Maryland Bull Posted October 18, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 0 Content Count: 19 Reputation: 9 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/17/2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 (edited) Antigua was to basketball as _______ was to football. We are much further ahead in football now and basketball will take time but we will get there in time. Edited October 18, 2017 by Maryland Bull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEnglandBull Posted October 18, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,518 Content Count: 42,125 Reputation: 8,834 Days Won: 344 Joined: 11/29/2009 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Football is where the $ and the future of USF athletics is...the rest is window dressing. That does not mean we can't enjoy the other sports but at then end of the day the financial impact is directed toward football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usfgrad84 Posted October 18, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 246 Content Count: 6,348 Reputation: 662 Days Won: 8 Joined: 05/25/2006 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Single handedly? Guess you were not here in the Mccullum days or firing of Heath. Then the Massiello fiasco. Basketball has been a mess for a long time. There have been quite a few contributors to the mess and it has not been a short term thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchem1995 Posted October 18, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 51 Content Count: 3,357 Reputation: 1,101 Days Won: 5 Joined: 04/02/2014 Share Posted October 18, 2017 2 hours ago, usfgrad84 said: Single handedly? Guess you were not here in the Mccullum days or firing of Heath. Then the Massiello fiasco. Basketball has been a mess for a long time. There have been quite a few contributors to the mess and it has not been a short term thing. Not Muccullum but the rest yes. I mean I've never seen or heard of such a mass exodus of players under one coach. Have you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullsBoltsJagsRays Posted October 18, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 5 Content Count: 262 Reputation: 153 Days Won: 2 Joined: 08/06/2015 Share Posted October 18, 2017 I just think even if you're not "making" money with football, the marketing it brings your school and brand is excellent. 2007-09 football success did great things for our beloved university IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michibull Posted October 18, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 19 Content Count: 960 Reputation: 652 Days Won: 1 Joined: 08/29/2012 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 (edited) Yeah, I can agree with the marketing aspect. I loved being up north and having people stop me to comment on my USF gear back in 2007/8. I just feel like the changing landscape of football seems like such an uphill battle that I'm not sure we can win. I would feel better about it if we could average 40k a game, but even with our best team ever, our support seems amateur at best. Without solid and consistent support, the task feels daunting. Edited October 18, 2017 by michibull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USF_Grouper Posted October 18, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 584 Content Count: 10,369 Reputation: 92 Days Won: 7 Joined: 11/19/2005 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Wow - Women's Basektball, Football, and "All other sports combine" COST about the same amount of money. I also look at these as marketing expenses and really only one of them appears radical out of line with the expected return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANJAY Posted October 18, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 300 Content Count: 7,993 Reputation: 968 Days Won: 21 Joined: 10/31/2005 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Given our success in hoops since the beginning of time it seems best to just focus on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charsibb Posted October 18, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 653 Content Count: 31,049 Reputation: 2,487 Days Won: 172 Joined: 08/30/2011 Share Posted October 18, 2017 1 hour ago, BullsBoltsJagsRays said: I just think even if you're not "making" money with football, the marketing it brings your school and brand is excellent. 2007-09 football success did great things for our beloved university IMO. Read an article back in the day quoting Judy that we had the highest rate of increase in applicants' grades and SAT scores ever, and it was mainly due to the prestige from the football team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmyBull Posted October 18, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 58 Content Count: 1,828 Reputation: 660 Days Won: 12 Joined: 07/09/2015 Share Posted October 18, 2017 This thread screams OCS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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