USF looking to add on campus stadium
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that report their AD released is about the same as the one their previous one did that always teases their 2 fans that want to play On Campus![[laughing]](http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/img/emoticons/classic/laugh.r191677.gif "Laughing [laughing]")
cliffs
1. they are broke & he calls out their fanbase for their bad attendance at Football games
2. start coming to games and donate and we'll maybe write up a plan in 2025
UCF getting the OCS done in 2007 looks brilliant now with the steady upgrades.
cliffs
1. they are broke & he calls out their fanbase for their bad attendance at Football games
2. start coming to games and donate and we'll maybe write up a plan in 2025
UCF getting the OCS done in 2007 looks brilliant now with the steady upgrades.
Wow.,, USF works quickly. Looks like it went up overnight. Kudos to Genshaft. Look at all of the modern upgrades and luxury boxes. See if you can locate the Lion Cabana and the the Gladiator Beer Garden. The field condition looks pretty crappy. We better be able to run the ball on them this year. One long pass and who knows where you'll end up.
FIFY
Note: UCF was the first school in over 70 years to build a good size on-campus stadium AND a corresponding nice on-campus arena AT THE SAME TIME...which was pretty amazing for that then new CUSA school.
UCF Arena opened up on a Sunday, Sept 9th...and 6 days later, BHNS opened up vs Texas on Sept 15, 2007.
That was really an amazing feat, especially for a school that just moved up from MAC Football and ASUN Olympic Sports (i.e. without barely any TV/conf money).
LOL! Reading the posts from the USiF people over the years I was under the impression they were "oh so happy" to be playing in an NFL stadium - while they thumb their noses at our OCS. As if they they were entitled to some 70,000 seat state of the art facility.
Hard to blame them as they started their program with a $1MM warchest (while we had to build from absolute zero). I guess you can't appreciate things like the Brighthouse if shit is just handed to you.
Hard to blame them as they started their program with a $1MM warchest (while we had to build from absolute zero). I guess you can't appreciate things like the Brighthouse if shit is just handed to you.
It has always been short-sighted to not have a stadium on campus. The whole point is to bring people on to the campus. If it was better to build or use stadiums off campus the majority of schools would already be doing it. It should always be treated as a temp fix until an on-campus stadium can be feasible. As soon as we could make it happen, we did and as time moves on the stadium will always get little or big upgrades to make it better. You have to be able to call a place "home" and you can't if you're just renting.
We made it happen because we had to. We had no option as they had plans to renovate the Citrus Bowl and were refusing to make any concessions to help UCF. You can thank the Citrus Bowl committee, our AD and GOL for the plan and the push. Without each of those UCF would probably still be stuck in that crappy stadium.
Even worse...They wanted us to partially fund a stadium that wasn't ours.
We just need to add a platform at top of our student end zone section in our stadium for bringing cannon back; pointed at the guy's house who was complaining about the noise the stadium would bring into his neighborhood.
but, but, but, what about those thousands of posts from bools fans saying they don't want an OCS?
Me checking on the progress of USF's stadium.
THE CANNON MUST...I SAY MUST...COME BACK!! It was the most awesome thing during games! It got everyone SO fired up and scared the heck out of the other team!We just need to add a platform at top of our student end zone section in our stadium for bringing cannon back; pointed at the guy's house who was complaining about the noise the stadium would bring into his neighborhood.
Let's get a petition going! BRING BACK THE CANNON IN 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's better for USF if fewer people see their campus.
After sooo many years we finally have the money to "do it right".
No no. They want an OCS, they just don't want one like ours. Even if that means they are stuck in RJS forever.
THE CANNON MUST...I SAY MUST...COME BACK!! It was the most awesome thing during games! It got everyone SO fired up and scared the heck out of the other team!
Since we're in Orlando, why not go for fireworks instead. Is there a team that even does fireworks after a touchdown? Would make for great tv during the night games.
I'd still take the fireworks over the cannon any day if I were in the big chair; but of course $$$ is always a factor in these decisions.
mmmmmm.......yeaaaaah.....but NO! The cannon was original (somewhat)! Fireworks......cheesy
mmmmmm.......yeaaaaah.....but NO! The cannon was original (somewhat)! Fireworks......cheesy
Cannon was "original" to UCF...but plenty of other college programs have/had cannons on their football fields too (mostly by ROTC)
http://www.thegamingtailgate.com/forums/content.php?360-Help-Shape-NCAA-Football-12-Cannons
It's also better for USF if fewer people have to drive through the neighborhoods to get to their campus.
What do you mean? There are some beautiful neighborhoods on Hillsborough avenue to get to their campus. Great for recruiting too!
Fowler Ave by USF looks like it's stuck in the 80s.
And Cow fans need to stop using the 'we play in a stadium that hosts Super Bowls' line bc that's not even accurate anymore. They lost another bid today, they've been pushed out of the rotation
And Cow fans need to stop using the 'we play in a stadium that hosts Super Bowls' line bc that's not even accurate anymore. They lost another bid today, they've been pushed out of the rotation
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Look, BHNS is no beauty queen, but it is functional, loud, on campus, bouncy, expandable, upgradable and IT IS OURS! At $45 million dollars it was a bargain and transformed the football mentality at UCF almost overnight. UCF looks like geniuses because of it. I have no doubt that a similar stadium would also work wonders for USF. As a USF fan you call it whatever name you like but it will always just be bitterness talking.
Bitch'n Beth and "the community" put an end to the cannon.
Apparently they had more power than "the community" when we played downtown.
The funny thing is ... I haven't met a single person who lives near UCF who was against the stadium.
I've only read about it in the Orlando Sentinel, or heard complaints from people (virtually no one today, but plenty back in the '00s) who lived no where near UCF that thought UCF was too small and too much of a commuter school to have a stadium. In fact, they were the ones I kept hearing from, as if they read the OS articles from Bitch'n Beth et al., and then just kept on adding to it.
It is interesting what a decade has done, even just the last five (5) years. I no longer run into such ignorance in Florida at all. If it's anything, it's more overt contempt than ignorance now.
I also think that what some of the people feared has come true and the nature of the closer neighborhoods has changed. It is just that the change probably helped their property values, and many of the neighbors are now students teachers administrators etc. The police have also done a good job keeping people from parking on the streets. UCF continues to expand its influence and those neighborhoods are becoming more and more affiliated with the university in some way or another
But (other than the police and parketing), how much does that have to do with the stadium? I'm in Alafaya Woods and there are renters and students all around me. It's all UCF ... the school, not the stadium.
Which goes back to Bitch'n Beth et al. ... they wish UCF didn't exist, or stayed a small, commuter school. Nothing had anything to do with the stadium. BTW, I'm curious what that "flyer" had on it, the one that circulated the neighborhoods back in '05-06.
It's also better for USF if fewer people have to drive through the neighborhoods to get to their campus.
Yep, that area of Tampa isn't called Suitcase City for nothing (inhabited by a ton of down & out folks who "live out of a suitcase").
..."Whether the stadium is actually feasible is another question entirely. It's not uncommon for new stadiums to run in the neighborhood of $75-$80 million or more (Houston's was upwards of $128 million). That's an expensive club to join regardless, but especially so if conference distribution and donor funds are trending negatively..."
Timing is everything...they had a plan and a purpose... but...
