“ This ain’t the same old South Florida, my brother .” Alex Golesh let those words fly after Nico Gramatica ’s game-winning field goal drilled through the uprights and silenced 90,000 Florida fans in the Swamp. The Bulls handed Billy Napier and DJ Lagway -led Gators a $500,000 gut-punch wrapped in a program-defining upset. And for the third-year USF HC, the tears came from the family and vision that carried him here.
Just a day ago, people would laugh if you picked USF to shut down DJ Lagway after their blowout 55-0 Week 1 dominance over LIU. But the Bulls had belief. “ A bunch of guys that bought into a vision when it probably wasn’t super cool, huh? And they’re just sick of hearing, man, one in whatever, one in whatever, South whatever, ” Alex Golesh said a