Wanna start a CFB rivalry in 2016? Here's a primer...

[epark88]

HCBD had good intentions with the whole UCF/ConFLiCT thing, but he went about it the wrong most ineffective way, IMHO.

In the present college sports environment (which sucks, if we're being totally honest), the best way to start a cfb rivalry, for better or worse:

* Hit that team harder than their opponent did the previous week, or their next opponent will the week after.
* Hold your blocks just a hair longer than their opponent did the previous week, or their next opponent will the week after.
* When you score on them: let them know about it personally, and ask them what they're going to do about it when it happens again.
* When they score on you: next time out on defense, hit them a little harder than you did the previous time out on defense.
* Reach into your Bag of Tricks, your Chock Full o' Nuts can, that Old Tin of Butter Cookies from Last Christmas, wherever - and hit them with at least three plays or schemes you haven't called all season and have been saving just for them.
* When you beat them, publicly promise to do it again next time you meet.
* When you lose, publicly promise to beat them next time you meet.

It's not rocket surgery, and it doesn't take a fabricated trophy to pull off. It just takes talent, good coaching and desire - with just a sprinkling of genuine malice towards a team that, yanno, just dissed you and your entire school really bad last Saturday..

 

[ct06111]

This is the best thing to happen to the conFLiCT. Its now a rivalry. We now hate UCF. UConn was disrespected on our home turf and now we're pissed off. This is how rivalries start. The conFLiCT really started when they left the trophy. Now it's on...

 

[Palatine]

I would love to have a "Battle for New York" game with Rutgers every year. We could play at Giants Stadium or Yankee Stadium. Split the tickets half and half. That would be a game that helps everyone.

The winner get a bushel of apples.

 

[uconnphil2016]

This is the best thing to happen to the conFLiCT. Its now a rivalry. We now hate UCF. UConn was disrespected on our home turf and now we're pissed off. This is how rivalries start. The conFLiCT really started when they left the trophy. Now it's on...

I do think that this is partially true. They're clowns with an incredibly inflated sense of self worth. The shining moment of their athletic history is having Blake Bortles at QB...congrats. With that being said, HCBD's criteria for creating a rivalry with UCF is nonsensical...no history, no geographical proximity, no nothing...okay lets start a rivalry. He should have instead looked at those teams who we DID share those things in common with and start a rivalry. Personally, I would have preferred a rivalry with Temple--very similar styles of football, close to us, compete for recruits, decent academics, we have a history against them, etc.