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Update after 3 day trip. OT: Streamstrong Resort/Golf Club (south of Lakeland)

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This resort in the middle of nowhere (Bowling Green, FL...some 35 miles south of Lakeland), has 3 cool courses (Red, Blue Black) that has some topography that doesn't look like FL.

I have a project coming there in a few weeks and I am headed there shortly for a visit and wondered if others have played some of thise courses and if you had a favorite course or picturesque holes.

Florida Golf Resorts | Tampa and Orlando Golf Resorts

Streamsong is the best golf resort in Florida. We are located within 90 minutes of Tampa and Orlando, and 30 minutes south of Lakeland in Central Florida.
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FAU season tickets

Brandon
I just got an email from FAU touting season tickets as low as $60. That's for the second level end zone. Lower level end zone are $75.

I think the sideline seats behind the UCF bench are FAU students, so those will never be available for sale.

Besides UCF, FAU hosts Charlotte, Southeastern Louisiana, Rice, UAB and Western Kentucky, so offloading the other games may be difficult.

But this will be a hot ticket so it may be worth considering.

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OT: Dabo says there needs to be 'complete blowup' of college football

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One of Dabo's quotes in interview below:

"I think there's going to be a complete blowup ... especially in football, and there needs to be," Swinney told ESPN. "I think eventually there will be some type of break and another division. Right now, you got everybody in one group, and it's not feasible. Alabama has different problems than Middle Tennessee, but we're trying to make them all the same and it's just not. I think you'll have 40 or 50 teams and a commissioner and here are the rules."

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Dabo: College football needs 'complete blowup'

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney says the lack of uniformity across college football will lead to a "complete blowup" of the system.
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The Athletic: Why former coach Matt Luke walked away from college football’s ‘anxiety and pressure’

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Very good piece on former Ole Miss head ball coach Matt Luke. He was the OL coach for UGA during their title, and he just walked away early this year to enjoy time with his family.




Twenty-three years in coaching, in the prime of his life at 45, working for the defending national champions, making just under a million a year, and Luke just walked away.


“I think most people that know me are like, ‘OK we understand this.’ But I think some people are like, ‘OK what really happened?’” Luke said, laughing. “All my coaching friends called and said congratulations, and everybody else called and asked: What happened, are you okay, are you dying?”

There’s a Great Resignation going on at large, and Luke is part of it. Like many everywhere, quarantine during the pandemic made him realize what he was missing at home. Like many college football coaches, he had tired of the workload, the time commitment required if you truly wanted to be ahead in the game.


“This isn’t unique to Georgia. It’s college coaching,” Luke said. “It’s the anxiety and pressure you put on yourself to be as good as you can be.”


An example: Last summer — July 20, Luke remembers it exactly — he was at his son’s 10-year-old birthday party, in line at a Harry Potter ride. But Luke was also on the phone trying to get a recruit to the season opener against Clemson, because Georgia’s staff had just been able to secure tickets.


“I’m trying to set up guys coming to the Clemson-Georgia game, and he’s like, ‘Dad,’ and I’m like, ‘Hold on.’ That’s part of your time off, but you’re still working to recruit,” Luke said. “I think if you want to be good, there’s just that innate pressure.”

A week before preseason practice started in 2017, Ole Miss fired Hugh Freeze and then asked Luke to take over. He guided the Rebels to a respectable 6-6 record his first season, then went 5-7 and 4-8. He thought he would get a fourth year, but while out on the road recruiting after the Egg Bowl loss — the game turned on the infamous Elijah Moore dog-peeing penalty — his boss called him: “We need you to come back to Oxford.”


Luke knew what that meant. But he wasn’t unemployed long: Sam Pittman’s hiring at Arkansas resulted in Georgia needing an offensive line coach, so Luke took the job and was coaching in the Sugar Bowl a few weeks later. Then came the pandemic, during which Smart instituted so-called “skull sessions”, where players and coaches told everyone what their “why” was, as in why they were doing this, what pushed them. Luke’s why was always his family. It helped crystalize things for him.



theathletic.com

Why Matt Luke walked away from college football's ‘anxiety and pressure’

After two-plus decades in coaching, Luke reached a point of career fulfillment at which he was ready to put his family first.
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Is it time to update the Knight on horseback for the Big12?

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Is it time to update the Knight on horseback for the BIG12?

  • Yes, it is outdated and needs a refresh...

    Votes: 38 30.6%

  • No, leave it the way it is....

    Votes: 67 54.0%

  • Get rid of the Knight on horseback

    Votes: 19 15.3%
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Do you think we should update the Knight on horseback for the BIG12? The actual Knight costume in the stadium...This is not about dropping 'Knights' for something else...It's just about the pregame Knight Rider...
Just saw this thread on the kiddie board and thought it deserved attention...
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#17 UCF Women’s Softball SWEEPS Tulsa!!! We won 8-0 today. 42-11 Overall. 14-1 in Conference. Multiple pictures and stories will be posted.

Kevin Reis
Its sad for me to say this Ladies and Gentlemen but our UCF Women’s Softball Team is playing their last HOME series of the regular season this weekend.

Per UCFKnights.com:

ORLANDO – The No. 17 UCF softball team is set for its final home series of the regular season, hosting Tulsa in a three-game set from Friday to Sunday. The weekend doubles as a chance to honor the Knights' six seniors, Denali Schappacher, Gianna Mancha, Justene Molina, Kama Woodall, Damaria Cannon and Cassidy Cangemi.



We are certainly fighting for the AAC Conference Championship…
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OT: Marc Daniels points out ESPN's Rece Davis cheapshot at New Big 12 & Cincinnati during NFL Draft Coverage

K
Cincinnati, which obviously had the 3rd most players drafted this past weekend (9 players), for some reason Rece Davis decided to say this about Cincinnati and the New Big 12:

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Marc Daniels did a segment on his show yesterday about this and the question is still why? Why did Rece Davis say what he did? What "narrative" is he trying to set up?

Marc's comments about Texas and the laughable ACC and Pac-12 are so spot on.

Resumes don't matter anymore?

His discussion starts at the 1:30 min mark:

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The $3M Wide Receiver? - The Beat of Sports | iHeart

The college football world turned its attention to Jordan Addison, the Biletnikoff winner who caught 100 passes for 1,593 yards and 17 touchdowns last season for Pitt, as he appears to be the target of the Trojans. People are upset over what appears to be tampering by USC and its new coach...
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The Kingdom NIL

Cocoa2010
Is this the collective we were told about?

kingdomnil.com

The Kingdom NIL

Our Mission is to enrich, enhance, and empower the lives of UCF Student-Athletes. The collective will use innovative solutions to create an ecosystem connecting student-athletes to the promotion of The Kingdom NIL.
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EDIT: Connected to the same guy who did UF's huge NIL collective so I would assume this is the bigger collective.
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