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Last years touchdowns weren’t enough to even win last years games. What’s he talking aboutTAMPA — Armed for the inevitable question about his pre-spring depth chart, USF coach Jeff Scott took a preemptive measure Thursday, holding up a blank sheet of paper.
The white space wielded a clear dispatch to a program with three combined wins over the past two seasons.
“It sends the message we want to send our guys: Every year’s a new year,” said the Bulls’ third-year coach, whose veteran-laden team begins spring drills Tuesday.
“You’ve got to start over. Last year’s touchdowns aren’t going to win this year’s games, so it’s all about how you do each and every day that we step out there.”
Every starting job up for grabs as USF opens spring practice
The Bulls open spring drills Tuesday with a ton of veterans and two new coordinators.www.tampabay.com
Maybe he's setting the expectation that there will even be less touchdowns this year? And people shouldn't think back to when they had 3 wins over 2 years, because that will stiil be better than this year? 🤗
The best part is the big smile on his face. This is replacing my meme of the kid standing in front of the empty trophy case. It’s like we don’t even have to try. They just keep handing us this stuff on a silver platter.
Looks like the Bulls got bumped by BYU..
BYU’s game vs. South Florida originally set for Oct. 28, 2023, has been moved Oct. 17, 2026.
BYU’s game vs. South Florida originally set for Oct. 28, 2023, has been moved Oct. 17, 2026.
In other news, maybe it will take a push from a career college student (3 masters degrees), failed financier and punk rock band front man to talk some sense into the cows... Aw, who are they kidding, cows gonna moo like always.
We do get praised at the end of the article for doing the right things to get a P5 invite.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ta...iority-is-a-power-five-invite/?outputType=amp
We do get praised at the end of the article for doing the right things to get a P5 invite.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ta...iority-is-a-power-five-invite/?outputType=amp
Thought this was worth repeating,,,
TAMPA — Assuming the Big 12 makes its expected move of adding UCF, Houston, Cincinnati and BYU, Friday will be one of the most distressing days in USF football history.
It will mean USF has been lapped by the UCF program it reportedly blocked from joining the Big East a decade ago. It will mean the I-4 gap has grown so large that the Bulls can’t even ride their once-little-brother’s coattails to greener pastures.
It will mean the Knights, officially, are out of USF’s league.
But it doesn’t have to stay that way. The Bulls can change it.
RELATED: USF ‘going to’ build on-campus football stadium, board of trustees chair says
“This is not the last round of realignment,” athletic director Michael Kelly said. “I don’t know if it’s going to happen in a month, in a year, two years. But we have to control what we can control and improve what we can do.”
USF can build itself the way UCF did and charge on into a Power Five conference. Or it can risk becoming like UConn and fading into obscurity. The choice is up to every player, coach, administrator, graduate and fan.
The Bulls should be attractive to power leagues. They sit in a growing top-20 metro area teeming with recruits in one of the biggest football states. Those factors helped make USF a finalist when the Big 12 explored expansion in 2016, got them considered this time and will make them appealing next time, too.
RELATED: How does USF compare to future Big 12 teams UCF, BYU, Cincinnati and Houston?
USF’s problem is USF. The Bulls aren’t going into the Power Five because they don’t belong there yet.
Three of the Big 12′s four impending additions have played in at least one major bowl game since 2015. The other, BYU, went 11-1 last year.
UCF's recent success includes a Peach Bowl triumph over Auburn. [ JOHN BAZEMORE | AP ]
USF has lost 23 of its last 36 games. That’s a fatal flaw in a realignment round driven by football success.
RELATED: As conference realignment begins, USF picked a bad time to be bad at football
USF’s facilities are not Power Five worthy. The indoor practice facility the Bulls broke ground on Wednesday is long-overdue progress — UCF has had one for so long that it just replaced its turf — but not enough.
The on-campus stadium USF says it’s now prioritizing? UCF has had one since 2007. Houston opened a $125 million stadium in 2014, and Cincinnati spent $86 million renovating Nippert Stadium a year later.
It took four years for USF’s $22 million indoor facility to go from announcement to construction. How long will it take for a project that could cost 10 times as much?
Talk is cheap. Stadiums are not.
If USF wants to build an on-campus stadium, it will not be cheap. [ Courtesy of USF ]
“We’re not focused on the near term; we’re focused on the long term,” said Will Weatherford, the chair of USF’s board of trustees. “We’re building a top-25 academic institution here at USF. We’re building high-quality athletics programs. That’s going to lend itself to all kinds of opportunities.”
It will — if the Bulls make it happen.
Kelly called Wednesday “a great step for whatever our future is, both currently to win the American and anything else that might come in the future.” But it was only one step.
University leaders need to commit to sports beyond one fancy presentation. The athletic department needs to do whatever it takes to turn football around. Boosters need to be willing to fund a high-level program. Fans need to show they care through better TV ratings, social media engagement and, yes, attendance. The football team needs to win big. Soon.
USF lost its opener to North Carolina State 45-0. [ BEN MCKEOWN | AP ]
“It all has to happen,” coach Jeff Scott said. “It’s not one or the other, right?”
Right. It’s everything.
Scott often talks about how he watched Clemson become a powerhouse because of how everyone there aligned. If USF unites that way, it’s easy to see the Bulls using their built-in advantages to follow UCF into a better league.
Maybe even the Big 12. Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt told his school’s radio network that its expansion is an eight- to 10-year process. That’s enough time for the Bulls to fix the problems that held them back this round. And it must happen, because the alternative is dark.
Like USF, UConn was one of the candidates the Big 12 seriously considered five years ago. That made sense; the Huskies sit in a heavily populated region and weren’t far removed from a Fiesta Bowl appearance.
When the Big 12 didn’t expand, UConn soon found itself in a conference (the AAC) that didn’t fit, playing teams its fans didn’t care about. The football program — stuck in a crowded local sports scene — became a laughingstock.
Is that an extreme scenario for USF? Probably. But the Bulls have enough trouble generating excitement now. Good luck doing it in a weaker AAC that loses its top three teams and adds an Alabama Birmingham or Georgia State. If later rounds of realignment grow the gap between the bluebloods and everyone else, USF could further slip into irrelevance.
Which puts the Bulls at an existential crossroads.
USF can use Friday’s embarrassment as a wakeup call. The Bulls can grab the golden shovels from Wednesday’s ceremony to start digging their way out from rock bottom. They can transform their facilities, fire up the community and figure out how to win again. They can start becoming the Power Five program they want to be.
TAMPA — Assuming the Big 12 makes its expected move of adding UCF, Houston, Cincinnati and BYU, Friday will be one of the most distressing days in USF football history.
It will mean USF has been lapped by the UCF program it reportedly blocked from joining the Big East a decade ago. It will mean the I-4 gap has grown so large that the Bulls can’t even ride their once-little-brother’s coattails to greener pastures.
It will mean the Knights, officially, are out of USF’s league.
But it doesn’t have to stay that way. The Bulls can change it.
RELATED: USF ‘going to’ build on-campus football stadium, board of trustees chair says
“This is not the last round of realignment,” athletic director Michael Kelly said. “I don’t know if it’s going to happen in a month, in a year, two years. But we have to control what we can control and improve what we can do.”
USF can build itself the way UCF did and charge on into a Power Five conference. Or it can risk becoming like UConn and fading into obscurity. The choice is up to every player, coach, administrator, graduate and fan.
The Bulls should be attractive to power leagues. They sit in a growing top-20 metro area teeming with recruits in one of the biggest football states. Those factors helped make USF a finalist when the Big 12 explored expansion in 2016, got them considered this time and will make them appealing next time, too.
RELATED: How does USF compare to future Big 12 teams UCF, BYU, Cincinnati and Houston?
USF’s problem is USF. The Bulls aren’t going into the Power Five because they don’t belong there yet.
Three of the Big 12′s four impending additions have played in at least one major bowl game since 2015. The other, BYU, went 11-1 last year.
UCF's recent success includes a Peach Bowl triumph over Auburn. [ JOHN BAZEMORE | AP ]
USF has lost 23 of its last 36 games. That’s a fatal flaw in a realignment round driven by football success.
RELATED: As conference realignment begins, USF picked a bad time to be bad at football
USF’s facilities are not Power Five worthy. The indoor practice facility the Bulls broke ground on Wednesday is long-overdue progress — UCF has had one for so long that it just replaced its turf — but not enough.
The on-campus stadium USF says it’s now prioritizing? UCF has had one since 2007. Houston opened a $125 million stadium in 2014, and Cincinnati spent $86 million renovating Nippert Stadium a year later.
It took four years for USF’s $22 million indoor facility to go from announcement to construction. How long will it take for a project that could cost 10 times as much?
Talk is cheap. Stadiums are not.
If USF wants to build an on-campus stadium, it will not be cheap. [ Courtesy of USF ]
“We’re not focused on the near term; we’re focused on the long term,” said Will Weatherford, the chair of USF’s board of trustees. “We’re building a top-25 academic institution here at USF. We’re building high-quality athletics programs. That’s going to lend itself to all kinds of opportunities.”
It will — if the Bulls make it happen.
Kelly called Wednesday “a great step for whatever our future is, both currently to win the American and anything else that might come in the future.” But it was only one step.
University leaders need to commit to sports beyond one fancy presentation. The athletic department needs to do whatever it takes to turn football around. Boosters need to be willing to fund a high-level program. Fans need to show they care through better TV ratings, social media engagement and, yes, attendance. The football team needs to win big. Soon.
USF lost its opener to North Carolina State 45-0. [ BEN MCKEOWN | AP ]
“It all has to happen,” coach Jeff Scott said. “It’s not one or the other, right?”
Right. It’s everything.
Scott often talks about how he watched Clemson become a powerhouse because of how everyone there aligned. If USF unites that way, it’s easy to see the Bulls using their built-in advantages to follow UCF into a better league.
Maybe even the Big 12. Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt told his school’s radio network that its expansion is an eight- to 10-year process. That’s enough time for the Bulls to fix the problems that held them back this round. And it must happen, because the alternative is dark.
Like USF, UConn was one of the candidates the Big 12 seriously considered five years ago. That made sense; the Huskies sit in a heavily populated region and weren’t far removed from a Fiesta Bowl appearance.
When the Big 12 didn’t expand, UConn soon found itself in a conference (the AAC) that didn’t fit, playing teams its fans didn’t care about. The football program — stuck in a crowded local sports scene — became a laughingstock.
Is that an extreme scenario for USF? Probably. But the Bulls have enough trouble generating excitement now. Good luck doing it in a weaker AAC that loses its top three teams and adds an Alabama Birmingham or Georgia State. If later rounds of realignment grow the gap between the bluebloods and everyone else, USF could further slip into irrelevance.
Which puts the Bulls at an existential crossroads.
USF can use Friday’s embarrassment as a wakeup call. The Bulls can grab the golden shovels from Wednesday’s ceremony to start digging their way out from rock bottom. They can transform their facilities, fire up the community and figure out how to win again. They can start becoming the Power Five program they want to be.
Meet the USF presidential applicant with one priority: Power Five
He’s a 39-year-old out-of-work Californian with three master’s degrees and a role in a punk rock band that was semi-famous on MySpace.
It looks like USF didn’t get anyone solid to apply for President because 1) everyone knew they were going to hire the interim lady and 2) UF is hiring next month. HahahaMeet the USF presidential applicant with one priority: Power Five
He’s a 39-year-old out-of-work Californian with three master’s degrees and a role in a punk rock band that was semi-famous on MySpace.
Also the next USF president is going to be a 72 year old lawyer who isn’t an academic. She sounds nice and friendly so good luck
So the cows out at the University of West Central Florida / Temple Terrace Community College are finally putting on their big bovine pants and are taking this OCS thing seriously... Two interesting bits though:
- "The land itself would be conducive for a recessed playing field. AAC competitor SMU is one school that plays in such a stadium." Soooooo a sunken field in Florida??? Okaaaayyyy. They better have really good geologists at that school cause their geography department certainly sucks.
Edit - Or are they building a pool?
- "Potential" opening game for the start of the 2027 season, 5 years from now. They are gonna need at least 10 years to raise anywhere close to the expected $250M-$400M cost, LOL!
https://www.tampabay.com/sports/bul...ommended-site-for-on-campus-football-stadium/
- "The land itself would be conducive for a recessed playing field. AAC competitor SMU is one school that plays in such a stadium." Soooooo a sunken field in Florida??? Okaaaayyyy. They better have really good geologists at that school cause their geography department certainly sucks.
Edit - Or are they building a pool?
- "Potential" opening game for the start of the 2027 season, 5 years from now. They are gonna need at least 10 years to raise anywhere close to the expected $250M-$400M cost, LOL!
https://www.tampabay.com/sports/bul...ommended-site-for-on-campus-football-stadium/
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Reaction from the Bullspen...
hm101
I love it
Edit: UCF SUCKS WHAT A JOKE OF A STADIUM that craphole will look like. Embarrassed FOR them.
Edited Sunday at 09:44 PM by hm101
I like how the stadium rendering shows a packed house and people all over. That's a pipe dream within itself.
I love how their " idea " is better than our reality.
I'm really trying hard to understand how they can raise that kind of money. I know they don't need all of it to start but what a heavy weight of debt.
I'm really trying hard to understand how they can raise that kind of money. I know they don't need all of it to start but what a heavy weight of debt.
Maybe they can do a "build as they go" kind of thing. Like a fan base installment plan. Start with building 5k seats then each decade they can add another 5k depending on how many times they make #2 in the country. That way they won't over extend, LOL!
If they can even afford what FAU already has I would be surprised.
The money from our exit might just be the largest donation lol. They can thank us later….
The money from our exit might just be the largest donation lol. They can thank us later….
You’re just not looking close enough. Everyone is wearing Black and Gold! It’s another home game in our new west FL stadium!
I really do not understand the OCS excitement, and especially the continued cracking on our existing stadium, over on that site. Do they not understand they are presenting a possible site for a future stadium? They act like they just closed on the loan to build the place.
I don't think any USF fan needs to be embarrassed for us for any reason at this point in time.
I don't think any USF fan needs to be embarrassed for us for any reason at this point in time.
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They will have ACC money as soon as FSU leaves...according to them....lol!!
And while they wait for that to happen, the chosen site for the OCS will continue to gather old tires, beer cans, and broken dreams. By that time FAU will have multiple AAC championships and be the ones getting the ACC invite!
Stopped by the bullspen and there doesn't even seem to be a mention of their bball losses from yesterday...then again maybe they are hidden away somewhere in that god-awfully-designed board.
It is a terrible design. I assume these things are templates but theirs definitely looks homemade.
It's always great to be a Knight, esp during the past few years. We won't always dominate them like this but...
Serious question....
Is there ANYTHING they do better than us?
From head to head matchups, all the way down to their shit board...it's all a total joke.
Serious question....
Is there ANYTHING they do better than us?
From head to head matchups, all the way down to their shit board...it's all a total joke.
Well for one thing they are the Harvard of the South.
I heard they won a mascot contest a few years ago, that’s all I’ve got.
They had the #1 transfer class for a few days also.
Yes. Let’s not forget their eminent, pre-eminent, or emerging-eminent, or whatever-eminent status they have. 😂🤣😂
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