BradentonHerald Dell: USF favored to win AAC East Division and have best season since Willie Taggart’s arrival

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August 25, 2016 5:19 PM

USF favored to win AAC East Division and have best season since Willie Taggart’s arrival

 

By Alan Dell

adell@bradenton.com

 

Ever since he arrived on the USF campus four years ago Willie Taggart has been spewing optimism. During his first two years he had to virtually go it alone trying to resurrect a football program that seemed to be on its death bed.

Taggart never wavered despite calls for his job. Last year he turned the Bulls around with an 8-5 record and the team’s first bowl appearance since 2010.

With 14 starters returning including three single season record holders in quarterback Quinton Flowers, running back Marlon Mack and receiver Rodney Adams, Taggart can’t keep his enthusiasm in check, not that he would want to do that.

“Now it’s fun and everything that I envisioned when I came here,” Taggart said. “Our expectations never change. We are trying to win a conference championship, which we’ve never done. Absolutely, we can do it, but we got to do what it takes to win a conference championship. We can't get caught up in all the talk about ‘good job.’ It's like the worst two words you can have in your vocabulary. It makes people get complacent.”

USF was picked to win the East Division in the American Athletic Conference preseason media poll. It was a clear-cut choice. The Bulls were 5-0 last year ...

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