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

rels advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 6 Jun 2002 22:37:49 -0400


On Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:27 PM, the UCF Football Oracle and
Historian Bryan J. Smith ;>)) wrote:

>
> 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!"
>
Oh, I know you're down in FL, a lower extension of N.Y. or maybe an
easternly extension of Disney World ;>))  (It's been my observation
Southerners don't consider Florida a Southern State, right?)  LOL.

There is a lot of fine high school talent that populates those mighty
universities down there in FL, but how many graduate?  A lot of GA
high school football players go to those Floridian schools also (think
they help bring down the overall GPA of the athletes, but don't know
for sure ;>)).

Naaah, they play real good football down there.  But, it is my
opinion, that there are many other locations where good football is
played, but ... not taken quite so seriously as in the "South" and
"Lower N.Y." ;>))

Hope we can make the UCF-WMU game.  Contact me off-line with the date
and, perhaps something can come of it.  WMU has had some good teams at
various times; EMU has had some good teams (Charlie Batch, a pro QB
with Detroit for awhile - believe he's been let go because of salary
cap reasons, but am not sure there) ... not sure if CMU has ever been
that big of a football school.  T. J. Druckett (sp?), Michigan State,
drafted by Atlanta Falcons, I believe is from the Kalamazoo area, but
not 100% sure of that.  Michigan has good football.  Heck, the Univ.
of Michigan sells out every year and is almost always #1 in game
attendance (alternating it seems yearly lately with Tennessee).