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It feels so good to be baaaaaaaack. The Bulluminati Podcast is live from The Patio in downtown Tampa for our first 2019 football season podcast. Nathan Bond, Collin Sherwin, and Robert Steeg welcome our newest sponsor, Matrix Hormones and Dr. Eddie Leonard; and new writer Seth Varnadore to the pod as we talk about the upcoming opener vs. Wisconsin. 0:00: Intros! And we welcome our newest sponsor Matrix Hormones from friend of the blog, Eddie Leonard! 4:53: UNC TRANSFER KJ SAILS IS IMMEDIATELY ELIGIBLE AND WE CAN’T STOP YELLING. #813island9:36: On the flippety-flop, MLB Nico Sawtelle is out indefinitely; how does that affect this game and season? 11:30: Let’s talk about the USF defense vs. the Wisconsin offense.23:00: Let’s talk about that shiny new USF offense!42:32: What’s the one stat that leads to a USF victory?46:12: We take some #AskTDS questions from the audience!55:31: Wisconsin predictions and athletics round-up!See you at Ray Jay! ((Tropical Storm // Hurricane Dorian is currently slated to hit Florida and cross the state, so be sure to be prepared and stay safe!))Don’t forget to subscribe and listen to the podcast on our host site Soundcloud, one of these apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, Castbox, or your favorite podcast provider. You can also listen in the embed player below. While you’re listening, take a moment to rate us five stars, leave a positive review, and tell your friends! If you sub, you’ll be the first to know when there’s a new upload so it pays to subscribe.

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“There’s no fear of failure.” Kerwin Bell joins Nathan Bond and Collin Sherwin in a special interview on the Bulluminati Podcast just ahead of fall camp. Coach Bell answered all questions and was a heckuva interview; you definitely do not want to miss this one.0:00: Intros! What’s it like working with Head Coach Charlie Strong and how is team morale been since you’ve come on to the program?3:20: Did you accomplish everything you wanted to during spring practice installing the system? 4:32: What’s the tempo look like?5:43: What players on offense do you see as the most versatile to this offense?9:29: What do you want to fix to alleviate the redzone problems from last season?12:05: Have you noticed a speed difference from the D-II level on Valdosta St. to D-I at USF?13:52: Kade called the plays at Valdosta St., how important was it to bring him to USF? 16:34: What is the one area of improvement do you want to see in fall camp?19:43: What did you see when you looked at film from last season?22:14: Jordan McCloud is the only returning back-up QB; what does the QB room look like with true freshman Jacquez Evans and three walk-ons?24:56: Best old-ball coach story and professional football stories.30:31: How weird is it being an OC after 16 years of being a HC? 32:03: So about this USF to Valdosta St. pipeline.34:01: What was it like backing up Jim Harbaugh? 37:01: Do you have a good enough sense of humor to run a #HBDive first play of the season?Don’t forget to subscribe and listen to the podcast on our host site Soundcloud, one of these apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, Castbox, or your favorite podcast provider. You can also listen in the embed player below. While you’re listening, take a moment to rate us five stars, leave a positive review, and tell your friends! If you sub, you’ll be the first to know when there’s a new upload so it pays to subscribe.

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Nathan Bond invites Brian Murphy from the recently acquired SBNation site Black & Gold Banneret to talk AAC Media Days, the 2019 season for UCF, UConn leaving the conference, and more. See guys, we can get along! 0:00: Is lobster in the shell overrated? (ed note: It’s not.)1:25: Final thoughts on AAC Media Day. Did lack of an overall conference star temper support?5:10: With the injury to QB Darriel Mack, Jr. reported earlier this week, what does the starting QB race look like for UCF?6:41: What unit are you most worried about for the 2019 season? Who do you see as a breakout player on the offense? 11:40: Thoughts on the conference media poll.16:24: Thoughts on UConn leaving the American for the Big East and the official end of the Civil ConFLiCT.20:38: Michael Kelly floated a potential April 2020 ground breaking date on the Football Center. Thoughts?22:32: How has the move to SBNation been for Black & Gold Banneret?This concludes our AAC Media Day coverage from Newport, R.I. Make sure to listen to all five podcasts from Nathan Bond and Andrew Pina to be caught up on the latest before fall camp starts on August 1st. Don’t forget to subscribe and listen to the podcast on our host site Soundcloud, one of these apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, Castbox, or your favorite podcast provider. You can also listen in the embed player below. While you’re listening, take a moment to rate us five stars, leave a positive review, and tell your friends! If you sub, you’ll be the first to know when there’s a new upload so it pays to subscribe.

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Vice President of Athletics Michael Kelly sits down with Nathan and Andrew at AAC Media Days for his third time on the podcast. (We think that’s a record for special guests.)0:00: How was AAC Media Days been so far and what are the plans for the conference with UConn leaving for the Big East. How does losing a program with no replacement affect conference scheduling? 3:46: What’s the update on the Football Center and what are the plans for the immediate future in financing? (P.S. It’s not just an IPF, and helps out the entire Athletic Department.)9:16: What’s the feel around the football program with the coaching changes after the bowl game?11:57: Being the former COO of the CFP, what’s their perception of the American vs. the other G5 conferences and P5?13:00: Do we anticipate opening the third level of RayJay for the Wisconsin game? 14:12: What was the process of your first coaching change and bringing in Erik Johnson to the track and field program? What do you think of Baseball Coach Billy Mohl’s coaching changes? 21:09: What are your initial reactions to new President Steve Currall?22:12: Men’s Basketball is about to make it’s trip to Montreal, what’s it like for the program to make that trip as student-athletes?We’ll have a bunch of content over the next couple of days while the guys are covering the event, so make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn on twitter notifications for The Daily Stampede to make sure you don’t miss a thing!Don’t forget to subscribe and listen to the podcast on our host site Soundcloud, one of these apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, Castbox, or your favorite podcast provider. You can also listen in the embed player below. While you’re listening, take a moment to rate us five stars, leave a positive review, and tell your friends! If you sub, you’ll be the first to know when there’s a new upload so it pays to subscribe.

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Head Coach Charlie Strong sits down with Nathan Bond at AAC Media Days0:00: How many lobsters did you eat? How has Media0:26: What’s your relationship with new Offensive Coordinator Kerwin Bell and what do you expect from the new offense?1:57: Do you feel the locker room is in a much better place than it was at the bowl game?5:47: What’s the QB situation like behind Blake Barnett? How is Nico Sawtelle’s health?8:17: How much of an immediate impact do you expect from the defensive transfers? 10:17: What’s the status of Terrance Horne’s ACL injury?11:06: How important is to have your leaders healthy going into the 2019 season?12:57: With Geoff Collins at Georgia Tech, how do you prepare for a team going through a full offensive philosophical change?13:59: What was the end of the season conversation like with Michael Kelly?

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Nathan Bond and Andrew Pina sit down with Blake Barnett, Mitchell Wilcox, Kirk Livingstone, and Greg Reaves at AAC Media Days. Nate asks the players questions like how many lobsters did they eat last night, what’s the locker room like with the coaching changes, what have you been working on in the offseason, what’s your major and what would you like to do if you didn’t play football, and much more!To Blake: What’s the difference with this offseason with a year in the program vs. last year just arriving? What are your thoughts on Kerwin Bell’s offense vs. Sterling Gilbert’s?To Mitch: What’s your favorite play of your USF career?To Kirk: What NFL players do you try to emulate your game after? What impact do you see the new defensive transfers to make?To Greg: Did you ever imagine you’d be here as a walk-on? Do you have a relationship with the other walk-ons on the team? And much more! We’ll have a bunch of content over the next couple of days while the guys are covering the event, so make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn on twitter notifications for The Daily Stampede to make sure you don’t miss a thing!

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Hold on to your butts because #talkinSZN is upon us. We are one step closer to the end of the long offseason with AAC Media Days in Newport, R.I. and the world famous #clambake. Nathan Bond makes the trip from Tampa to break his lobster record from last year and Andrew Pina comes from Toronto, Canada making TWO (2) TDS staffers at the media event.Nathan welcomes Andrew to the pod for the first time in his home state of Rhode Island! The guys talk about Nate’s killer round of golf, the clambake, and the players, coaches, and media members that they have seen on day 1. We’ll have a bunch of content over the next couple of days while the guys are covering the event, so make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn on twitter notifications for The Daily Stampede to make sure you don’t miss a thing! Don’t forget to subscribe and listen to the podcast on our host site Soundcloud, one of these apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, Castbox, or your favorite podcast provider. You can also listen in the embed player below. While you’re listening, take a moment to rate us five stars, leave a positive review, and tell your friends! If you sub, you’ll be the first to know when there’s a new upload so it pays to subscribe.

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We’re just doing this from now on. The latest episode of the Bulluminati Podcast recorded live from The Patio in downtown Tampa welcomes Jose Fernandez to the pod! As always shoutout to Jeffrey Fishman (@USFIronBull) for setting this up and for everyone who came out to hang out with us.0:00: Jose Fernandez joins the pod! The guys talk the insanely awesome non-conference schedule, the two holiday tournaments, women’s basketball postseason seeding, and more!6:55: What’s the biggest difference in the program and the sport you have seen since you were hired in 2000?12:25: The guys talk crootin’, the upcoming class, navigating the Big East break-up, International recruiting, and TOEFFL.22:17: Basketball mathematics and analytics. RPI, NET, rule changes and why the women’s game needs to add analytics that the men’s game uses. 24:50: We talk Jose’s tweets!27:08: Kit Laksa and the transfer portal.32:32: Check-in on the current team’s injuries and what summer tournaments they are involved in. 34:54: Final questions and wrap-up.36:05: We talk the new jerseys, #20Strong check-in, crootin’, Nate #HOTTAKES, details on the Georgia Tech weekend, and we go way off the rails! Don’t forget to subscribe and listen to the podcast on our host site Soundcloud, one of these apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, Castbox, or your favorite podcast provider. You can also listen in the embed player below. While you’re listening, take a moment to rate us five stars, leave a positive review, and tell your friends! If you sub, you’ll be the first to know when there’s a new upload so it pays to subscribe.

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It was so great the first time we decided to do it again! Collin, Nate, Steeg, and Carl record the latest edition of the Bulluminati Podcast live at the Patio with two very special guests. As always shoutout to Jeffrey Fishman (@USFIronBull) for setting this up and for everyone who came out to hang out with us.0:00: Spencer Montgomery from the Greater Tampa Area Alumni Association joins the pod to talk the Fourth Annual Bulls Block Party. (Ed Note: I met Collin at this event two years ago and you just need to do it.)8:31: We welcome Spectrum Sports 360 Sports Reporter and everyone’s favorite twitter personality Chris Torello to the pod! The guys discuss the (twitter) war on I-4, sports media in general, the new American media deal, Chris’ favorite stories covering USF, We think he had fun.50:05: Collin and Nate talk about the Track and Field and Cross Country coaches being fired today. 1:00:01: MLB Draft! 1:04:10: Carl talks about the five players from the Women’s Soccer team who are playing in the World Cup. 1:07:10: We talk to JakobDon’t forget to subscribe and listen to the podcast on our host site Soundcloud, one of these apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, Castbox, or your favorite podcast provider. You can also listen in the embed player below. While you’re listening, take a moment to rate us five stars, leave a positive review, and tell your friends! If you sub, you’ll be the first to know when there’s a new upload so it pays to subscribe.

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Welcome to the Bulluminati Podcast recorded LIVE from the Patio in downtown Tampa where the whole gang is here to welcome special guests Brian Gregory, USF Corgi Race Champion Pippa, and #FOTY Lauren Pickel. Shoutout to Jeffrey Fishman (@USFIronBull) for setting this up and for everyone who came out to hang out with us. 0:00: Intros! Hosts welcome CBI Champion Men’s Basketball Head Coach Brian Gregory to the pod. Coach Gregory talks about the road through the CBI and having the interesting opportunity to play a three game series for a championship.6:44: Was there a moment earlier in the season where you saw it was all coming together?13:14: What’s the status on Laquincy Rideau? 15:44: How does the three-point line moving back affect the guys, and what can we expect from Oklahoma State transfer Zach Dawson?18:27: What’s the next step for the program?20:09: Coach talks about the summer Montreal trip and the non-conference Cayman Islands tournament in November.23:28: Coach talks about the players we haven’t seen yet and recruiting. 26:28: Where do you see this program heading in two to three years? We break the news that this year is zero! 29:30: Get your season tickets now for Tampa Bay’s home for hoops! : But WAIT, there’s MORE! Collin and Nate wrap-up the Brian Gregory interview, talk about the Patio, livecast plans, South Tampa, Bulls Block Party in August, 813area Podcast Network’s Dishonorable Mention and Ralph the Lawyer shameless plugs and more! Senator Giggity, Robert Steeg, and CARL join the pod. 38:58: Nate elaborates on the third assistant coach in college baseball and what happened.42:47: Men’s Golf in the NCAA Tournament, country club sports and softball heading to the Tallahassee Regional. 47:19: Pippa on the pod! Pip Pod! Pupcast and #FOTY Lauren Pickel join the pod!48:31: Logo, what is dead may never die. 51:02: Let’s talk scheduling.

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