Hey guys,
sane usf fan here. First congratulations on moving to the big 12. You guys earned it by building facilities and winning on the field. We were pretty good in the 2000’s until about 2011. Then the wheels fell off. We were bad in 2012,2013,2014. Good in 2015,2016, and 2017, and got lucky to get to a bowl game in 2018. We were bad in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Those are the facts. We invested a $180 million in olympic sports facility upgrades about 10 years ago. But until 2021, the only thing we had ever done for football was build practice fields back around 10 years ago as well. Nothing since. We just spent $3.3 million on locker room upgrades for practice on campus, and our $22 million dollar IPF ($27 million dollar to date with some wiggle room) will be completed by september. My understanding is we have raised at least $30 million in private donations for the ocs so far. Our budget for our ocs is $350 million with about $60-$70 million of that will be for our football operations center as well. So our stadium will cost around $280ish million to build. We still dont know if interest is included in that or if that is seperate from the cost. We do know our admin, president, and BOT have given the green loght to have it built by 2026. They are moving as fast as they can and we will select the firm to build it by spetber 6th of this fall. With all that said, none of it means anything if we dont win on the field. We have never won anything on the firld minus some big games and some bowl games. Any normal isf fan will tell you we hope to win 6 games this year snd go to a bowl game, but we really have no clue if we are any good. We have lots of unproven transfers, two new cordinators coming off a 2-10 season last year. We just hope one day we are good enough to get the call up to a big confrence and go back to playing you guys yearly again. Most of is agree the tivalvry between icf and isf could become hige in cfb given the proper platform and exposure. Again congrats to you guys for getting the call up. You guys earned it and deserve it.