I can't tell you why, but I hope they get back to .500 this year. Maybe all these years of hearing their fans opinions and following the decline of the program has made me feel like I know where they're coming from. And they're coming from a real shi*ty place right now.
We all wanted a strong USF, which works well for UCF ... and would have as a travel partner in the Big XII.
Instead, the arrogant ****s made fun of our stadium, our championships, and said we were stupid to focus on graduation rates than on-the-field success, as we graduated over 90%, and them under 10% while the NCAA
'looked the other way' on 3x as many
'hardship waivers' than any other program.
They ****ed themselves, including firing every coach that couldn't win as they finally had to deal with kids on graduating, and are only now -- 15 years later -- admitting they now need to do what we did. But even then, it's,
"We're building a real IPF" and
"We're not going to build a stadium until we can get a real one."
So they are S. Florida, not USF. They were the disgrace of the Big East academically, and the bitch of the rest of the conference in basketball. And now they get FAU and Rice in the AAC.
The only suggestion I can make is that we UCF fans don't be too arrogant going into the Big XII. We're probably going to be one of the new bitches of the basketball league (at least men's basketball), and we are still rebuilding in football.
In the Big XII, we should be anything but how S. Florida was in the Big East.