when you consider the size and location of usf

[hm101]

what everyone doesn't realize is that the gap between the Have and Have Nots in College Football is only getting larger.  Not smaller.

This. 

 

Big ten shutting out FCS games, shutting out smaller conferences by playing more conf games. 

[South_Florida_Flip]

It is because of our age as a University, and because we dragged our feet on getting football for so long. Had we added football back in the 1980's or 1970's then we would likely be in the Big 5 by now.

100% incorrect on all accounts.

[Triple B]

what everyone doesn't realize is that the gap between the Have and Have Nots in College Football is only getting larger.  Not smaller.

I think most do realize it and is the reason for all the hand wringing over being left out ...

[MonsterBullMCMXC]

The sky really is falling.

[GaUSFBull]

I wish I had a quarter for every time smazza has made a comment of a similar nature about us being outside the big 5.  

Thought you were starting another OCS thread with that one, assuming you donated all those quarters to USF Athletics.

I'm not one to start an OCS thread ... I'd have to take a cut of that sum to put aside for a rainy day, but the OCS fund would get a nice boost indeed.  

[Quo Vadis]

the fact that usf is in this position outside the big 5 is disturbing

 

I have to disagree. Size and location have little to do with how powerful a school is in the athletic hierarchy. E.g., Notre Dame is about 1/7th the size of USF and is located in the armpit of Indiana, but wields 100x more influence. What matters is stuff like historical pedigree and fan base. USF, as we all know, is a relatively new school with a 15 year old football program (hence no history) and is a late-comer to a football market saturated with established brands like Florida, FSU, and MIami (hence a small fan base).

Considering those factors, we really were lucky to be a member of the "big boy club" for the eight years that we were.

Edited February 22, 2013 by BatonRougeBull87

[Mission9]

 

I wish I had a quarter for every time smazza has made a comment of a similar nature about us being outside the big 5.  

  Boring old fart who whines and complains while offering ZERO solutions.

[88Alum]

Just win baby and everything else will take care of itself!!!!

[smazza]

I wish I had a quarter for every time smazza has made a comment of a similar nature about us being outside the big 5.  

 

 

pm me your address

 

i will send you the money

[smazza]

It is because of our age as a University, and because we dragged our feet on getting football for so long. Had we added football back in the 1980's or 1970's then we would likely be in the Big 5 by now.

 

I think we get shat on by the older Universities because of both of these items.

 

Yeah, just like that school in Orlando that started out in the late 1970s and yet fell behind 1997-born USF in the college football totem poll.

 

(That means you are wrong.)

 

 

orlando school caught usf now that we are in the same conference