raptorcj

 No mercy, what a family...

Emphatic yes...at the beginning of the season. Let's talk again as the season wears on, but I really hope he can help solidify our RB situation.

Double-teams busted Selvie's stats (and boosted JPP), might have same effect if Lynch is all the hype. For the team's sake, I hope Giddins can finally break out & live up to potential. If so, this is going to be a fun year for the D line.

Glad we got Lynch. Whatever maturity issues he had, he works hard so there's no reason he can't shine here.

 

 

people on this board need to stop acting like anything said by someone who is either not a former player, or not some old white guy getting paid as an analyst for ESPN/ABC/FOX/NBC/SportsIllustrated is irrelevant. that is simply not true. get over your cultural bias and learn something about Florida history beyond your bubbles in Carrollwood or Temple Terrace.

 

Good gosh, dude. I don't know the guy--let's not take my ignorance of him as opening to play the race card. Read my post--I actually agree with the guy that he's probably a good get and a good fit. Just think their lead in to his opinions could have done him a whole lot more justice if he's really in tune with the football scene down there.

Sadly, I can understand the lack of effort reporting on us right now, but 'ville? You can't expose your bias much more than that.

Not gonna make the squad. Hands aren't that good.

Wow, really? I thought I remember Landi being our go-to third down receiver. I agree will likely not make the squad but not because of dropped passes.

People who stand up. Like the act of standing is going to make an iota of difference.

People that treat a live football game like it's their personal home theater... 

 

I hope we'll be able to hang 40+ on them, but we're an unproven product with weaknesses until we show otherwise. McNeese should be a good game to shake things down. At our worst, we're still not MTSU.

 

1. USF

2. 34-13

3. Pierre

4. Andre

5. 465

Well, I would say last year were some of yalls worst days. 3 wins with best "quality" against Nevada. MT finished with 9 wins and their best "quality" win against Georgia Tech. Sorry, Yall have a ways to get back to were yall were 4-5 years ago. McNeese was a shell of what it was at the end of the season last year. When we are healthy we can play with any mid major or lower BCS conference team. Can't get much healthier than first game. Yall better not look past us. Good luck!

 

No way we look past this game, it's the most important game of the season until it's done. Too much at stake on our home turf, but I stand by what I said--we're unproven until we #DoSomething.

Good quotes, Brad, thanks. I love what CWT is doing with making it a game-like situation, it sounds brilliant--hope it pays off!

According to my twitter sources, the AAC sucks

According to every source outside the AAC, the AAC sucks if they're not talking about Louisville or Rutgers. Can't wait til their first upset in conference, hope that happens pretty quickly.

 

 

That is a pretty good reward for getting up at 3am.

 

...and a good way to avoid aforementioned FMJ scenario!!

Wouldn't have got it without the Carolina reference, that was pretty hard but I'm sure that was the point...

More useless predictions

Absolutely, just a placeholder for someone trying to make a name for themselves (see, I told you so syndrome)

 

 

 

We should be able to get pressure with our d-line.  On offense, it appears we're going to a run first, ball control type offense.  Hopefully, we can get a couple of time-eating, long, sustained drives.

 

 

...that ends with us scoring 7.

 

 

 

I'm okay with that as long as they score 6 or less.

 

 

May be wrong, but I think the reference was to us scoring TD's rather than FG's.

 

Um, yeah. Seemed obvious what I meant but if we want to get technical then crikey, yes, I'd settle for 6, 7, or 8 as long as we reach the endzone and don't friggin fumble or INT on the 5 yard or something--that crap kills spirits.

found this interesting:

 

Steven Bench â€@Steven_Bench 6h

@J_Dub86 3 in the morning they woke everybody up to get strapped up and scrimmage. No warning. No nothin…

Well, that's one way to get a team going. Just hope they don't go Full Metal Jacket on him.

Oh geesh, I hate when I don't get coffee in the morning. It's "prima donna", and thanks to anyone that avoided the urge to bash...

 

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times.

Not sure that qualifies him to be a noteworthy information source...but Lockette does sound like a good fit and a good recruitment poster.

Hopkins will have to be the deep threat, agreed. Not that worried about speed of receivers, as Dunk, Welch and Dre can hold down the fort just fine. I'm more worried about a QB that can get them the ball.

This.

Davis, Welch, & Gonzalez have big frames, which is what we need with our QB situation and with our O scheme. Dunkley's and Hopkins' speed will hopefully keep the secondary honest. We have a very good setup at WR.

 

According to the USF Fact Book, he's listed as a true Soph, so yes he has 3 yrs and a redshirt available. IMO the optimum situation for your starting QB is his RS Junior year, he has had 3 years in the system, he knows the offense inside and out and shouldn't have to think, just do. Of course trying to convince a kid to come to your school with the distinct possibility that he won't start until his RSJ year is a different story.

 

The optimum situation for USF is to find the next Johnny Football.

 

Completely unrealistic. If we couldn't even keep AW on the hook, we surely couldn't get an even better one when going up against storied programs. Best we can hope for is a local diamond in the rough, and polish, and polish, and....

This approach usually eliminates the premadonnas we wouldn't want.

eh, the NFL thing would be a big stretch anyway. I mean, Martin was in there, so who knows? I don't have the insight, but Greg's article on this seems to take a quick shot at Schiano, so I'm sure you guys know stuff I don't.

Do we really know the story on Schiano & Glazers? It seems unlikely USF didn't reach out to them for the video, but wonder what the real answers are--they may have been told not to appear in it by the NFL for all we know. Lots of smart guys on here, wonder if anyone can find that answer?

Purely hypothetical, but I was trying to figure that out and the only thing I could figure is that they didn't want the other extensive college fans in the metro (UF/FSU/UM/etc) to pitch fits on the Bucs organization. Baseball, who cares? But football is sacred to a lot of fans.

Must be the morning, let the day wear on and these guys will come around.       juuuust kidding.

I hate to see kids with potential & size hit the road, but yeah, if it's not a good fit for him then go get better chemistry with the coaches that'll let him cry on their shoulder about playing time.

Kinda sounds positive to me, though, if we have a deep enough receiving corps that the 6'5 guy with decent speed couldn't make the cut!

 

 I can't come to terms with the idea that we'll be on their level indefinitely.

 

What if THEY get invited to a P5 conference?

 

Then we get together and have a pity party, but yeah, that would certainly fix the worry about them being on our level wouldn't it?    

 

Where are the four remaining Bucs fans?

Trip?

 

 

        Aww, don't hide the pride dude!

Where are the four remaining Bucs fans?

Trip?

Still here! ...and no, I'm never letting it go...