After interviewing more than two dozen members of the football squad Thursday, we began sharing the conversations on Friday morning's show starting off with a QB you might have heard of, and his backup who also spent some time pitching for the baseball team this spring.By South Florida Bulls

A pretty protective duo sits down with Darek, then it's a couple of transfer wideouts and two returnees to the tight end group.By South Florida Bulls

Last year's leading tackler, a 6th-year veteran and a poet/LB transfer from Virginia!By South Florida Bulls

Both into their third years with the Bulls.By South Florida Bulls

Sophomore gives us a scouting report on one of the newcomers, and then welcomes in fast friend and fellow Defensive Specialist, transfer from West Virginia.By South Florida Bulls

Hear from the head football coach at AAC Media Days, and details on the just-released schedules for cross country and women's golf.By South Florida Bulls

Libero who had a major impact as a freshman, and a transfer attacker who hopes to do the same as a sophomore.By South Florida Bulls

Only players who scored 7 goals last season qualify for this segment! Gunnar led Manhattan the last two seasons, listen to how Bulls' returning top scorer was more than happy to grant his jersey number to the newcomer.By South Florida Bulls

Warsaw, who joined as Alex Golesh's Football Chief of Staff a year ago, has recently been charged with overseeing NIL Strategy for every sport at USF - a big undertaking that Michael speaks at length with Andrew about. At the 25-minute mark host Darek Sharp catches up with Michael on a variety of topics, including football season (it's here!) and m…

Episode 472 Stranger Things and Orange is The New Black Actor: Catherine Curtin. Catherine Curtin is best known for her role as Claudia Henderson in Stranger Things and correctional officer Wanda Bell in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black. Catherine joins me to talk about her amazing career, her time on Stranger Things, not bei…

Getting set to lead the Bulls as the Head Coach after his wife Denise Schilte-Brown departed to lead the new Tampa Bay professional side.By South Florida Bulls

The lone holdover from the previous staff discusses how it worked out that way with new Head Coach Mitch Hannahs, and gives fans insight on all fo the new Bulls coaches.By South Florida Bulls

Plenty packed into Wednesday's half-hour program!By South Florida Bulls

Episode 471 Actor Damon Herriman. Damon Herriman is supremely talented actor known for his iconic portrayals of Charles Manson in both "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and "Mindhunter". He is also known for his Portrayal of "Dewey" in "Justified". Damon's most recent work "The Bikeriders" is one of the best movies of 2024. Damon and I talk about bei…

Friday's show presented in full and concludes with a look Around the American.By South Florida Bulls

More details on the international achievements followed by news on baseball, and Wednesday's show ends with a couple of internship opportunities for our student listeners!By South Florida Bulls

After a couple of weeks off for vacation, the podcast returns and in the interim there have been plenty of facility upgrades, schedule releases, international achievements and other notes of interest!By South Florida Bulls

Episode 470 Cinematographer. M. David Mullen. Three time Emmy winning Cinematographer David Mullen stops by @mondaymorningcritic to talk about his career, projects and his journey. M. DAVID MULLEN, ASC studied filmmaking and cinematography at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where he received his Master’s Degree. Since then, he has p…

Darek had full details on the extremely formidable non-conference schedules for two fall sports, plus info on additions to new baseball Head Coach Mitch Hannahs' staff.By South Florida Bulls

After his trip to Colombia as an assistant coach with the U18 Team USA squad led to his first Gold Medal the USF leader joined Darek ahead of headed back out of the country. Then, after Wednesday's show aired some more international news came down involving the men's squad.By South Florida Bulls

What went down in Ireland Saturday with recently-graduated Bulls women's golfing great... well, we weren't going to wait until Wednesday to post something on it! Also news of the new Pitching Coach for Baseball, and a reported VERY interesting season opener for men's basketball.By South Florida Bulls

We love bringing you all the great things happening around USF athletics but sometimes life presents tragedy, and it hit the football team on Monday.By South Florida Bulls

With 25 years of assistant coaching in college, along with national duties that include helping Serbia's women garner a Bronze medal in the Rio Olympics, the Bulls get an assistant with a reputation for helping to recruit international athletes - sounds like a perfect fit. From Wednesday's Bulls Beat.…

Friday's show a with some additional info at the front and back, namely women's tennis qualifying for the ITA Kickoff event for a second straight year, and some softball news. In between Darek has plenty including USF Hall of Famer Evelyne Viens being tabbed an Olympian for a second time (5-minute mark), more international news with Jose Fernandez …

Episode 469 "Sugar" Cinematographer: Richard Rutkowski. An active cinematographer whose work encompasses indie features, documentary, commercials, and major streaming productions, Richard is based in New York and also works extensively overseas. His photography on the first seasons of FX’s Cold War spy drama The Americans drew widespread critical a…

The last 10 games of the season, simply, were historic.By South Florida Bulls

With the previous two episodes serving to introduce the new Head Coaches for Women's Golf and Baseball, this time around Michael and host Darek Sharp set up shop for a full half hour of great updates around the athletic department. Included, Michael answers listeners' questions including those about the on-campus stadium and possibility the Bulls w…

The new Head Baseball Coach had plenty of praise for Lelo Prado, and plenty of what Bulls fans can look for as to the qualities of his teams - and its schedule.By South Florida Bulls

The new Bulls Women's Golf Coach met with the media right after Coach Hannahs.By South Florida Bulls

Here's the full version of the interview, a portion of which aired Friday on Bulls Beat. And remember Bulls Nation: Relaaaaaxxx.By South Florida Bulls

After leading the Bulls to their first postseason victories since 2003 - when she was a player for USF - Shepardson received a contract extension.By South Florida Bulls

Episode 468. "A Tribe Called Quest" Ali Shaheed Muhammad. DJ/Producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad is a hip-hop icon. As one-third of legendary hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, his influence and impact on the musical landscape is still felt today. In April of 2024, "A Tribe Called Quest" was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The soft-spoken …

A LOT happened since last Friday's show, so Wednesday Darek gave his thoughts and a round-up on Mitch Hannahs being tabbed as baseball's leader, and Jolene Shepardson's extension as volleyball coach. The show begins with preseason football predictions that shine well on Alex Golesh's squad. After having his assistant salary pool restructured, Amir …

LOTS of incredible highlights from the first season of Amir Abdur-Rahim as men's basketball Head Coach for the Bulls, sprinkled with memorable comments from the coach himself, in honor of the contract extension he received after the historic season. Note this leads up to the famous sellout game against FAU - a Part 2 beginning with highlights of th…

Quite the full show! Michael introduces Bulls Nation to new Baseball Head Coach Mitch Hannahs. After the nearly half-hour conversation, Darek and Michael discuss some major news from the last week with Abdul Rasheed-Saminu wrapping up the 2023-24 sports season with a First Team All-American performance at the NCAA Track & Field Championships, and b…

Note - this was Friday morning's show, after which Abdul Rasheed-Saminu wrapped up the Bulls 2023-24 season with a sensational performance, within an hour of each other posting 5th place in the 100-meter run, and then 3rd in the 200 meters. Darek wrapped up the first two days of action, after beginning the show with the big news of a contract exten…

Darek lays out Wednesday's schedule of events for track and field which has 12 competitors at the finals in Oregon, sets the date for groundbreaking on the future on-campus stadium, gives you updates to next year's softball and volleyball tournaments (Bulls will be hosting the former!) and sprinkles in plenty of other news.…

Episode 467 "Sweet Tooth" Actors: Christian Convery and Nonso Anozie. Christian Convery (Gus) joins me for a second time and Nonso Anozie also (Thomas) joins me to talk about the third and final Season of Sweet Tooth. They talk about what they will miss in the final season, the influence they've had on each other and Nonso's mentorship throughout t…

On the very same day the new leader for the Bulls women's golf program was announced, Michael was able to chat with the Tampa native! Get to know her upbringing and plans for South Florida as she succeeds Erika Brennan, who was recently named head coach at Georgia.By South Florida Bulls

A quality of assortment of notes on Friday's program.By South Florida Bulls

Two of the 12 members of the Bulls' NCAA Championships contingent, along with an assistant coach who has a pretty special relationship with HC Erik Jenkins. From Friday's Bulls Beat program.By South Florida Bulls

Episode 466. "Billy the Kid" Actor: Tom Blyth. In a recent interview, I had the chance to speak to the very talented Tom Blyth. Tom and I talk "Billy the Kid", Tom and Billy both having UK roots, Billy the Kid is much deeper than meets the eye, how Tom would end the show and the temptation for a Shawshank Redemption ending. Tom Keir Blyth is an Eng…

After an extended vacation Darek returns with a catch-up show, starting off with plenty of great Track & Field news including another conference title. Then, women's golf leader Erika Brennan to depart after seven incredible years. Recaps of both golf teams' NCAA regional performances as well.By South Florida Bulls

Part Two of Wednesday's return show centers around the conclusions of the season for softball and baseball, with Billy Mohl out after seven years leading the latter, plus big scheduling notes on the openers for women's soccer and men's basketball, and a few other nuggets.By South Florida Bulls

Episode 465. "Mindhunter" Composer: Jason Hill. Jason Hill is a multi-talented artist who has made a name for himself as an award-winning film composer, platinum-selling recording artist, record producer and mixer. Hill’s upcoming projects include; Apple TV+'s drama series Dark Matter, which premieres May 8th; and season 4 of Showtime’s Couples The…

Highlights from Gainesville and a look ahead to the weekend - no Bulls Beat on Friday but we wanted to preview a key series in San Antonio.By South Florida Bulls

With Bulls Beat off until Monday May 20th, Darek filed this brief report on what took place Wednesday with women's golf wrapping up its season at the NCAA Bermuda Run regional, and softball being edged 2-1 by Tulsa at the AAC tournament.By South Florida Bulls

Full audio from the Head Coach and three members of the men's golf team, which won the AAC championship and tees it up in San Diego Monday in the NCAA tournament. Conference Player of the Year Jake Peacock begins at the 10:20 mark, followed by 5th-year Bull Sam Nicholson (17:45) and transfer from UNF, Tampa's own Cooper Smith (21:20).…

An exclusive chat with the two-time defensive player of the year including highlights of some of her incredible plays, plus a full AAC tourney outlook for softball in this extended version of Wednesday's Bulls Beat.By South Florida Bulls

Episode 464 "Land of Bad" | "Thanksgiving" | Composer: Brandon Roberts. Composer Brandon Roberts joins me to talk about his work, (Thanksgiving, Land of Bad) Thomas Newman, composing music, John Williams, Awards and so much more. Emmy Award winning composer Brandon Roberts’ music can be heard all over the scoring world today. From the Academy Award…