UCF Thread - President of the Pledges

Shit is tough to watch right now

 

Shots not falling. We look a bit out of sorts. This looks like the end.

 

Live by the 3, die by the 3

 

TCU hammered GT.

 

Flying in today for a convention. Any new bars or restaurants I need to try? Haven't spent much time in Orlando in the last 3-4 years.

 

Florida Mall but I will have a rental car.

 

Bored this morning so actually looked up those basketball transfers that will be playing next year. So we are getting a pure PG in Allen, a 3 pt specialist 6'4 guard in Griffin, a 6'11 Lithuanian, and Aubrey Dawkins on top of some decent recruits. That's a really good team on paper.

 

Sp after winning the series against #11 Houston, what's our outlook ROS in baseball? Are we a top 3 team in the league? NCAA chances?

 

Not too bad an outlook. We get Bozeman back at SS this week, so that's pretty big for us. He was basically given the award for best defensive player in JUCO before coming to UCF. After he went out, our defense has been really bad, and it's lost us at least one or two games. He has a decent bat that contribute a little too.

Our pitching staff is about as good as it's been in a long time. No single overpowering guy, but the staff in general is very good, and our staff ERA is top 5 in the nation.

Our bats are the problem, and we really don't have a ton of pop in the lineup and are mostly a station to station type team. If we don't make the regional, that will be why.

In terms of the AAC, I think we're in contention for top 3 in the conference, we have a chance to win the tournament if the bats get hot. If we make a regional, it will probably be as a borderline 2-3 seed.

RPI presently in the 30's and 40's, and this series against USF coming up will be a pretty big indicator of what to expect the rest of the way. I was very surprised we took down Houston in the series last weekend.

 

Danny White is no longer Coach of the Arizona Rattlers?

 

I expect Tacko back at school next season. Lol he is no where close to a NBA player.

 

If he leaves we are super thin on bigs.

 

i never even considered he might leave, i can't imagine him playing in the NBA in a year's time.
At least one more year of college ball will do him a world of good.

 

I mean Wichita will bring the league NCAa basketball credits that are worth millions and further legitimizes the conference so we can possibly get more NCAA bids.

 

yes

 

who has been the #1 QB in spring so far?

 

Everything I have heard is Milton is still the clear #1. I also heard a sound byte the other day where frost was talking up DiNovo too so...there is that

 

ugh, DiNovo?
I can believe that Milton makes a big jump in his second year, we've seen that happen in the past. But we've seen nothing from DiNovo.
I am hoping some of the new recruits are good enough to push for 2nd/3rd string.

 

That's nothing new with DiNovo, he has always been said to look really good in practice. I doubt Scott falls for it like George did, I'm thinking he is just trying to drum up some more competition

 

Milton is the only real QB we have in spring.

Everyone who has given an interview has said that Milton has had an incredible spring and looks a lot better. They have all also universally said that TreQuan looks like a beast, Richie Grant looks really good, Brandon Moore looks really good, and that (believe it or not) the OL has been so much better thus far. If it was just CSF and a few kids doing the usual talking points stuff, I would dismiss it, but they're all giving the same reports. So unless they were coached to say the same names look good and the OL looks good...I'm inclined to think that the OL may have stepped up.

 

If the OL makes any sort of significant improvement, that alone will make Milton's play much better regardless of if he has improved his own game (which hopefully he has). Our OL was total dog shit last year

 

I think people underestimate just how much worse Milton played in the second half of the season once Hudanick went down and Milton had the leg/ankle injury (and supposedly he also had an elbow injury going on or something like that too). He wasn't incredible, but I think about how he looked against Maryland, and he really wasn't THAT bad other than the stupid fumbles, which were mostly corrected after that game.

 

Have you guys ever done any escape rooms? What were some fun things you had to do in them? Were there any boring puzzles?

 

I did that one while visiting actually. It was pretty cool. The tech in there was pretty nice. Did you escape?

My wife and I are starting one where we live but we're building a room into a cargo trailer and focusing on corporate events and fairs. It wouldn't do well in Orlando I think with the dozens of rooms you have there but here in the Midwest it's still a newish thing and many of these rural towns don't have any within a half hour.

We're putting all the puzzles in a flowchart now and it's a real pain in the ass trying to make this fun and challenging but easy enough that people can get out.

 

We got a 24' climate controlled trailer so we don't need a CDL to transport it but we looked into doing that.

We'll be a shortened room of 40 min and only 3-6 maximum.

Creating puzzles and tech that works is sort of a pain in the ass though yeah.

 

Apparently AAC apparel exists. Come on by the tennis campus to get your AAC coffee mugs and tennis championship shirts!!

 

Vs usf tomorrow in AAC men's tennis championship. May check it out.

 

Helmets made me audibly say oh shit.

 

So our second team is really leading our first team. That's pretty concerning.

 

Didn't have any fucks to give about going today, but those helmets are pretty sick and pretty much what I've been wanting for the last like 3 seasons

 

We've had so many helmets now I've lost track. I didn't even realize the ones from yesterday we anything new.

 

ESPN ranks the top draft factories. UCF the only non power 5 team in the top 10.

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/st...tball-programs-produce-best-worst-nfl-players