USF Football out of ICU: 100% recovery is expected!

[Flowers4Heisman]

I was there when USF football started on the old soccer stadium...

It's been heartbreaking to see what's happened to the program since the Leavitt fiasco.

Finally, everything is looking bright, again. Somehow, the Harbaugh connection completes the circle for me (Coach Taggart, Jim Harbaugh, and Jim Leavitt). I'm finally feeling closure after three years.

Plus, there were two important moves made by USF:

1) Having the guts to fire Lou Holtz Jr.

2) Willing to rebuild USF football properly. We are not an SEC school, and we are not a mid-west school.

USF could have gone wrong in so many ways with this hire:

Hire a has-been or damaged goods:

Bobby Petrino was the only gamble that is worth it, maybe. But a man who will stab his wife in back, and leaves his players with a note in the locker room... No, thanks. Not at the USF that I love. Butch Davis, yeah, but he's 61... I wouldn't have minded him so much, though.

Houston Nutt... There's a reason he's unemployed as a coach.

The right move:

Bring someone in who's willing to do the hard work and can do the job. Leavitt broke his back to build USF football. And that's what it takes.

Here's why I LOVE the Willie Taggart hire.

1) He's young. You need that energy at USF. It's a tough, tough place to win without the extra hard work.

2) He's been trained properly. Whatever magic that Jack Harbaugh and Jim Harbaugh have, Coach Taggert has been witnessed to it.

3) He's been a head coach where he had to turn it around from the ground. Great experience.

4) Recruiting!

5) He's got character. I've watched a bunch of his videos on Youtube and I like him a lot.

What Coach Taggart needs is a great staff. He can't do it alone, and this is not WKU. He can't bring everybody with him and expect to succeed here.

Read this. It will say a lot. http://www.wkusports...TCLID=204838864

I'm proud USF athletics is finally doing something right about USF football.

By the way, everybody is worrying about the sinking Big East and USF getting an invite to better pastures. Well, winning football will help a great deal. This hire is a huge step in the right direction.

[Hem]

+1, hope they gave him the cash for some good coordinators!

[Skingraft]

+1, hope they gave him the cash for some good coordinators!

Yuppers

[mikemcp88]

exciting times

[charsibb]

Looking forward to the season

[slick1ru2]

Hind sight is perfect. No one knows if this is the coach that will get USF winning, nor if hiring a coach that has been successful someone else would have been a better hire. No one. All you can do is hope for the best at this point.

Edited December 8, 2012 by slick1ru2

[BullFan98]

And support your new head coach!

[ZeroBullChip]

meh

[NewEnglandBull]

Excellent post Beta!

[slick1ru2]

And support your new head coach!

He better hope he doesn't start off losing. This fan base has zero tolerance for losses. If he has lost the first 5 games, watch the calls to can him.