Bailey On USF/UCF: "A Healthy, Respectful Rivalry"

[Skingraft]

Like it or not, it is now officially a rivalry.

not to me homie

[Triple B]

Like it or not, it is now officially a rivalry.

Not for another year, officially ....

[outrunner]

Like it or not, it is now officially a rivalry.

Not for another year, officially ....

1-1 basketball deal says otherwise.

[cmhatter]

beating UCF means everything now.

This is not meant to be confrontational, but do you mean that statement for you, the players, or the fan base.... Beating UCF will be important as it would pertain to the conference, but I just see this rivalry as joke...

how exactly is it a joke?

we passed them, now they caught up to us; a rival is defined by many things (distance being one of them), but I still do not feel we add value to our program by playing them. Yes, we have too now, but I just laugh at the fact (hence the joke) people get so fired up to play them.... I just see zero value in it...... we all have opinions, yes opinions are like ********, but this one is my opinion; right or wrong.... I still see Rutgers as more of a rival that what UCF will ever be based upon competition

what competition? we lose to rutgers all the time...

if you asked their fan base if they thought USF was a rival... they'd laugh.

Let me start over... I'm not asking anyone a single question on what "I" think.... It is an opinion of "mine" that playing UCF is a joke and will help USF in no way shape or form in the new conference alignment/NC format as far as SOS goes..... That is just it; when we play Rutgers it is very competitive and they have gained more respect in the CFB world that UCF has.... I will state it once again for you... In "MY OPINION" UCF is not a rival, they are just a school close to us, we gain nothing in beating them, and since they are the BE now people are going to try to force it to be a rival due to proximity....

would losing to UCF feel the same as looking to Pittsburgh or Cinci? No

To me, yes... Serious answer... I really do not care one way or the other..... In a year, it's just the same as Pitt or Cincy.... It's a conference loss feel

the day we lose our undefeated football record against UCF... it will be a crushing blow and this board will go into an extreme meltdown. It will feel MUCH worse than losing to Pitt/Cinci.

i'm not sure how you can say it would feel the same. It would suck... and you'd have to listen to them for a full year.

UCF is our one and ONLY rival right now.

[Skingraft]

They can be your rival

[South_Florida_Flip]

UCF is our one and ONLY rival right now.

100% incorrect

[Triple B]

Like it or not, it is now officially a rivalry.

Not for another year, officially ....

1-1 basketball deal says otherwise.

Just 2 ooc games that will hopefully help our RPI ...

[Triple B]

the day we lose our undefeated football record against UCF... it will be a crushing blow and this board will go into an extreme meltdown. It will feel MUCH worse than losing to Pitt/Cinci.

The board can't melt down much worse than it already does with a conference loss ....

i'm not sure how you can say it would feel the same. It would suck... and you'd have to listen to them for a full year.

Maybe YOU'D have to listen to them for a full year .... and this is why I think it's considered a rivalry by the few. Most USF fans aren't in a position to have listen to them for a full year but those that do, get all worked up over it.

UCF is our one and ONLY rival right now

Like skingraft said, they're YOUR rival right now.

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[cmhatter]

you guys can say its not a rivalry if you want.... but you know it is.

[charsibb]

Of course they are not worthy to be our rivals.

Yet they are. Deal with it.