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2012
Northern Illinois is Why this Site was put up in the First Place
By FCOadmin. Posted in General | 6 Comments »So Northern Illinois is going to the Orange Bowl. Northern Illinois from the MAC. Remember the MAC? It’s the conference we left behind because we felt C-USA was better. What’s the difference between Northern Illinois and Central Florida? Nothing. Other than Central Florida has better high school talent to recruit from, better weather, and better facilities. And a better conference of course. So why is UNI going to play FSU on New Year’s Night in Miami and not UCF? Urban Meyer said after the game in week 2 that UCF was a good football team. He knows a little about good football teams. So why are we not the BCS buster? There is no good reason.
The three games that were the difference between UNI and UCF were Missouri, which we had a late first half screw up and then abandoned the run game in the second half for no apparent reason and lost to one of the few SEC teams not going to a bowl this year, and the two Tulsa games. One was lost by two points, the other in overtime. Both games had plenty of plays where UCF messed up a good thing and managed to lose them. From poor clock management at the end of the half, to not knowing the rules on punt coverage, there were plenty of moments that should be blamed on poor coaching.
What we did this year, and several others with near misses everywhere, and what Northern Illinois did is proof that UCF should be realistically expecting to play in major bowl games at least once in a while. We’ve seen many other “directional schools” crack the big time, even though some of those schools are not named with a direction in them. Schools like TCU and Boise State and Utah made it from non-AQ conferences. Now we actually have one with a name like ours. We have a true directional school in a major bowl game, and it isn’t us. That should not be. And the only explanation is O’Leary. Look at how quickly UNI’s coach was snatched up by an AQ school. O’Leary has been here for nine years. Not once has his name been rumored for a higher profile job. That should be telling us something.
So have fun watching the Orange Bowl knowing the Knights were literally three plays away from being in the game themselves.
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December 6th, 2012 at 5:02 am
Okay, get Mario Cristobal under contract as O’Leary’s eventual replacement/coach in waiting.
December 6th, 2012 at 11:29 am
This is a great website but O’Leary isn’t going anywhere until he decides to retire. UCF is held hostage to the contract they wrote, and he has the support of Dr. Hitt and top donors. That being said, I am not surprised at all about 2012′s outcome. It’s typical O’Leary. His only consistency is his inconsistency. He will never take UCF football to the next level, and to be disappointed at this point is to be redundant. He has taken UCF as far as he could, and the university and fan base will have to wait for GOL’s retirement before we can have expectations of the next level. In the mean time for 2013, expect to lose the appeal, a losing season, and hope it finally convinces O’Leary to retire.
December 6th, 2012 at 11:55 am
Here’s an interesting stat: in the 2010 CUSA Championship and Liberty Bowl victory season, and in 2012, O’Leary did not beat one team with a winning record (of course unless he beats Ball State in the BOB Dec. 21st). I think that says it all. O’Leary will only beat and lose to the teams he is supposed to, with the odd win and lose to good and bad teams respectively. For every occasional Houston 2009, he’ll have a UAB 2011. He is middle of the road, period.
December 9th, 2012 at 12:22 am
Let’s hope this season is enough to make him retire, he is very old fashion and it’s time for change. He has all the best talent right here in Florida and he can’t do anything with it. He’s still stuck in the early years of football where bigger is better not the case anymore, all he wants is big guys. Lets get a coach who runs a spread offense here.
December 16th, 2012 at 11:52 am
Can anyone tell me the details of O’Leary’s contract, specifically when it expires??
December 18th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Don’t worry George O’Leary is going to lose the Beef O’Brady’s Bowl to Ball State…….then go with losing seasons in the Big East afterwards before he is finally fired!!!!