[KLUG Advocacy] RE: UCF booty [kicking] time! -- WAS: Coriolis/ExamCram Linux+ book ...

Bryan J. Smith advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
06 Jun 2002 20:27:08 -0400


[ Reposting to ADVOCACY for general "my quarterback is bigger than your
quarterback" trash-talking! ;-P ]

On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 09:58, rels wrote:
> Hey Bryan!
> From what I've heard (but have been unable to substantiate it) is
> ExamCram.com has either ceased operations or been scarfed up by
> someone else.  Not really sure about the Coriolis book publishing
> effort, but I too have been trying to contact both entities for well
> over a month at various intervals to no avail.  It looks like the web
> site ceased to operate at the end of April as that is when I received
> my last batch of Questions of the Day.

Ahhh, yeah, I was on that list too!  Doh, should have "clicked" there in
my mind -- no more messages = bad things man, bad things!

> So do you think UCF is going to be strong again this year?  :>))

The problem with UCF is that they play 45 minutes.  They dominated
almost every team they played except for 1 quarter.  And then they
bought the farm with mistakes.

> I'm up here in Dallas, GA area, but next week will be up in Kalamazoo
> area.  If I'm up that way when you visit ... I'll go to the UCF-WMU
> game with 'ya!

Cool!

> Doesn't sound like the Michiganders have the same fervor when it comes
> to "zee game that's played with the funny shaped ball".
> The only big fans up there are routing for Michigan State or
> Univ. of Michigan.

Dude!  I'm in Florida!  I remember back in the early '90s when I went to
UCF games, people were wearing Florida, FSU and Miami (FL) shirts!  But
a few good games like Nebraska ('97), lots of SEC games lost by 3 or
less points, etc... changes that.  And then there's Daunte Culpepper --
people have heard of that name.

I have a bunch of posters from 1998 I put up at work everywhere I go. 
There is the Florida Citrus Bowl and this gigantic 6'5", 250lbs. black
quarterback standing in the middle of it and it reads ...

   "Daunte's World ... Orlando's Biggest Attraction!"

But no one from UCF was surprised when he started kicking butt in the
NFL.  You heard all this crap about how "Tim Couch is both 'big and
fast'" ... yeah, the 1999 NFL draft _official_ statistics for 'ya ...

          Tim Couch:  6'4", 220lbs, 4.4s in the 40m
   Daunte Culpepper:  6'5", 250lbs, 4.2s in the 40m

            30lbs. heavier, 0.2s faster in the 40m.

And UCF did NOT have a "wussy schedule" back in '97 -- when Daunte had
one of his best years.  Oh yeah, he _broke_ Steve Young's all-time NCAA
passing completion percentage ... by 1.5% (enough that it's going to be
hard to break again ;-).

We've got a good quarterback again, big and strong like Daunte (but
white and not as quick though ;-).  He had to sit out last spring/summer
because of academics (UCF is _hard_ on its athletes) so he didn't get a
good training season in.  And before that, he filled in as a replacement
mid-season, missing the summer before that while he got college
eligible.  So we hope thanx to a good spring/summer training, he's
"matured" into the quarterback we _know_ he can be as a junior (he was
actually red-shirted, but played too much that first year due to the
other QB's injury).  Excellent pocket passer -- even better than Daunte
IMHO, just without Daunte's mobility (it's a trade-off IMHO).

Just adding to the "Trash Talking" in the MAC.  Seriously now, I hope
UCF gives you MAC guys some competition!  I think our 2002 NFL draft and
free agent numbers (the best in the MAC of any team) surprised a number
of people.  I don't know if we'll win the MAC, but I think we have a
chance as long as we beat Marshall at Marshall.  Looking forward to the
WMU game too -- you guys aren't pushovers either!

-- Bryan

P.S.  Bad thing about UCF?  When it's cold, we suck.  Orlando, yeah --
the first time that same QB saw snow in his _life_ was at the NIU game
two years ago.  He's from Miami.

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