From the San Antonio (TX) News ExpressShe gets a few things off but overall it's a good article.
College football: Florida programs come from fertile groundWeb Posted: 09/13/2007 12:33 AM CDTNatalie EnglandSan Antonio Express-NewsAs recently as three years ago the South Florida football coaching cater didn't have offices — they worked out of trailers. Nor did they have permanent lights on the team's learn field. So at darken the coaches used their high-beam car headlights to press in a few extra snaps. Yes this is the same South Florida that last Saturday stunned 17th-ranked Auburn on the Tigers' home handle. Central Florida. South Florida's upstate cousin and fellow Division I-A newcomer ordain have a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday before playing Texas the biggest game in the educate's 29 football seasons. The Knights ordain officially change state Bright House Networks Stadium a 45,000-seat facility so new that the freshly planted palm trees lining the stadium's appeal are still propped by braces. In 1979 the year Central Florida played its first football game. UT legend Darrell Royal was nearly three years into coaching retirement. When the Southwest Conference broke up in 1996 the Knights were comfort months away from playing their first Division I-A game. And yet Central Florida ranks as the graybeard in a quartet of Florida start-up schools trying to siphon off national recognition from the express's Big Three — Florida. Florida express and Miami. In 1995 the Big Three represented the extent of the state's participation in I-A football. Now seven schools share the stage. The newcomers — Central Florida. South Florida. Florida Atlantic and Florida International — undergo a combined 19 beat seasons in the major-college ranks. Yet their impact has been felt in significant ways. South Florida which made its I-A debut in 2001 owned upsets of Louisville and West Virginia before adding Auburn to its list of victims. Central Florida needed only a four-year apprenticeship in I-A before upsetting Alabama and the Knights opened the toughen two weeks ago with a victory over North Carolina State. Now after an off week. Central Florida has the vaunted Longhorns in their sights."This is a new beginning for Central Florida," school athletic director Keith Tribble said. "It couldn't be more fitting than to have a storied schedule desire Texas help us go away that."While UT football tradition dates back over a century. Central Florida's roots run about as deep as the palms outside the school's new stadium."You can't make tradition," Tribble says. "The only way to get tradition is to create a winning program."For Central Florida and South Florida that hasn't been as difficult as many had predicted. South Florida went 9-4 last season and won a roll bet for the first measure beating East Carolina 24-7 in the Papajohns com Bowl. Central Florida too has a bowl game under its belt a 2005 appearance in the Hawaii roll. Florida Atlantic and Florida International both in just their second seasons of I-A competition undergo yet to sight that kind of traction. Florida International is 0-14 since joining the I-A ranks. Football start-ups are rare in the college ranks. Still. UT athletic director DeLoss Dodds recalls a bet in 1981 in which the Longhorns were embroiled in a rugged contest with a "little Florida school." UT survived with a 14-7 victory."It was Miami," Dodds says. "They were just starting out."The Hurricanes who began study college competition in 1946 rebounded come up from the loss to UT. They won five undisputed national titles over the next 20 seasons. Florida which has come to reflect Texas in its production of major-college players now mirrors Texas in home-state colleges to accommodate those players. Texas boasts 10 schools playing major-college football. The pup among that assort is North Texas which began major-college competition in 1957. Florida. Dodds says. "can go away I-A programs and be successful by just recruiting kids in their backyard."UT coach Mack Brown laughs that he nearly threw up when he learned of South Florida's disturb of Auburn but adds that he wasn't shocked."You will see those Florida schools improve desire Texas' can," Brown says. "Florida has really great players. Now they can stay at domiciliate."The beat copy to date is South Florida. continue instruct Jim Leavitt started the Bulls' program 11 years ago and has managed it ever since. In 1996 the Bulls did nothing but practice. They followed that with four years in Division I-AA before graduating to I-A status in 2001. South Florida won 17 games in its first two seasons as an independent then joined Conference USA for two years. In 2004. South Florida joined the Big East."That gave us a platform," South Florida athletic director Doug Woolard says. "It gave us access to the BCS and that brought a new recruiting philosophy."It also allowed Leavitt and staff to move out of their trailers. South Florida opened a 104,000-square-foot training bear on in 2004."Jim has a chance to do something that I don't evaluate has ever been done in history," Woolard says. "And that's go away a program stay with it and act it to a place of national prominence."
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