The State Of USF Football After This Game

[Thebullsfan]

               This is CWT second season and people are already saying fire CWT and we still are playing this game of musical chairs with our QBs. Defense looked like they weren’t there and at a beach and special teams where the only ones home after today. It seems like the team is lost and the fans can’t follow a lost team and building a OCS will not help but paint the empty seats a different color.

                Coach Willie Taggert doesn’t have that many weapons on his team yet and the ones he does have are too green or in training.  Also his players are not stepping up in games and making a difference every game. What this man need is time and players that are going to step up and lead like Matt Grothe. So what do you do? Sometimes you must force your hand in poker to win… If players that are currently not getting the job done you need to bring out there backups that want to play an are passionate about it.

 

                 After today’s lost I’ve see there’s a glimmer of hope and the glimmer of hope is #9 Flowers. He’s very green but CWT must sit him down and go through the play book nonstop and give him 1^st team reps. Mike White completion record continues to fall each game we play and we cannot win a game in the FBS with 4-6 completions with this guy. Bench I think is an ok back up but he’s not a star and he’s not starter material. Even though he looked good on the Maryland game I still think he’s a backup and he is. Flowers has a cannon and if you don’t believe me go watch the scouting vids on him. He’s also fast and he knows when to get out of the pocket and run, but he’s going to make mistakes and he will learn from these. Plus Flowers is taking control of the huddle when’s playing.

                  First game the defense looked questionable at best, then the next game the look like the old USF defense that ate offenses, and finally then today they weren’t even there. They weren’t making big hits on the QB when he was in space and they weren’t hitting the receiver right when they got the ball. They just weren’t at Ray Jay.

 

                  Special teams were nothing like last week and they are the only good thing that I saw during the game that was consistent … So good job to them.

 

                   During the second quarter people just started to leave and rather not get burnt watching USF get pounded. The team was had no rhythm on either side of the ball and they didn’t seem to know how to play a game of football and that to me means LOST.

 

Now this On Campus Stadium crapola needs to stop… This will not fix anything it will only paint the seats a different color and students will walk by and say “that’s niceâ€. If you want to see more people in side of Ray Jay you got to bring them yourself.  If a person is interested about going to games bring them to 1 game and see if they will buy season tickets or something. Also if the team starts have a winning streak this will bring back lost fans.

Edited September 14, 2014 by David_sec329

[Bear]

Taggart is sticking with White

 

 

He can make a turnaround and he can recruit

 

 

However, I am losing faith in his ability to do it with USF

[Gismo]

At this point just rotate the QBs every series like NFL pre season. It really doesn't matter. Eliminate the one that gets the fewest 1st downs.

[Thebullsfan]

CWT said something like this today " i thought they were ready to play". I maybe crazy but i think if taggart can get his players to prove themselves every game that they are we will start playing again with a chip on our shoulder. Thats what we are missing at USF... players that are pissed off and want to kill the other team till they are dead. 

Edited September 14, 2014 by David_sec329

[JTrue]

That speaks volumes about CWT if he really believes this team came to play today and he adequately prepared them.

[smazza]

bad

 

flowers is the only hope

give the young guys playing time

 

cwt is our coach for the foreseeable future--at least one more full year

[smazza]

At this point just rotate the QBs every series like NFL pre season. It really doesn't matter. Eliminate the one that gets the fewest 1st downs.

 

 

i can live with this

[LewSFBulls1]

We have completely failed at the most crucial junctures the last 2 years.

McNeese - debut of new coach after disaster that was Holtz. Really needed to show up. Got completely blown out and luckily McNeese showed mercy towards the end otherwise it could have been worse.

NC State - disappointing showing for the previous week, a competitive Loss. Really needed the team to come in and dominate. Instead, we get totally destroyed. Game is over at the half and most of the fans that bothered to show up, were heading for the exits.

Both games, we expected to win, even dominate. Both games were critical to win back the fans. And we get BLOWN OUT.

Taggart has taken responsibly for both losses on himself. Not done with this staff yet, but you can expect no more then 10k on Friday night.

[usfgrad84]

I am trying pretty hard to see some light at the end of the tunnel where more time would actually result in wins.

We have had 5 QBs in this system in 15 games. Our starting QBs this year have not thrown for better than a 38% completion rate. Except for the fumble recovery, we didn't snap the ball once on their side of the field.

Someone please point out to me where this coaching staff shows any sort of offensive acumen. There are things the offense can do to adjust to the personnel and defensive schemes to at least move the ball. Our staff insists on just dropping the QB back and throwing down field.

Their big adjustment was to run a read option down by 32 with about 4:00 to go when NC State backed off the line.

I am not even looking for wins at this point, just a sign that there is something that will change given more time.

I really am trying hard, but I see the level competence of the offensive schemes and playcalling at about the level of a good pop warner coach.

Show me where I am wrong.

[El_Toro_86]

His stubbornness with this offense will get him fired.