tony_stark Posted August 19, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 17 Content Count: 565 Reputation: 12 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/21/2012 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Bill Connellyâ€@SBN_BillC2h Now that I've gone through the roster and stats and everything, is it weird that I think USF might be pretty **** good this year? Bill Connellyâ€@SBN_BillC2h I mean, like, top-40 good, not top-20 good -- massive ?'s in both backfields -- but still. Great DL, good OL, good LBs, Taggart-friendly TE. Bill Connellyâ€@SBN_BillC1h @ruscoop I'm usually the one saying to tap the brakes on USF, but if they're top-40, they'll win quite a few games w/that sched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDYZR Posted August 19, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 486 Content Count: 12,475 Reputation: 2,855 Days Won: 25 Joined: 12/14/2005 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Bowl game and the team to show up 4 quarters every game. Anything more I'm ecstatic anything less I'm disappointed. This 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted August 19, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 7 Content Count: 2,305 Reputation: 120 Days Won: 6 Joined: 11/29/2010 Share Posted August 19, 2013 To tailgate at every home game and maybe one or two road games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jihme Posted August 19, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 176 Content Count: 4,642 Reputation: 9 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/09/2006 Share Posted August 19, 2013 i have a feeling we should just break out the whiskey now and start numbing the pain early. i hope i'm wrong, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeG Posted August 20, 2013 Group: Moderator Topic Count: 1,984 Content Count: 19,737 Reputation: 3,854 Days Won: 175 Joined: 07/17/2003 Share Posted August 20, 2013 I have low expectations until I see how well coach can motivate and direct these guys on the field. I think Willie T was a very good hire I just am not sure if the program wasn't decimated by the last couple of years and that fantastic "culture change" Holtz brought to us (who brings a culture change to a winning program?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBullies Posted August 20, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 95 Content Count: 2,461 Reputation: 86 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/14/2006 Share Posted August 20, 2013 i have a feeling we should just break out the whiskey now and start numbing the pain early. i hope i'm wrong, though. See you at the tailgate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted August 20, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 56 Content Count: 4,432 Reputation: 711 Days Won: 19 Joined: 03/16/2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Louisville aside -- If we beat UCF this year, would that be considered an upset? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulls phanatic Posted August 20, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 36 Content Count: 2,114 Reputation: 160 Days Won: 2 Joined: 10/20/2010 Share Posted August 20, 2013 6-6 at best. Hope to be wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullshiznitz Posted August 20, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 128 Content Count: 1,768 Reputation: 167 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/26/2001 Share Posted August 20, 2013 The difficulty with trying to predict this season, is its unknown how much our recent lack of success was based on a true lack of talent, or that we have talent that wasn't coached/developed properly. Based on recruiting rankings (yes never solid), we aren't devoid of talent at least on paper, or not devoid of enough talent to make 6-7 wins this season a very real possibility. Our front 7 should be very solid (if not great). We have playmakers at TE (very important in our new offense) and some at WR. Looking at our schedule, I would split it into three categories: Teams with a 50% chance or better we beat: McNeese FAU UConn Houston Memphis SMU Teams that we have a 25%-50% chance of beating (meaning they will be favored, but USF winning wouldn't be a big upset) Rutgers UCF Cincy Teams that we have a 25% or less chance of beating (they will favored and USF winning would be a big upset) Mich St Miami Louisville We really need to go at minimum 4-2 verse that first group to have a chance to go bowling. I don't think that's unreasonable or unlikely. I'm hoping for 5-1 (one slip up - likely Houston or UConn). If we pull that off, then would just need one minor upset to go bowling. 6-6 my take, but I think players at RB will begin to step up to make this offense go, and could pull off more than one upset along the way - possibly making us 7-5 to a most optimistic 8-4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulls Are We Posted August 21, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 217 Content Count: 2,495 Reputation: 192 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/23/2003 Share Posted August 21, 2013 I won't determine success by number of wins. I think how we play and how we coach, will give us all the indications we need in year one of the CWT era. To get hung up on wins is silly. Had the same feeling in 1997 and have it now. I think it's more about building, like in 1997, unfortunately. You sound like a Holtz post game presser. "Competing" and losing is still losing. You see where that got Skippy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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