USF (2-2; 1-0 American) at Navy (1-2; 0-1 American)
Saturday, Sept. 30 • 3:30 P.M. • Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (34,000) • Annapolis, Md.
SURFACE: FieldTurf
TV: CBSSN: Jordan Kent (PxP), Randy Cross (Analyst) & Sheehan Stanwick-Burch (Sideline)
AUDIO: 102.5 FM & HD 2/TuneIn – Bulls Limitless
SERIES: Navy leads, 2-1
IN TAMPA: USF leads, 1-0
IN ANNAPOLIS: Navy leads, 2-0
LAST TIME: Navy received, 35-3, in 2019 in Annapolis
VS. AAC: 31-50, eleventh season
AAC ROAD GAMES: 15-25, misplaced 13 straight
Final Win: at ECU, 45-20, in 2019
USF GAME NOTES
Marquel Blackwell, Matt Grothe, B.J. Daniels, Quinton Flowers and … Byroom Brown?
Sure, it is early. However after the primary six begins of Brown’s profession — together with the 4 which have the Bulls at 2-2 (1-0 within the American Athletic Convention), heading into Saturday’s highway check at Navy (1-2, 0-1 AAC) — he is following the lineage of USF quarterback royalty.
Twin-threat. High quality chief. Large-play expertise. Fan favourite.
A few of Brown’s greatest followers are former USF quarterbacks.
“He is very cell, good at throwing on the run in a fast-paced offense, very clever, powerful, acquired a great deep ball,” Daniels stated. “All the pieces I’ve seen from Byrum, I actually like — lots.”
“The child’s a stud,” Grothe stated. “He does no matter it takes to make a play and he makes everybody round him higher due to that. I am excited to look at him proceed to develop.”
Brown (6-foot-3, 213 kilos), who celebrates his nineteenth birthday on Friday, has accounted for 18 touchdowns in his six begins, a USF file over that span. He leads the Soccer Bowl Subdivision in dashing yards for a quarterback (351 yards), and the AAC in dashing general for that matter, and is coming off a 435-yard passing efficiency in opposition to Rice that ranks second all-time in USF historical past. He additionally caught a two-point conversion cross and posted the second-most whole yards (517) in program historical past for good measure.
“He is so, so younger,” stated receiver Naiem Simmonswho set a USF and state of Florida FBS file with 272 receiving yards in opposition to Rice. “And he is so, so good.”
However it’s USF coach Alex Golesh who has the quintessential description of Brown — “tough-ass dude.”
“I am fascinated simply by watching him, what it appears to be like like day-after-day — and day-after-day is best and higher for him as a participant, a pacesetter and a teammate,” Golesh stated. “He is wired the best manner. He works the best manner. He is acquired the flexibility to bounce again (after adversity) like nothing ever occurred, which is a extremely unbelievable trait and positively for a quarterback, one you have to have.
“After I say powerful, I am talking mentally as a lot as I’m bodily. The bodily toughness you possibly can see. He has the psychological resolve and the toughness when issues go dangerous. The best way he has responded has been extremely constructive. That takes psychological toughness. We as adults cannot do this a whole lot of the time. The flexibility to bounce again, come again and care about all people else round you … Byrum simply fascinates me.”
Brown was named AAC Offensive Participant of the Week, together with being chosen Davey O’Brien Award “Nice 8” and Manning Award “Star of the Week.” He described the honors as a “blessing,” however was fast to say none of them would’ve occurred with out his offensive line, operating backs, receivers, tight ends and coaches who made the play calls.
“It is actually a testomony to everybody,” Brown stated.
Brown additionally praised his dad and mom — Andrew and Nicole Brown of Raleigh, North Carolina — who impressed the toughness that Golesh always praises.
“My mother and pa at all times stated you have to be mentally powerful,” Brown stated. “I used to be bodily powerful initially. However mentally powerful … I used to be actually weak. When a coach (yelled) at me, I would go into my shell or crumble.
“However now … I take it as them caring and wanting me to be higher. So, I simply go from play to play, not harping on the previous and occupied with it an excessive amount of. Simply go from play to play.”
Which sounds just like the “next-play mentality” that Golesh seeks.
As for Brown’s bodily toughness, it has earned him respect all through this system.
“After our first recreation (at Western Kentucky), that was my first time actually seeing how powerful Byrum was,” defensive lineman Rashad Cheney stated. “That dude took some hits. He got here again for every play. He got here in on Sunday and also you see scratches in every single place. It sends a message that the man main our crew is hard as nails. That is what you need. It makes you need to exit and play laborious. I am fairly certain all people on our crew cannot do something however say constructive issues about that child.
“You do not see too many younger guys who are available with that sort of confidence. It often takes guys a number of years to regulate and mature. Simply having him because the chief of the crew … I belief him with the ball in his arms greater than anyone else on this nation.”
–#GoBulls–
