LifeIsBully

Gary Shelton nailed it on the radio the other day- When he called the florist to deliver a flower for her funeral, how did the florist not call back and say "This funeral doesn't exist"? 

When he called her everyday in the hospital after her accident, how did the hospital not say "This patient doesn't exist"?

Kid knew she was fake and probably had a hand in it. Just a very little chance that he didn't know as far as I'm concerned.

Nobody else in the country has the opportunity to experience what we do here. For a school that was only established in in '56 (that's 1956 mind you) to be where it is now is beyond astonishing. 

This could get ugly.

This team has done a great job with what they have. Its just a matter of not having a big PF or C body on the roster but Jordan. The season has been fun and this is the first year of something great coming for the future with our new facilities and sweet recruiting class. I expect us to not do so well against conference play with the lack of size on our team (seriously Fitz played Center last game, that would not happen in any other BE team.) Heath is the man and next year this team is going to be one of the better sides in the New BE from here on. This right here, kinda. We have some large holes in personnel (thanks academic committee) this year, all my preseason expectations put us as an NIT team and this being a down season. My only concern for the future is Heath's consistently inconsistent offenses. Needs to get his crap together and fix the 10min long scoring droughts.

Fingers crossed for this one....

He's an unknown. Not being able to succeed with the freaking Raiders is hardly a black mark on his resume.

We shall see.

Bottom line, Weiner is a ****.

Move on, we don't need that kind of guy on our staff. 

No need to be overly dramatic.  The guy had to choose between a secure job where he could spend the next 20 years and a coaching profession with extremely long hours, lots of travel, and the very real possibility of having to hop from job to job all over the country for the next twenty years.

 

It isn't about being a risk taker.  It's about realizing that money isn't the most important thing in life, and that you already have the life you want.  Kudos to Weiner.  The upside is that if this was handled well USF gained a strong proponent in the high school coaching ranks.

 

For all those of you whining, this might put Blackwell back in play.  

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Kudos to Weiner?  Are you serious?  This has nothing to do with wanting to stay in a secure job... no one would fault him for that.  The issue is that you accepted a job, let the school publicly announce it (and no doubt use it as a recruiting pitch), and then backed out.  End result is much public embarrassment to the people that offered you the job in the first place.  Terribly, terribly unprofessional.

please. talk about overly dramatic.

 

I suppose instead of correcting his mistake he should have just kept his mouth shut and taken the job. been miserable doing it so that you wouldn't think he was unprofessional.

No, you be a big boy and don't even accept the job. Now he just made us look like a joke, thanks Coach.

We all have reservations when moving to a new chapter in our lives. We think it over (very hard), make a decision, and then stick to that decision. How does he know he wouldn't LOVE working at USF? He doesn't. And now he never will.

Very unprofessional for a guy everyone has nothing but praises for. Let's hope he hypes USF in the locker room more than ever now.

We need to get these spots filled and end this circus... 

Zero.

Did anybody do a Weiner pulling out joke yet?

Way to set an example for his young men about commitment. Jesus.....

Great news, now we just need a solid DC and coaching should be solid.

None of us thought we were a Top 10 team, but this game showed that another postseason run is entirely possible.

You see it at Lightning games, Bucs games, and Rays games. We live in a unique market of "nobody who lives here is actually from here", there is an incredible percentage of northern transplants (myself included). A culture of winning can help change the turnout ratio, but there will always be a large fan contingent from big northern teams. Priority number 1 is to get every student who lives on campus to these games. #2 is to get average citizens of Tampa behind us.

Boy we are getting manhandled now...

as much as many here want to say no, i agree 100% with this article. we need both programs to grow together. It is clear that we have been left out to dry in the Big East and aren't even the "next one in" in one of the big 4 expands.

Need to come to grips with the fact that we are a mid-major program now and going to have to fight for identity and respect.

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had we been playing the orlando school for last 6 or so years we would have buried them while building our program but our fearless leaders were afraid to play them

for the life of me i will understand the desire to stop playing orlando school

usf has had such bad leadership

We stopped because beating them gave us nothing, losing would cost us everything. We moved on to UM, which was absolutely the right move. Too bad we hired Skip Holtz.

Fouling is getting crazy now.

Little scary how we have unraveled the past couple instead of putting teams away.

I don't care if it is UCF, UF, FSU or any other school. Perhaps in the short run in is good for something to the conference to use as a cornerstone, but to be joined at the hip as a partner with any other school is not a good idea. There is already major confusion between the two schools outside of the area and the conference. I don't want to be confused with any other program. I don't want to be any other school's little brother and I don't want to be considered second fiddle to any other school. As a school, the closer you grow to any other program, the less of an independent identity you have.

I am all for promoting a rivalry, but I can't stand the idea of a package deal with any other school.

This right here, USF needs to focus on USF. The "rivalry" with UCF has only been about the unofficial "4th place" in the state. Screw 4th place.

It may take longer, but we can get there by pushing the USF Bulls, not leaning on somebody else.

Noooooooooooooo!

OK, time to move on. Perhaps the uncertainty of just how relevant a conference we will be playing in had a hand in this.

Mark Royals was pretty much spot on... except it is grossly unfair to lay the blame directly on BJ Daniels. That kid played his heart out, he just wasn't a D1 QB. It was the coaches fault (and as Mark suggested - recruiting) that we tried to develop BJ into a D1 QB. And the lack of production and performance, the inability to throw simple screen passes or even hang on to the football is probably the foremost cause of our slide in the past few years. Sure, BJ was better than his walk-on backups, but that hardly disproves Mark's statement!

wow both of you haven't a clue. not a d-1 QB?? do you watch college football at all?? he was easily in the top half of d-1 QBs for all 4 of his years.he was easily in the top half of big east QBs in all 4 years as well. I've seen some stupid things posted on this board before but this one just might take the cake. wow.

what was his conference record in 4 years

he was not in the top half of all starters---NOT BY A LONG SHOT

bj couldnt hit open receivers time and time again

my eyeS dont lie

Yes they do. BJ didn't get better because his coach (Skip Holtz) tried to turn BJ into a pocket QB, something completely against his nature. If BJ had proper coaching and was developed the RIGHT WAY (mobile dual threat QB mostly hitting slant routes) he wins USF multiple Big East championships. Then his abilities would have never been questioned.

The idiocy some people have over BJ is mind blowing. He sucked because Skip kept trying to stick a square peg in a round hole for 3 freaking years. BJ had no chance to thrive.

There really isn't any reason to get all upset and start calling people idiots or like they haven't a clue... usually that kind of foolishness is only reserved for folks with a very weak argument.

A D-1 QB should be able to consistently throw touch passes. BJ had one speed and often bounced his passes. We seem to often argue that the coaches "played away" from his strengths. I think that is pretty arrogant of most college football fans! Coaches see him in practice far more than any fan. The way he carried the ball, if you let him run planned runs too often you'd probably see 4 fumbles per game! His scramble/run threat was great, but really only effective situationaly.

I didn't call anyone an idiot. I criticized the idiotic arguments (difference) people give when they criticize BJ. His last three years he was told to pass in a pocket that didn't exist. He hit receivers in the chest and they still couldn't catch the ball. I can't remember the last time we had a receiver make an "amazing" catch and help the QB out.

And Skip played away from the kid's strengths, that's obvious to anyone who watched USF football for the past few years.

Mark Royals was pretty much spot on... except it is grossly unfair to lay the blame directly on BJ Daniels. That kid played his heart out, he just wasn't a D1 QB. It was the coaches fault (and as Mark suggested - recruiting) that we tried to develop BJ into a D1 QB. And the lack of production and performance, the inability to throw simple screen passes or even hang on to the football is probably the foremost cause of our slide in the past few years. Sure, BJ was better than his walk-on backups, but that hardly disproves Mark's statement!

wow both of you haven't a clue. not a d-1 QB?? do you watch college football at all?? he was easily in the top half of d-1 QBs for all 4 of his years.he was easily in the top half of big east QBs in all 4 years as well. I've seen some stupid things posted on this board before but this one just might take the cake. wow.

what was his conference record in 4 years

he was not in the top half of all starters---NOT BY A LONG SHOT

bj couldnt hit open receivers time and time again

my eyeS dont lie

Yes they do. BJ didn't get better because his coach (Skip Holtz) tried to turn BJ into a pocket QB, something completely against his nature. If BJ had proper coaching and was developed the RIGHT WAY (mobile dual threat QB mostly hitting slant routes) he wins USF multiple Big East championships. Then his abilities would have never been questioned.

The idiocy some people have over BJ is mind blowing. He sucked because Skip kept trying to stick a square peg in a round hole for 3 freaking years. BJ had no chance to thrive.

Completely wrong.

And that's all there is to say about that. Guy has no clue about USF football.

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I wanted something to put on my desk and sure enough I got one of those study buddy plush Rockys. It's awesome.