ArmyBull

This - even while it may be the smallest sliver of hope for expansion in the coming years, there is no evidence that we will be in a different position than we are right now. We are trending sideways(because we are already at the bottom) Football wise this season is already looking like another disaster. I am sure we will learn more when conference play starts. The majority of the AAC is also a disaster so maybe we will rise to the top of the disaster heap. I get triggered about stadium talk. For years I have been making that point and the common retorts have always been something along the lines of that our fans expect a pro stadium atmosphere (which is a big problem for a team that needs to develop a college football culture) and the stadium must be xxx million because we can’t build something less expensive. We need a 35000 seat stadium that can expand to 50000 if need be. Build it out aluminum, hemp, plastic, whatever. Just get it on campus so everyone can actually go to USF for the games.

Honestly, I have no idea anymore who in this place is an actual USF fan or a ucf fan.

This well placed logic did not work for me when I wanted Alyssa Milano to be my wife in the late 1990s

And they need to be vocal about, make football a priority, tell the world about our plans, have a freaking vision that is football focused. Football has been, is, and will continue to be the driver. If the admin can't grasp that, then keep pushing on to be the Harvard of the south. Make a financial investment into football's future and stop waiting for donors to step up.... build it and they will come. It baffles me that the admin could not see this years ago. When the roof was coming off the "new sombrero," that was the time to capitalize, and we did squat. Anyway, maybe this will be the time the admin decides to wake up, and get a freaking loan, pan handle on the streets, hire of bunch of day traders, put up a craig's list ad for some bitcoin hackers...... just DO SOMETHING!

Now that is funny.

O.C.S. 10 years ago.

FAU/FIU are a lock, my bet is FAU. App State is a no brainer. Coastal.... don't know, very recent success which would be the only reason to add them. Perhaps Boise would come if the deal was sweet enough, but doubt it. La Tech, probably. Marshall, North Texas, UAB, plenty of options to bring in quality programs.

Army will not come.

It will be coming in hot all week: https://twitter.com/CAustinCox/status/1433903654369730564?s=20

This, hopefully the CFP changes keep trending toward playoff expansion. We still have a future. BUT, we have to make football a priority. The teams left, Memphis, Navy, SMU, plus whoever they bring in are not exactly teams we have dominated. The newbies plus those listed above are already better programs than we are. It is not like we just missed the cut for Big 12 consideration.

So we are further relegated to "buy games" to survive? Further, no chance to be one of the 6 best conference champions (assuming the CFP continues to trend that way).

And those teams that no one cares about (Coastal, App State, FAU, etc.) could likely boat race us this year.

Same, it will be the day that never should have never happened. P.S. Judy was right to keep ucf out of the Big East, she was looking out for our best interest. Unfortunately, it was about the only right move she made.

Can you just leave already?

McClain throws a nice ball

We are a second half team.

Cade looks lost.

Good to be back, but yikes!

We have been at this for years. For those wondering the how, why, and what reasons of ucf being all over the expansion news and not us... you simply have not been paying attention or you are being intentionally dense. Number one, they have been winning (and winning when it matters) and we have not. Number two, they have built facilities and we have not (not even going to go into the cultural and fan interaction benefits that an OCS would have done for us the past decade). Number three, look at the donor base (embarrassing). Number four, the coaching hires were just bad luck, but while we were firing coaches, ucf's coaches were leaving for better jobs. Number four, attendance, again embarrassing and the reasons don't matter, because it is what it is and it has been what it is for a long time. Number five, our administration could never produce the vision that was happening to the East and in all honesty, I blame them the most. Judy, Woolard, Harlan, just bad decision after bad decision.

Dear Jesus...

Will ND keep that wagon hitched if we go to the 12-team playoffs?

My guess is yes, because the same reasons will exist.

Bologna!! UC, Memphis, ucf, and Houston to a degree, have done just fine and have elevated their brands in the AAC. We, due to poor management on several levels, have wasted our years and our brand has suffered. Q was on the cusp of taking us to the AAC championship game in 2017... who knows what would have happened had we won. The AAC is not our problem, we are our problem.

We can agree.... you want us to become Uconn, constant buy games and home games against FCS opponents. The BYU comments were meant to display the independents inability to make anything meaningful out of the post season with the current and proposed formats. Even Notre Dame knows this and hitched their wagon to the ACC.

How is independence working out for BYU? They can't even get to an NY6. We can see how it would work out for us, take a look at Uconn.