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What do you guys think it would look like if we went Independent in all sports?

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7 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

There are ranked teams and unranked teams embarrassing USF on the field consistently over the last three to five years. We can't judge until we start beating teams in our own conference consistently. Ever since the firing of the Godfather Leavitt and collapse on the BIG EAST outside of a couple years we have been pure cow patties. IT is time to step it up and get rid of guys that can't get the job done in the athletic office.

That is an entirely different issue.  It is kind of embarrassing we have fans who do that. I know it was eons ago but some of those programs did have some success playing bigtime football.   But then again, I remember before the collapse of the Big East some of our fans were convinced USF was a shoo in to stay in one of the preferred conferences .  I knew otherwise.  I do hate being right sometimes. 

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It would be way too late to consider.  We anchored to the AAC and underperformed.  We anchored ourselves to UCF and they moved on. At the top of our performance (primarily football) with Leavitt

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With the 12 team playoff that will guarantee a spot for the top 6 conference champions starting in 2024, I do believe going independent would be a disaster.

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Which makes the grand assumption that schools WANT TO put USF on the schedule. Not a guarantee. As for recruiting, getting your arse waxed by P5 schools across the southeastern section of the nation,

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3 minutes ago, Mission9 said:

That is an entirely different issue.  It is kind of embarrassing we have fans who do that. I know it was eons ago but some of those programs did have some success playing bigtime football.   But then again, I remember before the collapse of the Big East some of our fans were convinced USF was a shoo in to stay in one of the preferred conferences .  I knew otherwise.  I do hate being right sometimes. 

THE AD and athletic department should be thanking consistently any football and basketball fans left. The product on the field is making it more difficult to watch.

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6 hours ago, puc86 said:

There is no one that raises their profile by moving people below them up to their level, any conference that brings up teams does not create stability and lives in a constant state of instability. Imagine that the team that had the least amount of differentiation and had the closest alternative to them brought on board was the one that stood the most to lose by the let’s just make the conference stronger by bringing on worse parts stood the most to lose and should avoid that path by any means necessary, novel! It’s not entitlement it’s common sense that you don’t squander your market differentiation by bringing people up to your level because as much as they go up you also go down.

You got to start thinking more positive. USF has a state of the art OCS on the way. ACC rumors are swirling 

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2 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

THE AD and athletic department should be thanking consistently any football and basketball fans left. The product on the field is making it more difficult to watch.

Won’t be long before the fans are thanking the AD….

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1 minute ago, Bull Awakening said:

You got to start thinking more positive. USF has a state of the art OCS on the way. ACC rumors are swirling 

Ok Daly.  While I appreciate your positivity, I feel like I have to say something in the spirit of Peyton telling Eli to stop guessing the helmet catch.  Stop pushing this ACC rumor thing!  I hope it happens but count me as a skeptic. 

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5 hours ago, Brad said:

Who was that?  Cincinnati?

And Connecticut

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4 minutes ago, Mission9 said:

Ok Daly.  While I appreciate your positivity, I feel like I have to say something in the spirit of Peyton telling Eli to stop guessing the helmet catch.  Stop pushing this ACC rumor thing!  I hope it happens but count me as a skeptic. 

Lol good one. Got to keep this board going during this off season. Hopefully the ACC rumors start getting drown out by more wins on the field. 

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19 minutes ago, Triple B said:

And Connecticut

A stretch but okay. So a conference with 8-9 others that weren’t. 

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6 hours ago, Bull Awakening said:

Won’t be long before the fans are thanking the AD….

If he gets us into the ACC or Big 12 all will be forgiven.

If he builds  us an OCS, and we start winning again in both basketball and football all will be forgiven.

 

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8 hours ago, Triple B said:

And Connecticut

The same Uconn that decided creating the aac was a mistake and then pivoted to the plan I suggested? 

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