Following the resignation of Mike Hobbie (to pursue other business interests), USF has promoted its passing game coordinator, Rod Smith, to offensive coordinator. The Bulls made this move hoping to provide continuity to their still young program. The Bulls are slowly but surely building a program in a hot bed of high school talent in west central Flordia. Joining the Big East should give them greater recruiting credibility and an opportunity to make a national name for themselves in a newly constituted BCS conference.