Glad we didn't feel the need to do this til the afternoon. The Big 12 Conference Board of Directors this morning voted to extend membership invitations to Brigham Young University, the University of Central Florida, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Houston to join the Conference. Today’s actions were in accordance with Big 12 Conference Bylaw 1.5.2.b.3 requiring an affirmative vote of a supermajority of Directors, and was approved unanimously by the eight continuing members. As necessary, institutional Boards will be in session today to act on Big 12 Conference membership. Videoconference announcements with Big 12 Board of Directors Chairman and Texas Tech University President Lawrence Schovanec, Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, and campus representatives are scheduled today at the following times: Houston – 11:00 a.m. CT BYU – 11:30 a.m. CT UCF – 2:45 p.m. CT Cincinnati – 3:30 p.m. CT
was this the one where MU was up like 49-0 at halftime? I went to that game with my dad who is a Miami alum. Left at halftime...even my dad was like "yeah ok I've had enough fun" my first memory was Liberty home game in 2002. After the win we went back to campus and had UCF stuff on trying to high five people or whatever and like "wooo we won!" and no one had any clue what the hell we were talking about. No one gave the slightest of fucks. It's actually pretty crazy the difference between that experience and the 2005 season just a couple years later.
For so long, our (older and more obnoxious) fans would talk longingly about games we almost won. Then every P5 win was like a damn infinity stone. Now-anything short of a conference championship is a disappointment
Almost in tears beating NC STATE. The Syracuse home game felt huge (and we lost). This wasn't THAT long ago.
Honestly don’t recall, I was like 7 or 8 at the time. I went with my dad and he said then that Roethlisberger was going to be really good in the NFL. Lo and behold, his Steelers drafted Ben that spring.
Yeah pretty sure Ben beat us worse than anyone ever had to that point and we played some top teams in the 90s.
I wish we still shot the canon after scoring like at the citrus bowl Spoiler And not that shitty animation we had in the bounce house for a while
Woulda been WVU in 2004; I didn't even care about football at the time but band was my social circle. Didn't really start to football until the next year.
lol when exactly will they have better facilities? Yeah have fun building that IPF and OCS at post-pandemic prices. You might get 30K and never fill it. There are not enough "fuck you's" in the world to hurl at those idiots
Anyone else remember when we clinched our first bid to the basketball tournament, the radio station played a version of "So Far Away" by Staind interspersed with our basketball highlights? Wish i could find that, would be nice to have a football version. BRB, getting a little dusty in here, but I'm an emotional old bastard anyway.
If they get a stadium its going to be funded by a VC guy who will extract all the revenues from it so yeah good luck with that plan.
First game Villanova in 2006 at the OB. Most memorable game that year was Pitt I think because I genuinely thought for some reason we would knock off a Big East team after barely losing to USF and then they took the opening kickoff 100 yards and Tyler Palko and Stephens-Howlings butt fucked us into submission within the first quarter. It was memorable because that was the day I learned that UCF students in attendance were deeply apathetic due to the 2004 losing streak and as soon as it was like 14-0 the mission changed in the student section and it became how quickly could we all get (more) blackout drunk. Also saw a fight breakout between some PIKE bros and another frat group and a dude literally dive like Aidan from mortal kombat down at least five bleacher rows to tackle someone.
There used to be so many fights in the CB. Never understood it but guess because we sucked and nothing was interesting on the field. That Pitt game was horrific. I think like 52-7? Remember the guy flicking off student section so everyone threw shit at him. My parents came to the game and we went and got Lazy Moon and at that thing at the La Quinta in Research Park.
Didn’t an undercover cop get shot by a uniformed cop at one of our games? Great place to bring 10,000 drunk college kids.
2005 Marshall. Yes the rush the field game. I wasn't too incredibly far from that incident. 2-3 rows of cars or so. IIRC, the cop who died in the incident was UCF police and the unformed who shot him was Orange Country or City of Orlando. So different police forces. A fan was also shot but not fatally. It's also worth noting the UCF cop pulled his gun and fired it in the air, which prompted the response from the uniforms. Which really goes to asking why an undercover cop really just there to monitor underage drinking or whatever even needs a firearm on him in the first place. But thats another discussion.
Dude, Ben went in raw on us that day, good lord. Was that the game where Antonie Poe hurt his neck and they brought in the chopper to fly him to the hospital? Thought dude was dead on the field. Him and Paul Carrington were two of my favorite defensive players of that era.
Speaking of playing top teams in the 90s, holy fuck i forgot how brutal the start to the '99 season was. #22 Purdue #4 Florida #12 Ga Tech #12 Georgia (bullshit offensive PI call, should have won that fucking game)
Wasn’t there one named Aidan with a big hat that had lightning cone out of his hands? He had a maneuver that we would Superman across the screen.
Watching this ucf hard knocks thing now. DG does not own shorts with a > 5” inseam. Those thighs are permanently out.
When you stand up from the couch and realize you drank more than you thought and the kids are going to be up in 6 hours.
So does this give us the push to finally bring in Men's Track & Field as a sport? I know there are Title IX issues to address, but with the extra money we have to be able to fire up a field hockey program or something right?
Knowing how the Midwest is and the conference we’re going into, I think wrestling would have to be a consideration.
yeah, good point, didn't even think of that. T&F helps football so that is always top of mind, but wrestling is legit huge for that part of the country.
lol I'm going to tell myself they didn't want to jinx it and actually pay to get a real one done despite knowing for at least a week that this was happening.
Honestly if you knew that's what you were going to do I would have put it up as part of the press conference. Like walk on stage and Terry velcros it up there himself.
Cartwright, Mohajir and Malzahn have to feel like they got the Wonka Golden Ticket. Mohajir is fantastic, love that dude
Funny that Bowlsby is hinting at getting all 4 teams in 2023, but is vaguely legally threatening Texas and Oklahoma if they choose to leave early