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Coach Leavitt "We're not there yet"
Coach Jim Leavitt adresses the media after the Bulls 31-10 loss to Miami
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Nov 28, 2009 |
Leavitt Post Game "We got to play better"
Coach Jim Leavitt adresses the media after the Bulls 34-22 Homecoming win over Louisville
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Nov 22, 2009 |
USF Coach's Presser 10-26
On Tuesday USF Coach Jim Leavitt & staff addressed the media during the weekly press conference.
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Oct 26, 2009 |
Jim Leavitt Presser 10-20
On Tuesday USF Head Coach Jim Leavitt addressed the media during his weekly press conference.
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Oct 20, 2009 |
Leavitt: We had our chances,Too many mistakes
Coach Jim Leavitt adresses the media after the Bulls 34-17 loss to Cincinnati.
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Oct 16, 2009 |
The Jim Leavitt Report - 10/6/09
USF Head Coach Jim Leavitt talks about the first Big East win over Syracuse and more
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Oct 6, 2009 |
The Jim Leavitt Report - Syracuse
USF Head Coach Jim Leavitt talks about the big win over FSU, and the first Big East game at Syracuse
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Sep 29, 2009 |
Coach Leavitt “It’s a great win!"
Coach Leavitt quotables after the Bulls 17-7 win over FSU
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Sep 26, 2009 |
The Jim Leavitt Report - FSU
USF Head Coach Jim Leavitt talks about Matt Grothe, B.J. Daniels, upcoming FSU & more
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Sep 22, 2009 |
Leavitt "We did what we were supposed to do"
Coach Jim Leavitt talks about the Bulls 59-0 dominating home win over Charleston Southern.
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Sep 20, 2009 |
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Head Coach Jim Leavitt-Tenth Season
South Florida coach Jim Leavitt ended speculation that the Bulls' success in their first Big East season might land him a job elsewhere, agreeing to a contract extension through 2012. Leavitt, a former Kansas State assistant, is the only coach in the school's 10-year football history.
"I really feel that .. I am very fortunate to coach for USF and it's something I will never take for granted," Leavitt said
He has made our program competitive in the Big East Conference and within the BCS, and we feel like the terms of this extension are consistent with his outstanding achievements," athletic director Doug Woolard said.
The new contract solidifies Leavitt’s longstanding declaration that he has no intentions of leaving again. When he returned home in 1996 to lead the fledgling USF program, it was for the first time since he left for Missouri in 1974 and he has been emphatic in his desire to stay.
"I can see myself coaching at South Florida until I retire,” says Leavitt. “Then I can buy season tickets and sit in the stands and watch the Bulls play on Saturdays."
Jim Leavitt states, "You can never leave home again." Leavitt has returned to his Tampa Bay roots to oversee the most successful start-up of a college football program in decades. since his hire in 1997, he has built the football program, developed it into a I-A member in C-USA and into the BIG EAST Conference in 2005, where they went 6-6 and went to the Meineke Car Care Bowl, to the programs first ever Bowl.
After the first nine seasons of USF Football, Leavitt has proven only further that he was indeed the right man for the right job at the right time. Charged with fast tracking a program from non-existence to Division I-A football in just five years time, Leavitt has led the program to an impressive 51-26 record. A mega-success in the first four years at the I-AA level (24 straight weeks in national polls), Leavitt and crew moved to I-A in 2001 and went 8-3, including a 35-26 win at Pittsburgh.
In 2002, his team finished 9-2 and seriously contended for a Bowl Game as an Independent. The Bulls received votes in both major polls and ranked 18th in the final New York Times Computer Poll, In fact, USF ranked among the top 30 in each of the computer polls utilized by the BCS,
Coaching Experience
2006 USF Head Coach
2005 USF Head Coach - 1st season in the BIG EAST
2004 USF Head Coach
2003 USF Head Coach - 1st season in C-USA
2002 USF Head Coach
2001 USF Head Coach - 1st I-A win at UConn
2000 USF Head Coach
1999 USF Head Coach
1998 USF Head Coach
1997 USF Head Coach
1996 USF Head Coach - First Head coach at USF
1995 Kansas State Defensive Coordinator
1994 Kansas State Defensive Coordinator
1993 Kansas State Defensive Coordinator
1992 Kansas State Defensive Coordinator
1991 Kansas State Linebackers
1990 Kansas State Linebackers
1989 Iowa Graduate Assistant
1988 Iowa Fulfilled academic internship
1987 Morningside College Defensive Coordinator
1986 Morningside College Defensive Coordinator
1985 Morningside College Defensive Coordinator
1984 Morningside College Defensive Coordinator
1983 Morningside College Defensive Coordinator
1982 Morningside College Special Teams Coordinator
1981 Dubuque Defensive Coordinator |
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