🦉 FAU advances to the Final 4🏀🍀

[BlakNGoldAllDay]

Budget means next to 0. You can either coach or you can’t. A bigger budget would be needed in places like Nebraska that have to go out of state to get great talent. We have a lot of basketball players in state. Add in IMG and Monteverde and those types of schools and they bring the talent to you. They can day trip recruiting players for $100. Inexcusable to blame a budget. South Florida alone has about 30 kids that could play for us every year but we don’t get them. The top 15 are recruited by everyone so if we could get 3 that would be ok. After that you have players like Michael Forest. Not a star but a good bench player that hit 4 free throws in last 30 seconds to win game. JD doesn’t get him. Rosado, not a great player but could have been our backup big. JD too busy going after ECU and Temple scraps to get HS Kids.

 

[Knight_Classes_begin_7pm]

Budget means next to 0. You can either coach or you can’t. A bigger budget would be needed in places like Nebraska that have to go out of state to get great talent. We have a lot of basketball players in state. Add in IMG and Monteverde and those types of schools and they bring the talent to you. They can day trip recruiting players for $100. Inexcusable to blame a budget. South Florida alone has about 30 kids that could play for us every year but we don’t get them. The top 15 are recruited by everyone so if we could get 3 that would be ok. After that you have players like Michael Forest. Not a star but a good bench player that hit 4 free throws in last 30 seconds to win game. JD doesn’t get him. Rosado, not a great player but could have been our backup big. JD too busy going after ECU and Temple scraps to get HS Kids.

Agree, 3 years and JD is gone.

 

[Gwoz]

Based on program budgets.

FAU cost per win in 22-23 - $46,514
UCF cost per win in 22-23 - $224,894

The best part for FAU is basically they are plastered on sports sites and media for multiple weeks straight.

 

[Gwoz]

Dusty May wanted to quit hours after signing FAU contract; now he's coached Owls to improbable Final Four run

"I walk in the room and I started crying and said, 'I just committed career suicide,'" May told CBS Sports

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The locker room had these old, ugly wooden lockers. It was exceptionally tiny. There was more square footage for the six showers than the actual space for people in the locker room. The arena sat 2,500, had an outdated scoreboard and looked superannuated. High school teams in the area were playing in better facilities.

The facilities were so small for both basketball teams and the volleyball program, that if any of the three had a game — or sometimes even a practice — there was no space for the players to keep their gear because the visiting team had to use the second/only other locker room.

"We'd avoid certain things and had to sell ourselves," Pastrana said.

It got so comical that a few of the first commits to FAU under May found themselves asking, "Coach, where's the locker room?" after they enrolled on campus.

They'd never even seen it.

"We basically said it was under renovation," Pastrana said.

 

[PositYourself]

FAU isn't a basketball school as some here have claimed.

 

[Central Floridave]

Florida Atlantic Really Did It​

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NEW YORK — Florida Atlantic coach Dusty May had an unusual reason for knowing his team was going to be pretty good this year: A closed-door scrimmage win over a Division II team. “I don’t know if we’re allowed to say this—NCAA, I’ll take the Level 3 violation,” May said. “We close-scrimmaged...

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[HammerB08]

Would like to hear more of a "win anyway" mentality from some of our programs instead of crying poor mouth all the time. Of course, strive for higher levels of investment - it's coming with the size of this university and the move to the B12, but in the mean time there are baseball and basketball programs doing a hell of a lot more with a lot less.

 

[Poolside Knight]

Would like to hear more of a "win anyway" mentality from some of our programs instead of crying poor mouth all the time. Of course, strive for higher levels of investment - it's coming with the size of this university and the move to the B12, but in the mean time there are baseball and basketball programs doing a hell of a lot more with a lot less.

Terry has loser energy . The attitude is his fault. UCF shouldn’t strive for the defeatist just happy to be in the big leagues attitude

 

[HammerB08]

Annnnd we just went 0-2 this season to FAU in baseball with a home and away loss. ReSOurCes?!?!

 

[Gwoz]

Annnnd we just went 0-2 this season to FAU in baseball with a home and away loss. ReSOurCes?!?!

Wait for the article talking about how Lovelady gives way more to fans then they give him

 

[PositYourself]

I've heard that FAU's baseball stadium doesn't even have bathrooms.

 

[PositYourself]

It's a meaningless mid-week game*

 

[BlakNGoldAllDay]

No mention of us. Then we wonder why we can’t win 24 games and make tourney.

 

[hemightbejeremy]

Do we have any top 25 teams from our supposed top 25 program? Maybe an Olympic sport or something. Not anything that draws fans.

 

[LoboCane]

Do we have any top 25 teams from our supposed top 25 program? Maybe an Olympic sport or something. Not anything that draws fans.

I’ll share something and I am sure most of you guys won’t believe me…it’s not just applicable to UCF but to all college sports programs (some of the silliness is applicable to only UCF and the perception that you fans can be easily manipulated).

Writers, TV reporters, bloggers, YouTube content creators…all that have a significant audience fall into this. They have “sources” and they are given access to the program, players and information. Why do you think they are given this consideration?

Do you believe the sports staff, administrators and coaches are just being nice? It’s a quid pro quo relationship. First, by giving information to select individuals…the program can control the narrative and promote it’s goals with fans, players, recruits and boosters.

Very often the people who cover the program are asked to return the favor for the access and information they receive. You can safely assume that the UCF baskeball program has asked for help in changing the negative (well justified) narrative concerning its basketball coach.

Thus, we see prominent influencers writing and saying things in favor of Dawkings…this is usually effective but in this case they lack something tangible to “hold on to” in their efforts so you see them reaching in their narratives. That’s all it is…simple as that.

 

[Poolside Knight]

 

[Gwoz]

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Could follow the example of Gonzaga.

 

[PositYourself]

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So much for going to a bigger program like a lot of you were predicting.

 

[U C to the F]

I’ll share something and I am sure most of you guys won’t believe me…it’s not just applicable to UCF but to all college sports programs (some of the silliness is applicable to only UCF and the perception that you fans can be easily manipulated).

Writers, TV reporters, bloggers, YouTube content creators…all that have a significant audience fall into this. They have “sources” and they are given access to the program, players and information. Why do you think they are given this consideration?

Do you believe the sports staff, administrators and coaches are just being nice? It’s a quid pro quo relationship. First, by giving information to select individuals…the program can control the narrative and promote it’s goals with fans, players, recruits and boosters.

Very often the people who cover the program are asked to return the favor for the access and information they receive. You can safely assume that the UCF baskeball program has asked for help in changing the negative (well justified) narrative concerning its basketball coach.

Thus, we see prominent influencers writing and saying things in favor of Dawkings…this is usually effective but in this case they lack something tangible to “hold on to” in their efforts so you see them reaching in their narratives. That’s all it is…simple as that.

LMFAO, you are straight up projecting here and it’s funny as hell. You, standard Miami fans annd their media are the epitome of what you are talking about here, “high recruiting class” and “the U is Back” every year only to go 5-7. Lots of sidewalk alumns just like you putting up their Miami trash only to put it back in their closet after the 5-0 start turns into a 5-7 finish. That “gauntlet” of an ACC schedule gets Miami every time lol.

 

[LoboCane]

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Wow…great news for FAU fans. FAU dragging UCF. It’s all about the AD. FAU has a good AD and UCF has a penny pincher in Terry Mohajir.

 

[LoboCane]

LMFAO, you are straight up projecting here and it’s funny as hell. You, standard Miami fans annd their media are the epitome of what you are talking about here, “high recruiting class” and “the U is Back” every year only to go 5-7. Lots of sidewalk alumns just like you putting up their Miami trash only to put it back in their closet after the 5-0 start turns into a 5-7 finish. That “gauntlet” of an ACC schedule gets Miami every time lol.

What are you even talking about LOL. Did you fail to understand the post? I mean…how dense are you?

Let’s see what the UCF Dawkings propaganda machine comes up with next. I mean…every single stupid excuse they have laid out for keeping Dawkings has been destroyed by FAU.

The bottom line is that FAU has a competent AD who wants to win and UCF has Terry Mohajir. I am sure Mohajir will tell his parrots to double down on their efforts. Also, keep donating and sending Terry checks.

 

[Knight on the Edge]

I've heard that FAU's baseball stadium doesn't even have bathrooms.

 

[Knight on the Edge]

I've heard that FAU's baseball stadium doesn't even have bathrooms.

..... better than that, they have bathrooms with showers !!!!

 

[knightraveler]

I’ll share something and I am sure most of you guys won’t believe me…it’s not just applicable to UCF but to all college sports programs (some of the silliness is applicable to only UCF and the perception that you fans can be easily manipulated).

Writers, TV reporters, bloggers, YouTube content creators…all that have a significant audience fall into this. They have “sources” and they are given access to the program, players and information. Why do you think they are given this consideration?

Do you believe the sports staff, administrators and coaches are just being nice? It’s a quid pro quo relationship. First, by giving information to select individuals…the program can control the narrative and promote it’s goals with fans, players, recruits and boosters.

Very often the people who cover the program are asked to return the favor for the access and information they receive. You can safely assume that the UCF baskeball program has asked for help in changing the negative (well justified) narrative concerning its basketball coach.

Thus, we see prominent influencers writing and saying things in favor of Dawkings…this is usually effective but in this case they lack something tangible to “hold on to” in their efforts so you see them reaching in their narratives. That’s all it is…simple as that.

The old "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours". Instead of scratching each other's back so much they should focus on why they itch so much.