College football rivalries... USF/UCF mentioned

[Brad]

1 hour ago, puc86 said:

See I told you we agree on most of it, the only part we differ on is a purely hypothetical thought experiment. On the main points I seriously worry about the people that do not agree. 

[NewEnglandBull]

Assume UCF is not our rival? Then who is? To say no one is pretty sad. To say ECU is about just as sad. Temple maybe one day but not yet. WVU? Ville? They are long gone. 

Edited May 25, 2018 by NewEnglandBull

[Triple B]

2 hours ago, Triple B said:

• if it’s a good thing (It's not)
• if we should celebrate it (No way in hell)
• if should we have had any power to stop it if doing so would be ethical/manly (If we REALLY had power to stop, which is doubtful, it would have been both manly and ethical under the Darwinian theory of natural selection)

 

2 hours ago, puc86 said:

See I told you we agree on most of it, the only part we differ on is a purely hypothetical thought experiment. On the main points I seriously worry about the people that do not agree. 

I seriously worry about them, too ....

[Triple B]

43 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Assume UCF is not our rival?

The bullet points from puc were regarding my comment " I don't think anyone here is saying UCF didn't benefit greatly, " .... The rival thing is separate, with more components.

[NewEnglandBull]

Just now, Triple B said:

The bullet points from puc were regarding my comment " I don't think anyone here is saying UCF didn't benefit greatly, " .... The rival thing is separate, with more components.

Got it but that seemed to be the topic of the thread. 

[Triple B]

7 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Got it but that seemed to be the topic of the thread. 

"Topic of the thread" ..... you're kidding, right??

[Bull Dozer]

3 minutes ago, Triple B said:

"Topic of the thread" ..... you're kidding, right??

Like all threads here, this one is topic fluid 

[Brad]

Still some hard feelings about the UCF rival thing. 

Older folks would remember, and younger folks would scoff, but for a while there we felt we were building good rivalries vs. UL and vs. WVU.  In those wonderful days, some people bitched that we couldn’t develop a rivalry with those great programs because they weren’t close enough to Fowler, geographically speaking.  

[charsibb]

2 hours ago, Brad said:

Still some hard feelings about the UCF rival thing. 

Older folks would remember, and younger folks would scoff, but for a while there we felt we were building good rivalries vs. UL and vs. WVU.  In those wonderful days, some people bitched that we couldn’t develop a rivalry with those great programs because they weren’t close enough to Fowler, geographically speaking.  

File that one under "Be careful what you wish for..."

[Triple B]

3 hours ago, Brad said:

Older folks would remember, and younger folks would scoff, but for a while there we felt we were building good rivalries vs. UL and vs. WVU.

And don't forget Rutgers. The IFP game is how rivalries begin to ferment ...