Bruce Pearl

[WWMJD]

Glad thats over. Now lets focus our energies on better candidates.

 

I'll check back with you at the end of the MBB season next year.  We can compare where USF is and where UA is with respect to the MBB landscape.  Bruce Pearl was the best available candidate, period, and time will prove it.

Don't see how this is even a discussion. Maybe we would have been able to pull Pearl, maybe not, but he was in a class by himself compared to the other names that have been thrown around.

[Triple B]

 

 

Glad thats over. Now lets focus our energies on better candidates.

 

I'll check back with you at the end of the MBB season next year.  We can compare where USF is and where UA is with respect to the MBB landscape.  Bruce Pearl was the best available candidate, period, and time will prove it.

Don't see how this is even a discussion. Maybe we would have been able to pull Pearl, maybe not, but he was in a class by himself compared to the other names that have been thrown around.

 

 

I think, other than a few hardcore Pollyannas, most agree he was the top available, that we know of ...

[Bull Dozer]

 

 

Glad thats over. Now lets focus our energies on better candidates.

 

I'll check back with you at the end of the MBB season next year.  We can compare where USF is and where UA is with respect to the MBB landscape.  Bruce Pearl was the best available candidate, period, and time will prove it.

Don't see how this is even a discussion. Maybe we would have been able to pull Pearl, maybe not, but he was in a class by himself compared to the other names that have been thrown around.

 

 

 

If Buzz Williams is considered an option or even Howland then this is not true at all.  Williams resume in a much better basketball conference (the BE before defections) is better than Pearl's.  Also Howland's resume is just as good if not better.  Pearl is great and all but people are going over board just as they did with Petrino.  You know the same Petrino that won exactly one more game at WKU with a upperclassmen heavy Taggart recruited team and then bolted.

[Guest PCBull14]

 

 

 

 

All I need to say is Bobby Petrino (see his coaching record below). We went with Coach Taggart (this is the moment when Woolard should have been shitcanned). We missed out on Petrino and now we missed out on Pearl. People can clean their act up when they realize they're down to their last opportunity. Little 'ole Western Kentucky beat us on the Petrino hire in a landslide (even if they lost him to the 'Ville one season later). Wonder if they have any regrets? They got a heck've deal hiring Bobby (read the out clause). Now, we try to maintain a holier than thou attitude and the best honest to goodness coach on the market is swooped up by Auburn and we're wondering who we're going to hire next.

 

Heck, might as well hire Seth Greenberg back. We may have been average, but we knew what we were getting game in and game out. Funny how both of Seth's predecessors have been canned after he left (makes you wonder if Seth was undervalued by the university - I know most USF fans hate him - now come with the pizza comments). Either way, Stan gave us a nice run for one season, but even I thought he would bring more to the table after his prior coaching stints. Shows what I know.

 

Want to see a university languish away in never never land and lose to schools like UCF... look below at who we didn't hire for who we did hire (and I'm hoping to God Taggart does something sooner than later).  

 

COACH PETRINO

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Year School G W L T Pct SRS SOS AP Pre AP High AP Post Bowl Notes 2003 Louisville 13 9 4 0 .692 1.32 -5.38       GMAC Bowl-L   2004 Louisville 12 11 1 0 .917 17.21 -1.37   6 6 Liberty Bowl-W   2005 Louisville 12 9 3 0 .750 11.12 -0.63 12 9 19 Gator Bowl-L   2006 Louisville 13 12 1 0 .923 19.94 2.94 13 3 6 Orange Bowl-W   2008 Arkansas 12 5 7 0 .417 -0.36 5.56           2009 Arkansas 13 8 5 0 .615 13.14 5.45       Liberty Bowl-W   2010 Arkansas 13 10 3 0 .769 14.48 4.94 17 8 12 Sugar Bowl-L   2011 Arkansas 13 11 2 0 .846 13.86 3.70 15 3 5 Cotton Bowl-W   2013 Western Kentucky 12 8 4 0 .667 -0.52 -5.94          

 

 

COACH WILLIE TAGGART

 

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Year School G W L T Pct SRS SOS AP Pre AP High AP Post Bowl Notes 2010 Western Kentucky 12 2 10 0 .167 -15.37 -6.04           2011 Western Kentucky 12 7 5 0 .583 -6.18 -6.43           2012 Western Kentucky 12 7 5 0 .583 -1.50 -3.73           2013 South Florida 12 2 10 0 .167 -13.56 -0.47             Overall 48 18 30 0 .375 -9.15 -4.17             Western Kentucky 36 16 20 0 .444 -7.69 -5.40             South Florida 12 2 10 0 .167 -13.56 -0.47          

 

 

Pearl was absolutely the right choice for this university and the perfect fit.  USF could redeem him and he could redeem USF, two for the price of one.  I certainly hope Taggart improves significantly this coming year.  If not, he is absolutely toast and he won't get the same thank you's and well wishes extended to Stan Heath.  "Time to Complete" not "Time to Compete". Competing is for those looking for a participation trophy and USF has way too many of those invisible trophies in our trophy case.

 

 

Bruce Peral is a scumbag. Auburn will be in for sanctions in about two or three years. The guy is a cheater end of story. Not anything this university wants to be known for. Tons of people wanting to jump on taggart with no reasoning behind it. Have you seen the talent on the line of play of our team? It was bad before he got here and we had some vets then. What did you expect? For USF to go 12-0 with one of the worst rosters in the conference?

 

 

Stop with this drivel of blaming players.  We had much better players/athletes than McNeese St. and FIU and we had home field advantage.  He lost to both those dregs and set an NCAA Div 1 record in the process. THE ONLY THING USF is known for right now in athletics is being at the bottom of a mid-major conference in the revenue sports and exhibiting major suckage in said sports.  THAT is what we are known for and the reason that CWT is on a hot seat that will turn into a flaming briquette if he doesn't get it turned around next year.

 

P.S.  Auburn will be in the NIT, at a minimum, next year.  Where will USF be?

 

 Probation free and in the NCAA tournament. Yea giving a coach a two year time frame to fix a steaming pile of **** is really going to get coaches excited about coming here. And we really had better players then McNeese? Obviously we were not watching the same game. They were way more physical then us on both sides of the lines. NEW FLASH CWT honored most of Holtz signings. Mike White should have been able redshirt last season but the QBs on the roster were so awful that Willie had no choice but to put him in. Either Bench was going to work out or we were toast.

 

The fact that there was a debate over a coach who you know is going to bring sanctions or finding a guy that is going to do it the right way is insane. So happy this Pearl Jam can be over as the cheater is not coming here.

[Guest PCBull14]

Hey - I'm pulling for Taggart. I just don't believe he was the best choice at the time. Matter of fact, I had Petrino as my favorite, followed by Calvin McGee. Coach Taggart wasn't off my radar - but I've sat in a meeting room with McGee. The guy knows X's and O's with the best of them. We made some fundamentally bad calls last season that made Holtz look like a saint at times - that's on coaching. That worries me. I don't doubt Taggart can relate to the players and will bring in talent. I think we might have the second coming of Ron Zook. I worry about Taggart's decision making ability in-game (and no, I'm not a coach). I have a good feel for the game though. Anyways... back on topic.

 

Two more hoops coaches from P5 conferences just got axed. Guess who just fell down the pecking order for choice destinations for future coaches - DRUMROLL please..... USF.

 

We should have rolled out a red carpet for Pearl and filled his contract with conduct clauses. Simple as that. His contract is public record - wouldn't that appease the religious police on here to see a contract full of good conduct clauses? 

 

This school was just being looked at for basketball related violations. Some of you are really kidding yourself if you ever thought Bruce would coach here. Get real, he was never ever going to be an option. The Petrino talk needs to stop, Taggart would have won about 9 games with that team. Had he hired that goon we would have been right back out there searching again. Do you honestly think Petrino offense would have worked with those QBs?

[Triple B]

 

 

 

Glad thats over. Now lets focus our energies on better candidates.

 

I'll check back with you at the end of the MBB season next year.  We can compare where USF is and where UA is with respect to the MBB landscape.  Bruce Pearl was the best available candidate, period, and time will prove it.

Don't see how this is even a discussion. Maybe we would have been able to pull Pearl, maybe not, but he was in a class by himself compared to the other names that have been thrown around.

 

 

 

If Buzz Williams is considered an option or even Howland then this is not true at all.  Williams resume in a much better basketball conference (the BE before defections) is better than Pearl's.  Also Howland's resume is just as good if not better.  Pearl is great and all but people are going over board just as they did with Petrino.  You know the same Petrino that won exactly one more game at WKU with a upperclassmen heavy Taggart recruited team and then bolted.

 

 

The reason I had Pearl at the top is because he was the biggest "name" out there and would have the most immediate impact as far as juice for the program. Even fringe college hoops fans, which is what most college fans are in this area, know the guy who painted his body orange. I think Stan left the cupboard full enough that whoever comes in, and is a good coach, will have success right off the bat, but as we've all seen, it's going to take sustained success, as in years, to get good crowds to the dome on a regular basis .... What is encouraging, though, is the students showing better than I've seen in years, even, for the most part, during that horrendous stretch at the end.

[Bull Dozer]

Danny Manning probably carries the most name Cache out of anybody.  Dude was a NBA all star and even a character in NBA  Jam.  hell last year Williams "Cheeseburger" tirade caught a ton of media competition and even in a positive way.  Whether it's name recognition or coaching accomplishments Pear isn't as far above the rest as some here would paint it.  

Edited March 19, 2014 by Bull Dozer

[hbryan]

Danny Manning probably carries the most name Cache out of anybody.  Dude was a NBA all star and even a character in NBA  Jam.  hell last year Williams "Cheeseburger" tirade caught a ton of media competition and even in a positive way.  Whether it's name recognition or coaching accomplishments Pear isn't as far above the rest as some here would paint it.  

 

We don't need a name for the sake of a name.  We need a proven, time and again winner, if he has a name......great, if not so what.  Winning is the most important quality.

[Bull Dozer]

If the Williams chatter has any basis in reality then he is just as much of a winner as Pearl and did it in a better conference. If you compare Pearl at UT and Williams at Marquette Pearl won 5 more games, in a vastly inferior conference.  At this point neither candidate could be considered 100% legit as neither has interviewed though.....

[DELdaBull]

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