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How about we use the money to pay our assistant coaches so they dont leave to go to other schools. It is bad when one of our top recruiters leaves for a school who wont be that good and will have sanctions brought against them. Pay the coaches and then worry about the other things.

Who cares about the **** stars?! I have seen plenty of five star recruits play like two stars in college and visa versa. These guys dont know anymore than the coaches. If CWT thinks he is a fit for this club and may become a dominant player, then I trust what his evaluation says more than some **** website.

I did this back in 2010, in a complete NCAA realignment. Waaaaaaaayyy too much time on my hands back then, LOL http://thebullspen.com/index.php?/gallery/image/63-realignment/ That link is not working, I was really looking forward to seeing what you drew up.

Do you guys think that USF will ever build their own football stadium? Something that is on campus that will help draw in recruits, or do you like playing at Raymond James?

USF should aim higher than Boise State. I see USF as a yearly NC contender when they get into a power 5 conference. The recruiting area, the tv market, and hopefully the improved records and play will allow us to get into the ACC or Big 12 during the next conference reallignment.

What chances do we have with Mackensie Alexander and Stacy Coley? If we were able to sign those two players this RC would be a top 25 class.

Have you ever seen the movie Necessary Roughness with Scott Bakula? We need to find a forty year old who was a top QB recruit in high school but did not go to school because he had to take over the family business after his father died. Come on Willie, get it done!

As of yesterday, he has us listed in his top five. I dont know much about him other than he is the top JUCO DE. Here is the story from ESPN. It appears like a decision from top junior college defensive end Marcus Hardison (Dodge City Community College) will come by the end of the work week. “I’m making my mind up Friday,†he said on his Twitter account. Coaches from all across the country are trying to make a final push for the 6-foot-4, 275-pound edge rusher, ranked No. 5 in the ESPN Junior College 100. “I know the head coach from West Virginia [Dana Holgorsen) was on our campus yesterday,†said new Dodge City head coach Gary Thomas, who is out recruiting in Wichita, Kan. “I know that Coach [bill] Snyder from Kansas State is flying in tomorrow. Texas Tech and Arizona State were here today or yesterday. That’s what my defensive coordinator told me.†Hardison said the top schools he is considering right now are Arizona State, Kansas State, West Virginia, Washington, South Florida and Auburn. He recently took an official visit to Kansas State, where the Wildcats really impressed him with their commitment to the juco ranks, and was really appreciative of the hour-long meeting he had with Snyder. “His message to me was basically telling me how great the people are in Manhattan and asking me what my goals were,†Hardison said. “Then we talked a little football. He told me a lot about the school. We really didn’t touch on football but more about life in general. It was a real cool experience. He is real cool. I like him a lot.†Thomas couldn’t give any insight into where he thought Hardison was leaning because the two have only met once since he was hired on Dec. 17. “I don’t know what direction he is leaning because he and I have not spoken only than to really just shake hands and say hello,†Thomas said. “And, to be honest, that was when I interviewed for the job. I know that he has a lot of action. But I am not [privy] to the decision he is making.†Hardison has also taken official visits to Texas Tech, Arizona State and West Virginia.

The Big 12 will want to have a stake in the Florida market eventually which will either get us invited to the Big 12 or into the ACC because FSU left for the Big 12. We will be included in the next round of reallignment. I am not worried at all. CWT will have this turned around and if he is successful on the recruiting trail we should become even more marketable. Have faith.

That Madden Curse was exorcised this year by Megtron! We dont have to worry about that anymore.

I think Florida State moves to the Big 12 or possibly even the Big 10, which will leave a giant hole in the ACC to fill and will probably be USF's to take based on geography and money potential. Eventually the ACC will become what the Big East has become, a conference that the big boys pillage from. It may be ten or twenty years but there will be only four big conferences (Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, and the Pac 10).

Whether we get this kid or not, I think there is an ace up CWT sleeve and he gets a huge recruiting coup on signing day. A program changer. He might not resemble one right away but he will by the end of next season. I am, however, a Detroit Lions fan and the eternal optimist, so I have been wrong before. Just have faith. I cant wait to see what this staff can do with a full year on the recruiting trail.

How many years of eligibilty does he have left? Also, I have never heard of him, would he be the starter from day 1 if he does not have to sit out a year?

This guy's heard of us .... Let me re-phrase, I thought I was the only person in Indiana, who is not a player or coach, that has heard of the Bulls. BTW, was anyone that post on here at the Ball State game last year?

Just this past weekend I was at my daughter's basketball game in Portland, Indiana and saw a kid and his father wearing USF sweatshirts. I talked to the kid for a minute and he said they just moved up there from Tampa on Jan. 1. He said his sister was a cheerleader there last year but is now in the School of Pharmacy. I swear I thought I was the only one in Indiana who had heard of the Bulls.

ESPN's Andrea Adelson has a good article on her Big East blog this morning, posted below: Willie Taggart is not new to Florida, even though he has only been in his job at USF for a little more than a month. He knows exactly what type of talent is in this state, and what type of feeding frenzy this state produces every single year in the intense world of recruiting. He knows not just because he is from the area, but because his main job the past three seasons was to pluck overlooked guys from the Florida hotbed for Western Kentucky. So, perhaps more than anyone, he knows what he has to do to elevate his newly inherited USF program with talent in his own backyard, even with the "Big Three" and just about every program in America lurking at every turn. [+] Enlarge Kim Klement/USA TODAY SportsNew USF coach Willie Taggart is confident he can bring quality athletes to his program. "We’ve got the same size stick now as the rest of those guys (Florida State, Florida, Miami)," Taggart said. "Before we didn’t. We had a switch. Now we’re with those guys. We don’t have to sell guys on Kentucky. That was the hard part, to get them to visit. "A lot of guys want to stay home and build their program. Every year, there’s probably 300 players from the state of Florida who play Division I football. Those three teams can’t get ‘em all. You can only sign 25. So there’s a lot of players out there that are left over. What we have to do is do a great job of trying to keep those guys from coming to our state and taking our players. We have to do a good job of keeping them here." For Taggart, the recruiting philosophy is simple. Do not recruit players based on star ratings. Go after players that fit your system, who truly want to be a part of your program, who want to be around good people. He primarily wants to own the I-4 corridor that spans from the Tampa Bay area, through Orlando and east to Daytona Beach. That does not mean the rest of the state will be ignored. It means he has placed a premium on securing talent within a drive from the campus, to establish a USF territory. And he is not concerned much with competing against the so-called Big Three. When asked what he would sell about his program to a player choosing between USF and Florida State, a team that just finished in the Top 10, he had a quick reply. "We want guys who want to be here, and if it’s between us and Florida State, there’s a good chance the kid wants to be here." Taggart said. "If we’re in the boat we feel we have a good chance. For me, it all comes down to relationship and people. Everybody’s going to have a stadium, everybody’s going to have a weight room, lockers, some stadiums bigger than others. It comes down to the people. "A lot of people sell their program on the past and the tradition, but you have to be a realist on how things are going now, and make them understand a lot of teams sell their program on championships they won 15 years ago. It’s different now. A lot of these kids want to be around good people, in a good program, in a program where they’re going to be mentored. We have to do a great job of mentoring them and letting them know they’re going to have that here at the University of South Florida, not just a guy who’s going to coach football, but help them in life, and not just be talk, but some action." Ultimately, Taggart wants his program to be known not for signing flashy classes, or beating a "bigger" school for a recruit, but for player development. "You get a three-star by the time he’s a junior or senior, he should be a four- or five-star guy," Taggart said. "That’s been our approach. If there’s a guy that we’re looking at that one of those schools are recruiting, we’re going to compete against the best of them. We feel we have a lot to sell here. The beauty of it for us is we’ve done a lot here in just 16 years of football. We have a lot to sell. And there’s a lot of players here. They can’t get them all."

My sister has travelled the world since the 70s. She said its Sarasota. Not to hijack the thread too much, but it's NYC, hands down. Second place isn't even close. I've lived and traveled all over the world, including 15+ years in Tampa. Tampa doesn't even sniff the Top 25. BOSTON, MA Cheers bar, and that is the only reason you need! Boston is the most depressing place I have ever been, people are real ****heads too. But that should be obvious. How dare you call Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin ****heads!!!

My sister has travelled the world since the 70s. She said its Sarasota. Not to hijack the thread too much, but it's NYC, hands down. Second place isn't even close. I've lived and traveled all over the world, including 15+ years in Tampa. Tampa doesn't even sniff the Top 25. BOSTON, MA Cheers bar, and that is the only reason you need!

Updates welcome.

Plus I am not the type of person to hold a grudge against a kid because he did not choose my school. Wherever he goes I wish him well.

You did an in depth recruiting analysis by "reading through his page"? I think we need to be a little smarter than that. If a kid says he would jump at the opportunity to play somewhere else, why should we want him here? Plus what I said was not a recruiting analysis, I dont like his attitude, that is why I dont care if he is here, not because I dont think he can play. He wont see much of the field this season, do you really want a kid who might not want to be here in the locker room possibly as a cancer?

I was looking at him for DE depth this year and hopefully a starter after this season when Lynch and Giddens are gone.

Is VHII still employed as the DE and ST coach? Is there any chance we could get him in for a visit? If we got this kid we would make some serious noise next year.

After reading through his page, I could care less if he is here or not.

Mikey Bart just de-commited from USF and has verbally committed to unc. Tar Heel Illustrated has learned Friday morning of another rapid development in UNC football recruiting, as Buford (Ga.) defensive end Mikey Bart has apparently switched his commitment from South Florida to the Tar Heels. The 6-3, 245-pound Bart initially impressed the UNC coaching staff at camp this summer, and in speaking with a source about him Thursday night, we were told that the staff very much still liked Bart. The question was whether or not there would be a spot for him in this small 20-man UNC signing class, but with news coming out of Virginia this week, the necessary room has been created. THI was told by a source close to the UNC program Thursday night that Monte Taylor was going to have to make a decision regarding his future, as he didn't earn a qualifying ACT score while at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia this fall. Basically Taylor's two options were to stay at Hargrave and try to qualify this spring---a gamble knowing he could get qualified and get four years at UNC, but that if he didn't he would have to spend two years at a Junior College. Taylor's second option was that he could go the JUCO route this spring, allowing him three semesters and a summer session to earn his Associate's Degree and provide a chance to get three seasons of eligibility at North Carolina instead of just two seasons in Chapel Hill. With the possibility of being able to get an extra season at UNC, that's what James Summers is doing, as he reports to Hinds Community College in Mississippi this month. Taylor would be in position to receive a scholarship to attend JUCO at Hinds as Summers has, and that's precisely what he's going to do, as he'll join Summers in Mississippi. THI will have much more on Bart's flip to the Tar Heels in the coming hours.