Do you know how much crap Nebraska is getting right now from the B1G for losing its AAU status? If you know anything about the B1G, you will never make that ridiculous statement again. Memphis is a Tier2 school (there are NO tier2 schools in the P5) and if you remember, were dropped in the 1st round in B12 expansion talks (that's really bad by the way). If you look up BYU's problems with "Academic Freedom", you will see why they will never be invited much less all of their other problems. And UCF is so far behind the others in Academic prowess, school endowment (most B1G schools earn more in interest from their endowments than UCF has), history, etc, etc, etc, we wouldn't even be penciled in on a piece of paper to look at. And that is only scratching the surface of what the B1G requires. Please do not ever make your statement again.
Sounds like I hit a nerve. Don't let your passion obscure you to all the factual errors you made. Locals once blamed Penn State, too, for joining the Big Ten, but like Nebraska it was the right decision. Same for A&M and Missouri joining the SEC. By the way, not only was our recruiting class ahead of some Big Ten schools, so is our academics (our SATs are above Michigan St., Indiana, Iowa, and Purdue).
What do you mean "even"? UT has the biggest athletic budget in the nation. Also, as I recall, no other school could either. The Big 12 arrogance has made them a slo-mo car wreck. Our only hope is getting into a P5 conference and UCF offers the Big Ten the most. As BC, Rutgers, Syracuse, and Maryland additions to P5 conferences show, expansion is purely about adding markets and not winning. If anything, schools prefer mediocre doormats rather than great teams. Why don't folks understand that it's all about business.
Miami has a MUCH better chance of going to the B1G than FSU. They bring solid academics, a big media market like Maryland & Rutgers, and "used to be highly relevant in football back in the day" like many current B1G schools.
The basis for FSU or Miami changing conference just isn't there. Possible parallels of established powers in one P5 conference moving to another are Nebraska joining the Big Ten, Colorado to the Pac 12, or Mizzou and A&M moving to the SEC. But only A&M and Nebraska had enjoyed prior recent success, and they were both very unhappy and fled from the unstable, UTexas-run conference. Miami and FSU are quite satisfied in the ACC, don't want to go up against powerhouse Ohio St., Michigan, Wisconsin, and Penn State or play in snow and cold each year! UCF already has cold-weather UConn, Temple, Memphis, and Cincy and also can't afford to be choosy. Meanwhile, the Big Ten, having already added Penn State and Nebraska, doesn't need more powerhouses. They need new, growing markets to offset their declining rustbelt population base.
Notice that you threw spitballs without dispute it. I'm not saying it will happen or is even likely. Just that's the most likely way the program is viable over the next 10 years while the P5 continues to create increasing quality and revenue separation from the AAC.
Whaaa? Please check the facts.
The one thing that can get you into a better conference is money. If UCF found its own version of Phil Knight and our annual budget went to 100 million a year that changes things. Expand our stadium to 70,000 to accommodate the 15 to 20k fans that will travel to Orlando from many Big 10 schools. We are already investing in upgrades to other facilties. We don't have the endowment but we do have location, recruiting and a growing alumni base. I think the Big 10 would at least start taking our calls and taking us seriously if we could pull this off.UCF has a better chance of getting into the PAC than the BIG10, and mentioning it as if it's an actual, however unlikely option, is ludicrous. It's impossible for a reasonable person to take you seriously when you even bring up that conference name in this discussion and quite frankly, you make UCF fans look bad with most of your posts here.
UCF and the BIG10, good god, next you'll say we've got an outside shot of joining the NFC West.
Wow! The first thread ever that looked beneath the question into why it matters. UM, UF, and FSU know that if UCF ever gets into a P5 conference, their strongest recruiting argument -- staying near home -- gets diluted by up to 33%.
Maryland left the ACC for the B1G after the ACC GOR. The buyout was negotiated down. IIRC FSU (along with Maryland) voted against the increased buyout, which I would think buys you a little more leverage in a legal battle.
Dude, shut up about the B1G. The only thing relevant you have spewed is why some Tier 2 schools are beneath us. Duh, good argument there. Carnegie Tier 1 helps, but there are over 100 schools with said title. AAU status (which is pretty much a must for B1G) involves hundreds of factors that UCF just doesn't have other than Carnegie. Quality/ranking of programs, faculty awards, student/teacher ratios, Federal and State and Private/Industrial research funding, and many other factors. UConn has been fighting for AAU membership and still hasn't been accepted. You want to talk academics???
The ACC was being raided so heavily, forcing the ACC to raid the old Big East and then blocked all future raids with what amounts to a poison pill protection clause, which halted the P5 expansion era. The Pac12 and Big 12 remain small, but the next and final expansion is likely to be 5 conferences of 16. But if the Big 12 collapses, we'll see a slight contraction to a P4 of 16 schools each (bad new for most AAC school invites).
Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I believe the ACC GOR was voted on and passed a month before the B1G raided the ACC for Maryland.
Right, the GOR deal of 2013 and fleshed out further last year replaced the $50 million exit clause.
The AAC should be called the AAA, triple-A farm league. We develop coaches for the majors under simulated conditions and supply later-round players for the NFL draft. We fill in the sports cable weekday TV schedule of freebie broadcasts.
I am too!!! Just get me out of town to Arizona or somewhere nice for a fun New Years game against a P5!
None of those players played in AAC. Only 1 played in Big East. Please mention all time greats from last 8 years from those schools.
Last years NBA draft had 1 player from conference. 2nd round 56th pick from UCONN. NFL had 2 players in first round chosen.
Plenty of them, but I didn't include any from this century because they aren't historical (yet). Quite a few though. And it continues. UConn had one of the very top recruiting classes in the nation this year. What's the AAC football recruiting? -- 50 million posts here about AAC being 50th, 70th, 90th in recruits.
Now who is grabbing at straws? The last time we were filling BHS was in the era when we were also filling the CFE against MARSHALL!? The big lie is that if only we win more or we have big name opponents or it's not in the noon heat or it's not televised or its not on a weekday or the economy recovers more or ... That dog won't hunt. Sure those things matter, but not that much.
