TheUpperHand

Severe NCAA violations followed by crippling sanctions to put the nail in the revenue sports?

Can confirm. Fan Fest happened to fall on my birthday one year. He told me "Hey, that's great! That's really special. It's a great day for a birthday! That's real powerful!"

Doesn't matter. There's a thread dedicated to him already and it's been revealed that he's only allowed to talk to UCF.

Stinks especially because if I'm not mistaken we're still waiting to hear what the big news with Quinton Flowers was. Could be seeing a worst case scenario of both Porter and Flowers leaving and no QB in this class.

Chuck was pretty solid, no doubt about it. I'd need to see another good year out of him, though. Wouldn't mind throwing some more money at Cooper, either. Realistically, though, Taggart would probably resign rather than lose out to one of his subordinates. Probably look for a coordinator position at a P5 school that needs to recruit Florida. Anyways, I'd imagine that keeping him on staff would probably cause some divisiveness in the locker room and/or hurt his standing among our recruits.

So how will this be decided? Automated voting or post count?

Forgot all about that. That'd be an interesting move.

Good move. I felt Sheridan was a bad hire from the beginning. We needed to bring in someone with a good amount of experience coaching or playing and he had neither. There's too much on the line for glorified GAs to get their feet wet. Wells was too small time a hire. Hiring positional coaches this way is OK, I guess but Willie needs to go outside his WKU cronies for OCs and DCs. Bresnahan turned out to be a great hire. If he can look for DTs in Bellevue, WA, he can look for coaches outside his circle of friends.

Only CWT knows but it wouldn't be a bad idea. According to the article he's 6'1" 202. Pretty good size and speed.

He won't be here next year. He got accepted into the Big 12. When's the presser? As soon as athletics can secure an interpreter for Rocky's farewell speech. They heard that the guy from the Mandela funeral is pretty affordable.

Does that mean it's time to unlock the AW thread?

He won't be here next year. He got accepted into the Big 12.

That's the problem. She's evidently not trying hard enough

This has been my biggest fear since UCF got added to the conference. I got called a UCF troll the last time I suggested it, but it's not outside the realm of possibility. Cincinatti is 65-21 since 2007, bridges a geographic gap between Iowa State and West Virginia, is rennovating and expanding their facilities,is 35 spots higher in this year's Best Colleges ranking than either USF or UCF, and dwarves their combined endowments. The main drawback is that Cincinnati is a relatively small TV market and Ohio State pretty much has the state and surrounding area on lockdown. Additionally, leaving USF behind leaves UCF without a conference rivalry, but I'm sure the Knights wouldn't care at that point since they'd be sitting on a mountain of TV money and could care less who they played. At that point USF would sell it's soul for a 2:1 against them just so they could feed off of scraps and get some exposure outside of the dying AAC. Doug would sell it as "a great opportunity for the Bulls to compete against the highest level of competition," as if it was a good thing. The future of college football as written by Stephen King.

We won $20,000. It would be interesting to see how much money UCF actually gets after paying for all of the unsold tickets they had, and the division among the rest of us. So technically, USF got more than $20,000 yesterday...cha ching! And we didn't have to do diddly squat!! The trophy is worth $1 million. You'd better believe George O'Leary is driving through Las Vegas on the way home to take a stop at the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop and see what Rick Harrison will give him for it.

Age will be a factor there. I'd be surprised if GOL would want to start over again somewhere else or if another team would want to hire someone very near retirement. UCF's DC jumped ship to become the head coach at Rhode Island.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gSQg1i_q2g

Not sure why it wouldn't, the announcers even broached the subject. Not saying it will do anything, but it will be a topic in sports news, almost certainly, when discussing the bowl season and transition to the new format. Because the AAC was 4-8 against P5 teams this season and 2 of those wins were by teams that will not be here next year. The AAC is currently 2-2 in bowl games. One of those wins is by a team that will not be here next year. The AAC had no OOC wins over a ranked opponent in the regular season. That means the case for the AAC to become a power conference is: Cincinatti beat Purdue. UCF beat Penn State. UCF beat #6 Baylor. If anything it makes a case for a P5 conference to snatch UCF. If the AAC champ can beat the Big 12 champ is enough to get the argument going. You are talking about teams in transition. UCF is one of the only current stable AAC teams with a long term coaching staff. Yes, I see where you're coming from. However, the WAC did the same thing in 2006. Boise State beat the Big 12 Champion (Oklahoma). That didn't mean that they should have been proclaimed a BCS conference. The AAC wants to have the same respect that the Big East did. In order for that to happen, it needs to do what the Big East did in 2004 (when UM and VT left) and have 2-3 teams step up. The first year after Miami and VT split, Pitt finished the season in the Top 25. West Virginia spent most of that season ranked as well and had some good wins. The next year, WVU finished at #5 and Louisville came in and had an impressive showing. USF knocked off the #9 team (Louisville). In 2006, three teams finished the season ranked. Conference members were having some decent showings in bowls and OOC games. We need a few years of that in order for us to have the power conference talk. There will no onger be any BCS games to showcase our teams. Unfortunately, the AAC has a much tougher road ahead of it than the Big East did ten years ago. It was contractually locked into a BCS game, it had a decent TV contract, the talent of the leftover teams was pretty good. In short, the Big East was in a pretty good position when it went through it's rebuilding and for the rest of it's existence and there were still naysayers arguing that it didn't belong as a power conference. We're nowhere near having that conversation now.

All of our concession and parking money had to go somewhere. I guess it's better than what the Glazers were doing with it before...

Not sure why it wouldn't, the announcers even broached the subject. Not saying it will do anything, but it will be a topic in sports news, almost certainly, when discussing the bowl season and transition to the new format. Because the AAC was 4-8 against P5 teams this season and 2 of those wins were by teams that will not be here next year. The AAC is currently 2-2 in bowl games. One of those wins is by a team that will not be here next year. The AAC had no OOC wins over a ranked opponent in the regular season. That means the case for the AAC to become a power conference is: Cincinatti beat Purdue. UCF beat Penn State. UCF beat #6 Baylor. If anything it makes a case for a P5 conference to snatch UCF.

Tragically comic.

!.2 Million Trophy http://www.clickorlando.com/news/ucf-to-fight-for-500k-tostitos-fiesta-bowl-trophy/-/1637132/23725224/-/13l3bqcz/-/index.html Ugh. Any word yet on what our mascot trophy is worth?

What a nightmare. On the plus-side, maybe everyone will finally stop confusing us with UCF?

George O'Leary is one of the worst things to ever happen to HDTV. My TV has to adjust it's yellow levels whenever he's onscreen.

Both teams very careless with the ball tonight