(05-20-2015 06:04 AM)St. H. Gink Wrote: Some of you are putting too much thought into and/or missing the point of the article. It's not saying that UCF-Cincy is a rivalry. It's saying that based on the new AAC divisional alignments and given our conference records historically, this will be one of the Top 10 emerging rivalries. Key word: emerging.
Also, the comparison to FSU-Clemson in the ACC Atlantic is just that, a simple comparison based on their similar divisional alignment and conference success. To the point about recruiting, UCF and Cincinnati actually do recruit at a different level than do the bottom tier teams in the division, save for USF.
Only time will really tell and as someone mentioned, expansion may have a say in this. However, as it stands right now, I can see why the author made that opinion.
usf out recruits everyone in that league
ucf isnt a good recruiting team, they are a good developmental team, the last few years has been their best recruiting classes and that was from "joining the big east" and bcs bump and they technically aren't crazy enough to write home about..
traditionally ecu/ucf recruit at the same level
temple the last 2 years under their new coach has been recruiting at the ucf/cincy level...
cincy is marginally better than everyone in the division not usf but are still riding their bcs/aq buzz, im curious to see them when the dust settles.
uconn is the only team in the east that cant recruit, and they make up for it with the biggest athletic budget in the league.
ucf nor cincy are at a recruiting and athletic budget department advantage in their division nowhere remotely close to the fsu/clemson divide in the atlantic. they could easily end up regular powers in the division, who knows but the clemson/fsu comparison is ridiculous, fsu is a top 10 recruiting team, clemson is a top 15 recruiting team, recently added UL is the closest at around the 35 to 40 range.. the remaining 4 recruit at the aac level...fsu and clemson will walk into a advantage almost every divisional game they play (conference as aswell)..with athletic budgets around similar ratios
honestly the only team you could argue something like that for would be Houston in the west
also "Key word: emerging"....emerging means becoming apparent, important, or prominent. ucf and cincy have never played.....emerging makes no sense, something that doesnt exist cant be emerging, "potential rivalry" makes sense