20240822 USF Football luncheon with AD Mike Kelly and HC Alex Golesh

everything I mean team USF we're all together all all 21 of our sports are working together our cheerleading squad is working together our dance squad I we want two national champions from cheerleading all the tropies you talked about uh right there but yeah football is the drum beat of this athletic department it's the revenue source of this athletic department all of us Prosper when football does well so when you see crowds like this when you see uh increasing U you know donors numbers increasing the number of people supporting our name image and likeness it's all feeding itself to make sure that our Bulls are as good as they possibly can be man Year everybody goes Who's Alex goldach now everybody goes how's USF going to keep it you made a great move there and with Coach Amir how important is it to get it right coaches are important obviously they're the most important thing they're the CEOs of our respective programs I mean I'm friends with all the GMS here in town for professional sports they have huge jobs they worry about one team I've got 21 of them right and so we've got GMS basically the hir great coaches that are building real authentic relationships with their players they know sport obviously but they also know how we're adapting in these college times to very unique circumstances so they have to have those relationships they lead with love they lead with accountability and it's paying off so I'm just really proud of our head coaching roster from top to bottom at Team USF last question thank you for your time we saw what happened at the evening Center when it got packed at the end with far Atlantic when you put 68,000 in that Stadium yeah it gets wild doesn't it oh it does you could feel it everywhere with the England Center B pack as it was we've seen it historically uh at Raymond James Stadium I think some many people tell me the loudest they've ever heard it was when we beat West Virginia in that game and ended up being coming number two in the country so it's been done before it can be done again you can see the momentum building and uh can't wait for bu Nation to support this program not only uh with Pon cookman coming up on August 31st then we got Miami a couple weeks later we got to pack the house for that and then we got a huge huge Friday night game in conference against Memphis in October we'll get to that when we get closer thank with all the successes you guys have had coach a whole different vibe and expectation this year as opposed to last year how do you and your staff and your guys dealing with yeah we've talked a lot about expectations in general uh there there's always going to be expectations that people think that you're going to do something for us it's go right back to where we were when today worry about today worry about us being the best version of ourselves today and it's good to have expect since a year ago everybody thought we were we weren't very good now people think we're somebody you just attack your process every day and none of that really matters and and it's I understand it's hard to do when you're young it's hard to do when you're you're our age but that's what we challenge our guys to do daily and that's what we demand daily wor about today coach two years ago they were giving away tickets for this now you can't get enough tickets to get in here how important is it to have that alumni support it's huge and especially nowadays with with nil the way it is and and the this next Frontier of Revenue sharing and all these things that we're going into it's huge to generate generate Revenue the alumni base is a huge part of that and um it's really really important to us I'm glad people care our job now is to put a product on the K people can be proud [Applause] [Music] of 1 2 1 1 2 3