UCF fans miss hating UCF

I’m just going to come right out and say it, even if many UCF fans will wag their finger and accuse me of sleeping with the enemy.

I feel sorry for the USF Bulls.

And I miss them.

I miss them desperately.

I miss their fans.

I miss their arrogance.

I miss their banter and their buildup to the War on I-4.

The reason I bring this up today is because USF just lost its highly respected athletic director Michael Kelly, who accepted the AD job at Navy earlier this week. Kelly was one of the program’s biggest assets. He stabilized an athletic department that was in flux when he arrived and he was the driving force behind finally getting an on-campus football stadium approved and underway — something Bulls fans had been dreaming about for decades.

Losing Kelly in the midst of the debt-heavy stadium project is yet another major blow for an athletic program that is already struggling to stay relevant — both financially and competitively. Here’s all you need to know: UCF will make $45 million in Big 12 TV money next season while USF will make $7 million in the American Athletic Conference. In other words, the Knights will make nearly $400 million more over the next decade than will the Bulls.

I know, I know.

I know what you UCF fans are thinking.

You’re thinking: “All those years of arrogance bought them exactly what they deserve: a front-row seat to our payday. Maybe we should start a GoFundMe for them — NOT!”

I get it. We all know the history. For years, USF was UCF’s arch-rival — not just on the field, but in boardrooms and conference calls, in the politics of college football realignment, in the back channels of the old Big East and Conference USA. The Bulls tried desperately to keep UCF from joining them at college football’s big-boy table.

The Bulls got their big break first in 2005 when they…

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Publish date : 2025-06-07 18:32:00

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