It is time for USF Head Football Coach Jim Leavitt to move on. He started the program from scratch and I am very thankful for where he has taken the program, but I don’t think he can take us any further. Too many people are sucked in by his “Ra Ra” attitude and his running sprints across the field during pre-game warm-ups, but the facts speak for themselves!
His teams are immature and undisciplined and when things go bad on the field the players just bitch and complain, instead of stepping it up and taking care of business. The bottom line is that USF is in the Big East, which is without a doubt, the weakest of the BCS Conferences. The Bulls should rule the Big East, but if you can’t take care of your Conference Games, it doesn’t matter what you do. Since joining the Big East in 2005, Leavitt has led his team to a Conference Record of 14-14. That doesn’t get it done.
Coach Leavitt has a career record of 87-52, which is more than respectable. He has a 2-2 Record in Bowl Games and I love that he has guided the team to those games, however coming from a BCS Conference, the Meineke Car Care Bowl, the Papajohns.com Bowl, Sun Bowl and the magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl are not the Bowl Games you want to be playing in. Unfortunately, those are the Bowls you get when you only win half your conference games.
So what will the future bring? Leavitt has a contract through 2014 and this year he ended the intrastate rivalry game with the University of Central Florida, a school located up the street, to move on to bigger and better things. Sure they play Miami next year, but they also play Wofford, Western Kentucky, Florida International and Indiana. How is that bigger and better?