USF-Notre Dame game moved to Oct. 2011
For all of you who somehow booked travel to South Bend, Ind., for USF's football game at Notre Dame in 2011: Hopefully those reservations can be tweaked a little, with a few years' notice. The game's date has been moved from Nov. 19 to Oct. 1 to accommodate NBC's broadcast of the President's Cup golf tournament, USF said in a news release Wednesday.
The schedule change means the Bulls won't have to face Notre Dame and Miami on back-to-back weeks, though the Irish will now likely come right after USF's Big East opener, which is traditionally the final week in September.
-- An interesting potential addition to the football roster: Troy Kelly, a linebacker from Arcadia who enrolled at Central Florida last spring but left the program after one semester, plans on applying for enrollment at USF so he can join the Bulls as a walk-on this fall.
Kelly, 6-foot-2 and 240 pounds, said he was offered a scholarship by USF out of high school and called linebackers coach Wally Burnham when he decided he wanted to return to football. He took classes last fall at South Florida Community College, where he's enrolled this spring, and said he was optimistic about his chances of getting into USF.
"I didn't like UCF like I thought I would," said Kelly, who would have played weakside linebacker for the Knights.
Kelly had 116 tackles and four forced fumbles as a senior at DeSoto County High, where coach Gary Morton said he showed signs of being a solid college player.
"He was a great player for us, the leader of our defense," Morton said. "He can run, can hit, can do everything out there."
Times sportswriter Greg Auman, who covers USF, will post news and thoughts on the Bulletin and we invite your participation in the comments area.
Well, that stinks. While up in Indiana I was thinking of planning a trip to Bloomington to catch a Hoosiers game. That would have been a trip full of history.
Posted by: Miles Lamoureux | January 30, 2008 at 05:17 PM
It is probably god sent.
The difference in temps between a game on October 1st and November 19 is probably 40 degrees.
Instead of feeling like you are 5 miles south of the North Pole, it should feel like a nice fall day.
If you though Uconn was cold, you aint see nothin like South Bend in the middle of November.
I thought i was going to die.
Posted by: Ari Hinkelberger | January 30, 2008 at 05:34 PM
Whatever higher power you believe in, I'd like to think he has more pressing matters than adjusting USF's 2011 schedule. That said, it does improve the weather considerably.
Posted by: G.A. | January 30, 2008 at 05:43 PM
Greg, My god has nothing more important than that! :)
Posted by: SailingBull | January 30, 2008 at 06:07 PM
Greg, on your thoughts about the higher power. If he did adjust it, trust me it wasn't for USF. It was for ND.
Posted by: JoeB | January 30, 2008 at 07:22 PM
Jesus being an only child, he tends to look out for the younger programs... if you know what a I mean.
Posted by: Ari Hinkelberger | January 30, 2008 at 08:48 PM
ucf transfers = USF walk-ons
It should be warmer in Indiana so we should play better, glad they moved it.
Posted by: Tom | January 30, 2008 at 09:52 PM
Well said, JoeB.
Posted by: G.A. | January 30, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Noooo.... He wanted to transfer to USF from UCF.... I can't believe that ;-) LOL.
Posted by: andres | January 30, 2008 at 10:55 PM
Well he is married, lets hope his wife types faster.
Posted by: stephen | January 30, 2008 at 11:03 PM