College Football Realignment: Three Reasons Why Central Florida Makes Sense For The B1G
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The strategies involve some combination of the following:
1. Front end actions: 2023 translates into negotiations a couple years earlier (i.e. 2021), and any competition or bidding war could prompt preemptive expansion commitment (2019 or 2020). So anytime we have an option, we need to choose the earliest date for program building, facilities construction, donor drives, attendance efforts, securing personnel with multiyear contract, etc. Too little, too late won't get it done because making the P5 is a "binary" outcome: either in or out.
2. Create a buzz: marketing must be focused nationally to gain visibility. The Tacko signboard in Manhattan before the NIT was a great use of funds. Stop trying to catch up with FSU, Miami, and UF -- they won't play us and nobody outside Florida much cares even if we beat them. Their fans and alums and conferences aren't our concern now (just like USF hasn't been in recent years anymore). National attention, ESPN highlights, social media talk. "A new force in college sports" should be the message. No more heart-warming stories about a struggling player who's excelled at little-known UCF.
3. Dominate the Process: a P5 invite must be all about "them" not us: We're helping their conference. Our attitude should professional but with a dash of swagger and suggestion of inevitability (but not entitlement). No chips on our shoulder or defensiveness for being overlooked or the process being unfair.
The University has nothing to be embarrassed by, particularly not the subjective opinion of some random poster on a message board. You sir are not the "defender" of the B1G's honor, and if you think you are, you need to "seek help immediately!"
