Now more than ever, the Bulls need you

[USFStPete]

Well this is rock bottom but honestly I feel a little bit of peace being here. We all kinda knew this was coming in the back of our minds and now, we can languish in acceptance. It cannot get worse.

So where to go from here? Looking back to the past literally does us ZERO GOOD at this point. Let’s forget about the #2 rankings and wins over big programs. The former rivalries and standout players. The great times we all had at Ray Jay or on road trips during an abbreviated aberration that was past USF football “success”.

It’s time to reset.

For better or worse, and without placing blame on anyone, it’s time to get back to the early 2000s mindset of USF football when we barely existed. Because that’s pretty much where we are now, and the only way we’ll pull ourselves up is to renew that sense of optimism that we had back then.

Our football program is in its darkest spot ever, and needs hardcore fans like you like it never has. Don’t bail now. Stay and support Coach Scott with everything you have and you’ll be able to say you stuck around for an incredible redemption story.

This is hell, gentlemen. And we can stay here and burn individually, or climb ourselves back into the light as a unified fan base.

Edited September 4, 2021 by USFStPete

[NewEnglandBull]

Getting to #2 and playing in the BE was the worse thing that happened to us. 

[Brad]

9 minutes ago, USFStPete said:

Let’s forget about the #2 rankings and wins over big programs. The former rivalries and standout players. The great times we all had at Ray Jay or on road trips…

Never.  
 

But I can agree with the rest.  But, we’ll need a partner in USF.  

[Brad]

1 minute ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Getting to #2 and playing in the BE was the worse thing that happened to us. 

I really think this is one of the silliest comments that I’ve ever seen. And it’s not just you saying it but hearing it from time to time. So it’s nothing personal professor. But it’s kind of stupid. #2/Big East was an opportunity that we mishandled and failed to take advantage of.  It was great that it happened. It was poor that we couldn’t handle it.

[Cubanbull]

Agree this is the time for USF to push hard and we need ever fan on board

[USFRaider]

Nope 

[puc86]

At some point USF athletics needs to stop asking what more everyone else can do for it and start asking what it can do for everyone else. USF athletics despite what some may believe is a business and is in the entertainment business which is only confusing to people because I can’t remember the last time it was entertaining. We went the religious model of trying to make people feel dutiful guilt with the promise of a future reward that never comes. USF has a half a billion dollars it can borrow against, fleeces $18 million dollars a year in fees from the students and has squandered every dollar it’s ever been given sometimes paying three head coaches at a time. If USF wants to fix things at some point they need to demonstrate it and not always ask people to come up of their pocket books because this will be the first time they demonstrate a vision that’s not been communicated or realized since the most powerful man in the building left and was replaced by a void.

[NewEnglandBull]

5 minutes ago, Brad said:

I really think this is one of the silliest comments that I’ve ever seen. And it’s not just you saying it but hearing it from time to time. So it’s nothing personal professor. But it’s kind of stupid. #2/Big East was an opportunity that we mishandled and failed to take advantage of.  It was great that it happened. It was poor that we couldn’t handle it.

It created expectations that could not be met. I know I know we loved it when it happened but it created a standard that was unrealistic for a young program. Indeed, it indirectly got Leavitt fired because a few donors thought we had peeked under him. We were not ready and it created an untenable situation. Certainly in the long run it got us nothing. 

Edited September 4, 2021 by NewEnglandBull

[puc86]

3 minutes ago, Brad said:

I really think this is one of the silliest comments that I’ve ever seen. And it’s not just you saying it but hearing it from time to time. So it’s nothing personal professor. But it’s kind of stupid. #2/Big East was an opportunity that we mishandled and failed to take advantage of.  It was great that it happened. It was poor that we couldn’t handle it.

It’s @Triple B’s fault and the problem isn’t that we got there it’s that we fired the guy that did it and haven’t done a thing but change for the sake of change every four years since. That we view success as a problem and not the systemic failure that has followed it is the reason we are where we are.

[puc86]

1 minute ago, NewEnglandBull said:

It created expectations that could not be met. I know I know we loved it when it happened but it created a standard that was unrealistic for a young program. Indeed, it indirectly got Leavitt fired because a few donors thought we had peeked under him. We were not ready and the it created an untenable opportunity 

They could be met, we have accepted failure as our reality but there is no reason it had to be that way. We chose the streets it didn’t choose us.