re: UCF To UF: "2&1 Does NOT Fix Broken Playoff System"

Life is unfair. Business is unfair. Some guys are tall, some short. Some born rich some poor. Some schools are the University of Florida in the SEC and some directional. The SEC schools must have x number of home dates for recruiting and budget purposes. The UF AD would be justifiably fired if he doesn't fill those. That's why they pay schools guarantees to play. The UF made UCF one hell of an offer to play one @ Orlando. UCF is only interested in talking big, talking poitics, not a series as most anyone in their position would have leaped at the generous offer by UF. Fuk UCF, they talked up a fight now they shy away from it. Afraid.

We here at UCF will build a statue for Danny White one day and we give him a standing ovation for curling while the other ADs play shuffleboard. He’s a hero here and if anyone outside Orlando doesn’t like it too damn bad. We will continue to be defiant under this monopoly disguised as FBS football. Boise can also suck it. They’re a bunch of lap dogs and their compliant camper success got them zilch.

BS. UCF needs to position themselves for an ACC expansion shot @ some point, they aren't getting in the SEC. They are still a commuter school with a chicken shite fan base. UAB like. A couple or three years ago they were giving away tickets in the local grocery stores.

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It’s not broken. A UCF team with a schedule where roughly half of the teams didn’t even make .500 shouldn’t sniff a playoff.

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Agreed.

Strength of schedule matters.

If UCF made the playoff with their schedule (1 P5 opponent), then the system would really be broken.

Let UCF rot. They should schedule some BDF teams, because they are about the same level

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Let UCF rot.

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That's the plan since they bitched out of our offer.

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would lose a few million dollars by playing at ucf. ucf has to give some type of compensation. they aren't losing anything

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You are missing the beauty of the 2 for 1 deal: UF would not have to pay UCF anything to play in Gainesville. So UF would get 2 guaranteed sellouts, and would not have to shell out the $2 or 3 million+ UCF would normally expect as a guaranteed payment for the 2 games. Then UF plays the one away game and gets a cut of its ticket sales or something small like that, but UCF has passed up two apperance fees for the right to host an SEC team at home.

I'm not saying its the best financial deal UF can make, but it's not a losing deal for UF.

Also, I doubt that UF is losing much money by splitting the gate at the WLOCP every year instead of hosting UGA every other year. The City of Gainesville misses out, but not the University. And any financial loss by the University is worth it for alumni relations.

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We here at UCF will build a statue for Danny White one day and we give him a standing ovation for curling while the other ADs play shuffleboard. He’s a hero here and if anyone outside Orlando doesn’t like it too damn bad. We will continue to be defiant under this monopoly disguised as FBS football. Boise can also suck it. They’re a bunch of lap dogs and their compliant camper success got them zilch.

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Cool, we'll all keep doing what we are doing too.

Guess everyone is happy then.

You know, I can sympathize a bit with the difficulty in scheduling the sort of major opponents that would help them rise in terms of competing against Power 5 opponents for a playoff spot. I can even sympathize with them on not wanting an unbalanced arrangement out of the deal. But the system is what it is. The teams in the P5 are have almost universally spent more than a century taking on other top teams, for better or for worse. They weren't magicked into their current position. Until UCF accepts that, and learns that rising up takes patience, they'll never get the respect they want.

So, yeah, take unbalanced arrangements. Beat those teams down twice at their place and once at yours. Keep taking on mid-tier P5 programs, get eyeballs on TV and convince top-tier P5 programs that, as an opponent, you are a good investment in terms of branding. Don't wait your turn, but do have the patience to understand that these things don't happen overnight. You're not even at the level Boise State was under Petersen, yet. Stop begging for unwarranted respect.