South Florida head coach Willie Taggart has watched tape of both Eric Dungey and Zack Mahoney at quarterback, but concluded that not much will change with either Syracuse quarterback behind center.

On Monday, SU head coach Scott Shafer told Cuse TV that Dungey is “ready to go” for the Bulls on Saturday. But Taggart said on the American Athletic Conference coaches’ teleconference that his team is preparing to face the Syracuse (3-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) option offense as a whole when the Bulls (1-3, 0-1 AAC) host SU on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in Tampa, Florida.

“I don’t think they’re going to get too far away from their offense and the things that they do,” Taggart said.

Playing against the option takes discipline, Taggart said, and the ability to stick with defensive matchups.

“You have a guy for the dive, you have a guy for the quarterback, one for the pitch,” Taggart said. “You’ve got to be consistent with your discipline. And go back to high discipline.”

Defensively, Taggart said, he knows that Shafer will have his team ready to go up against USF and its mobile quarterback Quinton Flowers. He referenced SU’s ability to “fly around” and blitz, and said the Orange creates a lot of confusion.

“They blitz and try to get you off schedule offensively,” Taggart said. “I think offensively we’ve got to be sound in what we’re doing and understand when they blitz and what they like to do when they do blitz.”