What a class act the colleges in the america have been. their post have been hilarious and i have enjoyed it for decades. where UCF is going we have no ties and so far they look at us as, well not as you know us. Will miss not being a member here. This is one UCF grad who will miss being here, not that the future does not look bright but old friends are gold.
(03-20-2023 09:44 PM)FTUKnight Wrote: [ -> ]What a class act the colleges in the america have been. their post have been hilarious and i have enjoyed it for decades. where UCF is going we have no ties and so far they look at us as, well not as you know us. Will miss not being a member here. This is one UCF grad who will miss being here, not that the future does not look bright but old friends are gold.
We'll miss you guys as well and best of luck in the future. I always look forward to our games and our partnership for years. I always felt our association was good for each other.
I am concerned for UCF with the lack of rivalry in their new league, but maybe the Big 12 plans to bring on a regional rival for UCF in the future. That was the only missing link to the new deal I see.
(03-20-2023 09:59 PM)owl at the moon Wrote: [ -> ]always been a bit of a fan of the knights even back pre-cusa days
enjoyed watching ucf grow the program over the years and just look at you now!
I’ll give you the natty for 13-0 but what does that make you when you’re 0-11?
as clt might say you are always welcome to come back around and hang out anytime friend.
when I graduated ftu later to become UCF (1978) we had no football program. our basketball was played at a high school gym. 0-11 record ment we had a football program. USF needs to come back to this board, I missed them and all things go up and down and you got to hang in there. I also miss the presents of USF banter, some ucf fans went overboard with what they said.
(03-20-2023 09:44 PM)FTUKnight Wrote: [ -> ]What a class act the colleges in the america have been. their post have been hilarious and i have enjoyed it for decades. where UCF is going we have no ties and so far they look at us as, well not as you know us. Will miss not being a member here. This is one UCF grad who will miss being here, not that the future does not look bright but old friends are gold.
I'm 37. I grew up in Cincinnati, and became a lifelong fan during the 1992 Final Four run. It was our first season in the new Great Midwest Conference, which would last a whole 4 seasons. I've heard we had some fun games with teams like Virginia Tech, Florida State, and South Carolina in the Metro -- but I just missed out on that era. During the 90s and early 2000s, I came to appreciate all of our rivalries within the Great Midwest and Conference USA. Louisville and Memphis were definitely our primary conference rivals, but I also recall a lot of exciting games with good UAB, St. Louis, Depaul, Marquette, and Charlotte teams. C-USA in that era was a high-major basketball conference, sending 3-4 teams to the tournament yearly. We weren't as glamorous as the Big Ten, ACC, or SEC, but we punched above our weight class, and had big-name coaches and personalities like Huggins, Pitino, Calipari, and Crean running highly successful programs.
Then we move over to the Big East. While our basketball program languished due to the botched dismissal of Bob Huggins, our football program began a meteoric rise, and we got to play in 2 BCS bowl games due to our newly elevated status as a BCS conference member. I really missed our basketball games with Memphis, St. Louis, and others, but new rivalries began to develop with Pitt/WVU in football, and towards the end of the Big East/beginning of the AAC, a basketball rivalry with UConn was building. I missed some of our old rivals, but the elevated conference status and new rivalries eased the pain.
Fast-forward to around 2012/2013, and the Big East collapses, with UC, UConn, and USF left holding the bag. Our fans were devastated. Just a few short years after reaching our greatest heights as a football program, we were relegated to the media-driven "G5" purgatory. While I was happy to see some old friends like Memphis, Tulane, and Houston, I felt like we would never reach our previous heights in football. The door to the P5 was slammed shut, and the AAC schools and fans coalesced into a ragtag group of lovable underdogs. I began posting on this board, and genuinely enjoyed the banter amongst other AAC fans. We ribbed each other, tossing out "Coogin' it" and "Tulsane" jokes. Certain posters were notorious, and certain fanbases had a reputation. But whenever an AAC team played out of conference, the rest of the league's fans rallied around that team, pulling for the AAC to do well.
I don't know what he future holds, but I will miss Temple, East Carolina, USF, Tulane, Tulsa, SMU, Navy, Wichita State, Memphis, and their fans. I'm excited about the Big 12 lifeline and the windfall of cash it comes with, but I'm also suspicious of how long the good times will last, as we've been through this song and dance once before. I'll always root for the AAC to have success, and will still follow the AAC board and its teams.
I'm 37. I grew up in Cincinnati, and became a lifelong fan during the 1992 Final Four run. It was our first season in the new Great Midwest Conference, which would last a whole 4 seasons. I've heard we had some fun games with teams like Virginia Tech, Florida State, and South Carolina in the Metro -- but I just missed out on that era. During the 90s and early 2000s, I came to appreciate all of our rivalries within the Great Midwest and Conference USA. Louisville and Memphis were definitely our primary conference rivals, but I also recall a lot of exciting games with good UAB, St. Louis, Depaul, Marquette, and Charlotte teams. C-USA in that era was a high-major basketball conference, sending 3-4 teams to the tournament yearly. We weren't as glamorous as the Big Ten, ACC, or SEC, but we punched above our weight class, and had big-name coaches and personalities like Huggins, Pitino, Calipari, and Crean running highly successful programs.
Then we move over to the Big East. While our basketball program languished due to the botched dismissal of Bob Huggins, our football program began a meteoric rise, and we got to play in 2 BCS bowl games due to our newly elevated status as a BCS conference member. I really missed our basketball games with Memphis, St. Louis, and others, but new rivalries began to develop with Pitt/WVU in football, and towards the end of the Big East/beginning of the AAC, a basketball rivalry with UConn was building. I missed some of our old rivals, but the elevated conference status and new rivalries eased the pain.
Fast-forward to around 2012/2013, and the Big East collapses, with UC, UConn, and USF left holding the bag. Our fans were devastated. Just a few short years after reaching our greatest heights as a football program, we were relegated to the media-driven "G5" purgatory. While I was happy to see some old friends like Memphis, Tulane, and Houston, I felt like we would never reach our previous heights in football. The door to the P5 was slammed shut, and the AAC schools and fans coalesced into a ragtag group of lovable underdogs. I began posting on this board, and genuinely enjoyed the banter amongst other AAC fans. We ribbed each other, tossing out "Coogin' it" and "Tulsane" jokes. Certain posters were notorious, and certain fanbases had a reputation. But whenever an AAC team played out of conference, the rest of the league's fans rallied around that team, pulling for the AAC to do well.
I don't know what he future holds, but I will miss Temple, East Carolina, USF, Tulane, Tulsa, SMU, Navy, Wichita State, Memphis, and their fans. I'm excited about the Big 12 lifeline and the windfall of cash it comes with, but I'm also suspicious of how long the good times will last, as we've been through this song and dance once before. I'll always root for the AAC to have success, and will still follow the AAC board and its teams.
I'm 37. I grew up in Cincinnati, and became a lifelong fan during the 1992 Final Four run. It was our first season in the new Great Midwest Conference, which would last a whole 4 seasons. I've heard we had some fun games with teams like Virginia Tech, Florida State, and South Carolina in the Metro -- but I just missed out on that era. During the 90s and early 2000s, I came to appreciate all of our rivalries within the Great Midwest and Conference USA. Louisville and Memphis were definitely our primary conference rivals, but I also recall a lot of exciting games with good UAB, St. Louis, Depaul, Marquette, and Charlotte teams. C-USA in that era was a high-major basketball conference, sending 3-4 teams to the tournament yearly. We weren't as glamorous as the Big Ten, ACC, or SEC, but we punched above our weight class, and had big-name coaches and personalities like Huggins, Pitino, Calipari, and Crean running highly successful programs.
Then we move over to the Big East. While our basketball program languished due to the botched dismissal of Bob Huggins, our football program began a meteoric rise, and we got to play in 2 BCS bowl games due to our newly elevated status as a BCS conference member. I really missed our basketball games with Memphis, St. Louis, and others, but new rivalries began to develop with Pitt/WVU in football, and towards the end of the Big East/beginning of the AAC, a basketball rivalry with UConn was building. I missed some of our old rivals, but the elevated conference status and new rivalries eased the pain.
Fast-forward to around 2012/2013, and the Big East collapses, with UC, UConn, and USF left holding the bag. Our fans were devastated. Just a few short years after reaching our greatest heights as a football program, we were relegated to the media-driven "G5" purgatory. While I was happy to see some old friends like Memphis, Tulane, and Houston, I felt like we would never reach our previous heights in football. The door to the P5 was slammed shut, and the AAC schools and fans coalesced into a ragtag group of lovable underdogs. I began posting on this board, and genuinely enjoyed the banter amongst other AAC fans. We ribbed each other, tossing out "Coogin' it" and "Tulsane" jokes. Certain posters were notorious, and certain fanbases had a reputation. But whenever an AAC team played out of conference, the rest of the league's fans rallied around that team, pulling for the AAC to do well.
I don't know what he future holds, but I will miss Temple, East Carolina, USF, Tulane, Tulsa, SMU, Navy, Wichita State, Memphis, and their fans. I'm excited about the Big 12 lifeline and the windfall of cash it comes with, but I'm also suspicious of how long the good times will last, as we've been through this song and dance once before. I'll always root for the AAC to have success, and will still follow the AAC board and its teams.
clt throws a basketball at you and wishes you well.
(03-20-2023 09:44 PM)FTUKnight Wrote: [ -> ]What a class act the colleges in the america have been. their post have been hilarious and i have enjoyed it for decades. where UCF is going we have no ties and so far they look at us as, well not as you know us. Will miss not being a member here. This is one UCF grad who will miss being here, not that the future does not look bright but old friends are gold.
I will genuinely miss the departing schools and all of their fans. There's been an interesting cast of characters on this board that will never be replicated. Some of them have already been gone for a while, some others were banned. Some are here now but will be moving on. I hope they will be appreciated in their new home.
Kind words FTUKnight, although I kind of wish you hadn't waited nearly 9 years to say something.
(03-20-2023 09:44 PM)FTUKnight Wrote: [ -> ]What a class act the colleges in the america have been. their post have been hilarious and i have enjoyed it for decades. where UCF is going we have no ties and so far they look at us as, well not as you know us. Will miss not being a member here. This is one UCF grad who will miss being here, not that the future does not look bright but old friends are gold.
We'll miss you guys as well and best of luck in the future. I always look forward to our games and our partnership for years. I always felt our association was good for each other.
I am concerned for UCF with the lack of rivalry in their new league, but maybe the Big 12 plans to bring on a regional rival for UCF in the future. That was the only missing link to the new deal I see.
Cincinnati has been a good football rival for UCF in recent years. We haven't played Houston as often lately in football, but we obviously have played games against them both in the American and in C-USA that were classics.
Our football records against the rest of our future Big 12 conference mates:
BYU: 1-2. Two of these three games were very physical and emotional. Played them in 2011 (BYU won, 24-17), 2014 (UCF won, 31-24), and 2020 (BYU won, 49-23). The first two matchups were both decided by a touchdown margin. The 2020 matchup was a bowl game.
Baylor: 1-0. UCF's Fiesta Bowl win in 2014 and top ten finish in our first season in the American.
Kansas State: 0-1. Played them once in Manhattan in a 17-13 loss in 2010 as a C-USA team.
Texas: 0-2. We played them in the first game ever played in the Bounce House in 2007 and lost, 35-32. I think if one of our linebackers (I can't remember his name right now) had held on to a potential interception of Colt McCoy and taken advantage of all the green in front of him, we would've won the first matchup. The Longhorns blew us out, 35-3, in the second game in Austin in 2009.
West Virginia: 0-2. We played the Mountaineers in Morgantown (2003) and then in Orlando (2004) during our brief time as a football-only member of the MAC. Final scores were 36-18 and 45-20.
We've never played the rest of the Big 12 teams in football. This fall, we'll face Kansas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma in football for the first time. TCU and Iowa State will have to wait a little longer to get their first crack at us unless we somehow play one of them in the Big 12 championship game in 2023 (I don't think ANYONE is going to predict that).
Looking forward to the upcoming challenges we face!
I'm 37. I grew up in Cincinnati, and became a lifelong fan during the 1992 Final Four run. It was our first season in the new Great Midwest Conference, which would last a whole 4 seasons. I've heard we had some fun games with teams like Virginia Tech, Florida State, and South Carolina in the Metro -- but I just missed out on that era. During the 90s and early 2000s, I came to appreciate all of our rivalries within the Great Midwest and Conference USA. Louisville and Memphis were definitely our primary conference rivals, but I also recall a lot of exciting games with good UAB, St. Louis, Depaul, Marquette, and Charlotte teams. C-USA in that era was a high-major basketball conference, sending 3-4 teams to the tournament yearly. We weren't as glamorous as the Big Ten, ACC, or SEC, but we punched above our weight class, and had big-name coaches and personalities like Huggins, Pitino, Calipari, and Crean running highly successful programs.
Then we move over to the Big East. While our basketball program languished due to the botched dismissal of Bob Huggins, our football program began a meteoric rise, and we got to play in 2 BCS bowl games due to our newly elevated status as a BCS conference member. I really missed our basketball games with Memphis, St. Louis, and others, but new rivalries began to develop with Pitt/WVU in football, and towards the end of the Big East/beginning of the AAC, a basketball rivalry with UConn was building. I missed some of our old rivals, but the elevated conference status and new rivalries eased the pain.
Fast-forward to around 2012/2013, and the Big East collapses, with UC, UConn, and USF left holding the bag. Our fans were devastated. Just a few short years after reaching our greatest heights as a football program, we were relegated to the media-driven "G5" purgatory. While I was happy to see some old friends like Memphis, Tulane, and Houston, I felt like we would never reach our previous heights in football. The door to the P5 was slammed shut, and the AAC schools and fans coalesced into a ragtag group of lovable underdogs. I began posting on this board, and genuinely enjoyed the banter amongst other AAC fans. We ribbed each other, tossing out "Coogin' it" and "Tulsane" jokes. Certain posters were notorious, and certain fanbases had a reputation. But whenever an AAC team played out of conference, the rest of the league's fans rallied around that team, pulling for the AAC to do well.
I don't know what he future holds, but I will miss Temple, East Carolina, USF, Tulane, Tulsa, SMU, Navy, Wichita State, Memphis, and their fans. I'm excited about the Big 12 lifeline and the windfall of cash it comes with, but I'm also suspicious of how long the good times will last, as we've been through this song and dance once before. I'll always root for the AAC to have success, and will still follow the AAC board and its teams.
With Houston being bounced from the tourney, and with me not really liking baseball, I'm checking out of this forum. I'll check back in to see how things are going on from me to time. I wish everyone the the best. And yes, I'm sure you give zero f***s I am but I posted it anyway. Salute.
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