Here are my top two candidates: #1 Brian Fisher #2 Mike Ford

I remember we were all stoked when you signed with USF. Thank you for all the effort and pride you put into upholding USF's honor. I'll remember you as always giving 100% and never backing down. That and as the man who led the Bulls into a sold-out FSU stadium and whipped them silent. Thanks, Bro!

As bad as things are, I'd keep our coach. Even if we don't win another game this year, I'd still take Skip over George.

http://sports.yahoo....376--ncaaf.html I guess it's good that somebody's talking about us. Maybe. Look at the bottom. Poor guy. He admits to being a Bulls fan. Jeff Briscoe is a writer who covers sports for the Yahoo! Contributor Network. A USF Bulls fan, he co-hosts the Florida-based radio show, The Sports Train.

I'm thinking we have to go back to the first year if IA to find a place for the current team. http://cfbdatawareho...orida/index.php 2000: 7-4-0 W/L Date PF Opponent PA Location Notes W 09-02-2000 40 Jacksonville St. (AL) 0 Tampa, FL L 09-09-2000 9 Kentucky 27 Lexington, KY W 09-16-2000 26 James Madison (VA) 7 Tampa, FL L 09-23-2000 13 Baylor (TX) 28 Waco, TX W 09-30-2000 20 Troy (AL) 10 Tampa, FL L 10-07-2000 7 Southern Mississippi 41 Hattiesburg, MS W 10-21-2000 44 Liberty (VA) 6 Tampa, FL W 10-28-2000 21 Connecticut 13 Storrs, CT W 11-04-2000 30 Western Kentucky 24 Tampa, FL L 11-11-2000 9 Middle Tennessee St. 45 Murfreesboro, TN W 11-18-2000 59 Austin Peay St. (TN) 0 Tampa, FL

Do things stay the same if we lose the remaining games? How about with just one win? I mean 2 million a year and that kind of job security is golden --Notre Dame golden. Okay, somebody set it up. I'll show up so he can slap me and get this thing moving to the right direction. McRib is at ESPN; we'll notify him, too. [Yes, any of you can slap me. But I get to kick you in the nads afterwards!]

College football is all about emotions --at times, even more important than Xs and Os. Leavitt: he was able to pump the guys up, so they played beyond they skills in big games. BUT, when the pressure was on them, we usually got an egg from their squatting. I stills sting from the Sun Bowl... The new coach: no fire. And there's our problem.

Fire the president (buh-bye judy) and fire the ad, and bring back Jim Leavitt! I bet he'd come back if they were gone. Get him a trailer and he'd be happy! Oh, yeah, we'd have to say good luck to Lou Jr. also. Hey, I did say it was crazy X100!!! :icon_drink:

"I'm proud; we're all proud; we play to get exercise"

It's never the coaching, always the players right? It's not the cook's fault; it's the food that didn't turn out right.

I don't believe in outside forces and none of that mumble jumble, but how else do you explain it? Out of the blue, our only football coach, the man who watched the cement posts dry, was involved in a scandal... And then what should have been okay with the transition... Alright, I admit it. Lou Holtz Jr. was not a bad choice at the time. All things being equal, the football program should at the very least be back to where it was when Leavitt was in charge (not bad, pretty good at times, lots of fun and going to bowl games). Then, bam! The Big East turned into C-USA II. Now, the football program is on life support --Well, okay, it's in the ambulance heading for the hospital. ----------------------------------------------- On the other extreme, men's basketball... dancing, renovated dome, practice facilities... winning! Are you kidding me?! ----------------------------------------------- I'm going to stop being angry at the "people" and just accept it as one of those things that happens with being a Bull: feast or famine. Like it or not, it's going to be a rough ride with football. We had our good times. Now, it's time to pay the piper. Don't know how many years, but the forecast is all dark clouds. Men's basketball, that's all sunny! --Go Bulls!

It's hard to do one of these scenarios, but let's say if it were the exact conditions, etc. I think USF would have won last night. FSU was pretty average emotionally. A Leavitt team would have been really jacked up. Both teams would have been undefeated going into this game. The atmosphere would have been 100% more tense. But... If Leavitt had the team all fired up, FSU would have come out ready to kick some tail. FSU would put a hurting on that defense. -------------------------------- Bulls, we have the wrong head coach in there. He and his staff have made this one of our weakest USF teams. Look, BJ as a freshman walked into a packed FSU stadium and won under Leavitt... I'll be very impressed if this teams makes it to a bowl this year.

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That was the voice of USF football past. At about 9:00pm on Saturday night, USF football now will truly hit all of us.

Reason: a small group of people tore down what was a great football program. The school president, the athletic director, and a few deep-pocket donors made some bad decisions very quickly. (1) Fired Leavitt so quickly. (2) Hired someone just because of a name. (3) Cost us millions due to the firing, bad hiring, and payment to Leavitt. But before all of that, they put the pinch on Leavitt and didn't give him the support he needed. If there was support, would they have needed an "investigation"? Hello! It's a freaking college football program, which is supposed to be for fun and entertainment. But we became a cheap mini-TV series on NBC. Yeah, we even had our own "investigative" reporter. Yes, Leavitt was sucking air at the time (before he went mad and did whatever he did). All I'm saying is that USF threw loyalty completely away in all the moves that were made before, during, and right after Leavitt went insane. Just to be clear: 1) The school president, the athletic director, and a few deep-pocket donors are to blame. 2) Leavitt went insane 3) Really bad decisions made by (1)+(2) 4) It's not the current coach's fault: he took a job to advance his career. 5) It's not the players' fault. They just play the game. Now, we are worse than UCF. And as a football program, we are worse than the I-AAAA days. Gonna need an overhaul, starting with a new president and athletic director.

I just looked at Waverly's last two years at Palm Beach State and he's pretty good. I think he will do nicely as our starting big guy in the paint. He's been the leading scorer and go-to-guy for the last two years, so I think that will help us next year. The leadership is important. Though, he shoots 64% FT, which isn't too good. And if our other big guy, Mr. 7-footer, can play well (anyone seen him practice?), I think it will be good to have them both inside the paint for the long season. So, I think Ron & Gus' replacements are going to be okay. On paper, I might even say a small up upgrade at this point.

I know everyone is excited about the team and rightly so. For me, I'm more excited by the fact that our current coaching staff knows what it takes now. What I mean is that to suffer seasons as one of the bottom teams in the Big East and then rising to success and winning games at the NCAA Tournament is such a big lift in morale and experience for our coaches. They have the success formula now. And then we have young players on the team who also understand this success formula. It's going to be great from here on out, Bulls! Man, I still can't believe it's happened for our men's basketball program. I think I'm dreaming or something. Say, did anyone notice that we made it to the NCAA's in a season that we don't play in the Sun Dome??? --I hope the construction crew removed those burial bones from underneath the Dome! GO BULLS!!!