when you look at the programs that have passed us by

[smazza]

and are headed for greener pastures it is depressing

 

 

the worst is yet to come when the orlando school give us a beatdown they have been waiting  to do for years

[ahoyboy]

The sad thing is we beat them prior to conference realignment. The timing for us to have "down years" could not have been worse.

[Danm1983]

We could have been an amazing team this year and still lose to UCF, and the law of statistics say it is bound to happen sooner or later - why not let them EARN theirs, at least it will be during one of our worst seasons ever (if not the worst) and it will be on their home field (though there will be a day they'll beat USF in Tampa). Let them hang their hat on beating the worst USF team ever, and get it out of their system.

 

And right now, other than RU and UL, no one is heading for greener pastures.

Edited September 25, 2013 by Danm1983

[USFbulls24]

It is depressing. But, even with that UCF has beaten 1 ranked team in their entire history which was an overrated University of Houston team. They've had a football program since 1979. If they beat us in our worst season ever so be it. We continue to get better recruits even with what happened last year and what is happening this year. We have to fix this quickly though or UCF will pass us with recruits, and their program overall.

[smazza]

We could have been an amazing team this year and still lose to UCF, and the law of statistics say it is bound to happen sooner or later - why not let them EARN theirs, at least it will be during one of our worst seasons ever (if not the worst) and it will be on their home field (though there will be a day they'll beat USF in Tampa). Let them hang their hat on beating the worst USF team ever, and get it out of their system.

 

And right now, other than RU and UL, no one is heading for greener pastures.

 

 

huh?

 

pittsburgh 

cuse  both  passed us by

[smazza]

We could have been an amazing team this year and still lose to UCF, and the law of statistics say it is bound to happen sooner or later - why not let them EARN theirs, at least it will be during one of our worst seasons ever (if not the worst) and it will be on their home field (though there will be a day they'll beat USF in Tampa). Let them hang their hat on beating the worst USF team ever, and get it out of their system.

 

And right now, other than RU and UL, no one is heading for greener pastures.

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what a mistake taking orlando school off our schedule

 

we dont have an amazing team and they will cream us this year

 

they have passed us by also

[Southshore26]

 

We could have been an amazing team this year and still lose to UCF, and the law of statistics say it is bound to happen sooner or later - why not let them EARN theirs, at least it will be during one of our worst seasons ever (if not the worst) and it will be on their home field (though there will be a day they'll beat USF in Tampa). Let them hang their hat on beating the worst USF team ever, and get it out of their system.

 

And right now, other than RU and UL, no one is heading for greener pastures.

 

 

huh?

 

pittsburgh 

cuse  both  passed us by

 

 

Pitt and Cuse have been playing football for decades.... how have they passed us by?

[Southshore26]

 

We could have been an amazing team this year and still lose to UCF, and the law of statistics say it is bound to happen sooner or later - why not let them EARN theirs, at least it will be during one of our worst seasons ever (if not the worst) and it will be on their home field (though there will be a day they'll beat USF in Tampa). Let them hang their hat on beating the worst USF team ever, and get it out of their system.

 

And right now, other than RU and UL, no one is heading for greener pastures.

\

 

what a mistake taking orlando school off our schedule

 

we dont have an amazing team and they will cream us this year

 

they have passed us by also

 

 

UCF has beaten a team that was decimated by scandal, Akron and FIU..... and they're about to get ***** slapped by South Carolina... how has that passed us?

 

Also, they've been playing for decades to.

 

For a lawyer you're not very smart.... 

[TallyBull]

Someone in this thread needs to define what "passed us by" means.  I'm not sure we're all using the same definition.  Some measures are permanent, while others are temporary.  I'm confident we'll return to and possibly improve upon our former glory.  Our program is barely a teenager.  I'm not inclined to be melodramatic although of course I hate to lose as much as the next guy...

[Danm1983]

Pitt and Cuse were never "behind us" yet one could say they left us behind, but there was no passing. Syracuse had a group of bad years and pulled out of it - and even then weren't very great - proving it was more than a sport's prowess that determined conference affiliation.

 

UCF hasn't officially passed us. College football is cyclical. They started in 1979, and thus were ahead of USF by default until 2002 when USF went to C-USA and they were in the MAC - which at the time C-USA was a better "perceived" conference. If anything USF passed UCF and while it may be true that they have passed us this year so far (looking at win/loss records), as a program, UCF will never be an FSU or UF, and neither will USF. There will be years both teams will suck, there will be teams both will be great, and there will be teams one is great and the other isn't. And that's just one sport. Facilities at both schools are new and comparable.

 

To keep harping on schools passing us is dumb, college is a constant ebb and flow, so forget what the others are doing and just focus on your own.