Auman Quotes McCullum and Calhoun

[Velcro]

Right on Pulpit.  Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore... we will have a new coach soon, and then everyone can ***** and moan about him too.

[Joe]

While I'm kinda suprised he said that I'm glad he did. Here's the thing.

This job is what **** Vitale said it was. The toughest in the country.

We have 12 teams in our 16 team conference that put basketball firstand USF is going into a war with only a couple swords and no shields.

I think people need to understand that this was a lose lose situation at the spending level we were at. If I were told about the BE move and the fact that it might take a couple years to spend at the level of the other teams, why would I take a job thats almost guarenteed to impeed my career?

RMC now is going to have to work his way back into a coaching position, starting all over. So no. I don't have a problem with him saying that.

[Guest JulmisteForPrez]

Well, you guys are free to take his words any way you want.

It really doesn't bother me.

I and a whole lot of others will take it as just another sign that he was a poor hire from day one.

[flsportsfan83]

I wish he would have known we were going to the Big East. he dug us a deep hole.

[BullyPulpit]

I think you all are missing the point. The hole was dug before he could even get into the job. Having the budget and facilities of a mid-major (maybe even a low mid-major) at the time he took the job was a tremendous hole, as he would have been playing in a high mid-major conference. CRM took the job as he was up to the challenge. The HOLE grew larger as the Bulls moved to the Big East. Sprinkle in some injuries and a death and the program sunk a little deeper.

CRM probably made some recruiting moves that he wouldn't have normally made (or had to for that matter) due to the ever growing hole his program was in. Unfortunately for him (and for us) those moves turned out poorly (i.e. the kid from New York who got kicked off the team) and thus the hole grew even deeper.

Think of it like a hand of Texas Hold 'Em. You are short stacked and absolutely dominated by everyone else at the table. You get a pair of pocket 5's. You know you have a 50/50 or 40/60 chance of surviving the hand, but if you fold, you most likely are going to go away without much of a fight. So, you go all-in and hope to double up. If you are successful, your situtation changes and you are not forced to take as big of risks in subsquent hands. However, if you lose the hand, you are done. That is the situation CRM was in. He went all in on pocket 5's and our opponents were holding pocket Aces.

[flsportsfan83]

what was the flop Bully pit?

A A 7

[Held_AccountaBull]

theres a reason mccullum is still unemployed, he's not head coaching material

[BullyPulpit]

;D.....something like that.

But fl83, do me a favor and tell me the coach at the time we were hiring in 2003 that was a no-brainer that we passed on and would have definitely had this program in a better position. That is the way you have to judge a coach and a program, based upon reality, not some fantasy world where we can compete with some incredible programs right out of the gate.

[flsportsfan83]

to be honest my first year at USF was CRM'f sirst. I didn't follow USF basketball closely. I did though know who Seth was because Hank Goldberg had him on the air down there a few times. Many thought Seth would coach at UM.

[Triple B]

Who in the right mind wouldn't want to be in a BCS conference.

Well, so far, Ford, Pelphrey, Marshall and Grant have indicated they're not in their right mind ..... Did I miss anybody?