Well there will be “a little” pressure on CCS next year

BrassBulls12 · January 4, 2019

Just now, CousinRicky said:

That would be true in basketball.

Baseball as well.

USFBULL_08 · January 4, 2019

53 minutes ago, usf97 said:

I don't disagree with you but do you sense from anything CCS or AD Kelly said or have done that builds a sense of "Pressure"?

On 11/5, after an embarrassing loss to Tulane, when asked if he was contemplating staff changes, an incredulous CCS said "We won seven games. Were we 7-0? … Why would there be coaching changes?"

After the UCF loss, AD Kelly had MF over to his office and said " But Charlie Strong is also the only coach to play for a division title in our history, too. We have to build the football facility first."

In that same interview AD Kelly said "As long as people are looking for ways to improve and wanting to be here, why wouldn't I build on it with someone who is a proven success, who has great contacts in the state of Florida?"

The way I read that is CCS has a big contract for $7.8 million left over 3 seasons. More than likely it is going to cost USF a lot of, if not all of that to buy him out if we so wanted. So Kelly is going to keep him here for 2 maybe 3 more seasons. Spin it like he did above and hope it all works out. I hope it does. But to this thread's point, I don't hear or see any pressure there for next season. CCS has already told you we are going to be "average".

IMO, Kelly, privately is the one who told Strong he needed to make massive changes or he was gone. Which is why Gilbert and co. left.

Publicly, I dont think a first time AD can come out swinging on a well thought of coach like strong.

To me the coaches and players leaving are a clear sign.

usf97 · August 31, 2019

Bump.

Just a reminder of the thoughts of this board earlier this year. Nothing that happened last night should be a surprise. Most of us saw this coming in January.

I think the Kerwin Bell hire and the USF hype machine along with the TDS suddenly changed many peoples’ expectations.

That said- it is still too soon to grade Kerwin Bell. What I like about Kerwin ( which I have never heard from CCS) is he sounds like he will get up off the mat and try and out-coach his opponent. I image Kerwin and Kade have a learning curve so my interest this season is to see if they will put something competitive together even with having challenges at O Line and an immobile QB

I expected a loss last night. I think most of us did. So regardless of how bad the loss was, at the end of the day, we are still just 0-1. I don’t think CCS is the answer, many of us didn’t in January but we were told by the powers that be, they wanted to blame last season on Gilbert and Taggerts’ bad attitude players. Ok let’s see how 2019 goes. At the minimum CCS and staff will get the entire season.

Edited August 31, 2019 by usf97