Sir Galahad Wrote:Most people don't understand why UCF is where they are and USF is where they are. I give credit to USF because they were at the right place at the right time.
That is a crock. USF has been around longer than UCF but the administration did not sanction college athletics until the early 1970s. So UCF and USF had similar start up times in terms of sports. Every opportunity available to USF was also available to UCF.
Quote:I will also say, USf has accomplished nothing on the field that UCF has not.
Really?
1. BCS conference
2. Beaten two Top 25 opponents in football since going DIA just 5 years ago. USF has also beaten a bunch of BCS programs whereas UCF's lone to claim to fame is beating a down and out 3-8 Alabama team.
3. At large bid from a solid basketball program instead of an autobid from the TAAC
4. Beaten a handful of Top 25 basketball opponents. Beaten many national programs as well.
5. Six outs away from the College World Series....
6. got into all sports conference before UCF....
I could go on but until UCF can boast about any of these it's just sour grapes
Quote:The difference between the two schools, the Sundome. The state of Florida gave USF the sundome back in the 70's and they used that to build a solid basketball program in the 80's and early 90's.
Wrong again, the State of Florida paid for about half of the SunDome and made that offer to all State schools including UCF. Just b/c your leadership had no clue is not USF's fault.
Quote:That basketball program kept them in the Metro Conference, which turned into CUSA, which, when they decidede to start a football program, got their football team into a conference before UCF could.
Do you even get tired of playing the victim card? Once again bad leadership kept UCF out of a conference. C-USA approached UCF back in early 1990s about joining the nascent league. UCF thought they were "better" than CUSA and dimwittedly not only dismissed the idea of joining the new league but talk badly about the league in public.
UCF could have been in the Metro Conferene, but our AD was more a a football guy and did not want any part of a basketball conference.
Quote:Basically, USF and UCF are twins when it comes to Universities in the aspect of age, stuent body and studies. USF has a medical school, UCF has focused on more undergraduate stuff and specialty schools such as laser research and Computer Science. Now UCF will get a medical school and USF is expanding their undergrad stuff. Either way, it all comes down to a gift the State of Florida gave USF over 30 years ago.
You are almost right about this one. USF understood early on that national recognition could be better attained by emphasizing graduate education. It's easier to focus on undergraduate education, b/c there is no inherent creation of knowledge as there is in graduate education. Thus it's going to be much easier for USF to bolster it's undergrad education to a Top 50 public university level than it's going to be for UCF to reach USF's level of research funding. Growing a medical school is a long term project, something many who think UCF will immediately compete with UF and USF for funding dollars have no clue about.
Quote:You are right about blame, UCF deserves a lot of blame for having the wrong leadership in place during the early 90's. Steve Sloan, our AD, was completely asleep at the wheel. He did not have the mental abilities to help UCF grow, he was never meant to be a big time AD.
Agree, but funny how most USF fans were saying this for years until it became obvious that Sloan and Krapchek were ignorant sloths.
Quote:USF is in the Big East, good for them, will UCF be in the Big East, probably the way things are looking, but either way, UCF is moving forward without the Big East.
Really? Where is your invite? Where is the evidence that the BE is going to expand? Unless UCF comes football only I doubt that UCF is going to be changing leagues anytime soon. It would be more correct to say that Big East moved forward without UCF.
Quote:Come 2007, when Texas is at UCF or the opening of the new arena, it won't matter if UCF is in a BCS conference or not, the experiance that UCF fans will feel on our own campus will rival or surpass those of any Big East school. And if Big East fans really think that UCF is not worthy of a an invite, I would say you need to stop reading these boards, take a trip down to Orlando and see it for yourself.
You act like BigEast schools have not hosted big time opponents, which is ludicrous considering the storied programs inthe BigEast such as Pitt, WVU and Syracuse. All these programs have gone to a BCS bowl game over the last 10 years. Similarly, not only has UL hosted bigtime programs like FSU but actually beat them, something that UCF will not do against Texas. Sure you will have a nice gate for your stadium opener, but that would have happened anyways. However how many of those bandwagon fans are going to show up for you CDOA schedule? Bandwagon? Yes, b/c if they weren't where are they now when you can't even sell more season tickets than a 9 year old program?
Quote:there is never a comparison when it comes to on campus versus off campus for games.
Do you know how stupid you sound? Most BigEast schools have their own stadium. Furthermore, Rutgers has been on campus for over 100 years and that hasn't helped thme program wise until recently. Are you also suggesting that programs like USC, UCLA, Miami etc are suffering b/c they do not have a on campus stadium?
Quote:UCF realizes that and is not only building the stadium and arena, but also built a first class Alumni Center across the street from the 100,000 square feet of retail, bars and restaurants lined along the stadium drive. It will be an all day/all weekend activity. Compared to getting in and out of the ghetto around the Citrus Dump, the football world will see why we UCF fans think we have something very special.
1. Last time I checked Universities were designed to educate students, research and other scholarly pursuits. Nowhere have I seen that it is important to create an entertainment distric for alumni visiting campus 6 times a year for football and 14 times for basketball.
2. Miami plays in less than a stellar neighborhood and that hasn't stopped them from having a special program.
3. Most universities have an alumni center. USF just finished expanding their alumni center.....congrats, welcome to the 21st century
Bottom line: UCF is finally doing some good things, but the bottom line is winning on the field. Until that happens against respected opponents it doesn't matter unless you want to field a Patriot League type of team. O'Liar is lucky that he can recruit low risk, non-athletic stiffs and still compete in CUSA. That speaks volumes for the quality of the league but also begs the question about when is O'Liar really going to earn his money? Is winning CDOA enough? Because you are not recruiting the kind of athletes that will let you be competitve on a national level. If being at the level of Boise State is enough for UCF fans more power to you. Every year Boise State gets a lot of pub and goes through their conference schedule with very little resistance. However when it came to strapping it on against real competition, such as Georgia last year they got waxed.
Sure building a Boise State type program will get you ranked in the Top 25, but you will always know that it's second class to a succesful BCS program. That is what USF is trying to build. We are not there yet but we are getting better every year.