Doug Woolard Speaks

[USFootball]

You people really do not get it...like football, we wont get any better then what we have right now without alumni donations and since our school has been around for only 50 years unlike generations and generations of alumni...we may get lucky every once in awhile but even if Woolard wanted this guy, we dont have the money to pay him a mil...and dont even bring Leavitt into the million dollar category...

[BigShoop]

I, along with thousands of others, will not attend one game next year or donate any money in the near future, until this university shows some sort of dedication to winning.  

There will be plenty of seats available on the bandwagon for ya.....

I'm sure we'll see a "hey, i was wrong..." post next year sometime.

I'll be on the lookout.

[Paisa el Toro]

A total freakin joke.  YOu are drawing the smallest crowds in teh conference -- your donor base is pretty much non existent -- you have won a measly 7 confrence games in three years and you just sit on your hands as a hall of famer walks by.

My parents use to always tell me

"You can't help someone, who doesn't want to help themselves."

Nothing could be more true about our athletic department.  We haven't made the tournament in 15 years and there are solid reasons why.  

1.) we are not committed to winning.

I will not donate a single dollar to this univeristy until they prove they are committed to winning.

See that's the problem with our alumn's way of thinking. You get a bunch of people alumns thinking this way, and in the aggragate it will only hurt USF.

Bottom line, is that I'll never be embarassed to be a Bull no matter how things get. Being a recent law school graduate, I'm just now starting to get on my feet financially. But, I'm aiming to join the Bulls Club next year so I can start pumping money into our athletic program

We need to support the school that enabled us to be where we are today. I'm not saying that you aren't entitled to your opinions because you can gripe all you want. However, for your griping to mean a lick in the eyes of "the powers that be," my friend, you have to put your money where your mouth is. Become an Iron Bull, and see how much your opinion matters to the athletics department. Until then you are just blowing hot air on a message board.

[bulls96go]

smart move

[Knight_Light]

Tribune's McMurphy question's the timing of Woolard's comments in his blog today:

http://sports.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/related/C127/

Postgame report from UConn

Posted March 02, 2006 by Brett McMurphy  

Dead Man Walking. Perhaps, that’s too harsh and even a bit unfair, but, if you’re looking for my honest opinion, that’s exactly what University of South Florida athletic director Doug Woolard’s statement made Coach Robert McCullum. Woolard said Wednesday that McCullum, who has three years left on his contract, “will remain our men’s head basketball coach next season.† 

Some endorsement. Woolard said he felt he needed to issue a statement because The Tampa Tribune’s story Tuesday of boosters wanting to buy out McCullum and bring in former Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins “were a distraction to the team.†For the past few weeks, I have asked Woolard on several occasions to assess McCullum’s performance or the state of the program. I even said can you at least confirm he will return next year? Each time, Woolard politely said he evaluates each coach after their season is over. Well, at least, each coach he doesn’t feel like discussing.  

See link for full blog article.

http://sports.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/related/C127/

[BULLfreak]

when does spring practice start ?

[Triple B]

Tribune's McMurphy question's the timing of Woolard's comments in his blog today:

http://sports.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/related/C127/

Postgame report from UConn

Posted March 02, 2006 by Brett McMurphy  

Dead Man Walking. Perhaps, that’s too harsh and even a bit unfair, but, if you’re looking for my honest opinion, that’s exactly what University of South Florida athletic director Doug Woolard’s statement made Coach Robert McCullum. Woolard said Wednesday that McCullum, who has three years left on his contract, “will remain our men’s head basketball coach next season.† 

Some endorsement. Woolard said he felt he needed to issue a statement because The Tampa Tribune’s story Tuesday of boosters wanting to buy out McCullum and bring in former Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins “were a distraction to the team.†For the past few weeks, I have asked Woolard on several occasions to assess McCullum’s performance or the state of the program. I even said can you at least confirm he will return next year? Each time, Woolard politely said he evaluates each coach after their season is over. Well, at least, each coach he doesn’t feel like discussing.  

See link for full blog article.

http://sports.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/related/C127/

[BullyPulpit]

McMurphy is an idiot douche bag. If you look at what Woolard is saying, they evaluate at the end of EVERY season. The fact that Wooldard is saying RMC will be back NEXT season does not make him a dead man walking. (However, another 6-21 record will). It simply means that there is no doubt that RMC will coach AT LEAST next year. That is yet another reasons why even my cats won't go to the bathroom on the Tampa Tribune.

[SouthFLBully]

A total freakin joke.  YOu are drawing the smallest crowds in teh conference -- your donor base is pretty much non existent -- you have won a measly 7 confrence games in three years and you just sit on your hands as a hall of famer walks by.

My parents use to always tell me

"You can't help someone, who doesn't want to help themselves."

Nothing could be more true about our athletic department.  We haven't made the tournament in 15 years and there are solid reasons why.  

1.) we are not committed to winning.

I will not donate a single dollar to this univeristy until they prove they are committed to winning.

Do you really think that DW wants us to loose?  His job is on the line just like RMC's!  DW doesn't get where he is today by wanting to loose.  The same goes for the entire Athletic Department.  Do you think they walk into the athletic department every morning and say to themselves: "How can I #uck up the MBB team today?" They want us to win just as bad as any of us, but the only difference is that they actually know what they are doing!  

Who are you to say that they are not commited to winning?  In the past 10 years our Athletic Department has helped us grow from a "no name" school to a school in a BCS conference!  We got a football team, got new facilities, new sponsers, telivised games, and are in the process of doing much, much more.

And as for you saying that you will not attend a game next year, or donate any money is the most self-centered thing I have herd sence I got out of high school.  You sound like a little kid who's parents won't buy him a piece of candy.  I will admit I was in favor of us getting a new coach too, but there is one big difference between the two of us: I realize where my place is.  I am not the AD, nor am I a head coach, and for that very reason I spend my time behind my team, not above them, where you like to be.

I am tired of this fair-weather $hit.  I don't like loosing anymore than the next guy, but I am not about to hide my colors becasue I don't like where my program is now, or where I think they will be in the future.  Personally I am woundering wheather or not you sport your green and gold with pride, or if you are one of those fans who owns a teeshirt of every big name school just so you can be the first to jump on a band waggon when someone wins.

So my question to you ARI is: are you a Bull or not?  Because with an attitude like that I would prefer you go piss off!