Who's The School With All The Sports That's Made For You & Me?

by Collin Sherwin on Nov 17, 2010 6:50 PM EST in Other Sports

Tomorrow is a big day for USF Athletics in Orlando. Men's soccer plays its first-round NCAA Tournament game against UCF at 5 p.m., and men's basketball also takes on the Knights at 7 p.m. Our opinion on UCF around here is pretty well settled, but tomorrow is a legitimate reason to venture out and visit our neighbors to the east. Sometimes it's easy for me to forget about UCiF because without my glasses I am pretty blind, and I sure as hell can't see that far in a rearview mirror, but tomorrow will be a nice retro day for us old school Bulls fans that remember life before the BCS. I've made this trip in the past for volleyball, baseball, softball, soccer, and of course football and basketball. Getting two in one day is always a treat.

Anyway Ken and I will be in O-Town tomorrow cheering on our Bulls in both games, and hopefully avoiding confrontations with the natives. If you know of good places to have a beverage or two before and after the games, let us know, since a lot of that area has been completely redone over the past five years and I for one am not nearly as familiar with it as I used to be. And if you're making the trip, say so in the comments. We'd love to meet some of you if you're going to be there.

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Wish I could be there.

I went to a basketball game at their pretentious little gym during the BB Waldon era. Wore my colors. There wasn’t any confrontation.

by GarySJ on Nov 17, 2010 7:14 PM EST reply actions

We talked about that old arena a little bit on our podcast (posting later tonight).

It was deemed “The Garage” because there was actually a garage door at one end of the arena for bringing in equipment. It was a pretty dinky place, but they were in the Atlantic Sun at the time and it wasn’t any better or worse than the other schools in that league.

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by Jamie DeVriend on Nov 17, 2010 7:44 PM EST up reply actions

"Dinky" doesn't quite tell the story.

FAU’s gym is dinky. What struck me about the “old” UCF Arena was how much effort they put into arena aesthetics — wide aisles, ample concessions, luxury boxes — then when you finally inside it’s just a tiny gym with wood benches and terrible sight lines. And those garage doors.

It was just so… UCF.

by GarySJ on Nov 19, 2010 6:27 PM EST up reply actions