WVU-USF Preview: Shooting The Bulls With Lou Holth

Woah-ho-ho! What are you saying here? I was so afraid of that quarterback, Corporal Harris, that I designed my entire defensive game plan around stopping him. But to suggest I had my guys take him out on the third play of the game? Now I would ne-heh-heh-hever do thomething like that. You thee what kind of impact losing a quarterback has had on my son Skip's team...

TSM: Thanks for bringing us back to the game at hand. BJ Daniels got hurt in the Miami game and didn't play at all against Louisville. USF lost both of those games. Can the Bulls win without him?

That'th a great point. EJ Daniels is an outthanding afflete. He can run and he can pass and he can throw. You just never know which one he's going to pick! He makes that offense superdimentional, and that's hard for one guy to do. YOU ETH EFF is going to have to play really well on defense if it wants to win this game with out CJ Danels.

TSM: Daniels isn't the only Bull that is questionable due to injury. Receivers AJ Love and Sterling Griffin have been hurt, and the defensive secondary has been decimated as well, although Griffin may be back. How should USF game plan in light of these injuries?

You're athking me how I would go about it? Everything thtarts with defense. The Bulls have an all-thtar defensive line, and they have to get pressure on the WVU quarterback. They have to get thacks. They have to get thtops. They have to cause intertheptions. On offense, it all depends on whether DJ Daniels plays. If you have to go to the backup, you let him manage the game and hope your running game works. But if PJ Daniels is healthy, he opens up the options I talked about earlier.

TSM: How far has USF come under Skip, and how far do they have to go to be an elite program?

Other than TJ Daniels and a couple of the defensive linemen, the Bulls are a long way from being a great program. They're 2 hours from Miami, 2 and a half from Gainesville, and probably 3 from Tallahassee. And golly, they're at least 1200 miles from South Bend. If that's not far enough away from greatness, I don't know what to tell ya.

TSM: Well, give us a prediction for the game. Can USF keep this one close, or will the Mountaineers run the Bulls out of the stadium?

Last question, then I have to go give the team a pep talk. GJ Daniels is going to play the game of his life. A hundred and theventy yards passing and three touchdowns and thixty yards and another touchdown rushing. The Bullth are going to harrath Geno Thmith into theveral intertheptions and win the turnover battle. Smith is good, but he's no VJ Daniels. YOU ETH EFF thirty theven, WVU thixteen. ZJ Daniels is the MVP.