Sir Robert Peel

I am kinda hoping they do not move Searcy back to DT for our game anyway. He is a pretty good athlete on both sides of the ball and would give some depth at DT.

...DL with the possiblity of McCulloch(sp?) leaving the program... What does a 2 or 3 deep depth chart look like now for DL? How many guys do you have that are 280 pounds or more? How many returning DL do you have with experience and how much? Thanks for the information. Is it football season yet? :-/

What sport did the guy participate in???

With the money problems, I feel bad for the band. There may very well not be a band (at least as it was in the past) from here on out.

As far as I know, once a kid signs he is bound to that school. Unless that school releases him from the contract. As far as eligibilty, I don't think he loses a year of eligibilty if he goes to another school But just a guess. Has there ever been someone who signed with a school and then went to another school before the semester started and played a sport? Interesting.

**This is not intended as a flame or for arguement. I am with you guys about the negative reporting of home town papers, we have the same situation many times. It shouldn't happen as much as it does. However, this seems to be standard practice in the sports world. Look at the CBS, ABC, etc sites each day a new FORMER player of some team is in the news for a criminal incident. If any program had a former player that was arrested (especally if kicked off the team) they will be reported in the news. UCF had this problem in 2002-2003 when a couple of players got arrested or in trouble. FSU, UF and Miami all have former players that are reported in the news after they are arrested. Just ignore the articles if you don't like them. They will not stop, the topics sell newspapers to both fans and non-fans of the USF program.

There goes the UCONN defense.

UCF/USF series will pretty much be happening it looks like.

***Modified by me....Thanks, I am a bit slow tonight!

Here is UCF's actual tight end list. Brown was an unannounced JC signing. He can be found on multiple internet sites as signing with UCF in Feb. This fall there will be 6 scholarship TE's on UCF's roster. Tight Ends Antonio Eldmire Tight End 6-3 250 SR SR Darcy Johnson Tight End 6-5 255 SR SR Sinclair Brown Tight End 6-2 225 JR JR Mike Merritt Tight End 6-3 260 JR SO Travis Ferrer Tight End 6-5 230 FR FR J.R Sandlin Tight End 6-5 248 FR FR

I think it was 5 season you guys have to play a CUSA team. I think the game could be good for both schools as far as attendance goes. The loser will definately hurt as far as perception and recruiting. The first game is very important and I think that if USF loses they will want out and use attendance or or something as the reason. USf will have 5 OOC games each year if the 12 game season goes through. There is no reason that USF couldn't play UCF, it is a matter of do they want to. If USF backs out of the series and plays ANY 1AA schools after they will look like fools. This game will be likely to bring a minimum of 40K for each game. This will be more than most games for UCF and even most of USF. Just because you guys are in the Big East doesn't mean that you will have great attendance (See Miami for example).

I think GOL is trying to get UCF to start thinking and acting like a top divison 1A program. It hurts UCF to sign so many 2 for 1 or 3 for 1 contracts. That is why UCF always plays 4 and 5 games at home each year. We need 6-7 games a year at home to attract fans and stadium money. With a decent crowd on campus they will make more than the 150K-250K they will get for travelling. I like the idea of 1-1's or 2-2's. Easier said than done though...

Yes, they are very big and I share some of your thoughts regarding speed. I hope they can bring decent speed also. Our D ends have very good speed though with Paul Carrington, Glenroy Watkins, etc. I hope the D ends can compensate for any possible speed loss. Who knows, it is just spring, lets see what positions they play in August.

DawgPound is right about the D being to small last year. The UCF linebackers got a serious upgrade in the off season. Chris Welsh was moved to SLB and is 6-4 245-250. The current MLB for spring, Clarence Howard is 6-4 260. Those are huge guys and from what I can see in practice they move pretty well. We shall see how the game speed is though... At runningback I am excited about Jason Peters. He is 6-3 230 pounds and is a brusier. His freshman year in JC he was rated the top JC freshman and led California in rushing yards. He might develop into a good back this year and next.