If you’ve been on any social media recently, you’ve seen the massive amount of transfers going to UCF, which includes really good players from big name schools. My question is what the hell are they doing to dominate the portal like this? Do they have a massive NIL fund? Is it because of Gus? What is it? Genuinely curious.
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Idk for sure, but I REALLY HATE seeing UCF & Cincy doing better than us in FB 
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yep…UCF will be one of the NIL darlings just like us!
Large public school in a large metro with plenty of marketing opportunities plus increasing number of rich alums (we are way ahead of them in this category).
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There NIL is well funded and organized. Also a very engaged and growing alumni base
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Recently flew into Orlando for my daughter’s college dance competition in Daytona Beach. I was blown away by the number of UCF license plate covers, stickers, etc on cars. They seem to have a lot of engagement/support from Alumni.
They have almost 70,000 students on campus.
UCF has it going in the right direction. Becoming the place to be as a student and living on campus. Cincy has a young fan base as well. We don’t have that kind of following at all.
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That number is misleading, UCF includes their entire system in their enrollment number, not just the main campus like UH, and damn near every other school, does.
If UH did the same and included the entire system ( main campus, UHD, UHCL, etc.) that number would also be 70,000+.
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I think it just has to do with recent success, UH football hasn’t been relevant recently like Cincy or UCF football.
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I think UCF’s NIL program is most likely quite a bit ahead of ours. This is purely based on empirical results
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Their actual number of on-campus students is over 62,000, which is the largest in the nation (2019 number). You can play with numbers or whatever, but that’s double what we have.
They report less than 7000 online students, and they recently closed 3 satellite campuses.
If our whole system was contributing to game attendance and donations, then that might matter, but that’s obviously not the case.
I dunno, but they are going to be good.
I think it’s also where the money is going. UCF football NIL > ours. Our basketball NIL >>> ucf’s
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Ucfs’ coach is pretty good as well.
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I don’t think we need satellite campuses that are fully functional cause you see the drain it causes on the main campus
Considering Malzahn is one of the few guys to beat Saban multiple times, I’m surprised Auburn got rid of him.
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It’s all about the Benjamins and UCF seems loaded with committed alumni willing to supply the necessary NIL funding to bring in the kids they want. UH is last in the B12 and way down the P4 rankings This has been consistent since I became a Coog. Back in the late 70’s, 80’s and early 90s I volunteered on fund raising campaigns – it was like prying a steak out of the mouth of a lion. We have the cheapest alumni in the conference. But when you look at the posts we see on the various boards, are any of you surprised? There’s constant complaining about ticket prices and what the school should be doing for free – especially for the students.
A team should not have to give financial incentives to keep fans. Alumni should support their schools. What it boils down to, especially now with NIL, is schools will have the best team it’s alumni is willing to pay for. We have the same problem today as we have had since I started going to UH, our fans and alumni demand Dom Perignon for the price of Blatz beer.
Listing of all NIL Collectives & Revenue by School (nil-ncaa.com)
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What did you expect when UCF never experienced a good football and basketball team in addition to a pro baseball, pro football, and pro basketball all within 10 miles.
It’s already tough for me to financially support both UH football and basketball, then add in NIL.
The funniest thing I see is my friends and family asking me for free tickets or try to buy my tickets for cheap and they roll up to the games in their $60k luxury car or $50k pick-up truck.
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Wow, we’re behind schools like Fresno state (no offense to them)…
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Preach Mike lol, we do have cheap alumi, but our biggest issue is we lost a generation of alumi and most of our alumi have no emotional ties to the school whether that is caused by our commuter status or our over diversified campus culture where a lot of the students don’t care about sports who knows, I wish we had strong alumni support like A&M
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