Por (FazaUSF) on December 06, 2009 (Suggest removal)

I’m a 2005 graduate, and I’ve never missed a USF bowl game, but I don’t have a passport, nor the money to go to Canada! It would be a very difficult situation for me if I had to decide between all the money it would take for an expedited passport and a trip out of the country and missing a USF bowl game for the first time. In the current economy, shouldn’t the Big East consider the travel budgets of conference schools and their fans? I think it’s worse to doom schools to horrible attendance and paying lots of money for unused tickets as opposed to just going to the same geographically close bowl games in back-to-back years.

Por (Terry_Lucas) on December 06, 2009 (Suggest removal)

Rather Papa John’s Bowl… If USC is in a bowl game, fans will show up… We still owe them for the beat down they put on us in 2005. USF-USC is a decent match up that will draw fans.

Por (Ken) on December 06, 2009 (Suggest removal)

It’s Toronto, folks, so what we’d prefer doesn’t matter much any more.

Por (Dan Alatorre) on December 06, 2009 (Suggest removal)

It’s the International bowl.

Crap.

PS, I don’t think you need a passport to go into Canada. Doesn’t matter; I ain’t going. January 2 in Canada? Forget it. I was freezing this week in Tampa when it got to 50 degrees.

Maybe we can beat THESE Huskies…

Por (Dan Alatorre) on December 06, 2009 (Suggest removal)

Look for UCF to get mauled by Rutgers in the St Pete Bowl.

Cincy and Florida in the Sugar Bowl? Hard to call it; I think Florida takes em down, but after last night, I’m not so sure.

I guess it’s best for USF if Cincy wins going away.

Por (USF99) on December 07, 2009 (Suggest removal)

I generally think having a bunch of bowl games and giving these kids, who have worked hard throughout their academic career, a chance to end the season on a high note is a good thing. But can we please stop pretending that going to consecutive bottom tier games is somehow a mark of excellence?

USF only managed to win one game against a team with winning record this season. The team has been moving backwards since 2007. Here’s hoping that we can turn things around next season.

Por (Dan Alatorre) on December 07, 2009 (Suggest removal)

USF99, you’re a pretty negative person. There’s NO program that has ever achieved as much as USF has in such a short time, EVER, in the history of college football, but that’s not good enough. Why on Earth anybody would be negative about USF is beyond me. You think it’s easy recruiting when you have no facilities? Well we have some now - they are less than 5 years old! that means in the whole history of USF, the last 5 years is when we finally started looking like a serious program to recruits. But we STILL have to recruit against, oh let’ see, the Nation Champ Gators 90 minutes from here, The National Champ Seminoles, the National Champ Hurricanes, the SEC teams, and EVERY OTHER good football program east of the Mississippi.

Por (Dan Alatorre) on December 07, 2009 (Suggest removal)

And we DO steal a few recruits from them now (finally). This last year’s recruiting class, we DID steal a few. And next year we’l steal some more. That’s how you build. If it was easy, everybody would do it. And we are getting better assistant coordinators, but we don’t have a very large budget for them, so we take what we can get. And we have the smallest recruiting budget in college football. And our senior QB went out in game 3 and a rookie had to take over - and he did, with pretty good results. I still think Daniels winning in Talahassee was the worst thing for our program this year, because it set unrealistic expectations for the rest of our season.

Por (Dan Alatorre) on December 07, 2009 (Suggest removal)

But I’m glad we did, because that’s how good we are. Not better, not worse: right now we are a middle of the pack Big East team, maybe a little less than that. In 5 years, we’ll be among the best BE teams, and still moving up. That’s what real fans who have some perspective believe.

Por (Ken) on December 07, 2009 (Suggest removal)

That’s right, Dan. We’re a middle of the pack BE team. Good enough to go to a bowl game, but we’re not yet in the competition for the BE title. I’m with you that that’s pretty darn good for now.

Por (USF99) on December 07, 2009 (Suggest removal)

Cincinnati has to recruit against Ohio State, Pitt against Penn State, etc.

It is the loser’s mentality to seek excuses instead of solutions. If you continue to celebrate mediocrity then you will never be successful in life.

Por (Dan Alatorre) on December 07, 2009 (Suggest removal)

Nobody’s celebrating mediocrity. We are realizing that it’s not fair to judge us against 100 year old programs after just 13 years. It’s not fair to compare our recruiting successes to those of former national champs in this state who won theirs not decades years ago but a few years ago (UF) 10 years ago (UM and FSU). I see the improvent: our senior QB went down and our rookie backup took over and won the big game at ranked FSU. NOBODY gave us a chance! Yeah, that happens sometimes, but not usually - that’s why it’s such a big story when Collaros or Daniels does it. I don’t find the negativity helpful, I think it shows a lack of perspective.