Nothing Official Yet but....

[Bull Dozer]

1 hour ago, JTrue said:

That's because we're beyond knee-deep in this thing and we're well past there being any legit arguments. Every thread on this site that has  anything to do with coaching can be whittled down to two posts until the announcement is made:

"Jim Leavitt because he's Jim Leavitt!"

"Best coach we can, who might also turn out to be Jim Leavitt but I'd prefer we try something else!"

This is where I was at coming into the search. However, there's chatter the Clemson guys aren't interested/are connected to better jobs, Spurrier is just trying to to set up Jr who isn't proven enough to be a HC, Drinkwitz is in play for 2 SEC Jobs, Napier hasn't been connected at all, Bell is a non-starter, Larry Scott is a Meh hire to me, CWT wants the job job but the feeling isn't mutual, and what's left is CJL. From the options that I can divine that are left CJL is the best option. 

Edited December 8, 2019 by Bull Dozer

[cmhatter]

9 minutes ago, Bull Dozer said:

This is where I was at coming into the search. However, there's chatter the Clemson guys aren't interested/are connected to better jobs, Spurrier is just trying to to set up Jr who isn't proven enough to be a HC, Drinkwitz is in play for 2 SEC Jobs, Napier hasn't been connected at all, Bell is a non-starter, Larry Scott is a Meh hire to me, CWT wants the job job but the feeling isn't mutual, and what's left is CJL. From the options that I can divine that are left CJL is the best option. 

If the Clemson guys are out... I’d prefer Leavitt over Scott 

[Triple B]

20 minutes ago, keith S said:

I  get your point but it was nice having something to play for. We haven't had very many since he has been gone.

Depends on what you mean by "something to play for" ....

[MMW]

18 minutes ago, Triple B said:

Depends on what you mean by "something to play for" ....

Off topic but would we have played for the NC if we continued to run the table in 2007?

[MSBulls]

2 minutes ago, MMW said:

Off topic but would we have played for the NC if we continued to run the table in 2007?

Yes

[JTrue]

43 minutes ago, Bull Dozer said:

This is where I was at coming into the search. However, there's chatter the Clemson guys aren't interested/are connected to better jobs, Spurrier is just trying to to set up Jr who isn't proven enough to be a HC, Drinkwitz is in play for 2 SEC Jobs, Napier hasn't been connected at all, Bell is a non-starter, Larry Scott is a Meh hire to me, CWT wants the job job but the feeling isn't mutual, and what's left is CJL. From the options that I can divine that are left CJL is the best option. 

Pretty much. And if we hire anyone on Earth not xCJL, it will be armageddon if we end up having to fire that person when we could have had the Jim. 

[USFBulls727]

43 minutes ago, Bull Dozer said:

This is where I was at coming into the search. However, there's chatter the Clemson guys aren't interested/are connected to better jobs, Spurrier is just trying to to set up Jr who isn't proven enough to be a HC, Drinkwitz is in play for 2 SEC Jobs, Napier hasn't been connected at all, Bell is a non-starter, Larry Scott is a Meh hire to me, CWT wants the job job but the feeling isn't mutual, and what's left is CJL. From the options that I can divine that are left CJL is the best option. 

Outside of this message board, I don't see anything about Leavitt's possible return here. I've seen him rumored to be hooking up with Mike Leach at WSU, going to Colorado State, or FAU. Are we sure all this Leavitt coming home talk is legit?

[Fwbull]

5 minutes ago, USFBulls727 said:

Outside of this message board, I don't see anything about Leavitt's possible return here. I've seen him rumored to be hooking up with Mike Leach at WSU, going to Colorado State, or FAU. Are we sure all this Leavitt coming home talk is legit?

I don’t think anyone knows, but it would be heart breaking to see him take the HC role at another school given the dire need we have for someone to put more into an imperfect job at an imperfect place than can reasonably expected in the coaching world. 

[hm101]

33 minutes ago, USFBulls727 said:

Outside of this message board, I don't see anything about Leavitt's possible return here. I've seen him rumored to be hooking up with Mike Leach at WSU, going to Colorado State, or FAU. Are we sure all this Leavitt coming home talk is legit?

Leavitt has "liked" a couple USF-related tweets, and was recently in Tampa, thats in all honesty the hardest evidence we have that somethings up. Other than that its (1) this thread and (2) Grothes tweets

Edited December 8, 2019 by hm101

[keith S]

50 minutes ago, Triple B said:

Depends on what you mean by "something to play for" ....

At the time we had those loses, we were 2nd and 8th, and in the discussion for the Natl Championship game. If you recall, once we lost WV who only had the one loss to us was in 2nd and in the Natl championship game until they lost to Pitt in their last game.

That year we averaged over 50,000 at Ray Jay, and I don't know about anyone else but there wasn't a day that went by over a couple of months. (after the night  win at Auburn) that most of my customers wanted to talk about USF football.

I cooked for the tailgate parties for the Baptist Collegiate Ministry and was cooking for 120 to 135 kids every game. Our tailgate party was on ESPN sports 3 times that year plus the ESPN special they did on the amazing upstart USF football.

We had to quit trying to have tailgate parties for them in 2018 because of lack of interest. We dropped from 120 minimum to when Leavitt left to 35 to 40 on Holtz's last year.

We started with 50 people Taggart's first year to 35 his second year, to 20 his third year. His fourth year we had 25 to 35 and by the end of Strong's second year, we had less than 6. We finally didn't bother last year.

I'm sorry, I miss those years. Yes, we moved up so fast that we were playing against opponents that were way over our heads, and somehow we were winning a lot of them. By the end of the year, our competition caught us and our top 50 recruits.

I don't mind telly you that when we had a top 26 recruiting class, his last year of recruiting, and when we were rated top 18 when he was fired, I had high hopes for what we could do with those types of recruits.

That's what I mean about having something to play for.