Anyone a member? https://theathletic.com/343347/2018/05/14/ucf-football-season-preview-depth-chart-schedule/
Im not but once they go full time into South Florida I will strongly consider it. A lot of stuff I see on twitter looks really good. #SorryDidntHelp
Almost up there with his dad. Interesting list which needs some updating since #1 is unemployed. https://fansided.com/2017/08/01/top-10-highest-paid-athletic-directors-ncaa-d1-schools-last-year/
Maybe only Mix will appreciate this itt but UCF needs to call whoever is in charge of the Vegas Golden Knights pregame theatrics and get them to script our pregame. This shit is wild.
A few days late on this but works been crazy. Maybe 12k season tickets last year? Maybe 15k show up for the UConn game? This doesn't happen without the Natty Claim. The whole thing has to be the most brilliant marketing / troll job in the history of sports.
How long before the game do we have to sell unused visiting tickets? We will almost always get 1-2k back with this conference so that will prob be it for individual game tickets.
Apparently Vegas putting over/under at 8.5 wins this year. I feel pretty damn good about the over on that. We pretty much have to lose to UNC, Pitt/FAU, USF, and Memphis for that to happen. Not sure if they count conf champ games and bowl games, guessing not.
God damn I hope we play them in an NY6 bowl. They'd have to lose 8 games to miss the playoffs, but its possible.
I still have 2 betting slips from before the 2010 season for Oregon to win the national championship that year. Fucking Scam Newton and one late fluke run screwed me out of $4k. I keep them as a reminder of why I don’t bet on teams I’m emotionally invested in anymore. I can handle being mad that my team lost and I can handle being mad I lost money but being mad that my team lost me money is too much. I was quite unpleasant to be around after that natty game for a good while
Yeah, that’s kinda fucked. there is too much other stuff to bet on than against your own team That said, I know people that think I’m weird that I will draft players in fantasy that are from rival teams or are playing my team. My buddy had gotten mad at me when I was clapping that Brady was throwing TDs against the Dolphins, but hey, if they are going to score, it might as well be one of my fantasy players doing it
Wilbon and Kornheiser were giving Saban a lot of shit for being a petty midget on PTI yesterday. But they were also pretty condescending toward UCF so it wasn’t exactly positive coverage.
Wilbon and Kornheister being condescending? Well knock me over with a feather our championship rings.
This is great. https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/5/18/17353076/rivalry-history-anger-2018 USF/UCF. Objectively, maybe the best or at least best unsung categorical rivalry? Two teams located an hour and twenty minutes apart, fighting over many of the same recruits and territory, play at the end of each season for both maximum dramatic framing and (because they share a division) actual stakes. Occasionally, one of them might be angling for a national title, or at least an undefeated season they will claim as a national title. That team might go a little too far with this, and that is their right and privilege as Americans. American is an important angle here. The American Conference is a fine football conference like any other. The reborn/zombie Big East features players one might not find in other, more monied conferences, players other, more monied teams might not give a full chance. 2018’s UCF squad featured one-handed linebacker and future NFL draft pick Shaquem Griffin. USF 2018 had Quinton Flowers, the archetypical Great In College Quarterback who put up massive, streaky numbers for the Bulls, including consecutive seasons with over 2,000 yards passing and a thousand yards rushing. Because we cannot pay Quinton Flowers for all the joy he brought in college, please: Some team keep Quinton Flowers on an NFL roster long enough to pick up a pension. This series lacks a whole lot of off-the-field drama, but wait on that. It’s young, and learning, and if it keeps up at this pace, the War on I-4 could grow to something large, wild, and wonderful in the way that only things in the Sunshine State can be. By this, I mean that it could involve hurricanes, a deposed governor, the Army Corps of Engineers accidentally opening up sinkholes beneath both stadiums, some heavy insurance fraud (related and unrelated to the sinkholed stadiums), and several people in the game’s crowd being eaten or kidnapped or both. It could be all of that and so much more. USF and UCF had to wait until the Arena League folded to legally use the name “War on I-4” because the original “War on I-4” name belonged to the Orlando Predators, until the Arena League team went out of business in 2016. They got the nickname of the whole thing on consignment, y’all. This is the best rivalry in Florida right now, and that is before remembering that the whole thing is named after a sun-blasted stretch of highway dotted with spectacular car wrecks and terrifying anti-abortion billboards. The winning trophy should be a sign reading “PLEASE MOVE WRECKAGE TO THE SIDE,” that is nothing but a sincere compliment.
Wife is doing a PhD program through UF that is all online expect for one Saturday a semester. She has been in class all day so I’ve been killing time around Gainesville in my National Champions shirt. Smug factor 100%
On the main page of ESPN this morning under thier college football section, further proof that "The Danny White Plan" was pure fucking genius - http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...n-tide-ucf-knights-national-championship-line
Eh, its in the middle of the 2018 football season. I wouldn't expect any 2017 championship presentations
Thats the week between USF and before the AAC champ game isn’t it? If the season goes how we hope, we could bring them out to honor them running train on the AAC again and hype up the AAC champ game. Bring them out as “defending 2017 National Championships”
think we were discussing a 2 for 1 with florida where they would play the 1 game at the citrus bowl. they viewed that home game for us as a neutral site, and likely feel the same about usf.
Oh they will definitely outdraw USF fans and I'm sure they view it as a way to get fans in Tampa an easier way to see their school. USF in 2022 might have a brutal schedule - UF, Texas, and Louisville. Who knows who will be good then but at least for name recognition its a hell of schedule.