Let's look at the positives from yesterdays game

[Brad]

No way.

[Ghostofbigworm]

Good work with the analysis of the positives.  I was expecting a blank post.

[commbull]

They weren't at opportune times, but penalties were down--yet again this game. Big improvement over the last 10 years.

Defense played well, excepting that one drive--but gads, you can't expect the D to stop them every time. No one has mentioned Bedford, who, with Marshall, had a good game. I don't see a lot of fall off (so far, anyway) at DE.

Punting and special teams generally are an area of improvement. 

[dabull80]

We beat Cuse every other game we played them

The beer was cold

Wings were great

[nobull.Bulls]

Positives: Defense, Lindsey Lamar and our Punter

Negatives: Our offense was so bad our punter is a positive

[Kizarvexis]

They weren't at opportune times, but penalties were down--yet again this game. Big improvement over the last 10 years.

The radio crew mentioned that after the game that all four USF penalties were at bad times and listed them off. I don't remember the specifics, but I'm sure they are in the game stats on GoUSFBulls.com. Penalties per game have been down significantly this year.

After 5 games, USF is at 6.2 penalties for 43.6 yards per game. The opponents are 7.6 penalties for 60.6 yards per game. There has been a definite trend downward in USF penalties and yards per game, since USF went to I-A play. The opponents you can see tend to stay in the same range.

USF                 Opp

7.25  60.08 2009 5.75 50.58

8.67  67.67 2008 7.75 63.83

8.67  72.75 2007 6.83 53.50

8.17  71.33 2006 7.50 62.42

9.27  73.73 2005 7.09 57.82

9.64  82.55 2004 6.55 51.73

9.36  83.00 2003 6.27 47.91

11.64 98.73 2002 7.27 60.36 USF record for penalties for a season

10.00 88.00 2001 9.82 82.09

[MikeG]

if this trend continues, we may have zero penalties some day

along with zero wins

[ncentonze]

Good work with the analysis of the positives.  I was expecting a blank post.

I was expecting a blank post as well.