USF Hate Week

UCF USF, we meet again.

Let’s start with reason Numero Uno to hate the…...Bulls. It is this sign:

Here is how this started. 2007 was college football’s Little Big Horn. Don’t believe me?

Boston College has a solid run in the Top 5 that season. 

When Kansas and Mizzou played The Border War, they were both ranked in the Top 5 of the BCS. Seriously. That happened. 

LSU won the national title that year with 2 losses. 

Tim Tebow won the Heisman for the 5 loss Florida Gators, but only after Dennis frickin’ Dixon blew out his knee on a Thursday nighter late in the season.

Miami and Florida State played a “classic” at  Doak that featured Kirnobyl Freeman throwing a game winning touchdown pass after leading his team on a back breaking, late 4^th quarter drive. FSU’s quarterback? Xavier Lee. In other news, Miami was 5-7 that season.

Why do I tell you that?

To tell you this: That season, the USF Bulls, behind Matt Groethe and a solid defense, pulled off several big upsets (Auburn and #5 West Virginia being the biggest)and rode that, as well as the aforementioned systematic breakdown of all that is good about college football, to #2 in the polls. For a week. Before they lost on a Thursday. To effing Rutgers.

Anyway, after that season, USF and their coach Jim Leavitt started to do a lot of talking.

(If you don’t remember Leavitt, I find this simple equation to be helpful: Will Muschamp x Bo Pelini + Steroids = Jim Leavitt)

Leavitt would later be fired for hitting a player. 

Anyway, Leavitt left town, but the misplaced sense of pride of that fan base sure didn’t!

The Bulls followed up the firing of Leavitt, the guy who took their program from literally non-existent to semi-relevant, by hiring Skip Holtz. Now, we here at SOS are not a fan of hyperbole, but Lou Holtz is Satan and his children are the Antichrist. 

Things unraveled in swift, predictably awful fashion under Holtz. Holtz is to gameday decision making what the Hindenberg was to advancements in aviation, as detailed here. 

(I strongly suggest everyone click that link and read. I watched a decade of Larry Coker and Randy Shannon and with that as a background, I still found this teardown PRETTY shocking)

So, while I hate USF for their refusal to ever stop their incessant “if we say we belong enough times eventually we will belong” campaign, even during the Holtz Era, I must admit they do make me laugh.

Ever been to a game at USF? Boy, if you hate all things awesome about football and LOVE minor league baseball promotions, you will c** in your pants when you go to a USF game. My favorite part is when the fat, wannabe Orlandan (?) that already killed a 24 pack in the parking lot before the game starts a fight with an equally trashy, 40-something year old with fake boobs and leather skin and a tattoo and a bad dye job sitting in front of him. Good clean family fun!

And really, when you think about it, that IS their fan base. They are shitty Orlando. Know how people in Orlando LOVE Disney? And it is weird because Disney is literally the worst place in the world? Well, people from Tampa WISH they had Disney to love. That is how much their life sucks. Their baseball team is consistently awesome but none of them go to watch it because boo-hoo the stadium is hard to get to. Their NFL team is the Buccaneers. Woof. Fuck Tampa.

Anyway, now they are in the Willie Taggart Era, which I thought was going to be fun for them. Taggart seems to be a good young coach on the up and up. 

And then I saw this video:

And then they lost to McNeese State and FAU in back to back weeks, and my faith in Willie diminished.

It is possible that USF is the worst team in D1A football. I love every second of it. I will take great joy in watching us destroy this team by ALL the touchdowns.

Also, they did a crappy knockoff of the 'U' logo and that pisses me off.

Once more, with feeling: