What's a fair schedule. With the exception of last year, UF and UCF always play one game at each stadium.
I think this was a strategic risk that White took to put pressure on UF and other P5 programs to schedule with UCF. Stricklin is/was negotiating from a position of power so he can just say no. UF regularly plays one of the toughest schedules in the country so the narrative that was coming from the UCF media as being "afraid" to lose was something easy for the media to latch onto an make fun of.
I think White may have had more success if he went after Miami. Aside from (possibly) Florida, UCF would be the best team on Miami's schedule this year. The media would have taken that and ran with it.
Scheduling has been fair, but UF doesn’t want to play in Orlando according to the below article.
We’ve done home and home with Miami, they’d rather schedule Temple for a home and home. FSU boggles my mind as to why there isn’t more chatter there.
Agreed on the cancellations with you. We’ve been burned by a few programs backing out, and Pen State didn’t back out because we switched to Ireland. I think that’s where the fear comes from.
Edited to include article:
https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/college/article226920199.html