Get ready for the 2024 UCF and BIG 12 Football season with the Sons of UCF. We're joined by John Kurtz of the KC Sports Network as we discuss the Knights and the BIG 12 race. Plus, learn more about the e-newsletter John produces about the BIG 12, delivered to your inbox daily.

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Get ready for the 2024 UCF and BIG 12 Football season with the Sons of UCF. We're joined by John Kurtz of the KC Sports Network as we discuss the Knights and the BIG 12 race. Plus, learn more about the e-newsletter John produces about the BIG 12, delivered to your inbox daily.

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Our vaunted team is down 13 points with 5 minutes to go in the first half to a team that doesn’t have an indoor gym to practice in.
1/11 from three and allowing nearly 60% shooting from South Sudan.

Specifically aflac?

Have a question for you if so thx

John Kurtz from the KC Sports Network and Open For Business newsletter joined the Sons of UCF LIVE to discuss the latest in conference expansion rumors regarding the Big 12, Florida State, and Clemson.John also shares his outlook on the upcoming season, which in his view, could see as many as 8 teams have a viable chance at making the championship game.

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John Kurtz from the KC Sports Network and Open For Business newsletter joined the Sons of UCF LIVE to discuss the latest in conference expansion rumors regarding the Big 12, Florida State, and Clemson.John also shares his outlook on the upcoming season, which in his view, could see as many as 8 teams have a viable chance at making the championship game.

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And yes, they mean any, ANY other conference.

"If you played a tough schedule, a 9-3 team better be considered," Alabama AD Greg Byrne said. "I've heard we're pretty good in football in the Southeastern Conference."

"If all they [selection committee] look at is a shiny win-loss record at the expense of teams that have played good schedules, then people stop playing good non-conference games," said Florida AD Scott Stricklin, a member of the selection committee from 2018-20.

"There's a weight on the committee that's new … I want to see how the committee processes that," SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said.
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"The interesting thing is the team [from another conference] that doesn't play a regular schedule that goes 11-1 or 12-0 and how that compares to a 9-3 team that plays eight top 25 teams," Stricklin said.

@mptposted in the baseball portal thread this article which I think is big news.

SEC Commish is getting his wish to make baseball a full scholarship roster sport so come Fall 2025, programs can offer (most likley) 35 full scholarships per team compared to the 11.7 they can offer up today.

Of course with NIL $$, scholarship limits for major programs don't matter much anymore but for most other programs, this will be a big jump in expense (including housing, along obviously with tuition, dining, etc...)

Now if Baseball jumps from 11.7 to 35 scholarships, that's a jump of 23.3 scholarships and your program will still have to be in compliance with Title IX so this might mean a school might have to add 1 or 2 female sports (at a big cost) just to remain in compliance.

I wonder what Coach Wallace thoughts are on this?

The Sons of UCF have teamed up with the StaffDNA Cure Bowl to promote the 2024 event, slated for December 20th in Orlando. However, have you ever wondered how teams are chosen to play in these games? Each bowl sends scouts to watch teams and learn more about their program. Sounds too good to be true? Well check out this report from Trace Trylko.

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The Sons of UCF have teamed up with the StaffDNA Cure Bowl to promote the 2024 event, slated for December 20th in Orlando. However, have you ever wondered how teams are chosen to play in these games? Each bowl sends scouts to watch teams and learn more about their program. Sounds too good to be true? Well check out this report from Trace Trylko.

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2024 New Hampshire Football Preview​

The Wildcats have a difficult out-of-conference schedule that features road games against UCF, Holy Cross, and Harvard. New Hampshire must build momentum ahead of conference play with wins over Holy Cross and Havard.

Plumlee was drafted by Arlington Renegades as the third pick overall in the 2024 UFL draft.

lol plumlee, wish him well.

Press release:

When UCF’s football team returns to the practice field later this month, the Knights will be playing on the newly named Wayne Densch Practice Complex.

The complex’s new name recognizes a new $2.5 million pledge commitment from the Wayne Densch Charitable Trust in support of the Hagle Football Gateway project on UCF’s campus.

For those who have ever had any type of special clearance level at work, there is something I have heard people espouse over the past few years who claimed to have some sort of clearance level like classified, secret, whatever. So… typical convo goes like this….

Chad Van Douchnozzle claims to have had top secret clearance in the military. Chad will rattle on about how he knows about classified military operations, capabilities of black aircraft programs, who killed the Kennedys, and where we keep alien tech.

Not sure why this infuriates me so much other than I’ll either tell Chad he is full of shit, or egg him on to hear more outlandish bullshit. I mean, I has a series II clearance, and the only info I was privy to was SSN numbers for working on a payroll system. Did I miss out on the meeting where everyone with a clearance is debriefed on… like everything?

Just wondering if any of you had similar experiences with super secret squirrel agents out there.

Here is the latest of my Top 5 videos. This week's topic: Top 5 Single Game Offensive Performances. Click the link for the video and let me know what you think. Charge On!!!

Top 5

back up Jefferson.

Jacurri spent two seasons with the Miami Hurricanes and appeared in nine games with three starts (including Miami's Pinstripe Bowl loss to Rutgers on Dec. 28.).

I thought Timmy could be that guy but he didn't have what it takes to make it in the BIG 12.

Running backwards for 30 yards in the GaTech Bowl game freaked me out!

Thoughts?

UCF Mike presents a new UCF related topic each week to discuss and debate.

This week's Top 5 list is: Single Game Offensive Performances.

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From an amazing Dungeon Duo who capture many shots from UCF's campus.

This early AM launch is set for a Lunar Landing on Feb 22nd.

Trajectory to the Moon took this launch angle almost straight up vs some lower orbit launches which go off at different angles.



It's already on its way to the moon after separation from the Falcon 9 rocket:

12 Saturdays Away from the Return of #Big12FB 🏈

If you blinked at the 0:16 mark (EDIT: and again at the 0:24 mark), you wouldn’t know that we were in the conference 😆 Regardless, it’s still a pretty damn cool video.

I’m incredibly pumped for the coming season. The ten regular season games I’m planning to be at this year (7 home games + gata, Iowa State, and WVU) will tie my personal record set in 2014 (6 home games + Mizzou, UConn, usf, and NC State in the Piss River Bowl). Hell, maybe I’ll break it in the postseason.

He makes some valid pts.

Interesting. Coach in waiting. Does that work?​

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Utah names Kyle Whittingham's successor: Morgan Scalley tapped to one day replace longtime Utes coach​

UCF has always been there for Jarquez Carter.

The Knights were the first to offer the Newberry (Fla.) defensive tackle in January 2023, not long after his sophomore season. He's since blown up as a national recruit with a four-star ranking from Rivals.

Between recruiting events, practices and games, Carter estimates he's visited UCF around a dozen times. But his most recent visit was special as it was his long-awaited official visit.

"It went great," Carter said. "I was able to connect with the players, like Ricky Barber and Keshaun Hudson. I felt like I'm a player here. I felt like me and Coach (Kenny) Martin have known each other for four years. He was the first coach to really start recruiting me. We have a special bond. Coach (Gus) Malzahn, you can tell he's willing to give his all. Like John Walker, since he got here, he's put in his all to help him as a person and help build his network. You don't see many head coaches do that at the college level."

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Deep dive into anonymous feedback from 40 people connected to college basketball.

Some P5's (includes Big East) have $5 Million plus NIL $$ Budgets and average salaries for hoopers dwarfs that if most football scholarship players due to small roster size (13).

Maybe the craziest story in below article:

Team ran out of NIL $$ but HC had a chance at landing another top player. AD told him to go get that player signed and we will worry sbout getting more $$ later.

Good read on this "new" sport that doesn't have many rules.