I hope we pay him back for ditching us at the last minute

Rodemaker to So Piss

he will visit for a game this fall

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IRVING, Texas – The American Athletic Conference has announced the scheduling model for conference games that will be in place for the 2025 football season.



The scheduling model was approved by The American's athletic directors earlier this week.



The 2025 season will be The American's second in its current 14-team configuration. The schedule format calls for each team to play eight conference games, with four home games and four road contests for each team.



The scheduling format fulfills a number of objectives set by the conference. There are no matchups played at the same site from 2024 to 2025. Each team will play at least one road game in the Eastern and Central time zones, and each team will have played at least one road game in Texas in a two-year span.



The American will continue with a single-division format in 2025. The top two teams in the final regular-season standings will qualify for the American Athletic Conference Championship Game.



The full 2025 conference schedule will be announced in February.





2025 American Athletic Conference Football Schedule Format



UAB

Home: Army, Memphis, North Texas, South Florida

Away: Florida Atlantic, Navy, Rice Tulsa



Army

Home: Charlotte, North Texas, Temple, Tulsa

Away: UAB, East Carolina, UTSA, Tulane



Charlotte

Home: North Texas, Rice, Temple, UTSA

Away: Army, East Carolina, South Florida, Tulane



East Carolina

Home: Army, Charlotte, Memphis, Tulsa

Away: Florida Atlantic, Temple, UTSA, Tulane



Florida Atlantic

Home: UAB, East Carolina, Memphis, Tulsa

Away: Navy, Rice, South Florida, Tulane



Memphis

Home: Navy, South Florida, Tulane, Tulsa

Away: UAB, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic, Rice



Navy

Home: UAB, Florida Atlantic, Rice, South Florida

Away: Memphis, North Texas, Temple, Tulsa



North Texas

Home: Navy, South Florida, Temple, UTSA

Away: UAB, Army, Charlotte, Rice



Rice

Home: UAB, Florida Atlantic, Memphis, North Texas

Away: Charlotte, Navy, South Florida, UTSA



South Florida

Home: Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, Rice, UTSA

Away: UAB, Memphis, Navy, North Texas



Temple

Home: East Carolina, Navy, UTSA, Tulane

Away: Army, Charlotte, North Texas, Tulsa



UTSA

Home: Army, East Carolina, Rice, Tulane

Away: Charlotte, North Texas, South Florida, Temple



Tulane

Home: Army, Charlotte, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic

Away: Memphis, Temple, UTSA, Tulsa



Tulsa

Home: UAB, Navy, Temple, Tulane

Away: Army, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic, Memphis

Okay so heres what im hearing on bama- they are young on defense and the defense is very technical and some of the guys are having trouble picking it up. Tackling is not great. They are physical but tackling is a concern. Offensively they are trying to throw the ball a ton in practice snd they are pass heavy….

Miami- they are loaded. Cam ward has come on lately in fsll camp and is starting to click. Martinez is have a great camp at RB and miami oline is tough. Defensively mismi is solid.

If usf splits the two, akabana is our better chance at a W. Mismi will be really tough.

Did anyone else get caught up in this nightmare?

Team competitiveness and schedule quality will be the two biggest driving forces in attendance at the new stadium. Not far behind is the fan experience, and I hope USF finds a way to improve that.

I’ve been to hundreds of college football games, and I’ve always thought there was no better atmosphere in sports. The atmosphere at USF games has some cool elements like the green lighting, but it also has elements that are unbearable, like the over-hyped and incessant yelling by the PA announcers and four thousand PSAs. You can’t manufacture excitement. Let the game create it. No need to fill every second with noise.

The NCAA needs to take a hard look at the slow pace of games and the ridiculously long timeouts for instant replays and frequency of media timeouts. If the games can’t be sped up, people are going to watch from home on their 70-inch TVs with fast-forward. Or the kids are going to tune out and head to the clubs early.

My (now) wife and I have gone to about nine games over the last three years, and we’ll go to a few this year. We’ve yet to make it past the middle of the third quarter. Tone down the screaming and speed up the games. No need to wait til 2027. This team ought to be pretty interesting this year.

Just received a call from USF Athletics. They are running a $99 season ticket promo for seats in the southeast end zone. Plus you'll get pregame on field passes for a single game other than the Miami game.

One you will like and another you wont

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Sophomore quarterback now appears on four national award watch lists, the most since Quinton Flowers in 2017



TAMPA, AUG.14, 2024 – Record-breaking South Florida quarterback Byrum Brown (Raleigh, N.C.) added another mark to his growing list as he joined Quinton Flowers (2014-17) as the only USF players named to more than three national award watch lists when Brown was named to the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Watch List on Wednesday.



It marked his fourth appearance on a national award watch list. Brown was previously named to the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award Watch List and to the Walter Camp and Maxwell award watch lists, both presented annually to the college football player of the year. The most recent announcement brings USF’s total to eight national awards watch lists that Bulls appear on entering the 2024 season, USF’s most since 13 entering the 2017 season.



Flowers was named to five national award watch lists entering the 2017 season and went on to be a finalist for the Unitas Award while setting 42 USF program records and leading the Bulls to a 10-2 record and 17 weeks ranked in the Top 25.



Brown will square off against several other top quarterbacks in the nation during the first six weeks of the 2024 season. He will face Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe in Tuscaloosa on Sept. 7 and Miami quarterback Cam Ward in Raymond James Stadium on Sept. 21. Memphis quarterback Seth Hennigan comes to Raymond James Stadium for a big Friday, primetime ESPN game on Oct. 11.



Tickets for USF football games can be purchased at USFBullsTix.com or by calling 1-800-GoBulls.



The sophomore quarterback set USF season marks for passing yards (3,292), touchdowns (26), completions (276), and completion percentage (64.6%) and tied the Bulls game record for touchdown passes with five at Memphis in his first season in head coach Alex Golesh’s offense. He also led the Bulls with 809 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns on the ground, joining 2023 Heisman Trophy and Davey O’Brien Award winner Jayden Daniels of LSU as the only players in FBS football to register 3,000-plus yards passing and 800-plus yards rushing.



Brown’s 4,101 total yards in 2023 are the second-best season total in program history behind only Quinton Flowers, and he enters the 2024 season standing sixth on the Bulls’ all-time career passing chart (3,696). Honored by the AAC six times in the conference weekly awards in 2023, Brown was key to the Bulls’ program-best, six-game win improvement capped by a 45-0 victory over Syracuse in the Boca Raton Bowl. He led the Bulls to come-from-behind wins at UConn and Navy, and his 517 total yards in a victory over Rice (including 435 passing) rank as the second-best total in program history.



USF returns 19 starters in 2024 (nine on offense, eight on defense, and two specialists) from a team that set 12 team and 16 individual program records while going 7-6 (a program-best six-game turnaround) and claiming a 45-0 Boca Raton Bowl victory over Syracuse in 2023.



The Bulls return record-setting starting quarterback Brown, 85 percent of their rushing yards, 84 percent of their receiving yards and four primary starters on the offensive line. On defense, USF returns nine of its top 11 tacklers led by Shuler, who logged a team-best 97 stops to go with 8.5 tackles for loss in 2023.



The Bulls open the season Aug. 31 vs. Bethune-Cookman in Raymond James Stadium before road games at Alabama (Sept. 7) and Southern Mississippi (Sept. 14) and a home clash with Miami (Sept. 21).



BULLS ON PRESEASON NATIONAL AWARD WATCH LISTS (8)

Maxwell Award Byrum Brown, QB

Walter Camp Award Byrum Brown, QB

Davey O’Brien Award Byrum Brown, QB

Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Byrum Brown, QB

Biletnikoff Award Sean Atkins, WR

Come Back Player of the Year Jason Vaughn, DE

Doak Walker Award Nay’Quan Wright, RB

Outland Trophy Zane Herring, OG

Let’s see who survives this round of layoffs.

I think Baker is ‘safe’ as he covers all of the state of Florida college football teams.

I hope Joey Knight is not in danger.

We could potentially have our first championship season without no local newspaper press to cover it…

This is a bit of a quiet time with the dead period and both college football and HS football in camp mode.

USF did send out some new 2025 offers that are serious

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Both are priority targets for the 2025 class now. USF has Chase Garnett in the class already, but they want more at the RB position and so far have not been able to flip Newton (Ga.) RB Zion Johnson, so I assume that factored into the decision to expand their search in this case westward.

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Some dominoes fell that are keeping Poret's recruitment interesting. He visited FSU before the dead period and they sent him a written offer as well, but he is still committed to USF. The Noles just lost out on their top OT target Josh Petty to Georgia Tech yesterday, but they also went in on Seminole Ridge OT Daniel Pierre Louis and he seems to be their top OT target now. Not sure what will happen there, Poret has been very quiet and doesn't like to talk so that could be a good thing for USF in the long run.

Jayden Bradley (Rock Hill- Frisco, TX) dropped his Top 6 last week including USF who has made a strong push. He is versatile and can play multiple spots but is projected as a safety by most people who have watched him. He is originally from Florida, the Pensacola area.

The other elephant in the room or big bull in the room is what USF will do regarding the 105 cap. Right now they can plan to have 105 kids on scholarship if they want to next year. Everyone in the FBS has that option, but most schools are trying to figure it out because, before NIL that can be $150-250k a kid for 20 additional spots and are you going to pay for the #3 kicker and the #3 long snapper and #3 punter and 18th OL, that doesn't make a ton of sense. What I'm hearing is most schools are looking at a hybrid model or even partial ships for some in-state kids and still focusing on 85-90 spots being scholarship-based. My sources indicate most schools including USF are still wrestling with how this will look and I think it will won't change recruiting a lot because no one wants to be the 8th OL in UGA or BAMA's class if they are going to 105. That is just stupid and even kids are smart enough to know you don't want to be that guy and you are better off at USF or in the ACC or Big 12 than being 4-5th string at one of the top 15 schools in the country.

Neither have updated photos on the USF roster while everyone else does. Should this be a cause for concern?

We all love BB, but even if he departs for more money after this season, the utmost importance is retaining CAG.

Knowing this, what are the schools we need to keep an eye on this season that might open up?
The first is the Gators at UF. Their schedule might be one of the toughest out there & I don’t see how Napier survives

Can USF keep Golesh if the Gators come knocking? How much increase in money can USF afford to pay CAG to keep him?

It seems increasingly difficult to believe CAG would leave USF before delivering a chip or seeing the opening of the OCS with all the effort and work he’s put into it. But money always talks. Idk if he will be so ready to move his kids once again, but curious to gather your thoughts.

If he delivers a chip to USF, then all bets are off. He can leave whenever at that point. But if we win 8-10 games this year with no ring, will CAG really leave if the Gators come knocking? Anyone else we should be looking out for?

Today was the first time in full pads an a little live tackling. Did tackling and the beginning and the end of practice. It was awesome and they started outside today and there was lightning and they came inside, that took a minute and he is thankful for the indoor.

He challenged the team the effort has been very good, they play in 20 days, the fundamentals and technique is there sometimes and sometimes they are harping so much on the effort they are getting out of position. Some positives on both sides and there have been areas for improvement. It will be interesting tomorrow with a low day and get red zone and then they will scrimmage and get the coaches off the field and just let them play football on Friday for a 110 plays or so. He thinks it will be fascinating to watch that.

He thought in the spring and he is upset about certain things from an execution standpoint and he is excited about the effort, attitude and energy and they are locked in on them growing daily and it has been a breath of fresh air.

On what he is most pleased with, on offense it has been the OL and Coach Hoodie is mixing and matching as guys get banged up. It has been awesome to see some other guys step up in terms of strain and schematically in terms of pass protection. They've done a good job. I've been pleased with the RB group and there is a ton of competition and they are pushing each other. Thre three older guys have stepped up and it has been awesome to see Alvon Isaac who feels like not a young guy anymore because he was here in the spring. Jaylen Johnson has taken steps and Yasias Young has taken steps that group is a bunch of depth. In the QB room, Bryum Brown has taken a step forward but so have Bryce Archie, Izzy Carter and Marcelis Tate, he doesn't look like a freshman anymore.

The WR group has pushed, the TE group with Payten Singletary in there has pushed the entire group to take a major step because he is an older guy who has played a ton of ball.

On the defensive side, the secondary has been flying around and they now have depth and competition across the board. The linebacker group as much as anybody on the team has a bunch of older guys with depth, Jamie Pettway stands out as a guy who literally got here this time last year at this practice and now he is comfortable with another year in the system and he is pushing for playing time. Lex Long is pushing for time, he looks like a guy who has been here for a while. Those guys and that group has done a phenomenal job.

On Mike Lofton, he makes it easy and you trust the guys who you believe in their process and he will get you in the right thing. As a play-caller you know he will get you in the right spot in terms of the run call might not be perfect for what you are getting, he will get you in the right deal and same in the protection. That is how he prepares and physically that is how he prepares. Mentally he is so locked in with the rest of the guys in that room. There was a moment he went down in camp last year, that was the first time it hit me what he means to the OL room and the whole offense, they were all looking around, Cole Best is his backup and plays guard, he prepares the same way, but the whole offense lost a ton of confidence immediately. The way he goes about his business, every morning shows up and hugs everybody and wishes them an elite morning. He is tired he will create the fakest energy you've ever seen, he brings that juice.

On Ta'Ron Keith and what he brings, when we were looking when K'Wan Powell went down, they were stressing a guy who has played a lot of football. If it was a guy from the state of Florida that was a bonus and he also happens to be Ben Knox's cousin which also helps. He is a pro in terms of how he handles himself. He got here late and he couldn't use fall camp to catch up and he knew that, his summer was incredible, he would grab lunch and spend the rest of the day in the coaches' offices every day he interrupted our staff meeting to find someone to meet with. He has been through it physically. The return thing is special with Jaden Alexis' injury and losing Matt Hill that is certainly going to help and he is pushing Kelley Joiner, Nay'quan Wright, and Naheim Simmons back there, they are working a bunch of guys back there. The way he caught the ball out of the backfield and the running between the tackles was something we were curious about since they didn't use him that way at Bowling Green and he has been impressive. In pass pro he has been impressive, he is 22-23 years old and physically impressive and he came into camp pushing. He has a great mindset, I have one year to make it and he is back home and he feels at home here and he has a cool energy about it and he knows this is his last shot.

Leo asked a stupid question, I'm skipping that.

Golesh said he has grown over the last months and he questioned his process on what he is doing to help the program on a day-to-day basis and they are locked in on going station-to-station doing program building and he can see a lot more now and he is locked in on defense and special teams more. He trusts his staff knowing where to be and now it is the second time and they can refer back to things and the structure of practice and the science from a year ago and knowing there is a better way to do it and being vulnerable enough to adjust and he has questioned everything they've done and changed it.