re: UCF To SEC?

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Cold day in hell before Florida goes along with that.

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This.

To be fair to Florida, though, a lot of presidents and people with academic clout in the SEC would have a problem with UCF. And those opinions affect conference alignment more than most people realize.


Even though it's made great strides in the past 20 years, UCF is still viewed as a "commuter" college by a significant number of people within academia. For example, it would be virtually impossible for UCF to place any of their Ph.D. graduates in a tenure-track job at an SEC institution. Those perceptions take a long time to go away.