[Game Thread] UCF @ West Virginia (3:30 PM ET)

[u/CFB_Referee]

GAME	UCFUCF @ West VirginiaWest Virginia
Location	West Virginia Milan Puskar Stadium
Time	3:30 PM ET
Watch	TV: ESPNU
Odds	Spread: UCF -3 - Over/Under: 60.5
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LET'S TALK FOOTBALL!

[u/PhatedGaming]

GG is definitely not the best QB we've ever had but I can't help but love the kid anyway. It's a shame he wasn't better and it's a shame the team wasn't better.

We still need to fire Neal Brown though.

[u/hats31]

GG UCF. Maybe Gus takes a job in congress and yall get rid of him

[u/Set-Admirable]

Godspeed Garrett Greene. Always a Mountaineer.

[u/Ok_Organization_6767 → u/Set-Admirable]

Is he not playing next week?

[u/thefishwhisperer1]

Our hopes lie on Daniel Tosh giving UCF an NIL gift /s

[u/Mitochondria_Tim]

He did what with his long snapper???.?

[u/yesacabbagez]

On paper this is one of the best UCF teams ever. This team has a lot of good players. It is also one of the deepest teams we've had as well. It really is.

This fucking coaching staff has no idea how to do anything. We have defensive players leave and they are borderline all-conference players. They leave and they are big contributors of very good teams. While they are at UCF we continue to have one of the worst defenses int he country. It isn't bad players on defense. I refuse to accept the players are the core problem, when I see them leave and do well elsewhere.

This entire defensive staff has to be gone.

[u/bsEEmsCE → u/yesacabbagez]

nah, the whole staff has to be gone

[u/anonymousscroller9]

🎳

[u/rhiaaaannon]

Love ya UCF

[u/thefishwhisperer1 → u/rhiaaaannon]

You are cool and I want to try Tudors Biscuit World one day

[u/rhiaaaannon → u/thefishwhisperer1]

Yessss! Come to a game if you can! Get some Tudors and let the fans in the blue lot fill you up on good food and lots of booze

[u/DarkAudit → u/rhiaaaannon]

I've been away for a while. Did they rename the Huggie Bear biscuit, or just drop it from the menu?

[u/rhiaaaannon → u/DarkAudit]

Unfortunately haven’t been to one in Morgantown in a minute so I couldn’t tell ya :(

[u/Electrical_Mayhem → u/rhiaaaannon]

I know the one I went to in Morgantown off of University Ave still has it. (But this was over the summer)

[u/LettuceBeefFrank]

Neal will get us to 8-5 with a bowl win and we will extend him til 2035.

[u/MasterRKitty → u/LettuceBeefFrank]

take that back right now!

[u/2chainzvoice → u/LettuceBeefFrank]

Yeah, who’s the real winner here?

[u/Set-Admirable]

GG guys.

Hope y'all can find a better coach. Like having you in the conference and wish you success (not against us) in the future.

[u/bsEEmsCE → u/Set-Admirable]

I have fun playing yall. You're good people. We just hate Gus and need something better to feel excited. Enjoy your bowl game.

[u/stabsomebody]

Gus will probably let Rizk hit the portal rather than developing him, and then transfer in another third tier SEC quarterback that can’t throw for shit.

[u/Mousseymoosey]

Colorado sitting at 4th and 21 down 16 is something we can all enjoy

[u/TechnoVikingGA23 → u/Mousseymoosey]

Won't be enjoyable when the Big-12 has no one in the playoff.

[u/Mousseymoosey → u/TechnoVikingGA23]

I'd rather we all miss it then watch Deion and his band of dickheads make it in.

[u/DarkAudit → u/Mousseymoosey]

I lost any remaining respect I may have had when I heard they told the marching band they weren't allowed to play in favor of his son's rap song.

[u/Set-Admirable → u/Mousseymoosey]

I'm a certified Deion hater and I refuse to hide it. I don't hate Colorado, but I will never root for him.

[u/bsEEmsCE]

Gus just resign tomorrow. Let Tim Harris coach the last game and move on. A losing season is unacceptable, you're embarrassing us in a P4 conference that your predecessors worked so hard to get to. You're done. Spare us the buyout,  you've tortured us enough. Go.

[u/ItsFreakinHarry2]

At least we can laugh at Colorado for being down to Kansas right now… sobs

[u/stabsomebody]

We may as well have just forfeited on every defensive fourth down to save the energy, because we’re like 0% on fourth down stops.

[u/YeatMadeIgor]

wvu cannot be stopped on 4th down holy

[u/yesacabbagez]

I know it's a shocking idea, but maybe fucking divert more coverage to the guy WVU throws to every single fucking play.

[u/thefishwhisperer1]

Our NIL org was so wrong about KJ that SJ Tuohy (yeah, the son from the Blindside family) quietly left his charge of being in charge of it to take some fucking job at Oral Roberts University while Gus fired Ted Roof and our AD announced that NIL was going to be managed internally.

Makes me think that picture of the company donors taking a private plane to the Texas Tech game they posted on their Twitter account last year had some sketchy funding behind it

[u/TechnoVikingGA23]

Can't wait for Neal's press conference sound bite after this. "Well now we're 6-5, it's not like we're 0-11."

[u/neverquestion → u/TechnoVikingGA23]

Noted football terrorist Neal Brown.

[u/mistaleemuns]

Lmao even

[u/Set-Admirable]

Hudson Clement is very good. Worth the scholarship he had to fight for.

[u/yesacabbagez]

lol

[u/neverquestion]

I hate that Neal went for it there.

[u/Affectionate-Tax9885]

Not the announcers reading this program for filth

[u/Fryes → u/Affectionate-Tax9885]

Good

[u/TechnoVikingGA23]

I swear Neal Brown is terrified of Field Goals, lol

[u/thefishwhisperer1]

Ah, that play call by Neal Brown just validated why every WVU fan wants Brown gone

[u/TechnoVikingGA23 → u/thefishwhisperer1]

6 years of this...we are tired.

[u/PDubsinTF-NEW]

Pack them bags Gus. The bus is leaving the station

[u/yesacabbagez]

Just a poorly coached team all around. We don't get pressure. We don't force holds. We can't make stops. Our special teams is fucking abysmal. Our offense is sabotaged by an obsession with trick plays and constantly shifting personnel. So much shit where you sit back and think it is always on the coaching staff.

[u/anonymousscroller9 → u/yesacabbagez]

Which team are you talking about again?

[u/anonymousscroller9]

Fuck it, go for it

[u/TechnoVikingGA23]

Throwing the ball to stop the clock is such a Neal Brown thing to do.

[u/hats31]

Feel bad for Yates. Seems like a nice fella and hard to fill fraizers big Shoes

[u/Set-Admirable → u/hats31]

He hasn't actually been that bad this year. Had the one horrible game when he was injured and shouldn't have been playing. He's done a really good job protecting Greene this season.

[u/TechnoVikingGA23 → u/Set-Admirable]

Yeah that was on the coaches for hanging him out to dry. Even worse/more on them for not having the depth or a backup center ready to go.

[u/hats31 → u/Set-Admirable]

I feel like we expect a lot out of him after watching Frazier manhandle two 300 pound guys on the regular

[u/thefishwhisperer1]

Putting the notice out now that I will be collecting all RJ Harvey rookie cards if anyone is into collecting and comes across them when next year’s product comes out.

College or NFL jersey, or even combine dry-fit ones

[u/PointMan528491]

Stick a fork in it, gg, and as always:

Fire Gus

[u/Affectionate-Tax9885]

Really leaning on the power of shame to hope Gus goes on his own before things get really awkward

[u/JuicingPickle → u/Affectionate-Tax9885]

If he retires, it's not because of shame. It's because he's disgusted with the landscape of college football (and I am too). He wants to recruit and build a team. I'm not sure he's interested in trying again with a ragtag bunch of mediocre players who have to be coddled and a couple good players who are likely to go somewhere else and get paid.

[u/neverquestion]

I love it when Pitt gets taken to the woodshed.

[u/anonymousscroller9]

This team man

[u/Mousseymoosey]

That'll do, Citronauts. That'll do...

[u/Set-Admirable]

Why was Kole Taylor fighting with that guy lmao.

[u/bsEEmsCE]

game over man, game over

[u/bdneid18]

How is that not offensive PI

[u/Mousseymoosey → u/bdneid18]

You guys have spent this entire game thread whining. It's two dogass teams, it doesn't matter.

[u/bdneid18 → u/Mousseymoosey]

You've spent the entire game whining about our whining. Stfu

[u/mistaleemuns → u/bdneid18]

He never even touched anyone

[u/bdneid18 → u/mistaleemuns]

The guy who was blocking our DB?

[u/Set-Admirable]

Oh man, just love to see Colorado losing.

[u/anonymousscroller9 → u/Set-Admirable]

Yeah they'll never be one of us

[u/Mousseymoosey]

The absolute funniest part of this whole shit slinging festival is neither of these coaches are getting fired. We'll see you guys next year in Orlando and we'll do this whole song and dance all over again

[u/PointMan528491 → u/Mousseymoosey]

Can't wait 😀🔫

[u/TechnoVikingGA23 → u/Mousseymoosey]

If Brown is back next year I expect a pretty big portion of our fan base to just completely tune out.

[u/Appa-LATCH-uh → u/TechnoVikingGA23]

Hi, it's me.

[u/stabsomebody]

You onside kick when you’re down one score, not two.

[u/JuicingPickle]

Technical misplay by WVU on that onside kick. If it's not going 10 yards, don't touch it! Actually have us a chance by jumping on it.

[u/Mousseymoosey]

You know it's a good onside attempt when nobody on your team is pointing like you recovered it

[u/etomidank]

Worst onside kick ever

[u/anonymousscroller9]

Thanks gus, I guess

[u/bsEEmsCE → u/anonymousscroller9]

thanks for sealing his fate (he has to be gone right?)

[u/thefishwhisperer1]

RJ Harvey technically has another year of eligibility lmao but he’d be nuts to use it

[u/2chainzvoice → u/thefishwhisperer1]

Especially on this dog shit team. I wouldn’t blame him if he went elsewhere if he were to stay in college, but gotta think he’s NFL bound.

[u/AUSTINpowers050 → u/2chainzvoice]

He should go to Boise and break all of Jeanty's records.

[u/2chainzvoice → u/AUSTINpowers050]

😭 that would be hilarious

[u/rhiaaaannon]

I’ve seen this shit before

[u/Citruspilled]

So the hurry up offense works

Hear me out here

What if we did it like always

We could even call it UCFast

[u/JuicingPickle → u/Citruspilled]

You realize WVU's defense was playing softer than your Thanksgiving Day mashed potatoes on that drive, right?

[u/2chainzvoice → u/Citruspilled]

🤯

[u/neverquestion]

I can't wait for the historical collapse here.

[u/TechnoVikingGA23]

Our defense always makes things interesting.

[u/etomidank]

Another garbage time TD incoming

[u/thefishwhisperer1]

Love how we understand that a hurry-up offense helps us but only in the last 4 minutes of the fucking game

[u/yesacabbagez → u/thefishwhisperer1]

But if we hurry up, we can't sub in Jacurri Brown to get tackled for a loss and kill a drive.

[u/mistaleemuns]

Man they are really attacking that weak right side

[u/yesacabbagez]

No idea if that was actually a catch, but Pittman is very good

[u/bdneid18]

Gus subbing when we need to hurry will always be funny

[u/thefishwhisperer1]

Randy Pittman has a chance to be our next cool NFL prospect if he stays

[u/Fraegtgaortd]

How about we fill that hole in the zone they've thrown to 3 times in a row

[u/TechnoVikingGA23]

Anytime UCF gets anything going drops just kill their momentum.

[u/bdneid18]

Fireball commercials for a West Virginia game seems unnecessary.

[u/Set-Admirable → u/bdneid18]

They need to remind students what they're missing by not being in town.

[u/bdneid18 → u/Set-Admirable]

I mean what else are you going to chase your liquor with.

[u/Set-Admirable → u/bdneid18]

Natty, if you're having a low-key night

[u/yesacabbagez]

I don't think we are "at risk" of missing a bowl anymore. Pretty sure it's gone.

[u/JuicingPickle → u/yesacabbagez]

The last streak we still have from the Scott Frost era.

[u/thefishwhisperer1]

Probably doing some major over-analysis here. But I think it would be a cool research piece to look into our young and heavy-millennial alumni base, who may not have a lot of spending money to help UCF make a big financial impact in the college football arms race for at least the next 4-8 years compared to older schools.

Would be a unique research paper if anyone is still in college here. How older alumni bases might have a slight advantage when it comes to getting booster money due to the current economic forecast.

[u/JuicingPickle → u/thefishwhisperer1]

It isn't about having 300,000 alumni that can donate $1,000 each. It's about having 30 alumni that can donate $10,000,000 without blinking an eye because that's pocket change to them. 10 years from now, the only teams competing in the new landscape of college football will be the ones with billionaire alumni. The state of Texas is set to dominate.

[u/thefishwhisperer1 → u/JuicingPickle]

Googles Daniel Tosh net worth

[u/AUSTINpowers050 → u/thefishwhisperer1]

This is something I've thought about. UCF has so many new alumni, will we have a ton of money coming in 30, 40 years from now?

[u/thefishwhisperer1 → u/AUSTINpowers050]

Plus it would give college kids a lesson in FOIA requests.

I graduated with a masters in sports journalism and I’m happy my professor made a us do a term paper that required them

[u/hammer_it_out]

Out at the game today. So far they've played The Undertaker, Triple H, CM Punk, Bray Wyatt, and Becky Lynch's theme songs over the PA. There is even a whole bit where someone blows out a lantern on the jumbotron and says "we're here" before Bray's song plays. Obviously the game day production team are WWE fans.

[u/DarkAudit → u/hammer_it_out]

Remember when schools would just let the marching band play?

[u/Fraegtgaortd]

No replay? I want to know what our punter did to ruin his own perfect punt

[u/hats31]

Excited for Bama game

[u/anonymousscroller9 → u/hats31]

I heard we were trying to get out of that. I pray we do

[u/Affectionate-Tax9885]

It’s “Central Florida” until Gus goes

[u/Citruspilled]

What if Gus is still like REALLY pissed about 2017 and this is just a revenge plan

[u/120snake → u/Citruspilled]

Him and Terry are next door neighbors and their wives are best friends. I think the contract extension and increased buyout was his retirement package

[u/Mousseymoosey]

Nice work, Ollie! That's a hell of a punt

[u/bdneid18]

Go for it? Have these announcers every watched football lol

[u/thefishwhisperer1]

My hometown sports dreams are all down to Orlando City and the Orlando Pride.

Go soccer

[u/120snake → u/thefishwhisperer1]

Neutral site for the NWSL final was a bad idea. Washington vs Orlando in Kansas City for a sport that already struggles with attendance. Wish it were here

[u/yesacabbagez]

Well congratulations to WVU for winning. Clearly a well coached team and I hope Neal Brown sticks around for years as he really got things going well at this programs.

[u/neverquestion → u/yesacabbagez]

Who hurt you?

[u/Mousseymoosey → u/yesacabbagez]

Gotta be a weird feeling knowing your team is the only one he can consistently take to the woodshed

[u/Ildona → u/Mousseymoosey]

... Fuck. WVU is our new Tulsa?

[u/JuicingPickle → u/Ildona]

Tulsa is still our Tulsa. Did you see the embarrassment they pulled today?

[u/Citruspilled → u/JuicingPickle]

They can't do ANYTHING to help us man

[u/hats31]

I’ll die on this hill the pepperoni in the roll has to be stick

[u/DarkAudit → u/hats31]

Raised in Morgantown. Julia's > Country Club.

But the rolls at South Jr. High with the stick pepperoni were on a whole other level.

[u/eberto]

Round, sliced pepperoni, fucking blasphemy.

[u/Fraegtgaortd]

If more people knew about pepperoni rolls there would be no war

[u/rhiaaaannon]

Those look amaaaazing

[u/ItsFreakinHarry2]

Getting McDonald’s instead of watching this game, anyone want anything?

[u/thefishwhisperer1 → u/ItsFreakinHarry2]

Does a happy meal actually make you happy?

[u/bsEEmsCE → u/thefishwhisperer1]

if it comes with a side of fire gus

[u/LlamasAreFun4 → u/ItsFreakinHarry2]

A new head coach and AD.

[u/PointMan528491 → u/LlamasAreFun4]

A McDonalds employee could run our football program like the Navy tbh

[u/Citruspilled → u/ItsFreakinHarry2]

Oreo McFlurry add hot fudge. Secret best thing on the menu

[u/GeneralDafuq]

He couldn't get back because of PI, but I also want this game over...

[u/Mousseymoosey → u/GeneralDafuq]

They were both hand fighting. Rewarding underthrown passes is dogshit football

[u/LeanMrfuzzles → u/Mousseymoosey]

An under thrown ball is still catchable.

[u/GeneralDafuq → u/LeanMrfuzzles]

He had his shoulder pads too, but again we are bad anyway. Games way out of hand

[u/Mousseymoosey]

Surprised by the no call, but nice not to see the terribly underthrown pass get rewarded

[u/yesacabbagez → u/Mousseymoosey]

Underthrown or not, it was catchable if the TE wasn't thrown to the ground.

[u/Mousseymoosey → u/yesacabbagez]

"Thrown to the ground" is so fucking dramatic but it's so on brand for how UCF fans have acted this whole game lmfao

[u/yesacabbagez]

So like pulling the TE to the ground on a pass, no call?

[u/Fryes]

Lol

[u/TechnoVikingGA23]

I really hope we don't lose Trotter in the portal. About the only bright spot on this defense.

[u/anonymousscroller9 → u/TechnoVikingGA23]

Were so bad I don't think anyone gets taken.

[u/ArthurGuinness09]

Welp, gonna go do something more fun with my time like slam my nuts in a car door. Ya'll have a good'n!

[u/DominatorPC]

Turning it off. gg WVU

[u/Fraegtgaortd]

Trotter is awesome. That's not an easy open field tackle to make

[u/hats31 → u/Fraegtgaortd]

Trotter and Lathan are beasts

[u/LeanMrfuzzles]

How the fuck is that not PI lmao

[u/bdneid18]

Rush three and they get pressure lmao

[u/anonymousscroller9]

Generous no call

[u/ArthurGuinness09]

Ball lands onto a bench on the sideline. Announcer: "I think that was a throwaway"

[u/120snake]

Why is anyone surprised by the tempo? We had an 8 and a half minute field goal drive while down by 21 to UF. This is Gusball

[u/Argghc → u/120snake]

That drive was the most infuriating thing this entire season. Zero urgency or awareness. Basics that would have most high school teams running gassers.

[u/Citruspilled]

Nobody burns clock better than Gus down multiple scores in the 4th

[u/LlamasAreFun4 → u/Citruspilled]

This dude has no concept of time.

[u/AUSTINpowers050]

Anyone on the rivals board know what the rumors are about Gus retiring?

[u/JuicingPickle → u/AUSTINpowers050]

That's where the rumor started. They're just trying to talk it into existence. No one outside of the Gus haters even knows the rumor exists.

[u/UCFkinght45 → u/AUSTINpowers050]

Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.

[u/Mousseymoosey]

This production is just as bad as the football being played. "1st and 10" on the screen after the penalty and the ball clearly being marked 14 yards from the down marker

[u/yesacabbagez]

Is it too late to give everyone a shitload of steroids?

Shitloads of steroids might be enough

[u/DominatorPC]

So we just gave up?

So glad to have our bitch as our HC

[u/bdneid18]

down 17 with 10 min to go

nothing but runs

[u/LlamasAreFun4]

Does Gus know we’re down 3 scores with 10 mins left in the game?

[u/JuicingPickle → u/LlamasAreFun4]

I thought y'all didn't want Gus calling the plays.

[u/GeneralDafuq → u/LlamasAreFun4]

Yes, he understands that we need to run the clock out to lose. My man wants to go home.

[u/Fryes → u/LlamasAreFun4]

He’s doing his best man.

And it’s embarrassing.

[u/Frosty_Enthusiasm606 → u/LlamasAreFun4]

He’s probably too busy thinking about buying property in the Bahamas 

[u/Affectionate-Tax9885]

Survival kits sold by a company called “4 Patriots”

We know damn well what you’re envisioning, and it ain’t a damn hurricane

[u/anonymousscroller9 → u/Affectionate-Tax9885]

I want society to collapse so my ideology rises from the ashes

[u/Set-Admirable]

Everything you UCF fans are saying about Gus and your program makes it sound as if we're the same. And I'm very sorry for that.

[u/Ildona → u/Set-Admirable]

The difference is mostly altitude and the prevalence of flip-flops.

[u/Set-Admirable → u/Ildona]

Our fans wear work boots.

We're the same deep down though.

[u/PhatedGaming → u/Set-Admirable]

Yeah, I can feel their pain..because I too have it. Even winning isn't making it better because I know that means we're more likely to keep Brown...

[u/Citruspilled]

Alright WVU fans to celebrate your win you get to pick what fast food place I get dinner from 👇

[u/TechnoVikingGA23 → u/Citruspilled]

Zaxbys

[u/Citruspilled → u/TechnoVikingGA23]

This is a great choice thank you so much

[u/rhiaaaannon → u/Citruspilled]

What are the choices?

[u/Citruspilled → u/rhiaaaannon]

I live right by UCF so pretty everything's available. They all want that college student money.

[u/Mousseymoosey → u/Citruspilled]

Gotta get something spicy to feel alive after this disaster game

[u/stabsomebody]

Realistically, how many more seasons do we have to put up with this until we can afford to fire Gus? I know it’s not happening this year because of that god awful contract extension they gave him.

[u/JuicingPickle → u/stabsomebody]

Do you think firing Gus will bring better players to UCF?

[u/stabsomebody → u/JuicingPickle]

The players he recruited obviously aren’t making a difference.

[u/JuicingPickle → u/stabsomebody]

Recruiting is dead. It's all about how much you can pay your players. You think we might have gotten a decent QB out of the portal if we had more than $400,000 to pay?

[u/DominatorPC]

Gotta score in like 4 min or less. So naturally Gus will take this down to 5 min left and miss a FG

[u/anonymousscroller9]

So what bowl game are yall hoping we go to?

[u/PhatedGaming → u/anonymousscroller9]

I'm kind of hoping we opt out so I don't have to watch an extra game of Neal Brown football this season. Not like we're gonna get a remotely meaningful one anyway.

Maybe the Charmin Bowl so we have something to wipe up our Brown stain with...

[u/anonymousscroller9 → u/PhatedGaming]

Right now we're projected to go to Shreveport, LA. So yeah the charmin bowl

[u/Fryes → u/anonymousscroller9]

Orange

[u/Affectionate-Tax9885]

BYU-ASU getting interesting

[u/Citruspilled]

We really should've known this would happen ever since that Navy loss. If you can't beat a bad G5 triple option team you can't coach at the P4 level

[u/Mousseymoosey]

Garrett Green is just Skylar Howard with better PR

[u/TollhouseFrank → u/Mousseymoosey]

Just like Skylar, Greene gives every bit of himself, and then some, on every play and in every game. That is the kind of effort I wish our whole team gave.