(01-24-2023 01:25 AM)ArmoredUpKnight Wrote:  

(01-23-2023 07:04 PM)Alanda Wrote:  

(01-23-2023 09:07 AM)Love and Honor Wrote:  That may be true, but let's not kid ourselves here. The huge demographic shifts in favor of Florida in general created a very favorable situation for UCF to tap into. You put the exact same admin in place at a similar-sized directional school in the Rust Belt a few decades ago and you wouldn't get nearly the same success that we've seen in Orlando (as an athletic department or university). UCF still made it happen and they deserve credit for tapping into it, but they aren't where they are today without the State of Florida growing to where it is now.

(01-23-2023 03:08 PM)Yosef181 Wrote:  As long as you're in a major TV market, yes.

To both of you don't get me wrong as I've also talked about one of UCF's advantages. But I firmly believe that if they had past leadership similar to what Memphis has had they wouldn't be going to the Big 12 right now.

Louisville is another example of making the right decisions and following through with them. They have been conference mates with Memphis at varying times. They have a similar DMA size and enrollment as Memphis. Yet here they are in the ACC and a top 20 program in revenue and Memphis isn't even close.

“It’s too painful”
- Tommy West

Yeah. And it's sad he had to do that rant just to get a fire lit to get more effort into football. But we're so behind the others that as I have learned more about realignment over the years it feels surprising that Memphis is even getting considered. In one of our many discussions about an OCS someone asked how many schools moved from a decent-sized off-campus stadium to playing on campus. I looked it up going back to 1990 and two of the five schools were Louisville and UCF.