I'm renewing my tickets for next season and here's why

[bullsbucsfan426]

1. Programs are not built overnight. Most schools do not do like auburn did and go from worst to first. You have to get a roster that will fight till the bitter end, and then get a player who will win 5hat game for you. We have two such players who I learned this season who have stepped up with the game on the line. One is named Mike white (see our games against tulsa and smu) and the other is Marlon Mack (see western Carolina and uconn).

2. A lot of you talk about the program's inability to afford a new head coach. Well, chickens must hatch to produce more chicken eggs. Without us renewing season tickets (and donating to the program for some of you), there will be no chickens to pay for a new coach.

3. We have mostly freshmen and sophomores playing. The only way they get better is by learning and playing and practicing. Agreed, wulff bombed this season. He was horrible. But ask will muschamp if a new offensive coordinator saved him this year. Forcing Mike white to have to learn from a 3rd offensive coordinator will nor help his development. You want to develop bench? Fine. But a new OC will not make him better if he has to figure out who to listen to in his final year as a quarterback.

4. Mark Harlan has played it smartly as an athletic director in his first 9 months on the job. He has gone out and sold the program hard, to the students, to the tampa bay area, and surely to the donors. If he retains taggart, he will do so knowing his plan forward. My best guess is that he will find a way to squeeze taggart out without firing him if he must to save money. Taggart has one year and I think we can say that with certainty. After that he will be fired no matter the numbers if there are no results on the field. And here's the thing. If you don't believe in Willie taggart, at least believe in mark Harlan. He's young, he's motivated, and he's driven. And if you support him, then I ask you to show your support by renewing your season tickets. By making a donation. He makes no excuses. He does not lie to you and tell you that we're doing great. He sees the harsh reality of usf athletics. But he sees opportunity, and a chance to build something for tampa. Today I ask you to stand with usf athletics. I ask you to stand with mark Harlan. I ask you to stand with that team, not knowing what 2014 held, got in the weight room and on the field for spring practice and busted their ass to get stronger. I ask you to stand with that basketball team that busted their butt in workouts and decided that they're not interested in losing. I ask you to stand with our women's basketball team, which right now carries the banner for usf in sports. Please don't give up on supporting usf. Because the day we the fans, we the alumni, we the boosters, we the green and gold say "football? I'll renew when they start winning", is the day that this program should be shut down. Because usf athletics requires every single one of us.

Join me my fellow bulls. I love all of you. I'll see you at the sun dome.

GO BULLS!

[Triple B]

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[TallyBull]

^^^ Good luck with that.

[Bull Dozer]

Spoiled, spiteful fans making the game day environment even worse sounds like a great way to attract recruits or even eventually coaches to get the program turned around.   

[bullsbucsfan426]

Spoiled, spiteful fans making the game day environment even worse sounds like a great way to attract recruits or even eventually coaches to get the program turned around.

I don't believe our gameday crowds are spoiled or spiteful. Unless they're ucf fans.

The Internet allows for much greater displays of negative emotions then in person.

[bullsfan27]

Wasn't there supposedly over 100 recruits for

us there today. I wonder how many of them go somewhere else after watching the game today and the lack of fans at the stadium

[snarling Bull]

There were quite a large number of recruits on the field today.  they stand in front of our section which was virtually empty.

[Damon]

Honestly is there anyone on this board that doesn't like Harlan? The only thing I don't like about him is that he was out at UCLA while were were giving Holtz a nice contract renewal. 

[widerberg]

I'm all for supporting basketball--MBB and WBB. Now that is a good time. It wasn't when I was an undegrad, or even when I was in grad school, but this year has been fun so far. And I definitely feel a good vibe with COA. I think we'll see very good things with COA.

[Triple B]

Honestly is there anyone on this board that doesn't like Harlan? The only thing I don't like about him is that he was out at UCLA while were were giving Holtz a nice contract renewal. 

 

Really hasn't been here long enough to get solid feelings one way or the other ...