Ugh. Would be wonderful if we somehow beat them.
By Bruce Feldman Nov 16, 2015 at 6:25p ET
One of the toughest things for any head coach in college football to do is get a team to start winning when it seems like everyone outside the program is saying you’re on the hot seat. Willie Taggart, South Florida’s 39-year-old head coach, though, has done just that.
Taggart, in his third season at USF, is coming off the program's biggest win in five years after his Bulls hammered No. 22 Temple Saturday night, 44-23. It’s USF’s fifth win in six games after a 1-3 start.
The turning point may have come on Oct. 2 after the Bulls lost at home 24-17 to Memphis -- USF’s third loss in a row. Taggart, though, noticed how crushed his players were in the locker room after the game. “The guys were hurt, crying,” Taggart told FOX Sports Sunday. “I went home and I told my wife, ‘I think we’re onto something.’"
Taggart knew his young team was trying to adapt to a lot of change. He overhauled his staff in the offseason. He also had made a big change on offense going from the pro-style attack that the Jim Harbaugh protégé had to a version of the spread he dubbed the Gulf Coast Offense, where they go up-tempo and run zone read about 20 percent of the time and now have a dynamic young quarterback in sophomore Quinton Flowers. Taggart also took over as play-caller -- something he did back when he was the head coach at Western Kentucky.
http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...rt-quinton-flowers-marlon-mack-feldman-111615
By Bruce Feldman Nov 16, 2015 at 6:25p ET
One of the toughest things for any head coach in college football to do is get a team to start winning when it seems like everyone outside the program is saying you’re on the hot seat. Willie Taggart, South Florida’s 39-year-old head coach, though, has done just that.
Taggart, in his third season at USF, is coming off the program's biggest win in five years after his Bulls hammered No. 22 Temple Saturday night, 44-23. It’s USF’s fifth win in six games after a 1-3 start.
The turning point may have come on Oct. 2 after the Bulls lost at home 24-17 to Memphis -- USF’s third loss in a row. Taggart, though, noticed how crushed his players were in the locker room after the game. “The guys were hurt, crying,” Taggart told FOX Sports Sunday. “I went home and I told my wife, ‘I think we’re onto something.’"
Taggart knew his young team was trying to adapt to a lot of change. He overhauled his staff in the offseason. He also had made a big change on offense going from the pro-style attack that the Jim Harbaugh protégé had to a version of the spread he dubbed the Gulf Coast Offense, where they go up-tempo and run zone read about 20 percent of the time and now have a dynamic young quarterback in sophomore Quinton Flowers. Taggart also took over as play-caller -- something he did back when he was the head coach at Western Kentucky.
http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...rt-quinton-flowers-marlon-mack-feldman-111615
