OttawaBull Posted October 23, 2004 Group: Member Topic Count: 24 Content Count: 164 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/17/2002 Share Posted October 23, 2004 The good news: Due to the hockey strike/lockout/whatever, the pay sports package my cable network has up here is instead offering NCAA football and basketball this fall. So for the first time in over a year, I get to see the Bulls on TV!The bad news: I watched the game.Sheesh, how the heck did we get to this level of 'suck' so quickly after being worldbeaters? Didn't UAB enter 1-A only a year or two before us? Why are they on the fast track while we're heading straight into oncoming traffic?At this point, I doubt this team could even make the 1-AA playoffs, let alone a 1-A bowl game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoolyBully Posted October 23, 2004 Group: Bull Backers Topic Count: 194 Content Count: 6,785 Reputation: 864 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/01/2000 Share Posted October 23, 2004 World beaters? World beaters?? What team have you been watching? Is it the same team that lost to Kentucky & Baylor? Is it the same team that had to go into overtime to win against ECU ? Time to make sure you're not watching audio from one feed and video from another.USF had 'reasonable' success since we started playing IA ball. Anything prior to 2001 is pretty much practice under the lights. Do not be decieved...tying for third in CUSA does not make you a 'world beater'. Bowl? Un uh. Not gonna happen. We are exactly what we are. When the talent graduates - this is what you have to deal with. The problem with USF is that it's looked 'too easy' year before last (recall that we did not set the world on fire last year!!!!!!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OttawaBull Posted October 24, 2004 Group: Member Topic Count: 24 Content Count: 164 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/17/2002 Author Share Posted October 24, 2004 World beaters? World beaters?? What team have you been watching? Is it the same team that lost to Kentucky & Baylor? Is it the same team that had to go into overtime to win against ECU ? Sheesh, you always take things so literally? What I meant was that during our rapid ascension to the ranks of 1-A, we've been on a fasttrack, and the perception was that we'd be challenging for at least the upper middle level of 1-A fairly quickly. The past year and a half have proven otherwise, as we weren't that great last year and we just plain suck this yearSo yeah, I realize that we haven't regularly knocked off top 10 teams...it was just a little hyperbole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarySJ Posted October 24, 2004 Group: Member Topic Count: 141 Content Count: 2,661 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/14/2000 Share Posted October 24, 2004 We're no longer an "expansion" team for whom the only direction is up. We're now an established I-A program that has had some success and some expectations. But, down years are inevitable. As has been observed elsewhere, we've just never had one before. We'll just have to deal with a down year, just like Ohio State, Maryland, Washington, Kansas State, and dozens of other programs are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smazza Posted October 24, 2004 Group: Member Topic Count: 9,898 Content Count: 66,091 Reputation: 2,434 Days Won: 172 Joined: 01/01/2001 Share Posted October 24, 2004 garysj- i don't buy iti team in tampa surrounded by some of the most talent high school football talent in the USA shouldn't be as bad as we arewe should be better by accident on talent aloneleavitt is on a one year probation in 2005if we had this type of year last year we would never have gotten a big east invitation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.T. Posted October 24, 2004 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 4,751 Content Count: 37,676 Reputation: 2,367 Days Won: 29 Joined: 12/24/2001 Share Posted October 24, 2004 GOOD NEWS #50 E.T. got to play towards the end of the game. Bad News It was because the game was basicly over Go BULLS !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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