George_Bullnard_Shaw

Final: 53-7

Too much OCD about OCS in this thread.

This is probably true but no consolation. It just shows how out of touch Taggart is.

I guess that all depends on your definition of "close." Relatively speaking, Memphis isn't that far away geographically.

From what I've seen the Memphis posters here have been very civil.

Trickeration at it's utmost best!

If Memphis destroys us we can have a few more similar ones.

Yeah, to slow folks, like DW, 5 one score losses may've looked like flukes, but particularly with the benefit of hindsight, they were not. The talent in the program was shrinking and Skip's boneheaded decisions were hurting the team more and more in critical moments. I still haven't heard the name of one specific school that was interested. I'll stick with my theory that Skip's agent fed that story to the press and the press ran with it because the press is lazy.

The laws of psycho-history say this is much more likely than the hypothesis that we score 3 on the first drive and end the game being down 13-10. The loser/losing mentality is powerful. Yup. A little USF momentum at the end and they didn't have the psyche to make a stand on defense or move the ball on offense.

The laws of psycho-history say this is much more likely than the hypothesis that we score 3 on the first drive and end the game being down 13-10.

I don't know how many plays Flowers had on his wristband. Maybe a billion. Anyone watching the game saw how limited the play calling was for him. That's what matters and that's the proof of the pudding. After the very good first series the terrible SMU defense had it figured out and that was the end of much productivity until White came in. What Flowers did, he did reasonably well.

Whenever WBB succeeds I always think of this guy: http://thebullspen.com/user/9692-firejosefernandez/

Both Holtz and Taggart were/are terrible coaches here at USF. That's all that needs to be said about both of them.

We should have greater aspirations than UCF being the alpha and omega of the season. It would probably show we are making progress if we beat them which would be good. It's also satisfying to beat them but they aren't the team to be judging a season by.

We have fewer procedural penalties when snapping the ball. However we are now the chop block champions. We have some improvements over inferior opponents. I'd say we are treading water in a shallow pool. I don't see any improvement in coaching. That is what will sink us. It sure looks like the players came back against SMU despite the coaching.

+1 If White plays, and is decent, I think we cover. But a win, on the road, with UCF 6 days away, I think it is quite unlikely. But...these kids now see a bowl as possible, so maybe they can pull it off. Stranger things have happened in our 17+ years. OK, I'll take back my "zero reasons" and throw in one possible maybe... The other team's plane could crash in the Andes and they might have to resort to cannibalism to survive. All sorts of crazy things could happen.

If Fowler is the QB of the future, we are in a lot of trouble and it will eventually cost CWT his job. We ran a very limited offense so that they could give him a start and it almost cost us the game against one the worst FBS program. There's a reason nobody recruited Fowler as a QB. Move him to running back. Fowler? Is a better option than Fletcher. More lanes, less congestion.

We ground out UCONN in bad weather, we had to come from behind to beat an FCS team and two very bad FBS teams. It will take a planetary alignment that only occurs every million years for another win. But it could happen.

And he did that the 2nd half of Tulsa. So his 1.5 quarters has earned him all the starts? Don't know what he graded out at yesterday but up to that point Bench had the 2 highest grades (from the coaches) of the season. So why didn't he start Bench yesterday? There are some questions that can only be answered in Taggart's mind. Houston game. I'm really not sure why you are such a staunch Bench supporter. But more power to you, I wish he was as good as you make him out to be :/ A decent Houston defense vs. Bench and two sieves in Tulsa and SMU for White. that's an equal comparison.

Right now I'd take the AI from this device as head coach.

That sounds vaguely familiar.

Thanks for the recap as always!

From what I've seen, White can light it up against the worst of the worst, but a competent team gives him troubles. Lots of that is not helped by the O-Line and receivers. Do I think White or Bench should have started this game? Absolutely! There was a great chance either would be able to perform well last night and we saw that was true. I think if White starts we get the kind of blow out win the team and the fans needed. Flowers and the 16 plays over and over just showed even a bad team can stop a limited offense. I can understand that SMU being bad it also gives Flowers the best shot to excel but it was clear well before Taggart made the change we needed a change. I'm not particularly upset at White, Bench or Flowers. They are who they are. I'm upset at Taggart who clearly can't manage talent and find a way to maximize the different potential of each player.

I have never seen more than one chop block call in a game. We had at least 3. Has to be something in the coaching. You think? We won the chop block Super Bowl, against the worst team in FBS.

Good post, this particular point about none of the players smiling gives me more optimism than the game.