USF Football is in need of a losing season....

[Blackice12]

USF has skirted by with October letdowns during Big East play since 2005. A good losing season will call for careful examination of the team and the decisions being made about the program, this can be good for the program.

[thatboykane]

a careful examination of the team and the decisions being made about the program should already be happening.  why do we need to wait until we have a losing season to get started?

[Bull94]

we had a losing season last year.

2-5.

nothing matters but BE play.

We can load up on sun belt, 1-aa, c-usa cupcakes all we want to pad the record but BE play is all that matters.

[Boomer]

we had a losing season last year.

2-5.

nothing matters but BE play.

We can load up on sun belt, 1-aa, c-usa cupcakes all we want to pad the record but BE play is all that matters.

You're right.

What USF needs is to pick stronger teams to open the season with so we don't get all silly with excitement before Big East play begins.

[Blackice12]

a careful examination of the team and the decisions being made about the program should already be happening.  why do we need to wait until we have a losing season to get started?

Making it to a bowl game is a sign of success and it masks what has been happening during Big East play. The media is starting to expect this pattern from USF every year. This pattern of losses will begin to affect TV time, fan attendance and recruiting which impacts money, money and talent respectfully. 

I am really concerned for this team and the program if adjustments other then the cycle of RBs (Cheap shot) and the cycle of coaches does not change soon.  For the last couple of years USF has been know as the "Darling of the Ball" or the "Startup" team, unfortunately the initial excitement has wearing off and now USF has to perform and show who they really are right now it does not look good.  I personally believe it won't be long, a year or so, before the media starts to publicly ridicule USF's football program's lack of growth and Jim Leavitt's ability to take the team to another level.

[CousinRicky]

a careful examination of the team and the decisions being made about the program should already be happening.  why do we need to wait until we have a losing season to get started?

Making it to a bowl game is a sign of success and it masks what has been happening during Big East play. The media is starting to expect this pattern from USF every year. This pattern of losses will begin to affect TV time, fan attendance and recruiting which impacts money, money and talent respectfully. 

I am really concerned for this team and the program if adjustments other then the cycle of RBs (Cheap shot) and the cycle of coaches does not change soon.   For the last couple of years USF has been know as the "Darling of the Ball" or the "Startup" team, unfortunately the initial excitement has wearing off and now USF has to perform and show who they really are right now it does not look good.  I personally believe it won't be long, a year or so, before the media starts to publicly ridicule USF's football program's lack of growth and Jim Leavitt's ability to take the team to another level.

That is assuming the media will give a rat's a$$ about our program.  It is more likely that we just won't be talked about and will go back to the days when we were so excited just to see So FL, or whatever abbreviation they use, scroll across the bottom of the screen with our losing score. </sacrasm>

[bullsbucsboltsrays]

I personally believe it won't be long, a year or so, before the media starts to publicly ridicule USF's football program's lack of growth and Jim Leavitt's ability to take the team to another level.

that has already happened in the local media.  if you listen to steve duemig, he pretty much calls us out for being midseason chokers.. and quite frankly, he's right.  people here hate his guts cuz he disses the program, but the program isn't headed in the right direction.

the way jim leavitt handled brett mcmurphy and publicly ridiculed him doesn't make it any easier.  it's no secret that leavitt has been really bad with the media, and its making the perception of the program quite dim and dreary.  with the way he deals with them, we shouldn't expect to be on the backpage of a Gators win over Charleston Southern.

[widerberg]

The media is starting to expect this pattern from USF every year.

Hey, maybe CJL is smarter than we think and this is all part of his Master Plan--to make us a total laughing stock that no one takes seriously?? Then . . . then . . . when they're all asleep, we'll POUNCE, baby!!  ;D

But, then, we'd end up going to a BCS bowl and getting slaughtered by a legit team (a la Oregon in the Sun Bowl). Oy.

[CousinRicky]

I personally believe it won't be long, a year or so, before the media starts to publicly ridicule USF's football program's lack of growth and Jim Leavitt's ability to take the team to another level.

that has already happened in the local media.  if you listen to steve duemig, he pretty much calls us out for being midseason chokers.. and quite frankly, he's right.  people here hate his guts cuz he disses the program, but the program isn't headed in the right direction.

the way jim leavitt handled brett mcmurphy and publicly ridiculed him doesn't make it any easier.  it's no secret that leavitt has been really bad with the media, and its making the perception of the program quite dim and dreary.  with the way he deals with them, we shouldn't expect to be on the backpage of a Gators win over Charleston Southern.

I believed he always threw out the "their an awfully good team" and all of his Leavittisms as a ploy to not show his hand.  But as time goes on, I wonder if he doesn't talk about schemes and game plans because there aren't any.  Maybe the lights are on but no one is home?  Only half kidding.

[South_Florida_Flip]

USF has skirted by with October letdowns during Big East play since 2005.

We started 4-1 in the Big East in 2005, so there was no October meltdown.