Bull94 Posted January 31, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 22 Content Count: 8,722 Reputation: 992 Days Won: 23 Joined: 02/02/2005 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I would think we would be at least as desirable as UCF especially considering our larger stadium. + > we're an hour away from disney. we're a lot closer to top beaches. we have a stadium that can accomodate a large traveling fanbase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull94 Posted January 31, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 22 Content Count: 8,722 Reputation: 992 Days Won: 23 Joined: 02/02/2005 Share Posted January 31, 2013 With the Leavitt settlement and still having to pay Holtz a portion of his salary, I think Joe's right, scheduling ODU seems to be a matter of economics. We just don't have the cash. Then schedule home and home with some BCS teams that will at least increase the home attendance. I know it's not as easy said as does, but this is just strait up embarrassing. As our conference deteriorates around us we need to schedule stronger OOC opponents to compensate and we get ODU... SO in essence we'll play a road game at a 1AA school. It's more than absurd. There's no TV money in it. It's just bad at every angle. Ok, we're not going to get Alabama or Nebraska in a home and home, but for the love of god why not get FAU or FIU. Pick a school that might actually help the home attendance... that's the logic that fails them. if we signed a 1 for 1 with south carolina not only would it not cost a penny but we would sell tons more tickets and might get tv money. we are losing out on a ton of money by scheduling ODU instead of a decent BCS opponent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smazza Posted January 31, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 9,898 Content Count: 66,091 Reputation: 2,434 Days Won: 172 Joined: 01/01/2001 Share Posted January 31, 2013 (edited) Surprised this wasn't up here already Looks like we are signing a one and one with Old Dominion. Sorry don't have the link- it's on Greg's blog. Head scratcher there. Our neighbors to the northeast get Texas, South Carolina, Ohio State, Ect on their schedule and we get....Old Dominion. the ridiculous scheduling continues old doninion in football? absurd this is why usf is stuck in the mud with dumb decisions like this our leaders think small time it is embarassing Edited January 31, 2013 by smazza 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TherapyBull Posted January 31, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 38 Content Count: 197 Reputation: 5 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/2011 Share Posted January 31, 2013 This sucks, we all know it. You can try to find excuses but it still sucks. If it walks talks and acts like a duck, its a duck. Terrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatDaddyBull Posted January 31, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 34 Content Count: 2,166 Reputation: 225 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/09/2012 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Unless we've got a lot of big things brewing, which of course is possible, this is not good at all. If we are in a big conference, no big deal, but if not, every possible game should be against a team in one of the power conferences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who'sYourData? Posted January 31, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 410 Content Count: 19,525 Reputation: 992 Days Won: 24 Joined: 09/01/2006 Share Posted January 31, 2013 We had a home and home with Ball State. Why is everyone so shocked about this potential deal? You can't play Michigan every week. The sky is falling! The sky is falling! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South_Florida_Flip Posted January 31, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 99 Content Count: 10,565 Reputation: 93 Days Won: 7 Joined: 05/14/2005 Share Posted January 31, 2013 we have a stadium that can accomodate a large traveling fanbase. Especially one like Penn State Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaltLiquorBull Posted January 31, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 96 Content Count: 4,078 Reputation: 1,389 Days Won: 14 Joined: 01/09/2006 Share Posted January 31, 2013 (edited) We had a home and home with Ball State. Why is everyone so shocked about this potential deal? You can't play Michigan every week. The sky is falling! The sky is falling! No. But once every few seasons would be nice. The sky is not falling by any means. But adding a home and home series against ODU is not that exciting to me. Edited January 31, 2013 by MaltLiquorBull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldenbuc Posted January 31, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 158 Content Count: 711 Reputation: 18 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/19/2002 Share Posted January 31, 2013 (edited) UCF has yet to "kill a giant", and USC, Penn St, and others still see UCF as a weakling C-USA school who can't beat the big boys (and they're probably writing off the UGA bowl upset as a fluke and that UGA didn't get up for that game, and the fact UGA was only 6-6 anyways). 2012 and 2013 are UCF's litmus test. So far they have failed at home against Missouri (and that was winnable) and on the road at Ohio State. This year they get a road test with Penn State and Missouri, and a home test against USC. If they manage to win some of those games, they might cause other schools to think twice, but as of now, UCF is a good team on it's own level but still can't get over the hump. USF isn't the team of yesteryear, but our history shows that we're dangerous and get up against the big boys. We didn't get it done against FSU or Miami this year, but the overall season was a tanker, and even in our abysmal 2011 year, we still managed to squeak by Notre Dame and that's enough to keep some of the bigger schools from risking us on the schedule. Think of it like this: schedule with USF and risk them getting over on you, or go with UCF, who is now on a "level" field with USF (people see a win over a Big East school and it still looks better than C-USA or FCS, SunBelt, etc), and who hasn't had the history of upsets. The Mizzou game last year was very disappointing and was very winnable. Ohio State was 12-0 last year, so that loss wasn't too bad. UCF getting these schedules was mostly due to good timing. Penn State lost an OOC game vs. Virginia next year, because Virginia had to make room for another school. We were set to have a home game with KSU, last year, but they bailed on that game the last minute and we were lucky that Mizzou had open dates, due to their new SEC schedule. We had also lost a home and home scheduled with UConn for 2013 and 2015, because of the new Big East schedule starting in 2013, so everything just fell into place, regarding South Carolina. UCF did seek PSU after hearing about the Virginia game falling through to replace BCC. UCF wanted to strengthen their schedule going forward, as well. The PSU deal eliminates BCC in 2013 and Jacksonville State in 2014, so we won't have any more 1-AA games on our schedule going forward, if possible. However, after all of this expansion is done...who knows what our future schedules will even look like. For PSU...you also have to factor in that they don't get to go to any bowl games for a while. So scheduling games in destination/vacation type cities would be pretty attractive for them and their fans, although it's not so much for the team, itself. Plus, they just had to pay $50 million if fees due to the NCAA hammer on them, so this doing more 1-1 deals, would make sense...and why not get one in Florida, where a lot of their alumni live, anyhow. For now, this is UCF's OOC Scheduling Breakdown the next few years: 2013 AKRON @ FIU @ Penn State (not official) SOUTH CAROLINA 2014 FIU PENN STATE @ Missouri BYU 2015 @ South Carolina 2016 @ Maryland 2017 @ Texas Maryland Edited January 31, 2013 by Goldenbuc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScherdinNine18 Posted January 31, 2013 Group: Member Topic Count: 9 Content Count: 276 Reputation: 11 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/23/2012 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Question...do you think other schools are fearing we are rebounding and might be hesitant to play us? We have a good rep for beating OOC teams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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