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What is USF's "Main Thing"?

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http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/11/19/7245005/college-football-coach-hot-seat-avoidance

 

 

Coaches are hired to win a bunch of football games.

Well, yeah, except not exactly. Studies show that on average, coaches lose approximately half of their football games every year, and only one of 128 at the top level wins the national title. Winning games is hard. Every coach you go against spends 110 hours a week trying not to get fired, just like you do.

The secret is that your job isn't just to win a bunch of football games. It's to win enough football games and do a few other things in order to allow the Main Thing to happen.

Each school has a different Main Thing, and it's up to you to figure out what your school's Main Thing is. The people at the school won't tell you, because they may not want to admit it or even realize it, but it's there.

At Nebraska, for example, the Main Thing is to make the fans feel like it can one day be the 1990s again....

 

Parody article, but still made me think... what is USF's "Main Thing"?

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I think this nails it.    To live out the "we can compete with anyone, anywhere, any time" mantra. The average ideal USF year is one where we beat UCF, we win a big non-conference game that we shoul

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Slow clap  ...this is 100% accurate lol

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USF's main thing is to be USF. And by that, USF is almost a verb like "Clemsoning" is a verb, under the definition that USF manages to shoot itself in the foot at the most inconvenient times, often se

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http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/11/19/7245005/college-football-coach-hot-seat-avoidance

 

 

Coaches are hired to win a bunch of football games.

Well, yeah, except not exactly. Studies show that on average, coaches lose approximately half of their football games every year, and only one of 128 at the top level wins the national title. Winning games is hard. Every coach you go against spends 110 hours a week trying not to get fired, just like you do.

The secret is that your job isn't just to win a bunch of football games. It's to win enough football games and do a few other things in order to allow the Main Thing to happen.

Each school has a different Main Thing, and it's up to you to figure out what your school's Main Thing is. The people at the school won't tell you, because they may not want to admit it or even realize it, but it's there.

At Nebraska, for example, the Main Thing is to make the fans feel like it can one day be the 1990s again....

 

Parody article, but still made me think... what is USF's "Main Thing"?

last game it seemed like chop blocks

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http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/11/19/7245005/college-football-coach-hot-seat-avoidance

 

 

Coaches are hired to win a bunch of football games.

Well, yeah, except not exactly. Studies show that on average, coaches lose approximately half of their football games every year, and only one of 128 at the top level wins the national title. Winning games is hard. Every coach you go against spends 110 hours a week trying not to get fired, just like you do.

The secret is that your job isn't just to win a bunch of football games. It's to win enough football games and do a few other things in order to allow the Main Thing to happen.

Each school has a different Main Thing, and it's up to you to figure out what your school's Main Thing is. The people at the school won't tell you, because they may not want to admit it or even realize it, but it's there.

At Nebraska, for example, the Main Thing is to make the fans feel like it can one day be the 1990s again....

 

Parody article, but still made me think... what is USF's "Main Thing"?

Party like it's 2007.

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http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/11/19/7245005/college-football-coach-hot-seat-avoidance

 

 

Coaches are hired to win a bunch of football games.

Well, yeah, except not exactly. Studies show that on average, coaches lose approximately half of their football games every year, and only one of 128 at the top level wins the national title. Winning games is hard. Every coach you go against spends 110 hours a week trying not to get fired, just like you do.

The secret is that your job isn't just to win a bunch of football games. It's to win enough football games and do a few other things in order to allow the Main Thing to happen.

Each school has a different Main Thing, and it's up to you to figure out what your school's Main Thing is. The people at the school won't tell you, because they may not want to admit it or even realize it, but it's there.

At Nebraska, for example, the Main Thing is to make the fans feel like it can one day be the 1990s again....

 

Parody article, but still made me think... what is USF's "Main Thing"?

last game it seemed like chop blocks

 

 

Well then, we are successful!! :D

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Party like it's 2007.

 

 

I think this nails it. 

 

To live out the "we can compete with anyone, anywhere, any time" mantra. The average ideal USF year is one where we beat UCF, we win a big non-conference game that we shouldn't have, lose a petty game we shouldn't have, say we were "THIS CLOSE", and go to a slightly above average bowl game. And then we're fired up about next year. 

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Party like it's 2007.

 

 

I think this nails it. 

 

To live out the "we can compete with anyone, anywhere, any time" mantra. The average ideal USF year is one where we beat UCF, we win a big non-conference game that we shouldn't have, lose a petty game we shouldn't have, say we were "THIS CLOSE", and go to a slightly above average bowl game. And then we're fired up about next year. 

 

 

Slow clap :applause: ...this is 100% accurate lol

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To be considered part of the "Florida Four" in every sport [as well as in academics and research].

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Party like it's 2007.

I think this nails it.

To live out the "we can compete with anyone, anywhere, any time" mantra. The average ideal USF year is one where we beat UCF, we win a big non-conference game that we shouldn't have, lose a petty game we shouldn't have, say we were "THIS CLOSE", and go to a slightly above average bowl game. And then we're fired up about next year.

Slow clap :applause: ...this is 100% accurate lol

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To be considered part of the "Florida Four" in every sport [as well as in academics and research].

I saw a billboard the other day that said "#1 MBA in Florida!"

 

The fine print on it was...part-time among public schools

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Party like it's 2007.

 

 

I think this nails it. 

 

To live out the "we can compete with anyone, anywhere, any time" mantra. The average ideal USF year is one where we beat UCF, we win a big non-conference game that we shouldn't have, lose a petty game we shouldn't have, say we were "THIS CLOSE", and go to a slightly above average bowl game. And then we're fired up about next year. 

 

Perfect

 

 

Also, I loved that article. Read that from twitter this morning, funny stuff (but also pretty true)

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