RaisingFenix

Baylor's stadium would be a good model to use

Where's the $260 million coming from? $5,000 per seat licenses, pre-construction.

http://www2.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2012/07/regents-officially-approve-baylor-stadium-project/

I was referring to USF$260K copy, not BU original.

Keep them off through the finale. If the team makes a bowl game, put them back for the bowl game.

After the last 3 minutes of the first half of MNF, I'm inclined to believe in the power of the Terrible Towel. Wow.

I could be wrong but I dont recall USF ever winning at Cincy but this game is at Bengles stadium so maybe that will be better luck for us.

We won at Cincy in 2010, didn't we?

We're 2-0 in night games, 0-3 in afternoon games. 7pm sounds great to me.

I had a dream last night we got shellacked by WCU. I have to assume inspired by this thread.

##@^ YOU

I had that dream a few weeks ago. Took all day to shake it.

Who is John Galt?

Beautiful hit by Teaf!

It's a bad rule, it's horribly inconsistently applied, and the penalty when there are runners on base is ridiculous.

Score?

0-0 heading to the 4th. USF left 2 on in both the 1st and 3rd. FSU without a hit yet.

Illegal pitches rearing their ugly heads for Nevins. Why does this rule only seem to be enforced in the post season?

This seems like a strange thread for the day after a member of our conference won the tourney.

In this age of immediate gratification, internet blogs being given similar credence to legitimate news outlets, and the Twitterfication of society (read: emasculation), I say to hell with anyone who clogs our feeds with their whining, plugs up our favorite internet board (TBP) with their naysaying, and announces their blind, poorly considered, inane support for the idea that USF did anything wrong in its hiring process of Steve Masiello.

 

Does it bother me that USF isn’t hiring Masiello? No. He lied about having a degree. Good for USF for putting its foot down and standing up for values. UCF can hire him, he’d make for a great pair with George O’Leary. I didn’t spend a decade in higher education (BS/MD/MBA) and go a half a million dollars in debt just to have my future job given to someone who lies about having a degree.

 

You expect someone you're looking to hire isn’t a liar (or stupid enough to be) and you expect your search firm to do their job. USF did everything right here with the hiring process. Perhaps I can agree that the media relations mismanagement (or lack thereof) was our biggest shortcoming, but then again, that is why Harlan has been hired. Quite frankly, the Twitterverse mentality of "I NEED NEWS NOW AND I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW AND I'LL ACCEPT ANYTHING SOMEONE TWEETS AS TRUTH" is responsible for this non-hire to even be considered a surprise among fans. Was the search firm too slow? It's hard to blame them…. UK is only open business hours. Have you ever sat on the phone with a university's administrative offices? Nothing happens as quickly as you can Tweet 100 unfounded misconceptions about it. You can update your Facebook profile 100 times before you can secure a copy of your degree audit. The under-24-hour lapse between signing a contract and a background check discovery is actually a pretty fast turnaround, even considering today's corporate atmosphere.

 

Some internet posts by members of our OWN FAN BASE have been quite unnecessarily negative towards USF, and this sort of hotheaded knee-jerk reaction has made its way around the social media universe. It has influenced opinions much more than traditional news media, akin to shooting ourselves in the foot. Reasonable reporting from news media outlets has generally not endorsed an aghast reaction to USF's handling of the hire. If anything, any negativity is generally (and appropriately) directed towards the fact that Masiello lied on his resume. Have some respect - we did it better than Notre Dame.

 

The entire bruhaha is quite laughable. For anyone who has seen the movie Idiocracy, I reiterate my hope that it gets remade with a larger budget someday soon because its writers were spot-on. If you haven't seen it, you should watch it. If you don't understand it, you're probably exactly the kind of hide-behind-your-computer annoyance who contributes to the progression to its ultimate prediction. USF fans should employ a little intelligence, a little patience, a little class, and lay off your university for standing up for what should matter.

 

                    In Bull Pride.

+1,000,000

Pretty sure that a former player and BoD member coming out and ripping into our President looks worse than us not hiring a guy who lied on his resume. Thanks, Kevin!

Guys, given the topic at hand, can we please drop the pissing match?

I must have been watching a different OSU game if we're 1-0 against ranked teams this season.

BA, is 3-9 still in play?

I believe it's been 4:30 for other 7pm games

AC

He's back!!

Not the Cougars' fault for the refs' decisions. Rooting for them to take the conference. Best for the final BCS slot to go to a school that will actually be in the conference next year, and not from Orlando.

It wasn't just the call on us that took back the TD that was the problam. It was the call on Houston for the exact same thing that was retracted, followed by an unsportsmanlike that gave them a first down. Maybe Houston wins this game either way, but the refs cannot be that inconsistent in their rulings. They had a direct impact on the outcome of this game.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't redshirted players not allowed to travel with the team? I seem to remember hearing that was a rule after the Ben Flick tragedy. If that's the case, does the fact that White is going up with the team mean that the redshirt is coming off (regardless of whether he plays)?

 

 

UConn will be without Starting QB

If Uconn is not going to have a qb then I would expect the bulls to do amazing on D

It'll be fun watching every snap tumble back five yards. Weird game plan though.

 

 

 

come on

 

did you guys really really think bj was an nfl qb?

He looked like one of the best in the preseason...

 

 against 3rd string in an exhibition game

 

i could get specific but the long and short of it is simple---bj was never an nfl qb   NEVER

 

He was and he still is, smazza.  But seriously, why are you so adamant about condemning the talents of a kid who represents the school you claim to support?  Everyone else here is excited to see BJ succeed, and all you want to do is come in here and piss all over it.  You were in here talking this crap all through the preseason, and when he made the 49ers roster, you went silent.  Then he gets waived and you pop back up, but since it was announced the Seahawks picked him up, you've again stopped commenting.

Do we stll not know when this thing ends? Why do I get the feeling that as soon as it becomes 51-49 Sparty, the polls will mysteriously close?