Posted by  Jesus P Miller, New Orleans, LA, US on 05/22  at  09:19 AM

Could you please explain me the meaning of ‘DOM’

Posted by  Paul Colee, Lakeland on 03/08  at  04:10 PM

Good for Coach…glad somebody isn’t afraid to take a stand for something out of the ordinary.  Profanity is so common, it’s completely lost its effect!  The HC at Vanderbilt did the same thing…it seems to have helped the Commodores!

Posted by  Terry Lucas, Phoenix, AZ on 03/08  at  10:03 AM

Anyways, Coach Leavitt had no friggen clue who I was. Coach Hernandez had left for somewhere else. He said if you want to play, there are tryouts in the winter. I gave him a sailor’s mouthful that he probably hadn’t expected. And then he immediately and kindly escorted me out of his office and said that language like mine was not tolerated in his office. He said you waited six years, you can wait six more months. Coach Leavitt might swear from time to time, but he does demand respect from his players. That six months benefitted me immensely… and I finally got to live the dream… although in retrospect, it did take me awhile to lose the sailor’s mouth (I still feel bad for some of my frosh professors for my occassional slip up).

Posted by  Terry Lucas, Phoenix, AZ on 03/08  at  10:03 AM

I don’t think this is really any different than how Jim runs things anyways. The first time I met Coach Leavitt was in the summer of 1999 a month before my frosh year. I had just gotten out of the Navy and was two weeks removed from being at sea for the past three months on the submarine USS AUGUSTA SSN 710. I drove from Connecticut to Tampa in two days, and thought from a conversation with a coach from the year before (Coach Hernandez), that I would be able to walk-on right away (this coming from someone who had never started in high school and hadn’t played a down of football in seven years - gotta have big dreams).

Posted by  Jay Grassworth, Lincoln, NB on 03/07  at  10:19 PM

Well, I’ll be pullling for USF to lose every game this season because of this self-righteous humorless misguided and stunted coach who is a dipstick and lickspittle and not so closeted fascist. The best men and athletes often swear. Great men swear. Great writers use profanity. Your vulgar and obscene word may be VERY different from mine.

Posted by  Donald Conner, Ft. Myers on 03/07  at  09:51 PM

Besides….are you kidding me with the no cussing thing.  Hope Hendrick doesn’t get within firing range of CJL during a game.  He’s worse than a sailor.

Thanks for the rant.

Posted by  Donald Conner, Ft. Myers on 03/07  at  09:50 PM

I know this no cussing policy is coming from one of the coaches, but lets get real about what we’re trying to do here (at least what I think we all assume we are trying to do here), and that’s consistently put a competitive football team on the field every year to help facilitate revenue to the athletic program and the school.  You either strive to do that, or you end up in the Ivy League.

CJL is too good a commodity to have to put up with this garbage.  No wonder he hasn’t signed the contract extension.  He’ll be in the SEC one day (maybe sooner than later) we he finally gets fed up enough with all the Bull patties the school/admin keeps throwing at him.

Posted by  Donald Conner, Ft. Myers on 03/07  at  09:50 PM

This whole recent history about what USF is doing to the team is crazy.  First we give CJL parking tickets for his tire touching the line.  Then we boot the car of one of our possible starting DL men and then throw him in jail on top of that.  Then we make the starting QB pick up trash or something for serving drinks to some chicks at a bar (like that doesn’t happen every night around USF).  Then we try and act like USF (which is a good academic school) is Stanford (which is a great academic school) and cram that down CJL’s throat at the 11th hour of recruiting.

Posted by  Ryan Roark, Richmond, VA on 03/06  at  10:15 AM

What’s up with Shane McElwain??  This guy’s had more position switches than Tyrone McKenzie has had tackles.