FIRE ANTIGUA ...THIS IS PATHETIC

[Brad]

Can't use Rudd and DoJo that way.  DoJo was a number of levels higher than Rudd.

[usfgrad84]

Firing Heath when they did was the mistake. Antigua was forced to rebuild from what was a rebuilding situation. 

I would ask anyone who expected anything better this year to explain who you expected to be the leader and driving force on this team?  Holston. Oh yeah... Injured. Peters is supposed to be a great talent...oh yeah Antigua made him injured. Perry...oh yeah coach just ignore those violation of team rules. 

So you are left with Nunez who is on his 3rd team. Guerrero who you knew was a role player and still young.  Macmurray is playing in his first year and doing well  Cousins is actually doing better than most expected after what we saw last year and Ziegler still has room to grow  

With so many new guys seeing the court for the first time together next year (key word there is together as this is a team sport) I don't expect next year to even reach .500.  The following year there should be enough talent, chemistry and experience to be a .500 team.  

People just need to understand the team dynamic before popping off about how bad a coach is  

 

 

[JTrue]

CWT got skunked by UCF at home to close his second season. I think we can give COA a third season too. That worked out ok.

[NewEnglandBull]

1 hour ago, JupiterBull said:

I'll give COA this...he's mostly cured me of watching USF men's basketball.  If it's on, and I have nothing else doing, I'll try to watch.  But otherwise, I just check from time to time during the game, or like v SMU, just check after the game.

I do love my Bulls...I just want this season to come to an end.  COA should get another year, IMO, as his he's undermanned (losing Peters hurts, though frankly, I was underwhelmed with him, compared to expectations).  Baxter looks like he could be our best since Rudd or DoJo.  I know it's early, and I've only seen a few minutes of highlights, but he can shoot & dunk (with body control).

Hopefully the new recruits, transfers and returning injured (Holston & Peters) give COA something to work with next year...and we figure out how to cut TOs.

+1000

[Roaming Bull]

Wow those first couple of pages were intense. I get the dissatisfaction with the team, but a lot of this is circumstantial. COA has got the raw deal, and needs to be brought back. Recruiting is up, and unless ballin Mac2.0 walked through the door hiding these skills he is growing as a player. As bad as things are collectively individual player are getting better, but it's hard to play a ball game when you don't have enough players to run a food truck. 

Is there a way we can ask for all our games from til the end to be clock run games? We will play, but that may shorten the pain at least a little. The only thing that would make this season even a little bearable would be knocking the tinmen out of the AAC tourney. Aside from the fast forward to next season already. 

[Triple B]

3 hours ago, JupiterBull said:

I'll give COA this...he's mostly cured me of watching USF men's basketball.  If it's on, and I have nothing else doing, I'll try to watch.  But otherwise, I just check from time to time during the game, or like v SMU, just check after the game.

I do love my Bulls...I just want this season to come to an end.  COA should get another year, IMO, as his he's undermanned (losing Peters hurts, though frankly, I was underwhelmed with him, compared to expectations).  Baxter looks like he could be our best since Rudd or DoJo.  I know it's early, and I've only seen a few minutes of highlights, but he can shoot & dunk (with body control).

Hopefully the new recruits, transfers and returning injured (Holston & Peters) give COA something to work with next year...and we figure out how to cut TOs.

Reminded me .... Troy had a gauze pad taped over his right eye today. Anybody know why?

[Triple B]

3 hours ago, Brad said:

Can't use Rudd and DoJo that way.  DoJo was a number of levels higher than Rudd.

As good as DoJo was here, I still can't forget his last moments at the Dome during the NIT loss to NCSU where, in the final seconds, he passed up the open shot just inside the key to pass the ball off to, I think, Gus who missed  ...

[USFbulls24]

Give this topic a rest. You'd think we would learn from what Taggart just did. Give him the time he needs to turn it around. In basketball all it takes is one player to go down and your team is drastically different. In our case we had 2 of our best players go down in Holston and Peters. Is that Antigua's fault too? SMU is also 20-2. We are going to get smashed by them.... If we just lost to a team like Eckerd or a D2 team like that then whine and moan all day about it, but SMU? Get outta here...

[bullsfan27]

20 minutes ago, Triple B said:

As good as DoJo was here, I still can't forget his last moments at the Dome during the NIT loss to NCSU where, in the final seconds, he passed up the open shot just inside the key to pass the ball off to, I think, Gus who missed  ...

Dojo passed it to CH thinking CH would give it right back cause NC State was about to double team him but CH passed to Gus who had his shot blocked but if Gus wouldn't have taken an extra step he might have gotten the shot off

[FlowerPower]

This guy was probably also calling for Willie's head at the beginning of football season. Rome wasn't built in a day people