You all know where I am going with this, ala, Scott Frost. I'm hoping when we finally get this ship turned around, and CJS starts winning more games each year so we can at least be in the discussion. UCF - before Frost - along with USF, were never given ANY consideration, but should have. Willie Taggart, as well as the more lately vocal, Tony Dungy, even said in the press that USF had no chance to ever get there - in as many words - and for Taggart to "Go west, young black college football coach-man, go west!", all the way out to Oregon.
Based on what we know now, even Oregon basically has close to zero chance to play in a national championship game, and even if they did, they would have to beat twice, likely one of the same top five or six teams and still be the underdog.
Being that the AAC is considered the top Group of Five conference in the nation, we have seen two teams from the conference - UCF in 2018, and Cincinnati in 2020 - in a few short years, and certainly others in the future win out in the season's schedule and go undefeated the very week the pollsters decide to break their hearts.
But what if there is a USF there one day? And what if we are there there for two or three years under a well known Jeff Scott. The politics of not giving a Group of Five team a chance, regardless of them being not given the opportunity to play the major Power of Five teams during the regular season, may, on occasion, fall the way of USF. It didn't for UCF because as we all know, they purposefully avoid playing elite out of conference teams during the regular season...hence it back fires.
If Scott starts winning, which I feel good that he will, and if he stays here to build his own FSU just like Bobby Bowden did along side Scott's father, Brad, USF will not only be given an opportunity to go to the P5 but also start having the name recognition. And the recognition comes from USF building the program, and eventually playing some of the major Power Five programs to build their strength of schedule. That is part of the remedy to position the team into higher acceptance.
Frost will NEVER get there, although three years ago he was most certain thought he would have a better chance. Oh, he's got a great chance (heavy sarcasm). Just be the top team from the current seven team West division of the likes of Wisconsin and Iowa, only to play the likely winner of the East in either Michigan, Penn State, and Ohio State. Then if you pull that off then beat someone by the likes of Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, or Oklahoma.
Frost would not even have to be undefeated to get to his championship game, whereas, USF would, because any trip up on the way is merely fodder for "system" to deem us, "not fit, to be there."
Based on what we know now, even Oregon basically has close to zero chance to play in a national championship game, and even if they did, they would have to beat twice, likely one of the same top five or six teams and still be the underdog.
Being that the AAC is considered the top Group of Five conference in the nation, we have seen two teams from the conference - UCF in 2018, and Cincinnati in 2020 - in a few short years, and certainly others in the future win out in the season's schedule and go undefeated the very week the pollsters decide to break their hearts.
But what if there is a USF there one day? And what if we are there there for two or three years under a well known Jeff Scott. The politics of not giving a Group of Five team a chance, regardless of them being not given the opportunity to play the major Power of Five teams during the regular season, may, on occasion, fall the way of USF. It didn't for UCF because as we all know, they purposefully avoid playing elite out of conference teams during the regular season...hence it back fires.
If Scott starts winning, which I feel good that he will, and if he stays here to build his own FSU just like Bobby Bowden did along side Scott's father, Brad, USF will not only be given an opportunity to go to the P5 but also start having the name recognition. And the recognition comes from USF building the program, and eventually playing some of the major Power Five programs to build their strength of schedule. That is part of the remedy to position the team into higher acceptance.
Frost will NEVER get there, although three years ago he was most certain thought he would have a better chance. Oh, he's got a great chance (heavy sarcasm). Just be the top team from the current seven team West division of the likes of Wisconsin and Iowa, only to play the likely winner of the East in either Michigan, Penn State, and Ohio State. Then if you pull that off then beat someone by the likes of Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, or Oklahoma.
Frost would not even have to be undefeated to get to his championship game, whereas, USF would, because any trip up on the way is merely fodder for "system" to deem us, "not fit, to be there."
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