These Emails Were Sent Between Florida & UCF About Scheduling Non-Conference Series

The athletic directors from Florida and UCF exchanged emails last week about a potential non-conference series between the two programs. Those talks fell apart because the Gators aren't interested in playing in a home-and-home series and UCF isn’t interested in playing in a two-for-one series. The Orlando Sentinel got their hands on some of the emails exchanged between the two schools...

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“UF isn’t in the market for home-and-home or a neutral site games against non-Autonomy 5 opponents,” Florida’s Scott Stricklin wrote. “However, we would be open to a series similar to what we’ve agreed to with USF … two games in Gainesville and one in Orlando. We are in need of a home opener for the 2022 season, so the 9/3/2022 date you mention would be a perfect date to begin the series, and we can fill in the remaining games from there.”

White then seemed to take umbrage with Stricklin grouping UCF in with other “non-Autonomy 5 opponents” and sent a lengthy email urging Stricklin to help him change an unfair system.

“You mention not playing a neutral site contest versus a non-autonomy 5 opponent, but a UF vs. UCF game held in our state would certainly be a sellout, which would be a positive for both of us financially,” UCF’s Danny White wrote. “I think that our team has shown on the field that we are far from a typical ‘non-autonomy 5’ opponent.”

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(The Spun)