We should of beat Louisville last season at their house. We are a better team this year and we are playing at home. Shouldn't be close.
UCF will need all hands on deck Friday
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And we are healthy
Don’t know what game you watched but we were playing from behind all night. We couldn’t contain Cunningham and were losing valuable guys on every series.
BYU?
Not Tulsa... Don't say Tulsa.
I remember Temple, which was the opposite.
Memphis, you must mean Memphis 2020->2021. No I don't particularly remember that one.
Last one I remember is the 3 point loss to Cinci in that hell hole city 2019 and then losing to them by 3 again in 2020 at home (even though it should have been by 10 but they kneeled it out within the 10 yard line).
I don't get the hate for Cincinnati.
I spent a few days there and thought it was a fine ole town.
I spent a few days there and thought it was a fine ole town.
I travel a lot, my friend who was with me travels way more. Worst/shittiest/dirtiest metro city we have both ever been to. The smell of their 💩 fills the streets from the sewer…looks like the projects going to and from and all around downtown/college campus…got asked (literally) if we wanted crack and/or hookers from BOTH Uber drivers on the way to the campus and back downtown to the hotel…around campus they literally all sit on a tailgate or open their trunk and sit drinking beer, taking tailgating to the literal sense. The whole vibe was trash af. I do like their stadium though, only good thing we both can say about the place.
“We're going down to the Bounce House, so you know, it's a lot of energy down there.”
I love how someone on Louisville’s team who isn’t from FL knows about the “Bounce House” and that we bring the energy. This ain’t Syracuse folks, time to show out.
Years ago I heard one of the talking heads who had played for ND talk about how pregame Lou Holtz would talk up all the aspects of the opposing team with specifics, talking about players and their stats, and the successes they've had, etc, and then say something like "we'll be lucky to get out of here with a win."
According to the one telling the story he'd do this even for the games everyone knew was going to be a blowout.
I don't think any bad can come from talking up the opposing team, to keep your players focused. The minute you don't respect your opponent is when they burn you.
According to the one telling the story he'd do this even for the games everyone knew was going to be a blowout.
I don't think any bad can come from talking up the opposing team, to keep your players focused. The minute you don't respect your opponent is when they burn you.
Kind of dont take him seriously when he does it every time though. It becomes desensitized.
I've thought a lot about this "energy".
Our perception of sound pressure level is logarithmic. We use the dBA to describe it. Twice the sound pressure level gives an increase of 3dB, wherever you are on the scale. It takes 10 times the sound pressure to increase 10dB.
The Bounce House holds ~45k people. Let's say an old, storied program has a stadium that holds ~90k. All things being equal, it should only be 3dB louder. But all things are not equal. A larger stadium means that the additional fans are farther away from the field. Sound drops off 6dB every time you double the distance. Roughly, the upper deck will be twice the distance to the field as the lower bowl.
Concrete absorbs more sound than aluminum.
Larger, older, more storied programs cost more to attend games, meaning the fans are on average older. Younger fans make more noise than older fans.
Combine all this, and I'd hypothesize that the on-field sound pressure level at the Bounce House rivals any big stadium. You'd probably be hard pressed to get anyone to admit it, though
The start of Cincy 2018 comes to mind as a prime example of how oppressive the crowd noise can get - I think that even outshines the home opener vs UT and the classic ‘17 USF Black Friday game.I've thought a lot about this "energy".
Our perception of sound pressure level is logarithmic. We use the dBA to describe it. Twice the sound pressure level gives an increase of 3dB, wherever you are on the scale. It takes 10 times the sound pressure to increase 10dB.
The Bounce House holds ~45k people. Let's say an old, storied program has a stadium that holds ~90k. All things being equal, it should only be 3dB louder. But all things are not equal. A larger stadium means that the additional fans are farther away from the field. Sound drops off 6dB every time you double the distance. Roughly, the upper deck will be twice the distance to the field as the lower bowl.
Concrete absorbs more sound than aluminum.
Larger, older, more storied programs cost more to attend games, meaning the fans are on average older. Younger fans make more noise than older fans.
Combine all this, and I'd hypothesize that the on-field sound pressure level at the Bounce House rivals any big stadium. You'd probably be hard pressed to get anyone to admit it, though
Even Desmond Ridder said that game was much louder than any other game he played in, including away at Notre Dame. I think he triggered a whole bunch of tshirt fans
Enclosed stadiums tend to trap noise in as well. So the Citrus Bowl and Horseshoe type stadiums wouldn’t be as loud.
