Fire Coach Scott

[Sk00b]

18 minutes ago, bowman1 said:

Bumping the thread based on our 4th and 1 play

****... 4 and 1 wasnt the issue. It was giving up a 40 yard run with the backup QB in. Wtf do you think they are going to do...???

That being said, Good ******* game Bulls! Best game in a long ass time.

[sparkybull]

im sure theyre figuring out how to run the offense better now 

probably wont be enough to win much of anything this season but maybe next year we'll win like 2 games or something special

[Orlando Bull]

If I am MK, here is what I am evaluating for the rest of the season.

What's next. We put up a big fight against UF, and honestly should have won that game. The next week, we were back to the base line for what Scott has given us. Was the UF game a start to turning the corner, or, did the players just elevate themselves because of the emotion of that game.

Same applies next game. Will the team that took Cincy and UF to the wire show up, or, will the ECU/Ville team show up? If it's the latter, I don't know how you can keep this coach. He has a team that is at least capable of being competitive with good teams, but he is unable to get them prepared and motivated for more than a couple of games. A good coach would have also won at least 1 of those 2 games (UF or Cincy), but forget about that for the moment, I am really interested in what our next game looks like.

I have a hunch that our players are better than they are being coached, and when they are motivated, they can put together a decent game. But, there is nothing motivational about this coach and staff, so they show up and get their brains beat in most weeks.

 

On another note, is it true that Scott's buyout is less than $200k? If so, if I was MK, he would be gone today.

https://sports.betmgm.com/en/blog/college-football/what-is-jeff-scotts-buyout-fired-south-florida-bm01/#:~:text=What is Jeff Scott USF,17%2C 2020.

[TExpress]

31 minutes ago, Orlando Bull said:

If I am MK, here is what I am evaluating for the rest of the season.

What's next. We put up a big fight against UF, and honestly should have won that game. The next week, we were back to the base line for what Scott has given us. Was the UF game a start to turning the corner, or, did the players just elevate themselves because of the emotion of that game.

Same applies next game. Will the team that took Cincy and UF to the wire show up, or, will the ECU/Ville team show up? If it's the latter, I don't know how you can keep this coach. He has a team that is at least capable of being competitive with good teams, but he is unable to get them prepared and motivated for more than a couple of games. A good coach would have also won at least 1 of those 2 games (UF or Cincy), but forget about that for the moment, I am really interested in what our next game looks like.

I have a hunch that our players are better than they are being coached, and when they are motivated, they can put together a decent game. But, there is nothing motivational about this coach and staff, so they show up and get their brains beat in most weeks.

 

On another note, is it true that Scott's buyout is less than $200k? If so, if I was MK, he would be gone today.

https://sports.betmgm.com/en/blog/college-football/what-is-jeff-scotts-buyout-fired-south-florida-bm01/#:~:text=What is Jeff Scott USF,17%2C 2020.

The school would owe him less than 200k. What the USF Foundation would owe him isn't known as that is not made public.

[Brad]

It’s mind boggling that we could hire someone with no experience in the role and yet somehow be on the hook for millions of dollars to him..

That should force a look inward, at ourselves.  

[Orlando Bull]

7 minutes ago, Brad said:

It’s mind boggling that we could hire someone with no experience in the role and yet somehow be on the hook for millions of dollars to him..

That should force a look inward, at ourselves.  

The whole system is brutal. You need to have a coach extended out for recruiting purposes, but it creates the crazy buyouts that coaches aren't worth. I would love to see USF pioneer some other way to do this. Maybe a buyout based on wins... i.e. - Coach Scott gets $100k per year left on his contract, plus $100k per win he has brought to the program. So, someone like Taggart would have owed USF a good amount and it is warranted for his new school and helps USF recover and find another coach, but someone like Scott who has been awful here wouldn't be owed very much on top of a minimum amount of base salary. Something has to give, I know the well is running dry, but you can't keep marching out a terrible product, or the revenue stream will continue getting smaller and smaller.

I didn't like Strong, and I am glad we fired him, but his teams would have likely produced more than 4 wins in the last 2+ years. We can't keep looking for signs of life with this staff, there is very little evidence to suggest that they can turn it around.

[DELdaBull]

12 minutes ago, Brad said:

It’s mind boggling that we could hire someone with no experience in the role and yet somehow be on the hook for millions of dollars to him..

That should force a look inward, at ourselves.  

If my math is right we will owe this guy 8M or so after this season. Mind boggling indeed. 

That's why I say, "If VPoA Mike Kelly wants to fire Scott this season (or next) he better turn in his resignation immediately afterwards. That extension was nonsensical."

Let's see what happens.  

[olafberserker]

30 minutes ago, DELdaBull said:

If my math is right we will owe this guy 8M or so after this season. Mind boggling indeed. 

That's why I say, "If VPoA Mike Kelly wants to fire Scott this season (or next) he better turn in his resignation immediately afterwards. That extension was nonsensical."

Let's see what happens.  

I can't imagine that the extension added significant dollars to the buyout

[bullstampede9922]

32 minutes ago, olafberserker said:

I can't imagine that the extension added significant dollars to the buyout

I think it was posted somewhere here that there was no "raise", just basically extending another year for current rate of pay.  Some still like to dangle the extension argument like Kelly gave him a raise for a losing record. 

[Bull Nut]

Matt Rhule just became available.