Be careful of what the next coach will say...

[Guest BasketBull.]

May 25, 1996

""We've got to recruit ourselves a marquee player, somebody with Marcus Camby or Allen Iverson to Tim Duncan abilities,'' Greenberg said, managing to tie basketball to theater as smoothly as Rodgers was linked to Hammerstein. ""We'll be combing the high schools of Florida, plus recruiting hard in Northeast, my old home territory. Working to locate, then sell and sign that special kid who can be the catalyst that triggers a new level of USF basketball greatness. Tampa can be sexy to a teenaged athlete from New York.''

""South Florida's possibilities, being a member of the extraordinary new Conference USA, plus having a fine 10,000-seat basketball facility like the Sun Dome,'' the 40-year-old Greenberg said, ""well, that's why I'm here. And, yes, I am serious about winning a national championship.''

""Tampa Bay clearly is not Orlando Magic country to any great degree,'' he said, ""so I'm figuring that, if we can put a good product on the floor, the USF Bulls have a chance to become the basketball franchise of the Tampa-St. Petersburg area professional sports, is more than right.

""We will recruit athletes with character. I promise that. We will demand that our players work at being good role models and at developing strong kinship to the area. We're not going to just suck from this community. We plan to get out there among everybody, helping charities and such, giving more than we get.''

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April 18, 2003

"I am familiar with the basketball program at South Florida, and I think it's a program that certainly has an opportunity to reach higher heights."

"I think we have everything here to make this program a great success."

"As a basketball player, but more importantly, as a person, you get on the road to success with your attitude and the way you approach things."

"I have high standards and expectations in all areas of their lives, absolutely," said McCullum. "You say: "What does that have to do with winning games?' I believe it has a lot to do with it. I wasn't preaching to them or trying to intimidate them. But I wanted to make it clear that we need to do things a certain way."

"I find kids respond to demands and the more demands the better the response," McCullum said. "I am going to work extremely hard and be extremely demanding. We are going to do everything we can to have our players take ownership of the program."

"There is nothing magical about being successful in this business. You need good players," McCullum said.

"If we can consistently be among the top four or five teams in the conference, we will get them. It starts with selling the University and selling me. I didn't say it would be easy, but I am comfortable it will happen. Rome wasn't built in a day and I am here for the long run."

[Triple B]

Great finds, BB. Hopefully, the next coach does a little research and knows exactly what he's getting into before making comments like some of those.

[Matt]

thats what every coach that just got hired would say

[bulls96go]

we will win at all costs!

[Brad]

As BasketBull notes, words can often set a trap for their owner.

In Brett's Trib article, Mr. Woolard says the following:

"Our expectations in this program are that we can compete night in, night out in the Big East. We expect to compete night in, night out and we need to make the investment and the commitment."

Hoorah!  Let's do it.

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[USFan]

I think we all will be surprised when we hear the annual salary.

DW is serious about this.