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Has USF "Arrived"?

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No, USF has not arrived.

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we will have "arrived" when we don't have to ask this question.

IMO, we need to win a couple BigEast championships in football and win a couple BCS games before you can truly say that we have arrived.

did Boise state "arrive" b/c they upset Oklahoma?

does anyone really look at Boise State as nothing more than a feel good story or a fluke?

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btw, just to point it out, we we're 1-A when we beat Bowling Green. Bowling Green was the first ranked 1-A opponent in RayJay and our first win against a ranked team and the 6th win in the 7 game winning streak to end the 02 season. And they were coached by the "great" Urban Meyer.

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Bowling Green's "ranking" was in the coaches poll.  They were outside the Top 25 in the AP poll, which is what most people consider the "ranking of record"...

Hence the reason most people don't count Bowling Green as a ranked opponent.

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Bowling Green's "ranking" was in the coaches poll.  They were outside the Top 25 in the AP poll, which is what most people consider the "ranking of record"...

Hence the reason most people don't count Bowling Green as a ranked opponent.

I think thats a stupid technicality btw. They were ranked in a poll, and the week before they played us they were in the top 15 area and lost to Northern Illinois, who we crushed earlier in the season.

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Selvie is staying all four years...

IMHO...

GO BULLS!!!

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I'm going to say we "arrived" when we shallacked UL at home in 2005. No longer were we just "little south florida". At that point, we go into any game with a chance to win. Beating a top-10 opponent with a very lop sided score makes a statement that you better bring your 'A' Game when you come to play the USF Bulls.

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It's a question of have we arrived in the eyes of the nation, and I vote no, not just yet. If we stay in the top 25 for a couple of seasons, and bulldozier1 is right, we get some really big name recruits, THEN we'll have arrived. Obviously, BE Champs and some BCS wins will help that.

Being able to hang with good teams and arriving are two different things.

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I think a good indicator if we have arrived or not is to watch the college football shows and when they do the intro's with the highlights, or between segments or leading into or out of commercials, is one of the images USF.

By that measure, we are pretty much arrived. The last espn College football show i saw last week had a shot of Grothe pointing up at the Camera after the WVU game during a video collage.

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Nope.  :nope

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