It’s been one heck of a great year for UCF Sports maybe the best ever, but that doesn’t mean things are perfect in Knight-land. There’s been some real head scratchers all year that has put a sour taste in my mouth more than a few times. Here are some things that give some credence to sayings such as U Can’t have Fun University and the No Fun Administration.

• Banning of SIGNS in football and basketball. Umm, isn’t this college sports? There is no excuse in my book for this. NO EXCUSE

• My 6 year old niece having her pom-poms being confiscated at a football game because they can be used as a weapon. Funny considering they are the same pom-poms being sold by the UCF store under the stadium.

• The banning/limiting of Zombie Nation in both football and basketball. There are some valid concerns, but we need solutions not excuses IMO.

Why do I bring this up now? Because quite frankly I’m not happy that I can’t bring a sign thanking MOD, Dave, and our other seniors on Senior Night like we have in years past for players like Dexter, Gary, and Josh.

I sincerely hope that the UCFAA understands that just because we have these top facilities, great coaches, and improving teams doesn’t mean we won’t speak our minds when something occurs that we as fans don’t like. And we don’t like some of what’s going on right now.

Here’s a signature floating around on Rivals that I find to be funny, although I don’t agree with the clueless comment.

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UCF basketball handily defeated Tulane last night to remain in contention for 4th place in C-USA. Getting in the top 4 is key as it means earning a first round bye in the C-USA tournament.

Be sure to come out on Saturday at 7pm to watch UCF play Rice and honor the senior leaders on this basketball team. They’ve given us so many wonderful moments over the years so they deserve our support. These players will play their final home game at UCF:

#4 Mike O’Donnel
#3 Dave Noel
#21 Stanley Billings
#5 Chip Cartwright
#11 Mike Battle

THANKS SENIORS for all your hard work and effort. You all will be missed!!!

Also be in your seats 10 minutes before tip for the senior night ceremonies!

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For the most part I love the schedule, my only minor complaints is that UTEP is so early in the year and back to back with Boston College. But that is simply a personal complaint as I plan on making both of those road trips!

So far we have 3 national televised games with USF, @Tulsa, and ECU with more possibly to come. Those three games are on non-Saturdays, but I have no problem with them as none of them are on a Tuesday or Wednesday and it ensures at least 2 NIGHT home games! USF is on a Friday night and I know will sell out anyway, and @Tulsa and ECU are on Sunday nights so we can still get in a full day of tailgating for the home ECU game!

Here’s the full schedule, but be sure to check out the release on UCFAthletics.com to read more about it.

Aug. 30 - South Carolina State
Sept. 5 (Fri.) - USF (ESPN)
Sept. 20 - at Boston College
Sept. 27 - at UTEP
Oct. 4 - SMU
Oct. 11 - at Miami (Fla.)
Oct. 26 (Sun.) - at Tulsa (ESPN)
Nov. 2 (Sun.) - East Carolina (ESPN)
Nov. 8 - Southern Miss
Nov. 15 - at Marshall
Nov. 22 - at Memphis
Nov. 29 - UAB

Should be an exciting year!

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It seems like forever since UCF basketball last played at home, but the wait is over as the hated ECU Pirates come to town. Any conference game is big, but winning this game is almost a must if we want to have a chance to sneak into the 3rd place in C-USA. 3rd place could mean a lot considering if we are in 4th place it means we’d have to face Memphis BEFORE the finals, while 3rd place means if we play Memphis it will be in the finals on CBS!

Also keep in mind for Wednesday game if you are in the YAC (Young Alumni Club) they are having a pregame party at Wackadoos that I believe starts at 5:30pm. One prize given away will be court side seats!

On another note, it seems like forever since I last posted both her and my personal blog. I’ve made some adjustments in my schedule and the time I usually blogged I can’t now, so I’ve got to get on a new schedule.

Pardon the interruptions in service until then

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He has a top of the fold picture and article in USA Today sports section for being an Iraqi war vet collegiate athlete. Great story on Stanley, good pub for the school, but best of all was the news that Stan the Man will be back next week in service for us. Oh how we’ve missed him dearly!

USA Today: Billings was game for challenge

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Props to UCF for getting highlights like this up fast after the games on their UCFAA YouTube page. Checkout this breakaway dunk by Mr. 1000 points himself, Jermain Taylor! UCF beat Marshall 77-63 and will now face the #1 team in the land with the Tigers of Memphis.

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We are hours away from the big recruiting day that will be topped off with a home game versus rival Marshall at 7pm. This is an exciting year for UCF football recruiting, so keep tabs on what’s going on throughout signing day by using signing lists at UCFSports.com and UCFAthletics.com!

After celebrating our top notch class, including the two top recruits pictured above– be sure to make it out to the UCF ARENA at 7pm for UCF vs Marshall basketball action!

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In honor of signing day week (Signing Day is on Wednesday, woohoo!) check out this great Miami Herald article about how UCF is really improving its image with recruits! Good place to have a nice article about us!

For UCF Recruits, Image Means Plenty

Also word is getting better on Brandon Harris the big 4 STAR recruit we hosted this past weekend from Miami. He appears to have really enjoyed his visit and has us in his top 3 along with Miami and Ohio St. Contrary to what many others think I think we have a decent shot at getting this guy. We’ll find out on Wednesday when he announces his decision live on ESPNU at 1:05pm!

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Very exciting basketball game, Houston’s McKiver just couldn’t miss on any of his 3’s towards the end which made winning this game very difficult. Hopefully the fans and players will bounce back because we’ve got a much improved Marshall team coming to town on Wednesday before we go play the #1 team in the land at Memphis.

Here are some pics and two quick videos showing the crowd and atmosphere. Oh and as you will see we got a “sign” into the game! Woot…
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Found this great post on a college football blog called Wizard of Odds which does a top notch job of breaking down the TV viewership of bowl games this past season. Overall viewership for bowls was down 12%, but as already mentioned here that trend didn’t hold true for the Liberty Bowl which actually saw a 9% increase over last year.

The Liberty Bowl was actually one of only 11 bowls (out of 32) to trend upward in viewing over 2006. Here’s a great graph from Wizard of Odds showing the percentage change, however I strongly encourage you to check out the entire post for more info and other great graphs on TV viewership!

Click to see more graphs and read entire post on Wizard of Odds

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