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Saw this come through, ton of offers.
But like what he said in the article... and ya know...Kerwin...


The Bell's Ring

I thought this was an interesting tidbit in a longiform story about NIL from ESPN.

• The University of South Florida released a spreadsheet with individual amounts paid by type of transaction, such as social media posts, camps and lessons, and public appearances, but didn't identify the transactions by sport. From July 2021 through August 2022, the most common deal -- a total of 96 -- was for social media posts adding up to about $8,275.

According to a BullsInsider.com source, Deion Sanders is on the USF campus today.

I know we don't want to go the coordinator route but if we did he would be great even without Florida ties. He's had some very good defense the last 4 or 5 years.

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It will be interesting to see how many USF players, and who, will enter the NCAA transfer portal starting Monday.

The portal window for football doesn't open until Dec. 5 BUT, since Jeff Scott was fired, USF players have a 30-day window, that starts Monday, to enter the portal. They can get a head start talking to coaches from other programs.

Xavier Weaver, Jimmy Horn Jr. and Battie would gain interest. Gerry Bohanon said he was returning to USF next season but with this change he might jump in the portal.

I'll be refreshing the portal frequently the next few days.

The pass pro grade was so bad, I'm not sure I've seen one that low. The team score was a 22.6, the next lowest one was 41.2 against Louisville. Tulane it was 80.2 for a reference point!

TOP OFFENSIVE SKILL PERFORMERS +10 snaps and +60 average PFF score (60means you did you are job)
WR- Xavier Weaver 72.7 PFF 56 snaps
RB- Brian Battie 72.5 PFF 31 snaps
RB- Michel Dukes 69.4 PFF 22 snaps
QB- Katravis Marsh 67.2 PFF 71 snaps 105.4 NFL QBR rating, dinged a little for his running
SLT- Jimmy Horn Jr. 65.5 PFF 46 snaps
TE- Chris Carter 64.3 PFF 52 snaps
WR- Holden Willis 63.4 PFF 22 snaps
TE- Gunnar Greenwald 62.9 PFF 17 snaps
SLT- Omarion Dollison 62.1 PFF 21 snaps
RB- Kelley Joiner 59.7 PFF 16 snaps

REMAINING SKILL SNAPS OFFENSE
WR- Yusuf Terry 31
WR- Khafre Brown 28
TE- Christopher Mottillo 8
RB- K'Wan Powell 4
TE- Jayson Littlejohn 1

OFFENSIVE LINE GRADES
C- Brad Cecil 67.3 PFF 71 snaps, 75.9 Pass Blk, 62.9 Run Blk
RG/RT- Mike Lofton 61.7 PFF 32 snaps, 83.6 Pass Blk, 54.8 Run Blk
LG- Demetris Harris 53.5 PFF 71 snaps, 39.2 Pass Blk, 54.5 Run Blk
RG- Dustyn Hall 48.9 PFF 44 snaps, 29.8 Pass Blk, 56.5 Run Blk 1 penalty
RT- Derrell Bailey 41.3 PFF 71 snaps, 15.9 Pass Blk, 52.6 Run Blk
LT- Demontrey Jacobs 40.1 PFF 66 snaps, 0.0 Pass Blk, 71.3 Run Blk

TOP DEFENSIVE PERFORMERS +10 snaps and +60 average PFF score (60means you did you are job)
MLB- DJ Gordon IV 71.3 PFF 64 snaps
WLB- Mac Harris 71.1 PFF 12 snaps
CB- TJ Robinson 66.2 PFF 23 snaps
CB- Christian Williams 65.3 PFF 57 snaps
CB- Daquan Evans 64.1 PFF 25 snaps
DE- Jason Vaughn 63.1 PFF 39 snaps
DT- Nick Bags 62.1 PFF 26 snaps
NB- Timarcus Simpson 60.8 PFF 19 snaps

REMAINING DEFENSE SNAPS
WLB- Dwayne Boyles 57
DT- Rashawn Yates 54
SS- Matthew Hill 50
CB- Aamaris Brown 48
DE- Jatorian Hansford 45
FS- Mekhi LaPointe 45
DE- Tramel Logan 43
SS- Will Jones II 41
DE- Eddie Kelly 32
DE- Darrien Grant 18
NB- Jayden Curry 13
DE- JBril Glaze 8
WLB- Davon Hicks 4
DT- De'Juan Sease 3

Four offensive players and one defender honored by conference coaches



TAMPA, FLA. NOV. 30, 2022– The USF football team saw five players honored on Wednesday for their performance during the 2022 season, with four Bulls’ offensive players and one defender earning all-conference honors from the American Athletic Conference coaches.



Sophomore kick returner Jimmy Horn Jr. (Sanford) earned first-team All-AAC honors after averaging 29.9 yards on seven returns and posting an 89-yard touchdown return in the Bulls’ season opener vs. BYU. Horn added 37 catches for 551 yards and three touchdowns receiving on the year and 95 rushing yards and a touchdown.



Sophomore running back Brian Battie (Sarasota) and junior wide receiver Xavier Weaver (Orlando) earned second-team All-AAC honors.



Battie ranked second in the AAC in rushing (98.8 ypg) and finished with 1,186 yards and eight touchdowns on the year, the sixth-best rushing season in program history. He tied a USF record with five-straight 100-yard games in the final five games of the season, part of seven 100-yard games on the year, and set a USF season record with 1,936 all-purpose yards, including 659 on kick returns and 91 receiving.



Weaver logged career-bests of 53 catches for 718 yards and six touchdowns on the year, marking the fifth-best season reception total and receiving yardage total in program history. He finished the year with 1,735 career yards, good for fourth all-time at USF, and 116 career receptions, good for sixth all-time. Weaver led the Bulls in receiving in seven games and logged three 100-yard receiving games on the year.



Senior center Brad Cecil (Jacksonville) and senior linebackerDwayne Boyles (Miami) earned honorable-mention All-AAC honors



Cecil was named the first-ever recipient of USF’s Steve Walz Perseverance Award on Tuesday. He finished his career with 53 games played and 50 starts to rank tied for second all-time at USF in both categories. He started all 12 games on the season for the second-straight year and helped plow the way for Battie to become just the sixth USF player to post a 1,000-yard rushing season and USF to post seven games of 200 or more yards rushing and rank third in The American running for 197.92 yards per game.



Boyles posted a career-best 108 tackles, just the 13th player to log 100 tackles in a season at USF, and led the Bulls with 10 tackles for loss, three forced fumbles and two recovered fumbles to go with an interception and a sack. Boyles led USF in tackles in seven games and his 108 tackles rank ninth all-time in a season at USF. He increased his career tackle total to 315, placing him seventh all-time and just the eighth player in USF history to log 300 career tackles.

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Please keep all game chatter in this thread as USF aims for its third consecutive win.

Brian Gregory talks loss to UMass

VIDEO

I'm at basketball practice and Keyshawn Bryant is on the court participating. Looks happy.

Jamir Chaplin is practicing too.

DJ Patrick is doing off the court work.

South Florida battled back in the second half but falls to UMass at Yuengling Center.

INSTANT ANALYSIS

I think you all know that I take a great deal of pride, and put much work, into the basketball game previews in an effort to give you guys insight on key players on the Bulls' opponent's team.

However, due my national work with the Rivals transfer portal site, I might not be able to do many (if any) game previews in December. I sat down at my desk an hour ago to work on the UMass game preview but instead my phone has been non-stop with texts and DMs about the portal. For the last hour I've been creating college profile pages for football players, entering them into the transfer portal spreadsheet for rankings purposes, Tweeting about the portal and communicating with publishers who cover teams in multiple conferences about transfers. Keep in mind that these are just the players who are grad transfers, whose coach has been fired or guys who have announced their intent to enter the portal. On Dec. 5 when the transfer portal window opens it will be even crazier.



I was hoping that I would not have to make this post but, here we are. Btw, I received 14 portal related text messages while I was typing this post. 😟

South Florida looks to make it three wins in a row when it hosts Massachusetts tonight at Yuengling Center.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR

Adam Gorney: Deion Sanders should say no to Colorado and set sights on USF job instead.

STORY

I agree

say-no-to-colorado

Found this article to be interesting. A great deal of what is written could apply anywhere. USF stakeholders could do a search and replace of names and have a good guide to follow.

Dave Feit: To-Do List for Matt Rhule and All Stakeholders

Just wanted to recap what an incredible season Battie put forth and where it ranks in the USF record books, which is all the more impressive given how bad the team was. Keep in mind that the dumb trick play goes on his ledger as well:

Single Season YPC: 6.7- fourth
Career YPC: 6.6- first
Single Season yards: 1,186- sixth (one yard behind Mack for 5th)
Career yards: 1,842- seventh
Consecutive 100 yard games: 5- tied for first
Single Season 100 yard games: 7- tied for third
Career 100 yard games: 9- fourth
Single Season All Purpose Yardage (run/rec/return): 1,936- first
Career All Purpose Yardage: 3,462- sixth
Single Season Kickoff Return Yardage: 659- fifth (last year's 650 is sixth)
Career Kickoff Yardage: 1,427- fourth (his yards per attempt took a hit this year, but that's likely because he was such a big focus of the opponent)

What a great individual season for Battie. Hopefully he will be properly recognized by the conference. He'll almost certainly become the career all-purpose leader next season (DJ is the leader at 4,186), but he has already left his name all over the record book.

Good luck at your next stop and hope karma is a bitch a-hole!

Please keep all game chatter in this thread.

Getting the start Sunday for the Jets

We finally have a little insight from the USF end on what is going on with ADMK and the USF football coaching search. Kelly is casting a much wider net than he did the last time and it wasn't that it was super small last time, he is just being much more thorough with the search this time. A high-level USF source let us know that ADMK has spoken to over a dozen potential coaches about the vacant head coaching spot at USF.

Chief among those targets is... Deion Sanders. There is mutual interest in the job. Sanders could help fill the financial void, stimulate fan and media interest in the Bulls, and increase the program's profile when there could be an opportunity to jump on a liferaft out of the AAC by quickly fixing things and dominating the program. With Deion there are strings attached and a little bit of sketchy history as was bought up with the Prime Prep Academy by old "friend" of the program Brett McMurphy. I don't see that being a huge stumbling block. Prime's apparel and additional endorsements are another possible sticking point, but the businesses he works with would likely figure it out to get a piece of the action of a higher-profile job for Prime. His son even has some key endorsements and getting Shedeur Sanders into school as the QB would be the biggest dealbreaker, but from what I've gathered that is not an issue for USF. Sanders wants to be a major city preferably a NFL one with a strong recruiting base. USF would be a great move to strengthen his NFL resume and the money he could generate and excitement would counter concerns over his level of experience as a HC. Sanders would likely need some NIL commitment from USF's boosters before he signed off on coming as well.

Sanders is involved with USF and Colorado, but the Buffs seem to be leaning toward Bronco Mendenhall the ex-BYU and ex-UVA coach who is ready to be back in the game. He is a better fit there.

So who are the other 11-12-13 people that ADMK spoke with? I will assume Jon Gruden is at least a conversation, Willie Simmons should be at least a phone call and why not give Larry Scott a ring. Tom Herman makes sense as well. I'm working on getting confirmation on who he spoke with, but we wanted to share this with you.