The questions have been non-stop over the last week as it became abundantly clear Texas and Oklahoma were bolting the Big 12 for the greener payments, er, pastures of the $EC.
More specifically, there are rumblings that the American Athletic Conference, of which UCF is a member, is being incentivized by ESPN to help ruin the Big 12 and enhance the American’s own status as a “Power 5” league.
If this indeed is the case, then all Central Floridians should applaud AAC commissioner Mike Aresco, who has long been unpopular among many UCF fans. Aresco has been in UCF’s doghouse since 2017 when former UCF athletics director Danny White railed against the inequity of the four-team College Football Playoff and self-proclaimed the undefeated Scott Frost-coached Knights as the “national champions.