🏈 Byrne boosting our OOC schedule?

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Is this real life?

Worrying about butts in seats and we schedule a CUSA team?

This has ESPN prime time written all over it

 

[UAgrad93]

Listening to 3ManFront and it sounds like the CFP committee is adding some stipulations into the requirements for qualifying for the CFP and strengthening the schedule means less of the "money" games.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Is this real life?

Worrying about butts in seats and we schedule a CUSA team?

This has ESPN prime time written all over it

I believe the Bulls just signed a 2 for 1 with Florida. Playing in Raymond James stadium should be cool.

PS, UCF should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

I believe the Bulls just signed a 2 for 1 with Florida. Playing in Raymond James stadium should be cool.

PS, UCF should be ashamed of themselves.

I mean, I guess it is a slight "upgrade" from the FBS cupcakes we get laughed at for scheduling, but still.

A very nominal upgrade, at best.

 

[TUSKtimes]

I mean, I guess it is a slight "upgrade" from the FBS cupcakes we get laughed at for scheduling, but still.

A very nominal upgrade, at best.

And we get a road game to Tampa/St. Petersburgh area. That's different. And most of all the contempt and ridicule the Knights will get from the backlash of their neighbor doing what they won't touch to be legit is hilarious. 2 for 1 is beneath UCF and USF is taking the only road available for playoff and national success.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

And we get a road game to Tampa/St. Petersburgh area. That's different. And most of all the contempt and ridicule the Knights will get from the backlash of their neighbor doing what they won't touch to be legit is hilarious. 2 for 1 is beneath UCF and USF is taking the only road available for playoff and national success.

And, there's this also.

 

[OldPlayer]

So USF gets paid twice to come to BDS (and gets paid twice to go to UF). Looks to me like USF is building up the coffers.

Will BB8 still be there?

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I believe the Bulls just signed a 2 for 1 with Florida. Playing in Raymond James stadium should be cool.

PS, UCF should be ashamed of themselves.

Wait......USF is from Miami area.....arent they?
Be playing at Miami Dolphin stadium. ?
Or it’s neutral site at Tampa?

 

[TUSKtimes]

Wait......USF is from Miami area.....arent they?
Be playing at Miami Dolphin stadium. ?
Or it’s neutral site at Tampa?

Nope, they are located in the heart of Tampa Bay. You are starting to make me wonder if I should catch a ride with you.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Well. @TUSKtimes that might work put
Tampa aint that bad. And the big silvarado holds plenty

 

[TerryP]

Or it’s neutral site at Tampa?

They've been trying, or looking, to build a home stadium in Tampa for a few years now. The last I read about it was a few years ago...seems like they were down to a couple of sites. At the time they were signing an extension to continue playing in Raymond James...which is technically their home field but it's a shared stadium with the Bucs.

My first question is how many tickets are we going to see alloted for Bama folk.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

They've been trying, or looking, to build a home stadium in Tampa for a few years now. The last I read about it was a few years ago...seems like they were down to a couple of sites. At the time they were signing an extension to continue playing in Raymond James...which is technically their home field but it's a shared stadium with the Bucs.

My first question is how many tickets are we going to see alloted for Bama folk.

@TUSKtimes What to me is funny.....how much more attractive this matchup sounds ...... than Duke.....
For me Duke isa 2 hour trip....usf a 9 hour.....and might go to Tampa.....

 

[alabama mike]

I am not opposed to going to Tampa to play but once again, if you are Power 5 school, play other Power 5 schools.

 

[TUSKtimes]

@TUSKtimes What to me is funny.....how much more attractive this matchup sounds ...... than Duke.....
For me Duke isa 2 hour trip....usf a 9 hour.....and might go to Tampa.....

I think we have done the Atlanta thing to exhaustion. And for me, Duke, as a team, has felt more like a consolation prize from the start.

I like the sound of Florida too and getting back to some home and home is overdue.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Cecil's take... (article link in tweet)

 

[TUSKtimes]

Cecil's take... (article link in tweet)

The al.com take is hot off the press as well.

Cheeky Alabama schedules the wrong Florida school

 

[OldPlayer]

I think we have done the Atlanta thing to exhaustion. And for me, Duke, as a team, has felt more like a consolation prize from the start.

I like the sound of Florida too and getting back to some home and home is overdue.

Originally Duke was a home and home. Alabama went to Duke a few years ago. This upcoming game in Atlanta was supposed to be in Tuscaloosa but it was moved for the bigger paycheck for everybody.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Originally Duke was a home and home. Alabama went to Duke a few years ago. This upcoming game in Atlanta was supposed to be in Tuscaloosa but it was moved for the bigger paycheck for everybody.

When we went to Durham it wasn't the marquee OOC game on our schedule that year. Playing Penn State was the big deal in 2010. Suppose we had our rematch with the Dukies in Tuscaloosa and we chose to find a bigger deal in Atlanta to start the season?

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Originally Duke was a home and home. Alabama went to Duke a few years ago. This upcoming game in Atlanta was supposed to be in Tuscaloosa but it was moved for the bigger paycheck for everybody.

Remember a game with Duke in Ttown. I think the game there was the reciprocal game

 

[252BAMA]

Originally Duke was a home and home. Alabama went to Duke a few years ago. This upcoming game in Atlanta was supposed to be in Tuscaloosa but it was moved for the bigger paycheck for everybody.

Actually the game at Duke in 2010 was supposed to be at a neutral site. Presumably Atlanta or Charlotte. But Bama didn't get it in writing, and Cutcliffe insisted it be played in Durham. It was the return game for the 2006 game in Tuscaloosa. This year's game has nothing to do with that series.