Will we break ground on the IPF in 2021?

[puc86]

8 minutes ago, JTrue said:

Don’t we already tax our students to the tune of $15-$20 million a year, anyway? Clearly, most students have zero interest in sports, but are forced to pay to support them through tacked on fees. Is the suggestion now to start tapping into the general public? Because right now, we burn through the cost of an IPF every other year in just fees to cover our current mess of a department. Good luck convincing people the best to way to solve our mess is by throwing more money at it.

It’s the same reason I always make sure to pay extra tax dollars

[Guest SittingBull]

1 hour ago, JTrue said:

Don’t we already tax our students to the tune of $15-$20 million a year, anyway? Clearly, most students have zero interest in sports, but are forced to pay to support them through tacked on fees. 

Intercollegiate Athletics shouldn’t be supported by student fees.  Those fees should be against state law.

Edited February 15, 2021 by SittingBull

[SilverBull]

2 hours ago, bjef4844 said:

The Tampa Bay area has 3.1M people. With everything USF has provided the community, Hillsborough County should add to the sales tax, or tax the rich, to help fund budget shortfalls for USF - like the College of Education and have a carve out for an IPF.

 

 

2 hours ago, JTrue said:

Don’t we already tax our students to the tune of $15-$20 million a year, anyway? Clearly, most students have zero interest in sports, but are forced to pay to support them through tacked on fees. Is the suggestion now to start tapping into the general public? Because right now, we burn through the cost of an IPF every other year in just fees to cover our current mess of a department. Good luck convincing people the best to way to solve our mess is by throwing more money at it.

Modern American ingenuity.

 

[puc86]

Serious question, what has VPMK done that makes anyone think he is doing a good job? It seems that from top to bottom every single thing he is tasked with is below expectations is it simply because he is nice and accessible and hired nice and accessible people because nothing he has demonstrated here or previously seems to indicate a righting of the ship with happen under his guidance.

[negron2002]

3 hours ago, bjef4844 said:

The Tampa Bay area has 3.1M people. With everything USF has provided the community, Hillsborough County should add to the sales tax, or tax the rich, to help fund budget shortfalls for USF - like the College of Education and have a carve out for an IPF.

 

Hillsborough already has the highest sales tax in all the land and the idea of taxing the rich has never worked.

[CousinRicky]

4 hours ago, puc86 said:

Serious question, what has VPMK done that makes anyone think he is doing a good job? It seems that from top to bottom every single thing he is tasked with is below expectations is it simply because he is nice and accessible and hired nice and accessible people because nothing he has demonstrated here or previously seems to indicate a righting of the ship with happen under his guidance.

You know you aren't serious.  

[Skingraft]

This thread gave me herpes

[puc86]

3 minutes ago, CousinRicky said:

You know you aren't serious.  

I am serious I’ve never understood how anyone saw this as a home run hire and every passing day I find it more perplexing. If we needed a party planner for hosting a playoff of the biggest names in college football, he would be the natural hire but to rescue a program from the brink of collapse? He seems to only keep digging us further, what am I missing that others seem to see from his results?

[puc86]

2 minutes ago, Skingraft said:

This thread gave me herpes

The good thing about herpes is you can’t get it twice, so that’s one less thing you have to worry about, which is nice.

[bjef4844]

16 minutes ago, puc86 said:

I am serious I’ve never understood how anyone saw this as a home run hire and every passing day I find it more perplexing. If we needed a party planner for hosting a playoff of the biggest names in college football, he would be the natural hire but to rescue a program from the brink of collapse? He seems to only keep digging us further, what am I missing that others seem to see from his results?

He's hired a coordinator from one of the premier football programs in the country, has an elite women's basketball program, has the best non-conference home schedule of any G5 school, and APR scores at an all-time high. Men's basketball is turning a corner and we just need to give Scott time to recruit and get in his guys. If we can live through Holtz and Antigua then we can live through this.