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One of our big selling points in moving to the Big East had nothing to do with football.

During our time in C-USA, the Bulls won more conference championships than any other school.

 

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A few things to remember. 

UCF was a MAC school in football and A-Sun school in everything else. C-USA and Mountain West were considered the best non BCS leagues. Obviously from a geography standpoint C-USA was the only one that made sense for the Big East to poach from.  

UCF at the time the Big East was expanding was a full member of the A-Sun (which didn't have football) ... which was a huge step below Jacksonville in the Sun Belt. UCF was in the same league as Samford (make sure you check the spelling, I didn't say Stanford), Campbell and Lipscomb. They were never an option for the Big East as a all sport member. The only shot they had was if the Big East wanted a football only member (like Temple had been before and Navy is now) ... that USF might not be interested in letting all our other teams rot in the A-Sun. 

Being left in C-USA wasn't a death sentence, Army, TCU, ECU and Houston all remained, so it was still a viable league. We also never really experienced being big time football, we really didn't earn our way into the Big East, we were just in the right place at the right time. 

Now, things are different.  

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13 minutes ago, Mike Stuben said:

A few things to remember. 

UCF was a MAC school in football and A-Sun school in everything else. C-USA and Mountain West were considered the best non BCS leagues. Obviously from a geography standpoint C-USA was the only one that made sense for the Big East to poach from.  

UCF at the time the Big East was expanding was a full member of the A-Sun (which didn't have football) ... which was a huge step below Jacksonville in the Sun Belt. UCF was in the same league as Samford (make sure you check the spelling, I didn't say Stanford), Campbell and Lipscomb. They were never an option for the Big East as a all sport member. The only shot they had was if the Big East wanted a football only member (like Temple had been before and Navy is now) ... that USF might not be interested in letting all our other teams rot in the A-Sun. 

Being left in C-USA wasn't a death sentence, Army, TCU, ECU and Houston all remained, so it was still a viable league. We also never really experienced being big time football, we really didn't earn our way into the Big East, we were just in the right place at the right time. 

Now, things are different.  

Great perspective, thanks for adding.

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20 hours ago, Mike Stuben said:

A few things to remember. 

UCF was a MAC school in football and A-Sun school in everything else. C-USA and Mountain West were considered the best non BCS leagues. Obviously from a geography standpoint C-USA was the only one that made sense for the Big East to poach from.  

UCF at the time the Big East was expanding was a full member of the A-Sun (which didn't have football) ... which was a huge step below Jacksonville in the Sun Belt. UCF was in the same league as Samford (make sure you check the spelling, I didn't say Stanford), Campbell and Lipscomb. They were never an option for the Big East as a all sport member. The only shot they had was if the Big East wanted a football only member (like Temple had been before and Navy is now) ... that USF might not be interested in letting all our other teams rot in the A-Sun. 

Being left in C-USA wasn't a death sentence, Army, TCU, ECU and Houston all remained, so it was still a viable league. We also never really experienced being big time football, we really didn't earn our way into the Big East, we were just in the right place at the right time. 

Now, things are different.  

 

19 hours ago, raptorcj said:

Great perspective, thanks for adding.

It is a great perspective and good to remember.  It's also sobering and depressing.

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