(04-29-2011 08:28 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  

Believe O'Leary was talking about this (from the Tampa Tribune article/blog):


While acknowledging there have been talks between USF athletic director Doug Woolard and UCF athletic director Keith Tribble centered around bringing back an annual series between the Bulls and Knights, USF athletics spokesperson Jeremy Sharpe said Friday those discussions have not yet led to a proposed contract for future games between the two programs, and certainly not one that has been signed.

GOL didn't mention exact dates/$$$ of the contract, etc....as its obvious he knows that the talks of renewing the series (which no one in the media knew was going on) were taking place in recent weeks...and obviously have been going well.

New USF Coach Holtz was slightly "upset" about USF's poor home attendance last year (less than 30,000 fans on average in attendance at their 65,000 plus seat stadium) with a not so great home slate...and Holtz and O'Leary had a good relationship in CUSA...so I'm sure Holtz finally told his boss (USF AD) to get the series going again.

Yeah that is funny; You jump the off the Pirate Boat to go to USF (in Tampa were there is a ton more fan support hahah) and you drop well over 10k average fans a game. This just goes to show how weak the whole "market" expansion idea is.