Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[Bulls Are We]

You know its a bye week when this thread rears its ugly head.  

[NewEnglandBull]

You know its a bye week when this thread rears its ugly head.

Wait until the off season...again.

[Bullschmutz]

Funny how he doesn't want the Florida team that repeatedly beat him to join the Big 12.

[Triple B]

 

 

One season makes UCF relevant, wow that is just stupid business decision and shortsighted.

 

This maybe true.  However, it is all about popularity, advertising, and money.  And when comparing recent popularity between the two without fan bias, popularity sways into the field of UCF due to national TV games and the outcomes of those games.  And media will reflect this.  One just has to take a step back and see it.  Like it or not, it is what it is.

 

As I stated prior though.  A program has to win to get the spotlight put on them.

 

Overall potential for both schools is up there.  Growth potential, athletic potential, academic potential.

People tend to forget in 2007 the spotlight was put onto USF (prior to their conference collapse).  Even Mark May on ESPN was making a case how USF should have been #1 and not Ohio State due to strength of schedule and quality wins.

 

Win and the spotlight returns and media coverage returns.  (examples:  Boise State BCS buster, Hawaii with Colt Brennen, 2007 USF, Utah's undefeated season with Meyer as HC, etc...)

 

 

Yes, we live in a "what have you done" lately society.

 

If that was the philosophy being used in conference realignment, UConn and Cincy would have jumped Syracuse and Rutgers in line ..

 

Considering we're now in the same conference and we are essentially the same school in terms of everything (minus OCS), they have jumped us.

 

Just a hunch or do you have some kind of evidence of that ...?

[CPR]

Just a hunch. As of this year, so far, they have jumped us.

[Bullschmutz]

Yeah, its dumb to use one season to make a fifty year decision.

[Triple B]

Just a hunch. As of this year, so far, they have jumped us.

 

Hopefully, if it comes down to just one of us, I hope your hunch sucks ....

[Apis Bull]

I still think if it happens we're a package deal.

[TrujilloBull2013]

Funny how he doesn't want the Florida team that repeatedly beat him to join the Big 12.

 

not really, because according to this article the power of his advocacy of a Florida school joining the B12 is incumbent upon his becoming AD of UTexas. we've never beaten UTexas. UCF did come close, however.

 

if anything his familiarity with USF would be a bonus: he knows about our school, our facilities, our academics and our program... this is also one of the reasons i believe the article's mention of UCF was arbitrary; just look at the ratings/rankings/exposure of the current season and name the Florida school at the top of the list. if FAU or FIU were having a break-out year and UCF was "down" as is USF, those schools would be mentioned. it is purely supposition based on the current landscape... very little to do with the broader reality of what goes into conference expansion.

 

 

one thing i will say, tho, is that USF certainly picked a **** time to hit the lowest point of the program. not sure how much foresight into realignment Dougie Dub had in 2009 when he shitcanned Leavitt, but if he had any foreknowledge whatsoever it probably would have been a smarter move to stick with Leavitt, maintain continuity and ride out the McMurphy-fueled media "firestorm." whatever did or didn't happen between Leavitt and the kid in the locker room is less relevant than perception, and a he-said/she-said hearsay situation could have been weathered with a little patience. instead we got Kragholtzed and the perception of the program is no longer a step just beneath the "Big 3" and above the "other 3" but well beneath the Big 3, beneath UCF, and wallowing in the squalor of the "other 3" F_U land. sucks, but it is what it is.

[CPR]

 

Just a hunch. As of this year, so far, they have jumped us.

 

Hopefully, if it comes down to just one of us, I hope your hunch sucks ....

 

Me too