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A standard deviation of 5.3 and an average of 25.3 would mean the top 32% of linemen can do at least 30.6 reps. Right now strength is our weakness. The team is making positive strides but Wulff came in and immediately noticed that this was not a strong team. I would like to see the USF players invited to the combine to be at the upper echelon in terms of strength rather than the bottom, especially if we are trying to build a "Bully". I would still consider 20 reps unacceptable for any linemen. 17 and 18 reps means they were not hitting the weightroom like they should. Talk about an oxymoron for the ages. Said it on purpose. I kinda liked it.

Here are some of the gains our offensive linemen have made since a year ago. 75 Kofi Amichia OL 6-4 265 to 283 68 Kameron Davis OL 6-5 258 to 283 71 Mak Djulbegovic OL 6-5 289 to 293 70 Quinterrius Eatmon OL 6-6 311 to 319 66 Brynjar Gudmundsson OL 6-4 305 to 315 73 Jeremi Hall OL 6-5 340 to 362 65 James Hamilton OL 6-2 308 to 311 64 Thor Jozwiak OL 6-4 300 to 332 77 Jake Kaufman OL 6-9 313 to 342 Jeremi Hall at 362 lbs?? I hope that is not Twinkie weight!

Definitely expanding our recruiting territory on this one!

It's kind of hard not to start getting my hopes up, again......

You can't say every lineman. The guys at the combine are either seniors or juniors, or even 5 year players and are above the average college player in age and experience and are good enough that they have a shot at the NFL. On top of that, many have gone to professional trainers and worked out especially for the Combine. Its apples to oranges, different stages of their football career and higher level of talent than average. We were talking about the starters, at least I was. There is going to be a developmental period and not every high school lineman is going to have a 400 lb bench press. But after 2-3 years, it is not out of the question to expect a 400 lb bench press (usually around 28-29 reps of 225) from your strength players, especially offensive line.

Sounds like a reasonable objective to me. Might take us a couple of years to get there, but I'm on board with having all our guys in the top third of combine peers While it's a great goal, I don't think any team has all of their linemen that can do 30+. BTW, the actually percentage is 20%, 18 out of 90. I was going by your standard deviation calculation. In a normal bell curve, the average plus one standard deviation (25.3 + 5.3) you would expect 32% to be above 30.6 and 68% to be below that mark. Plus, did every one of those 90 do the bench press? There were 106 there 90 lifted. Looks like the curve might be a little skewed if the SD number is correct. Out of those 90 players, only 4 did worse than Lynch and only 1 did worse than Mims. Pretty sad! We need to be on the first page of the leaderboard and not the last!

Sounds like a reasonable objective to me. Might take us a couple of years to get there, but I'm on board with having all our guys in the top third of combine peers While it's a great goal, I don't think any team has all of their linemen that can do 30+. BTW, the actually percentage is 20%, 18 out of 90. I was going by your standard deviation calculation. In a normal bell curve, the average plus one standard deviation (25.3 + 5.3) you would expect 32% to be above 30.6 and 68% to be below that mark. Plus, did every one of those 90 do the bench press?

I may be hard to please but yup! It's really not that unfathomable, especially for players that are 260+ lbs. Gotta get their minds right first!

A standard deviation of 5.3 and an average of 25.3 would mean the top 32% of linemen can do at least 30.6 reps. Right now strength is our weakness. The team is making positive strides but Wulff came in and immediately noticed that this was not a strong team. I would like to see the USF players invited to the combine to be at the upper echelon in terms of strength rather than the bottom, especially if we are trying to build a "Bully". I would still consider 20 reps unacceptable for any linemen. 17 and 18 reps means they were not hitting the weightroom like they should.

Every one of our linemen should be able to bench press 30+ reps of 225. It doesn't just show upper body strength and stamina but also work ethic! I don't even play football and can do almost double the reps of Lynch and Mims. There are quite a few cornerbacks that have more upperbody strength than our defensive ends...

Prolly 120, up 10 lbs from last year... : )

If only we had a coach like Pitino...

When will you guys dream big enough to get your own message board started and stay off ours??

Ummmmm okay.... Even if UCF signed 28 players, USF would still be way ahead of UCF as the recruit ratings carry a lot more weight than the number of recruits signed. The author of this article needs to be drug tested if he truly believes what he wrote. Source: Common Sense and every recruiting source know to man that isn't Orlando based/biased....

Star ratings are the recruitings site's opinion of how ready they are to play football at the next level. Yes we have had a few 4* busts but overall they have a much greater likelyhood of seeing the field early than a 2* recruit. You can find exceptions to just about every rule, but you shouldn't put stock into exceptions as a foundation. Just like the lottery is probably a bad retirement plan even though some people have won.

I hope that this comes true. But, if they are no longer regulated by the NCAA, would they still need to have 12 to have a CCG?

Off the top of my head, a majority of our signees had offers from P5 schools. I would venture to say that a lot of them would have signed elsewhere if they were offered money to play. We would definitely not have a top 40 recruiting class. The main variable in this equation is how much the P5 schools will be paying their athletes. If it's only $100/month then it may have very little impact. If it's $2000/month then we will never be able to compete with any of the P5 schools in terms of recruiting.

With CSH's contract going through the 2018 season, I really don't see USF paying another coach not to coach. It has become glaringly obvious that DW is blind to the signs of a winning program. Hopefully the new AD will be able to recognize sustainable development and not just fluke seasons once every 5-10 years.

it won't make that much difference in recruiting. there are only so many positions at P5 schools. they have always had an advantage in recruiting. they always get the top players. it's the 2nd or 3rd tier players we sign. there isn't some magical dropoff in talent once the P5 schools fill their quota. just because rivals says some guy is #250 doesn't mean #251 isn't just as good or better. With there being 66+ power 5 schools around, I doubt USF would be able to even sniff a top 300 recruit. Why would a kid turn down money? Judging by some of the twitter pages, that is all a lot of these kids are interested in. Unless we get into a better conference (or the NCAA changes their rules), this would be an absolute dagger to our football program!

Syracuse has a higher acceptance rate and identical SAT scores so I would have to agree.

ESPN updated their rankings this morning and still left us out. Our class was better than Nebraska's even before our most recent commits. Something fishy is going on. Maybe they don't want an AAC school breaking the top 40...

That makes five 4* recruits for this class according to ESPN. As it stands now, we would be a top 40 class, probably upper 30's.

We need to find the developer of these ads and give him a swift kick in the nuts...

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I'm still having the issue on my iphone. Pretty sleezy sales tactics that these mobile apps are using. I notice it a lot on facebook too.