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Former President George H. W. Bush was hospitalized with pneumonia in Houston on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. Bush was described as stable and resting comfortably after undergoing a procedure to clear his airway. His wife, Barbara, was also admitted as a precautionary measure, and both are expected to be released within the next few days.

U.S. Army Corps to do environmental study on Dakota Access Pipeline The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to launch a full environmental study of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline project. During the course of the study, the Texasbased company, Energy Transfer Partners, is blocked from laying pipe under Lake Oahe, according to the Associated Press.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg denied the company’s request to stay the study , which could take up to two years to complete.

The Army is accepting public comments until Feb. 20 on “potential issues, concerns and reasonable alternatives” that the study should consider.

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Gauging the effectiveness of the smoke and tobacco ban

By Abby Rinaldi S T A F F

around campus unused. I used the bike a lot last year, now I’d just rather walk,” said Wiebke Schmidt, a junior majoring in mass communications.

The program received pressure from bike share consultants to raise the prices from the new system and to decrease the number of users to a maximum of 600 members. Morgan denied raising prices to have the bikes operate successfully for continued availability for the people who are paying for the service.

“If riding a bike is a part of a transportation plan, it is encouraged to purchase the monthly plan,” Morgan said. “If the user rides two hours a week, the pay-as-you-go will be more expensive than the monthly plan — it ends up being $25 as opposed to $15.”

All the data of each ride a user takes is saved through the computer on the bike and the app

There are a couple of benches, a few dumpsters and some patchy grass alongside the library when walking toward Cooper Hall from the main entrance.

Often times, a handful of students will group together there, take out a pack and light a cigarette, right in front of the “Smoke and Tobacco Free Campus” signs that went up just over a year ago.

Those who attended USF before January of 2016 remember the side of the library as a designated smoking area, a title the location lost once USF instituted a smoke and tobacco free policy at the beginning of the year.

Since its implementation, students can still be seen smoking in various locations on campus. The effectiveness of the policy, described so far as purely anecdotal to Rita DeBate , assistant vice president of Wellness at USF, hasn’t been easy to pin down.

“We don’t know,” she said.

In order to evaluate the smoking ban, DeBate said the university will be rolling out an online survey to students, faculty and staff within the next two weeks meant to gauge awareness, opinions and effectiveness.

The survey will include questions about students’ attitudes towards the policy, whether students have seen

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Share-A-Bull implements increased charges for users

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The start of the new semester brought about changes to Share-ABull in the form of increased fees.

As of Jan. 10, a new “pay-asyou-go” plan was implemented and the program started a monthly payment plan system designed to help cover the cost of repairing the bikes.

The Share-A-Bull bike program started in fall 2015 and grew to include 7,200 members, but the $500,000 grant from the Student Green Energy Fund, paid for by student fees, that the program ran off of didn’t stretch as far as it needed to.

“We depleted most of our resources — our next task is to find funding,” Francis Morgan, assistant director of outdoor recreation, said.

While the program started out free for students, about a year ago those who used the bikes for over two hours a day were charged $5

an hour. With the new system, every user is given five minutes of free riding time daily and charged 10 cents a minute thereafter. Riders also have the option to pay $15 a month for unlimited ride time.

Previous members of Share-ABull might be a little discouraged to use the bikes because of the new price system. Concern over the complementary “first five free minutes” of allotted time is questioned to be an insufficient amount.

“Because USF is a big campus, I feel the ‘first free five minutes’ policy is not enough — 20 minutes would be enough to suffice someone from getting from opposite sides of campus,” said Victoria Carlos, a sophomore majoring in computer science.

Some students debate whether or not to continue utilizing the program.

“Sometimes you get stuck at a red light and those five minutes are used. Now I just see them

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Global warming still a threat Breanne Williams COLU M N I ST

Officials announced Wednesday that 2016 was the world’s hottest year on record, highlighting once again the disastrous effects of global warming on the environment.

This is the third year in a row of record-setting heat, and politicians can no longer ignore the issue. Both NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) verified the alarmingly high average temperature for Earth, begging the question, “is this our new normal?”

If we don’t take immediate action to curb the rate of global warming, coastal cities will soon be underwater, the arctic coast will continue to recede and famines will become more prevalent throughout the world.

“A single warm year is something of a curiosity,” said Deke Arndt, chief of global climate monitoring for the NOAA. “It’s really the trend, and the fact that we’re punching at the ceiling every year now, that is the real indicator that we’re undergoing big changes.”

In the Arctic, temperatures were 20-to-30 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than normal. In Asia, a drought and deadly heat waves rocked the continent, the Great Barrier Reef near Australia faced heavy coral bleaching and a “mega” wildfire ran rampant in Canada.

Most of global warming has taken place within the past 35 years and 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have taken place since 2001, according to NASA. This issue isn’t just affecting those in third-world countries or those living under the Aurora Borealis. Sea levels are constantly rising in Miami, causing millions to be spent on keeping the city above water. A town in Alaska has been abandoned to escape the everrising ocean. Mussels and salmon are facing threatening acidic levels in the Pacific Ocean and temperatures across the country are increasing, impacting crops and wildlife in the region.

Yet America still refuses to take the issue seriously. Public transportation is not considered a necessity, causing 253 million cars to crowd the streets and fill the air with emissions. Not to

NASA and the NOAA announced 2016 was the world’s hottest year on record, exemplifying the threat of global warming. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE

mention the 140.43 billion gallons of gasoline the U.S. Energy Information Administration found the U.S. consumed in 2015.

What many politicians, including several members of Donald Trump’s incoming staff, fail to accept is burning gas, oil and coal produces “greenhouse” gases such as methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When those gases go up, the temperature rises.

The concept seems simple and there are years of data to back up the claim, yet some conservative politicians, like Scott Pruitt, Trump’s nominee for the Environmental Protection Agency, choose to whistle and look the other way as if ignoring the issue will somehow magically cure the problem.

Perhaps it’s easier to ignore an issue if you know you won’t be around long enough to face its repercussions. But the evidence cannot be ignored.

Until meaningful legislation is passed prioritizing the environment and forcing Americans to live less toxic lifestyles, we will continue to pollute our atmosphere.

Our laziness and apathy will ultimately be our destruction.

Hopefully, the recent findings will force those who deny climate change to re-evaluate their stance and realize somewhere in their reasoning they

have erred.

Otherwise we will continue to watch the thermometer rise.

Breanne Williams is a senior majoring in mass communications.

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Student letter voices displeasure with planned SDS protest

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By Miki Shine M A N A G I N G

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USF’s Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is planning a walkout protest to be held outside of Cooper Hall at 1 p.m. for inauguration on Friday.

However, not all students are in support of the event.

A student, whose name has been redacted, sent a letter to the office of Student Affairs and the President’s Office to voice concerns over the event and ask for its cancellation.

“On January 20, (2017) we are going to have a new leader of our country,” the student wrote.

“Whether we like him or not, we should not be allowing student organizations to organize walk outs. Though a beautiful part of our democracy, I am formally asking that this event be canceled or put within a venue on campus.”

The letter went on to say that not doing so would violate the Student Code of Conduct by disrupting classes within Cooper Hall. Additionally, it warns of the use of amplification, which isn’t allowed outside of Cooper, according to Dean of Students Danielle McDonald.

SDS has not mentioned anything publicly about intending or not intending to use amplification

during the protest and could not be reached for comment.

Additionally, the letter also brought up concerns over advertising for the event. According to university policy, organizations must receive written permission to advertise an event using offcampus resources. The letter discussed a Facebook event page.

According to McDonald, the use of Facebook does not typically count as off-campus advertising and wouldn’t for this particular event.

“If this is an issue of distraction on campus, the Campus PD nonemergency line will be summoned and there will be an immediate request for the dispersal of the crowds,” the letter states. “If these needs can’t be met, there will be a request for further action including, but not limited to; tuition reimbursement for the class time missed due to violation of the USF and Florida State Statute, a request for a formal meeting with the head of the CLCE … etc.”

McDonald said she’d heard the concerns and reached out to the letter’s author with an offer to meet.

“Like any event on campus, we’ll review it for any policy infractions,” she said. “Just having an event outside of Cooper Hall is not a distraction from the learning environment.”

Social Bicycles.

The program is currently in $40,000 of debt and the pay-asyou-ride system is expected to help alleviate this. Since the beginning of the semester, the program has raised $500, according to Morgan.

Constant wear and tear led to the need for repairs and served as a drain on the project’s budget. Each bike costs $1,500 to manufacture to be theft and tamper proof.

“We originally we thought users were really rough on the bikes,” Morgan said. “We were having repairs in our system that no other system was having internationally.”

After just four months of operation, the repair shop was getting an excessive amount of requests for new bike chains.

Less than 10 percent of the people who utilize the bikes damage them, according to Morgan.

Reports of misuse include: riding the bikes down stairwells, more than one person on a bike and one instance of a bike being recovered from the roof of a building.

“At the beginning, each bike was getting up to 20 rides per day.

The next best bike sharing system in the world was getting 1.2 rides per bike per day,” Morgan said.

“In those first initial four months we put more miles on our bikes than other systems worldwide did in two years.”

The manufacturing company guaranteed lifetime warranty on the bikes and was confident in their durability. However, USF’s bike system exceeded normal mileage. Bikes needing new parts have been out of circulation, with parts only just coming in. These bikes are returning to circulation as repairs are made.

Six months after having multiple bike chain issues with the Share-A-Bull bikes, other systems worldwide came forward with the same problems.

“80 percent of our damages was because our system had more miles on the bikes than others,” said Morgan.

Currently, 88 bikes are distributed across campus and increasing with turnaround repairs.

This year’s budget for USF maintenance is $109,000. This can range from changing batteries, fixing a flat tire, and drive shaft repair.

Due to a heavily shaded campus, the solar panels on the bikes are not strong enough to fully recharge the computer’s battery. The computer on the bike signals a GPS location every five seconds while being used. When it is not in use, it emits a signal once every hour. Overuse of the bike depletes the battery at a faster rate for location accuracy.

A week and a half into this semester there are 112 active members, 100 are pay-as-you-go and 12 subscribed to a monthly membership.

The day of the week determines how many users are expected

to ride the bikes, according to Morgan. As of this week, 60 registered members of the 112 utilize the bikes daily.

Last semester on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016, there were over 295 different riders using 45 available bikes to make 482 rides.

Rentable bikes offered at Campus Recreation cost $5 a day and $85 a semester, but need to be returned during business hours. The flexibility of Share-ABull allows members to utilize the bikes at their discretion to best fit their schedules, according to Morgan.

New renovations and installations will be built to create more Share-A-Bull “hubs” distributed across campus.

200 bike racks are expected to be placed next to various Bull Runner stops. The hubs will aid in location accuracy to make it easier for students and maintenance workers to find them.

Sofia Saavera, sophomore majoring in psychology, works at the Bike Repair Shop at the Outdoor Recreation Center, having repaired over 100 bikes with minor to intensive damage. Depending on severity of the repair, replacing bike batteries takes minutes while a bike chain repair can take up to an hour.

Morgan never expected the program to remain free indefinitely.

“It was always projected for a revenue source after the grant money was used, for funds to be allocated from monthly members to pay-as-you-go users,” said Morgan.

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Not having enough money is a common grievance of many college students, even the ones with jobs. Going to school does not usually allow for a lot of time in a day for someone to work to cover all their expenses, or sometimes, the person could just be a little short on what they need that day.

Here are some ‘side gigs’ that students can occasionally work for a little cash on the side. They don’t require a large time commitment, nor do they use a lot of energy and effort.

In other words, they are perfect for the person with a hole in his pocket and a little while to spare.

It’s no surprise how quickly Uber grew in Tampa. With USF and the University of Tampa, the city is home to thousands of college students, a demographic that wants to drink, but does not want to be the designated driver. Enter Uber.

Now, a group of friends can go out without one poor, sober sap who drew the short straw babysitting the rest of the clan.

Uber has several requirements, including the driver being at least 21-years-old, having at least one year of driving experience in the U.S. (and three years if they are under 23) and using an eligible four-door vehicle. Not to mention, Tampa has its own minimum requirements for the

Services like Uber, who is always recruiting, allow college students to make money without pledging

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people smoking on campus and whether they’ve done anything about it.

“We really want to get a large participation because we would like to be able to answer the question (of) has this policy been working,” DeBate said.

DeBate said a team will use a geographical information system (GIS) analysis of campus in order to map out signage making students aware of the policy and to identify “hotspots” where students are still smoking on campus. These locations will be evaluated for ways to change their built environment or increase signage to deter smoking.

“It’ll be able for us to see what’s going on and how we can change the environment to make people more aware of the policy, but also to … change the built environment to decrease the feasibility for people to continue smoking on campus,” DeBate said.

Since the smoking ban’s implementation, its peer enforcement aspect has raised eyebrows among the student body. DeBate said she is interested to see how students interpret peer enforcement and find out whether or not they’ve been actively doing it.

For DeBate, peer enforcement is making smokers aware of the policy and asking them to put out their cigarette.

“We’re hoping to find out, from the survey, if people have seen people smoking and they have not ‘done anything,’ we are also going to ask them why,” she said. “Did they not know what to say to the person? Did they not feel it was their responsibility?

“So, I think we’re going to get a little more idea of what the community thinks peer enforcement means and … if we find out that people are not

vehicle, such as the car being 13-years-old or younger, fourdoors and in good condition with no cosmetic damage.

If a student can check the aforementioned boxes, and a few more, then congratulations to them, as it is reported by Uber that their drivers make around $20 an hour. Since this is almost two-and-a-half times over Florida’s minimum wage, they’re sure to make that pocket money in no time.

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Shipt Students who don’t mind putting miles on their cars, but have an issue with the social aspect of Uber (believe it or not, not a lot of people like the idea of driving strangers around in their car), Shipt would make a great part-time job.

The “on-demand grocery delivery service” recruits independent drivers like the ridesharing enterprise, and as such, have their own list of requirements, although they are less rigid than Uber’s. Drivers must be at least 18-years-old and have reliable transportation, a current driver’s license and knowledge of produce selection.

As of January 2016, USF was deemed a smoke and tobacco free university, but policing the ban has proved difficult.

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sure of what peer enforcement means, maybe that’s the education that we need to do.”

The policy, which bans smoking and tobacco use on all USF property, was originally put in place to protect students, faculty and staff from secondhand smoke and to reduce the pollution caused by the abundance of discarded cigarettes, DeBate said. There is currently no plan in place to change the policy.

“The survey will help us, at least give us the data, the

evidence that we need for next steps,” she said.

In addition to the survey, DeBate said there are plans to add an incident report form to the website created for the ban: usf.edu/TobaccoFree. Currently, visitors to the website can find a copy of the policy, some frequently asked questions, information on quitting and information on how to report repeat offenders of the policy.

The addition of this form will likely come after the survey results are in, DeBate said.

Drivers for both companies must go through a thorough background check.

According to Shipt, their drivers make $15-$25 an hour on average, so students whose idea of the perfect passenger is a head of lettuce will find that this is the perfect setup for them. eBay/letgo/OfferUp/etc.

If students want to make money in order to buy more things, why not get rid of old, obsolete inventory at the same time to make space for the shiny, new toys? Since 1995, eBay has been allowing people to sell their unwanted goods online for a little extra cash, and this process has only been made easier with the introduction of app-only auction sites such as OfferUp and letgo.

All students have to do is take pictures of whatever item they don’t want, write a description, set a price and post. Letgo and OfferUp are better for those who don’t want to lose money on shipping and would rather meet their seller in real life, but eBay allows students a larger customer pool. Whichever service students chose, there’s bound to be someone somewhere willing to spend top dollar for that 1993 Patti the purple platypus Beanie Baby.

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Three players inducted into MLB Hall of Fame Major League Baseball inducted three new members into its Hall of Fame on Wednesday, as Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez received enough votes to qualify. Bagwell led the way with an 86.2 percent vote, with Raines receiving 86 percent and Rodriguez scraping by with 76 percent. Players need a 75-percent vote for induction.

Trevor Hoffman was the closest to miss the cut, needing five more votes to be inducted. Though players linked to steroid such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens gained votes this year, both players were over 20 percent short from reaching the needed 75 percent.

Weekend sports schedule Men’s Basketball Tulsa (10-7, 4-1) @ USF (6-11, 0-6) When: Saturday, 1 p.m.

Where: USF Sun Dome

Women’s Basketball

No. 9 Louisville (17-4, 5-2) @ No. 23 USF (15-2, 4-1) When: Sunday, 2 p.m.

Where: USF Sun Dome

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USF softball picked to finish second in AAC

Despite being picked to finish fourth in the AAC in 2016, USF won the regular season conference title. ORACLE FILE PHOTO/ADAM Oregon strength and conditioning coach Irele Oderinde, who worked in the same position at USF from June 2014 to December 2016, was suspended for a month without pay after three Ducks players were hospitalized late last week. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE switch from USF to Oregon, for a game or done anything active

By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S E D I T O R month without pay. Oderinde also since the end of November, maybe must now report to the director the first week of December. Now, Merely a month into his new of performance and sports sci- we’re in the third week of January position as coach of the Oregon ence, Andrew Murray rather than and they have to start workouts.

Ducks, former USF coach Willie Taggart, the school announced in Think about it, they haven’t done anything for almost two months.”

Taggart already has the first con- a press release.

The immediate reaction on Former USF defensive tackle troversy on his hands in Eugene.

According to a report by The social media saw people calling for Todd Chandler also said he also Oregonian on Monday, three Oderinde’s job and for the NCAA believes some Oregon players Ducks players were hospitalized to step in. However, Oderinde’s weren’t ready for the intensity of due to soreness from overexertion players from both Oregon and USF Oderinde’s typical workouts after during the initial workouts after felt the need to voice their sup- some time off.

Both Bench and Chandler said returning to campus from winter port despite the claims against the strength coach. they never witnessed a player break.

“It really irks me that people are pass out or have to be taken to The report also stated that one of those three players, offensive blaming him for this,” former USF the hospital in two years under lineman Sam Poutasi, was diag- quarterback Steven Bench said. Oderinde’s training.

“I thought (the report) was a nosed with rhabdomyolysis, a “If you think about it, the reports condition in which muscle tissue before were the guys at Oregon joke at first to be honest,” Chandler breaks down into the blood stream didn’t work hard enough and said. “A lot of college players after after someone has been exposed were cutting corners in the weight a hard work out will say they have to intense workouts. The condi- room. That was the report before to go to the hospital. I thought tion can lead to long-term kidney they hired coach O and then this it was a joke, especially because happens.

Oregon is a top program. damage.

“And it’s unfortunate and it’s When I saw it wasn’t a joke, I Oregon responded swiftly by suspending strength and condi- not a joke and I’m not blowing off never thought, ‘What did coach tioning coach Irele Oderinde, who what has happened. But, Oregon O have them doing?’ because I’ve recently joined Taggart in the went 4-8, they haven’t played a

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With less than a month remaining until USF softball begins the defense of its 2016 regular season conference championship on Feb. 9, the Bulls were picked to finish second in 2017 in the annual AAC coaches’ poll.

The Bulls return 15 players from last year’s roster including AAC Player of the Year Juli Weber and all-conference players Lauren Evans, Astin Donovan and Kristen Wyckoff.

Both Weber and Wyckoff hit over .400 in 2016 and lead all returners in hits and runs scored over the past season.

USF, which finished 45-16 last season and qualified for the NCAA Tournament, received 32 points in the poll, including three first-place votes. Tulsa, which won the conference tournament in 2016, was picked to finish first with four first-place votes and 34 total points.

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Bulls’ home winning streak to be tested by No. 9 Louisville on Sunday

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Just 12 days after sustaining the worst loss in program history, the USF women’s basketball team faces yet another NCAA tournament litmus test with No. 9 Louisville coming to the Sun Dome on Sunday afternoon.

“Last Tuesday wasn’t indicative of what our program is, or what this team was about,” coach Jose Fernandez said following the Bulls’ 79-49 victory over Memphis on Tuesday.

Starting the season 13-1 for only the second time in the program’s 45-year history, the Bulls (15-2, 4-1) statistically echo their head coach’s sentiments as one of the most efficient and high-scoring teams in the country.

Led by sophomore forward Kitija Laksa’s 20.6 points per game, No. 23 USF sits 27th in the country in scoring, averaging 76.4 points per game. The Bulls also rank in the top 15 nationally in rebound margin (5th) and free-throw percentage (15th).

A team with similar scoring,

the Cardinals (16-4,4-2) come to the Sun Dome as the 24th ranked offense in the country (77 points per game).

Although the two teams match up similarly on paper, USF junior forward Maria Jespersen said the Bulls stack up well with their AAC foe.

“I think we have some match-up advantages,” Jespersen said.

“They have two really big kids that are good at posting up, but that also means they have to guard some perimeter players, which they probably don’t prefer.”

The difference Sunday may come at the 3-point line, as Louisville comes as 135th in 3-point field goal percentage, surrendering over 30 percent from beyond the arc.

Louisville comes winning 10 of their last 12 games after a 78-72 loss to Maryland in the AAC-Big 10 Challenge.

It was following this game that Louisville coach Jeff Walz called out “participation trophies,” and called his team in short words “losers.”

“I mean, not to be too blunt, but you’re a loser,” Walz said.

“Like, we’re losers, we got

beat. So you lost. There is no trophy for us.”

Despite boasting three double-digit scorers, the Cardinals are undoubtedly led by junior forward and reigning AAC Player of the Year Myisha Hines-Allen.

Picking up right where she left off last season, Hines-Allen is averaging nearly a doubledouble this season with 13 points and 9.3 rebounds per game.

Guard Mariya Moore and forward Asia Durr round out the top scorers for Louisville, averaging 12.8 and 17.1 points per game, respectively.

The Bulls ride a 13-game home winning streak coming into their top 25 matchup with the Cardinals.

Their last loss at home dates over a year to Jan. 10, 2016, when USF fell to a Breanna Stewart-led UConn team. The last Bulls’ loss at the Sun Dome before that was a 60-52 loss in the second round of the 2015 NCAA tournament to Louisville.

Tip-off Sunday is slated for 2 p.m., with coverage nationally broadcast on ESPN.

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been under coach O. It was, ‘What were those players doing the weeks before. You can’t half-ass coach O’s workouts, you have to get the proper rest and hydration.”

The workouts, which The Oregonian described as “grueling and akin to basic military training” and included up to an hour of continuous up-downs and pushups, were nothing out of the norm when Oderinde was at USF, Bench said.

“All of us did (those workouts), absolutely,” Bench said. “Were they easy? Hell no. Look, what I’ve read, it sounds like they went through the first day of coach O’s workout and they have a warm-up to do. In that warm-up, if you do it wrong, you start over.”

“The problem is, you could start over for the whole time. Literally just over and over again the entire period you’re supposed to be lifting. So your lift could go from an hour-long lift including warm-up to two or three hours because you can’t get the form right. We all did it at USF. Whoever you talk to will tell you the same. Whenever we first started or got back from break, we always started every

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The Bulls were picked to finish fourth out of seven AAC teams in 2016, but finished in first with a 15-3 record in conference play.

Adams to miss Shrine Game After having a player in the East-West Shrine Game for the past nine seasons, USF will break its streak as Rodney Adams has chosen to sit out while his ankle heals from injuring it in the Birmingham Bowl, according to a Tampa Bay Times report.

Playing as USF’s top receiving option in 2016, Adams led the Bulls with 67 catches for 822 yards and five touchdowns along with 23 rushes for 248 yards and five touchdowns.

Scheduled for 3 p.m. on Saturday at Tropicana Field, the Shrine game features players who have had exceptional senior seasons.

Aside from Adams, six other Florida players were selected for the East team: offensive tackle Dieugot Joseph, FSU receiver Kermit Whitfield, FSU offen-

new period like that. It’s just something he does and it didn’t put any of our players in the hospital.”

Several Ducks players wrote their support for their strength coach on Twitter, even going as far as to call out teammates for being out of shape.

Oregon junior receiver Darren Carrington II wrote, “How do you suspend a man for three players being out of shape? All I can say is wow!”

Some Ducks players took exception with how the workouts were being classified, saying they were being exaggerated, leading to several players from both Oregon and USF to start the hashtag “#FreeCoachO.” Though Chandler said the workouts were physically demanding, he never witnessed Oderinde push a player past his limits.

“It was never like he wanted to run you into the ground,” Chandler said. “His workouts aren’t for punishment. My freshmen year when I was under that strength coach, his workouts were for punishment. He would run us into the ground and have players pulling hamstrings. Coach O is more about taking care of your body and doing it the right way.”

sive guard Kareem Are, Florida defensive end Bryan Cox, Florida defensive tackle Joey Ivie IV and FAU defensive end Trey Hendrickson

UCF player scores 38 in rout of Bulls

In search of its first win in both conference play and under interim coach Murry Bartow, USF struggled to contain UCF’s long-range shooting in an 86-64 loss Tuesday night at CFE Arena.

Guard Matt Williams led the Knights’ scoring effort as he made 11-of-21 3-pointers on his way to scoring a game-high 38 points.

Though the rest of the Knights combined to shoot 3-of-15 from beyond the arc, Williams’ sharpshooting was enough for UCF to cruise to the finish.

‘When a team makes 14 threes on us, it makes it very difficult (to win)…Matt Williams was obviously the difference in the game,” Bartow said.

USF (6-11, 0-6) will try for its first win since an 81-53 defeat of Delaware on Dec. 22 when it hosts Tulsa at the Sun Dome on Saturday at 1 p.m.

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