The Day USF Football Died

[Hem]

I know some of you don't have the best feelings toward VoodooFive, but this is too good/sad/enraging/upsetting/ingenious not to share. Reader beware, this one may get you right in the feels.

@VoodooFiveSBN: The Voodoo Five Eulogies: USF vs. Miami 2012, or The Day The Football Died. We wrote a song! http://t.co/8uxSp49FXL

SOUTH FLORIDA PIE

(sung to the tune of "American Pie" by Don McLean)

A long, long time ago

I can still remember how that football used to make me smile

And I knew if they had their chance

That they could make Bulls Country dance

And maybe not be crappy for a while

But late November made me shiver

With every blog post I'd deliver

Bad news on the website

I couldn't take one more night

I can't remember if I cried

When I read about "the Big East died"

But something touched me deep inside

The day the football died

So bye-bye, Miss South Florida Pie

Skip repeated "we competed", but the pipeline was dry

Them good old boys were waving winning goodbye

Singin' "This'll be the day that I die

This'll be the day that I die"

Did you root for AJ Love

And did you have faith in the Bulls above

If Jim Leavitt told you so?

Now do you live in green and gold

Can Taggart save your mortal soul

And can you teach me how to play real slow?

Well, I knew Skip was in love with him

'Cause he burned his redshirt nine games in

Bobby put on his shoes

A quarter later, had the injury blues

We shared a first-rate stadium with the Bucs

Our program growing and full of pluck

But we knew we were out of luck

The day the football died

I started singin' bye-bye, Miss South Florida Pie

Skip repeated "we competed", but the pipeline was dry

Them good old boys were waving winning goodbye

Singin' "This'll be the day that I die

This'll be the day that I die"

Now for two years we've been on our own

And loss grows fat on a rollin' stone

But that's not how it used to be

When the sellouts cheered for the gold and green

Songs borrowed from Rage Against The Machine

And a voice that came from you and me

Oh, and while the team was looking down

O'Leary stole their thorny crown

The courtroom was adjourned

No verdict was returned

And while Skip became a hopeless mark

We practiced field goals in the park

And we sang dirges in the dark

The day the football died

We were singin' bye-bye, Miss South Florida Pie

Skip repeated "we competed", but the pipeline was dry

Them good old boys were waving winning goodbye

Singin' "This'll be the day that I die

This'll be the day that I die"

Helter skelter in Miami swelter

The Bulls were stuck with no fallout shelter

16 points down and falling fast

The fumbles landed on the grass

The defense couldn't stop the forward pass

And BJ Daniels on the sidelines in a cast

Now the halftime air was complete doom

While the Band of the Hour played some old tune

We were all in a trance

And then we lost our shining chance

'Cause Big Ten expansion was revealed

Rutgers left to join their field

Our fate as also-rans was sealed

The day the football died

We were singin' bye-bye, Miss South Florida Pie

Skip repeated "we competed", but the pipeline was dry

Them good old boys were waving winning goodbye

Singin' "This'll be the day that I die

This'll be the day that I die"

Oh, and there they were all in one place

A coaching staff just lost in space

With no time left to start again

So come on, Doug be nimble, Doug be quick

Skip Holtz' coaching makes me sick

'Cause "fire" is the era's only end

Oh, and as I watched him leave the stage

My hands were clenched in fists of rage

No angel born in Hell

Could make Matt Floyd play well.

And as the points climbed high into the night

To light the scoreboard big and bright

I saw Al Golden laughing with delight

The day the football died

We were singin' bye-bye, Miss South Florida Pie

Skip repeated "we competed", but the pipeline was dry

Them good old boys were waving winning goodbye

Singin' "This'll be the day that I die

This'll be the day that I die"

I knew a man who leaked the blues

And I asked him for some happy news

But he just smiled and turned away

I went down to the sacred store

Where we'd beaten Pat White years before

But the man there said the football wouldn't play

And in the stands, the boosters screamed

The Sun Dolls cried and the players dreamed

But not a word was spoken

The program had been broken

And the three men we disliked the most

Doug and Bill and the coach Skip Holtz

They drank a contract extension toast

The day the football died

And they were singin' bye-bye, Miss South Florida Pie

Skip repeated "we competed", but the pipeline was dry

Them good old boys were waving winning goodbye

Singin' "This'll be the day that I die

This'll be the day that I die"

They were singin' bye-bye, Miss South Florida Pie

Skip repeated "we competed", but the pipeline was dry

Them good old boys were waving winning goodbye

Singin' "This'll be the day that I die"

Edited August 21, 2014 by Hem

[Bullschmutz]

Wow, thats long.

[bullsbucsfan426]

I was there that day. God, it was painful. 

 

But I disagree. 

 

Because that's the day USF athletics admitted it had a problem. A real problem. And step one to the problem was addressed...the USF administration and boosters saw what was happening...and less than a month later, USF football started curing it's own cancers.

 

Is there any guarantee that Willie Taggart is going to be successful? No, there is no guarantee. But I see from him things I never saw from Skip Holtz. He went out and pounded the recruiting trail for months trying to get the best players he could. No, it's not likely he'll ever get the player a caliber of a Sean Price of a Ryne Giddens out of high school. But it's not expected of him because of the conference situation we're in (if we were in the Big 12 or ACC, I would expect him to land those types of players). But he will get the quality players who will populate our depth chart and ensure we will always have a fair shot against P5 schools. 

 

He works HARD! Skip played Golf. The program reenergized itself and it's very clear coaches are held accountable for their actions and their words. Taggart would never have hired a Chris Cosh. When we had the utter crap last year on the o-line and offense, he let Walt Wells go and put Reaves in charge. He grabbed a P5 level WR coach, one of the very best in the country and a talented South Florida recruiter. 

 

I was reading last year observations from another Florida coach about USF playing UConn. The coach's opinion is that USF was an 0-12 team last year and that the team was playing well above it's talent level. I'm inclined to agree seeing how things turned out with Michigan State (who ended up winning a Rose bowl, while we hung with them for most of the game). We just didn't have winners. Now we do.

 

Don't sleep on Taggart. He could very well take us to heights we haven't seen before, and sustain them.

[raptorcj]

Wow, that guy needs the football season to start tomorrow!

[GaUSFBull]

Two thoughts:

 

1) that is an ungodly long song

 

2) USF football died a LOT of days

 

Clever, though.  My favorite stanza:

 

Well, I knew Skip was in love with him
'Cause he burned his redshirt nine games in
Bobby put on his shoes
A quarter later, had the injury blues

[Johaan]

Quite well done. Hoping for a rebirth this season. 

[SpeedyBull]

USF football is not dead, it may not be prominent but it is not dead. 

[Skingraft]

Not dead, just kicked in the sack is all

[Bear]

I was there that day. God, it was painful. 

 

But I disagree. 

 

Because that's the day USF athletics admitted it had a problem. A real problem. And step one to the problem was addressed...the USF administration and boosters saw what was happening...and less than a month later, USF football started curing it's own cancers.

 

Is there any guarantee that Willie Taggart is going to be successful? No, there is no guarantee. But I see from him things I never saw from Skip Holtz. He went out and pounded the recruiting trail for months trying to get the best players he could. No, it's not likely he'll ever get the player a caliber of a Sean Price of a Ryne Giddens out of high school. But it's not expected of him because of the conference situation we're in (if we were in the Big 12 or ACC, I would expect him to land those types of players). But he will get the quality players who will populate our depth chart and ensure we will always have a fair shot against P5 schools. 

 

He works HARD! Skip played Golf. The program reenergized itself and it's very clear coaches are held accountable for their actions and their words. Taggart would never have hired a Chris Cosh. When we had the utter crap last year on the o-line and offense, he let Walt Wells go and put Reaves in charge. He grabbed a P5 level WR coach, one of the very best in the country and a talented South Florida recruiter. 

 

I was reading last year observations from another Florida coach about USF playing UConn. The coach's opinion is that USF was an 0-12 team last year and that the team was playing well above it's talent level. I'm inclined to agree seeing how things turned out with Michigan State (who ended up winning a Rose bowl, while we hung with them for most of the game). We just didn't have winners. Now we do.

 

Don't sleep on Taggart. He could very well take us to heights we haven't seen before, and sustain them.

 

 

 

thank you.

[Triple B]

USF football is not dead, it may not be prominent but it is not dead.

Egg-zactly ... and Hem, for those of us who don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling about VD5, this is a classic example of why. Little over a week to a brand new season, one that, on paper, has put hope into a lot of fans's hearts and the Negative Nancies, over there dredge up stupid ******** like this now. All college football programs go through cycles and we're in the midst of one now .... I need to find that graphic about the spoiled teenagers.

But if you HAVE to bury USF football and need to put a date of death on the certificate, that date would be January 8, 2010.