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This "JBoy Show" interview with Auburn quarterback transfer Bo Nix just dropped on Youtube.

Cliff's:

He first talks about Auburn, feels because he's graduated (in three years) he's fulfilled the obligations he has for himself.

He was then asked if he has a few schools in mind.

"I think when you look at it from afar, the main thing is to go somewhere that needs a quarterback and can kind of make ends meet to what a great team is going to look like. I'm excited to go and find a new team that's eager to continue to have success. I would like to go into a place, like I said, they're just missing a quarterback for the piece of the puzzle to be really good. So that's not everywhere. Not everywhere needs a quarterback. There's a lot of places out there with great quarterbacks and other places about to land a quarterback like me in the transfer portal. A lot of factors go into it. I just want to go somewhere I can have an impact. Somewhere to not only have success, but can bring success to the guys around me and help them succeed. Make my team better, wherever that may be."

How quickly could he have a decision?

"I'm going to continue to take it slow. I'm not necessarily in a huge hurry. I'm going to take my time and go to a place that's a right fit."

He was asked whether conference matters to him, which led to a long quote about the SEC West being the toughest division in college football.

"I've proven I can play in the SEC against great competition and succeed in that situation. It doesn't mean I have to necessarily stay in the SEC. It's more about the school than the schedule. It's the situation. I could play in the SEC or I could not. It doesn't necessarily matter to me."

Time frame?

"I'm taking it as it goes. I don't want to rush. This is the most important decision of my life thus far. I want to go ahead and know so I can start reaching out to people and making connections and hit the ground running when I get there. I'll start when they start the second semester of the year. I want to go into the offseason with confidence knowing where I'm gonna go. That will make the transition easier. The sooner the better, but I won't make a rushed decision that may not be the best for me."

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Was listening to a Kirk Herbstreit interview and he said Gameday was close to going to the Cincy/UCF game on Oct. 16th but the bosses opted to return to Athens (Georgia vs Kentucky) after just being there 2 weeks prior and witnessing a blowout between Georgia and Arkansas. I guess there weren't any other great games the week of Cincy/Tulsa. Too bad, would have been cool for Gameday to be at another one of our games, even though we ended up getting blown out.

I bet we'll see Gameday again soon, within the next couple years.

Section 213, row L. $150 for both

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Any leftists here have objections to this?

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This is interesting.

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SOLD
Listed on Ticketmaster
$50.00 each
Behind home bench, right next to the premium seats, 8 rows from floor
Sec 117
Row H
Seats 2-5

From a Rutgers visit story... Willie Tyler from Louisiana Monroe.

As for a decision, that doesn’t seem to be too far down the road. Next in line will be in-home visits, beginning with none other than the Scarlet Knights staff tonight.

“Rutgers hasn’t pressured me into a decision in terms of a deadline,” he said. “Iowa State, Minnesota, North Carolina State SMU and UCF are all in it. I’m getting into it and I’ll probably decide in the next few days where I’m going to go.”


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My son will be a Knight in 2022!!

#GKCO

Any other guys we may potentially be interested in? I know it sounds like AR15 has some interest but won’t be surprised if whoever Florida hires makes him a priority. We definitely need more than just Mikey and Castellanos next year.

Also any word if Castellanos is an early enrollee?

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Was it Stalin that first said this exact same thing? Or maybe Lenin. Communists all run together at this point.

Just curious if anyone else is going.

On ESPN3. Strange time for a playoff game. But they're on national tv.

Congrats 🍾 on graduating Quadry!
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As you can probably tell, a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff is happening today. Memphis just accepted the Hawaii Bowl.

Just wanted to share some rumors I've heard today.

We've all seen the UCF vs. Florida Gasparilla Bowl projections. I'm hearing UF is lobbying pretty hard against that matchup. I think they feel like they have more to lose and are now even more sensitive about UCF's future status as a Power Five team in the Big 12, becoming a "peer" program of the other of Power Five teams in the state.

Remember this comment UF AD Scott Stricklin made to Matt Murschel of the Orlando Sentinel earlier this season?

What did you think about having another Power Five school in the state with UCF joining the Big 12?

Stricklin: “I texted with [UCF AD] Terry [Mohajir] yesterday. They seem happy. Terry’s a good guy and I want good things for them. I don’t know about these designations [Power Five] going forward. I mean, they felt like it was a good move or they wouldn’t have done it. There’s a lot of good teams in that league.

“I used to say we need to schedule Power Five [teams] and I started realizing that’s not the right designation. It needs to be, we need to schedule quality opponents because there are quality opponents in non-Power Five leagues, and going forward there may be some teams in Power Five leagues that aren’t quality opponents. I don’t know if that designation is going to carry the weight going forward that it once did. The SEC is probably separating itself in a lot of ways. The Alliance teams probably feel like they’re at a certain level, but there are opportunities for other teams to move up and down even regardless of their conference motivation.

“UCF has done a great job positioning its program for several years through several ADs. [Former AD] Danny [White] deserves a lot of credit. Terry deserves credit for keeping it going. They seem to have gotten a lot of momentum.”

Maybe I'm wrong, but his "compliments" in early September seemed pretty backhanded.

If UF goes to Gasparilla and gets their way, it could send UCF out of state. Fenway Bowl possibly.

But there's also talk UCF could keep the Gasparilla slot, maybe playing South Carolina.

Or maybe ESPN convinces UF (or gives them no choice) that a UCF matchup is what people want to see. I'd be shocked though.

It's all still fluid.

Been a long week and I’m ready to start firing shots. Let’s brainstorm some memes so I can get to work and D-Day the twitterverse and dunk on the gators.

Check your ticket stub collection....might be something valuable in there.

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Out of 84 teams going bowling this year, 38 of them are G-5 teams. That's 45%. It was 46% last year and 49% in 2019. That got me thinking about what that ratio was going back to 1970 when there were just 24 bowl teams. Here's the breakdown:

Year P5/G5, % of G5 Teams
1970 16/6, 27%
1975 21/1, 5%
1980 30/6, 20%
1985 31/5, 14%
1990 30/8, 21%
1995 30/6, 17%
1998 BCS Era Begins
2000 38/12, 24%
2005 38/18, 32%
2010 45/25, 36%
2011 47/23, 33%
2012 44/26, 37%
2013 47/23, 33%
2014 49/27, 36% College Football Playoff Era Begins
2015 47/33, 41%
2016 45/35, 44%
2017 45/33, 42%
2018 46/32, 41%
2019 42/40, 49%
2020 30/26, 46%
2021 46/38, 45%

It seems to have definitely ramped up beginning with the BCS era and then again with the CFP era. However, the number of matchups between P5 and G5 teams doesn't seem like a lot. Another exercise I might try is figuring out the percentage of bowl games over the years that are P5 vs G5 matchups. Even though a lot more of the bowl teams these days include G5 teams, it's mostly just G5 teams playing other G5 teams.

We need a stronger presence here. We look like we have no fans. https://www.facebook.com/groups/184672060446951/?ref=share

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Recently created this profile but was a longtime poster as phi273ii. Just wanted to say hi and reintroduce myself to everyone. Go Knights.

Would be great to have a strong presence here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/184672060446951/?ref=share

Our U Complain Forever (UCF) fans like to forget how bad we were throwing Milton under-the-bus by the end of 2016. It was so bad, KZ almost left, until Frost talked him out of it.


2016 Passing

2016 Rushing


BTW, here are KZ's 2016 v. 2017 stats ...

2016 v. 2017 Passing

2016 v. 2017 Rushing


If we have one similiarity with NGEbraska fans now, it's just that ... expectations are unrealistic. Thankfully Frost had been through that, and was able to talk KZ into staying.

Thankfully the U Complain Forever (UCF) fans don't make up much of the UCFAA, Inc. booster core, or donors much at all.

is good news allowed in the Cooler? 😎