For anyone that may have missed it, earlier this week UCF announced it’s policies for the 2010 season.

http://ucfathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/020910aaa.html

The good: Decreased donation requirements and and season ticket prices hopefully will mean increased support in the stands in this tough economic environment. Great job UCF!

The bad: UCF has not changed it’s policy of tailgates not opening until noon on games at 6pm or later just as last year for the C & D lots, as well as Memory Mall. However if you donate $1,000 or more and do not park in those lots then are you deemed responsible enough to tailgate starting at 8am for all games. Makes great sense.

The ugly: Chad Binette, A UCF spokesman in this Orlando Sentinel article stated that part of the reason for not allowing Memory Mall tailgating to start was because they didn’t want to make students have to get up at 8am to get a spot on the Mall. Speaks for itself folks.

Unfortunately it appears this will likely be the end of my group’s tailgates in the Memory Mall as it is no longer worth the extra hassle involved. The good news is we’ll save some money from donations and won’t have to deal with the tailgate tent lines!

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I’ve posted pictures from the rest of the football season this morning. This includes the following games: Miami, Texas (Austin road trip), Houston, and Tulane. It also includes the UMass basketball game and some pics from Spirit Splash. There were some fun times in there with a fantastic tailgate scene for Miami, a road trip to Austin that was a blast, a huge victory in front of a packed Arena vs UMass, and a BIG WIN over Houston…our first over a Top 25 team ever! It’s great being a Knight fan in 2009!

We’ve definitely closed out the season strong, winning 5 of 6 games after the tough Miami loss. The defensive line is without a doubt the best in C-USA (regardless of what some ESPN announcer says) and our young secondary has grown with each game finding a way to get some timely turnovers. Offensively we are getting good consistent play from our QB, offensive line has really gelled together, the receivers are stepping up and making both the easy and the hard catches, and finally we’ve found a great 1-2 punch with Harvey and Davis. Definitely been fun to watch over the last half of the season, you can’t help but feel pretty good going into the bowl game regardless of who we play.

Tickets are already purchased for St Pete Bowl (41 to be exact!) and now we await our opponent and plan out invasion to the west to make it Knight Knation for the weekend of Dec 19th!

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Yes I’m still around.
Originally I was working on a large tailgate related post and wanted to keep focus on that for awhile so I didn’t do some of my usual posts, but then it just became a time issue. I’m hoping to use the holidays next week to catch up on posting pics from all the football and basketball games I’ve collected.

It’s a great time to be a KNIGHT right now in both football and basketball!

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Let’s hope the UCF Administration uses this bye week to re-assess these new changes that are continuing to cause problems for some of our biggest supporters. For where I sit the times need to be rolled back to 2008 times and the tailgate lines need to be removed or severely adjusted. We’ve seen a pattern in the Memory Mall where they push the tent line restrictions very strictly when the donor lots first open, but then things loosen up as the day goes by. The problem with this is that it means some of the biggest fans are the ones being unreasonably harassed, while the late arrivers have no issues. It just makes no sense at all. Nothing says where UCF is with tailgating in 2009 than this banner created by Keone on Rivals:

This banner was proudly displayed at Knight Fire’s tailgate for Memphis:

If anyone has any thoughts on how tailgating has worked out for them over the first 3 home games, please feel free to share in the comments of this post.

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Nice site from a ECU fan who puts together the highlights for both teams. Gives a good review of the game, allowed me to remember some of the positives that I had forgotten about. I’m in no way saying I’m happy or anything, but I will say that is the best our offense has looked since 2007 probably especially when you consider it was a pretty good defense we were up against.

UCF @ ECU 1st Half

UCF @ ECU 2nd Half

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For Knight fans not making the trip up and living Orlando/Tampa markets, please keep in mind if you have Bright House cable then you can watch the game live. The game is on at 3:30pm EST and is on a new channel called Bright House Sports Network which is channel 47 in Orlando.

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As a friend said, UCF tried their best but still couldn’t keep us from having a good time tailgating. And I do stress they really really tried unfortunately with these continued time restrictions and an increased enforcement of the tailgate lines. I’d like to take this time to encourage anyone else who continues to be upset over these rules to keep contacting the administration.

As for the game, how about that 2nd half? If we go by trends, which I know I know it doesn’t always work like that then we can make some statements. Looks like we have ourselves a great QB in Hodges, a future star DB in Robinson, a playmaker in Hallman, the best special teams in C-USA, an improving O-Line, an aggressive defense, and dare I even say an Offense that wasn’t afraid to go to 4 WR sets for much of the night. Hey 30 minutes of football isn’t a enough to make predictions, but again I like the trend and I’m ready to kick some Pirate butt this weekend!

Buffalo Tailgate Pictures

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WEAR YOUR WHITE! GO KNIGHTS!

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The third time is the charm! After trips not working out the previous two years we played at USM, I finally got a trip to the Rock under my belt and as an added bonus we stayed in New Orleans for 3 nights which was also a first for me. Unfortunately we didn’t come away with the win, but this post is focusing on the trip not the game. First I’ll give a link to the pictures, and then some thoughts for those that care!
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