MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT IN USF HISTORY

[Paisa el Toro]

I still think McNeese at home last year trumps Army in 2004 and UCF this season as most embarrassing home loss.

[WoolyBully]

I still think McNeese at home last year trumps Army in 2004 and UCF this season as most embarrassing home loss.

I agree. Getting blanked at home by your rival...that's the absolute worst moment in USF athletics.

[GaUSFBull]

 

I still think McNeese at home last year trumps Army in 2004 and UCF this season as most embarrassing home loss.

I agree. Getting blanked at home by your rival...that's the absolute worst moment in USF athletics.

 

 

I don't think that's what PeT said ... I read that he thinks the McNeese game was worse, which I would have to agree with. 

[Bulls2k]

Having to telling my ticket rep I'm renewing my 2014 FB season tickets.

[Bulls2k]

 

 

I felt sad when a UCFer laughed and said "You know why we passed you in football? Our coach killed a player and we kept him. Yours allegedly slapped a player and was fired."

 

This is true as it is the USF way to not tolerate off the field issues with coaches. As most USF coaches say when they take the job. They say that will get USF winning titles in a 1st class manner. CWT still used that after the UCF game as a good little rip on how UCF does things in order for them to win. 

 

Your both ignorant and biased.  Since 2000 there have been nine ACCIDENTAL deaths in college football attributed to Sickle Cell...at Tennessee Tech, Florida State, Bowling Green, Missouri, Rice, NC A&T, W Carolina and Itawamba Community College.  Three of those have happened SINCE Plancher's death.  This is not unique to O'Leary or UCF, no matter how much your bias might want it to be.

 

As for doing things the right way...UCF graduates it's players at the highest rate of any public university in the country.  Players are held accountable and suspended for one game OR MORE for things that "big" schools let slide every day of the week.

 

It's our board so we can be whatever we want little  knight.

 

[charsibb]

 

 

I still think McNeese at home last year trumps Army in 2004 and UCF this season as most embarrassing home loss.

I agree. Getting blanked at home by your rival...that's the absolute worst moment in USF athletics.

 

 

I don't think that's what PeT said ... I read that he thinks the McNeese game was worse, which I would have to agree with. 

 

 

 

Eats, Shoots, and Leaves...

 

 

(Commas matter!)

Edited December 3, 2014 by charsibb

[Triple B]

I still think McNeese at home last year trumps Army in 2004 and UCF this season as most embarrassing home loss.

I agree. Getting blanked at home by your rival...that's the absolute worst moment in USF athletics.

 

I don't think that's what PeT said ... I read that he thinks the McNeese game was worse, which I would have to agree with.

 

 

Eats, Shoots, and Leaves...

(Commas matter!)

Paisa's thought process and grammar was dead on. There was no need for commas in his context.

[cophbulls]

I'm embarrassed every time I come on here and see the lack of loyalty and support. I hope you all come back next year and are as supportive as you are negative this year. And for all of you who don't remember because you are too young for any real perspective, Saturday was payback for 09/16/06. That game was close and USF fans filled about an 1/12th of the place. It was so miserably hot that day people were passing out (worse than the UF game IMO) We weren't coming off a BCS bowl, nor vying for a conference championship. Our supporters then were just that supporters not a bunch of bandwagoners, and yet we were so loud that the newspaper wrote about how embarrassing it was that you couldn't hear the UCF fans. We were up and coming then just like UCF is now but we hadn't seen any real success yet sure we had some good years but nothing major, we hadn't even been to a bowl yet, but there we were, screaming our team to victory.

The worst thing that happened to this football team is getting to #2 that year. People started to believe it and, worse, expect it. If you don't think that not showing up to a game isn't worth a loss or two, you are crazy. That day against UCF we, the fans, willed that team to victory. We don't do that now, we expect to get taken to the promised land with no work no effort on our part. Part of the reason Jim Leavitt was successful is because of the positive support he and the team received on a daily basis. Everyone telling them all week long, week after week, that they can win is very powerful. You get surprised when you lose. Its the opposite way now, we tell this team all week long, week after week, that they are going to lose, it surprises them when they win.  This isn't the NFL. These kids aren't professional. 99% of them need positive reinforcement from the community they represent to be able to have any success.

[MaltLiquorBull]

I'm embarrassed every time I come on here and see the lack of loyalty and support. I hope you all come back next year and are as supportive as you are negative this year. And for all of you who don't remember because you are too young for any real perspective, Saturday was payback for 09/16/06. That game was close and USF fans filled about an 1/12th of the place. It was so miserably hot that day people were passing out (worse than the UF game IMO) We weren't coming off a BCS bowl, nor vying for a conference championship. Our supporters then were just that supporters not a bunch of bandwagoners, and yet we were so loud that the newspaper wrote about how embarrassing it was that you couldn't hear the UCF fans. We were up and coming then just like UCF is now but we hadn't seen any real success yet sure we had some good years but nothing major, we hadn't even been to a bowl yet, but there we were, screaming our team to victory.

The worst thing that happened to this football team is getting to #2 that year. People started to believe it and, worse, expect it. If you don't think that not showing up to a game isn't worth a loss or two, you are crazy. That day against UCF we, the fans, willed that team to victory. We don't do that now, we expect to get taken to the promised land with no work no effort on our part. Part of the reason Jim Leavitt was successful is because of the positive support he and the team received on a daily basis. Everyone telling them all week long, week after week, that they can win is very powerful. You get surprised when you lose. Its the opposite way now, we tell this team all week long, week after week, that they are going to lose, it surprises them when they win.  This isn't the NFL. These kids aren't professional. 99% of them need positive reinforcement from the community they represent to be able to have any success.

 

I wouldn't call it lack of loyalty and support at all.  The only reason most of us are on this board and venting is because we passionately care about this team and its future.  I'm at every home game and travel when I can.  I love this team.  I come on here and vent sometimes, but that's because I want the team to compete, and I'm upset that it's not happening.  Everyone I know who is on this board is out there tailgating every Saturday and occupying one of the red seats at the stadium and cheering for the Bulls.   It's just that we haven't had much to cheer about lately, and coming on here and being cynical is one of the ways I deal with it.

 

I agree with you about the Leavitt era and the support.  If you look at it, we were always on an upward trajectory back then.  Since we took a huge nose dive, I think many of us fans are frustrated because we just aren't sure if we have hit rock bottom and we're back on an upswing, or if rock bottom hasn't even hit yet.  I've witnessed a few events that I thought were rock bottom, and they weren't.  I would like to say McNeese state was rock bottom.  Now if we can just get that upward trajectory going again...  It's going to be hard to do with so few of us left, but I don't think I'm alone when I say we all want the same thing and that's to start winning again and get some bragging rights back.

 

By the way:  Go Bulls!

[usfgrad84]

I'm embarrassed every time I come on here and see the lack of loyalty and support. I hope you all come back next year and are as supportive as you are negative this year. And for all of you who don't remember because you are too young for any real perspective, Saturday was payback for 09/16/06. That game was close and USF fans filled about an 1/12th of the place. It was so miserably hot that day people were passing out (worse than the UF game IMO) We weren't coming off a BCS bowl, nor vying for a conference championship. Our supporters then were just that supporters not a bunch of bandwagoners, and yet we were so loud that the newspaper wrote about how embarrassing it was that you couldn't hear the UCF fans. We were up and coming then just like UCF is now but we hadn't seen any real success yet sure we had some good years but nothing major, we hadn't even been to a bowl yet, but there we were, screaming our team to victory.

The worst thing that happened to this football team is getting to #2 that year. People started to believe it and, worse, expect it. If you don't think that not showing up to a game isn't worth a loss or two, you are crazy. That day against UCF we, the fans, willed that team to victory. We don't do that now, we expect to get taken to the promised land with no work no effort on our part. Part of the reason Jim Leavitt was successful is because of the positive support he and the team received on a daily basis. Everyone telling them all week long, week after week, that they can win is very powerful. You get surprised when you lose. Its the opposite way now, we tell this team all week long, week after week, that they are going to lose, it surprises them when they win.  This isn't the NFL. These kids aren't professional. 99% of them need positive reinforcement from the community they represent to be able to have any succes

It is dumb when people say that the worst thing to ever happen to the program was getting to number 2.  When the whole idea of sports to be number 1, it ain't so bad being number two.  It showed the team and the program what the possibilities were and are.  People should expect to get that high in the rankings every year and every game should be played that way.  Otherwise all you are doing is playing for the sake of playing.

 

Being the top should always be the goal.  The administration has to do everything in their power to get there.  we may not have the resources, and we may be down right now, but you don't go out and participate at the highest level without the goal of trying to compete with the best.  

 

from day one, Leavitt always said that he wanted to compete for championships.  Taggart said the same thing.  Whether he has the ability or we have the resources is a different question, but getting to number two shows that if everything comes together it can be done.  Someone just needs to find a way to do it.