South Florida Gets Huge Boost with Transfer of Asiantii Woulard

Sitting in the middle of a recruiting hotbed, expectations have been high for the South Florida Bulls in recent years. Despite showing some flashes of building a solid program years ago, however, USF has fallen flat recently and is struggling to create much excitement around the program. All of that could change, though, with the coming arrival of dynamic transfer quarterback Asiantii Woulard.

Woulard, a Winter Park, Florida, native, was a four-star quarterback prospect in the 2013 class that was originally committed to the Bulls before flipping to the UCLA Bruins on signing day following the firing of Skip Holtz. Woulard’s dual-threat ability made him a very exciting prospect for Jim Mora and the Bruins and a promising understudy to Brett Hundley.

But Woulard never caught on at UCLA. In two seasons, he failed to get on the field for a single snap and had fallen behind both true freshman Josh Rosen and Jerry Neuheisel, who played as the No. 2 QB in 2014 and even scored the winning touchdown against the Texas Longhorns in relief of an injured Hundley. With the possibility of falling to No. 3 on the depth chart, Woulard decided to head back home to add a much-needed spark to the USF program.

In Willie Taggart’s two seasons as the head coach of the Bulls, he has had to use five different starting quarterbacks. His most experienced signal caller, Mike White, transferred to Western Kentucky this offseason leaving Steven Bench and Quentin Flowers to compete for the starting job in 2015 while Woulard sits out this season due to transfer rules. The duo of Bench and Flowers combined to complete just 47.5 percent of their passes with three touchdowns and four interceptions in 2014.

In short, Woulard is a breath of fresh air in what has been a disastrous quarterback situation the last two years. His playmaking ability, if properly utilized, could be the key to getting South Florida on track and making them one of the premier Group of Five football programs in the country.

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