Mark Royals: BJ to blame for fall of football program

[NCBull]

Sounds like an a$$clown who didn't catch many Bulls game. And who probably loved Skip like a bro wife.

[USF_Grouper]

Mark Royals was pretty much spot on... except it is grossly unfair to lay the blame directly on BJ Daniels. That kid played his heart out, he just wasn't a D1 QB. It was the coaches fault (and as Mark suggested - recruiting) that we tried to develop BJ into a D1 QB. And the lack of production and performance, the inability to throw simple screen passes or even hang on to the football is probably the foremost cause of our slide in the past few years. Sure, BJ was better than his walk-on backups, but that hardly disproves Mark's statement!

[nobull.Bulls]

BJ maybe part of the reason we didnt win a big east title, but hes the reason we won the few games we did. Hilts and staff are at much more fault

[Bull94]

Mark Royals was pretty much spot on... except it is grossly unfair to lay the blame directly on BJ Daniels. That kid played his heart out, he just wasn't a D1 QB. It was the coaches fault (and as Mark suggested - recruiting) that we tried to develop BJ into a D1 QB. And the lack of production and performance, the inability to throw simple screen passes or even hang on to the football is probably the foremost cause of our slide in the past few years. Sure, BJ was better than his walk-on backups, but that hardly disproves Mark's statement!

wow both of you haven't a clue. not a d-1 QB?? do you watch college football at all?? he was easily in the top half of d-1 QBs for all 4 of his years.he was easily in the top half of big east QBs in all 4 years as well. I've seen some stupid things posted on this board before but this one just might take the cake. wow.

Edited December 29, 2012 by Bull94

[NCBull]

Mark Royals was pretty much spot on... except it is grossly unfair to lay the blame directly on BJ Daniels. That kid played his heart out, he just wasn't a D1 QB. It was the coaches fault (and as Mark suggested - recruiting) that we tried to develop BJ into a D1 QB. And the lack of production and performance, the inability to throw simple screen passes or even hang on to the football is probably the foremost cause of our slide in the past few years. Sure, BJ was better than his walk-on backups, but that hardly disproves Mark's statement!

Just dumb.

[Bull Dozer]

LOL punters.

[SANJAY]

Also, in skip's illustrious usf tenure he was 16-21 overall. He was 0-6 in games where someone other than BJ started. Yes, clearly his tenure was BJ's fault.

What? Who was the starter when USF beat UM in 2010? It was not BJ. Can you name that QB? Can you name the head coach?

That being said, Mark Royals is still a tool.

BJ started that game. Now we were 2-0 in games where BJ started and got injured. One where the backup performed well (eveld at Miami) and one where that did not happen (Floyd against uconn).

[Bull-by-Marriage]

A couple of things.

1. Most of the blame goes to the coaches. But BJ was at fault as well. Everyone had a hand in our performance the last 2 years. To try and deny that is plain idiotic.

2. For those of you discounting his opinion because he is a punter that 1 person said had a "LONG mediocre" carreer, are showing extreme ignorance. All players on an NFL team are more "tuned" in to what happens in a game than most of us on this board combined. Their knowledge is greater than most of us on this board combined.

[smazza]

On 98.7 The Fan, when USF football was brought up by Drew Fellios, he asked Royals if Taggart could get USF to that elite level.

And Royals started off immediately by saying BJ was a bad QB who didn't have what it takes to win. Also mentioned recruiting being a problem. But he trashed BJ Daniels the entire time and didn't bring up the coaching once, up until the end when he said he would've given Skip one more year.

I understand this is an opinion, but if BJ would've been the only problem this year, we would've won 8-9 games.

he is correct in his analysis but more harsh than he needed too be

holtz's biggest mistake was not bringing in a top qb to beat out of at leaset motivate bj to imporve

qb is by far most important position in college football

[Bull Dozer]

A couple of things.

1. Most of the blame goes to the coaches. But BJ was at fault as well. Everyone had a hand in our performance the last 2 years. To try and deny that is plain idiotic.

2. For those of you discounting his opinion because he is a punter that 1 person said had a "LONG mediocre" carreer, are showing extreme ignorance. All players on an NFL team are more "tuned" in to what happens in a game than most of us on this board combined. Their knowledge is greater than most of us on this board combined.

His opinion on this combined with him being a punter should tell you how "tuned in" he is. The team's performance in games where BJ didn't start should tell you a lot about why this idea that BJ is to blame is so ridiculous. To single BJ out like that on a team that had a huge array of issues (lack of depth, lack of a competent WR's besides this year, a coaching staff that was great at trying to hammer square pegs into round holes, atrocious defensive schemes, ect) shows a lack of understanding about what was going on with the team and is something I would expect out of posters here and not people who host sports talk radio shows. The guy was tuned into what most punters are, punting on the kicking field and playing golf, and got a job because Tampa Bay sports radio is TERRIBLE, he sound decent on the radio, and has "former NFL player" attached to his name.