Last night, I received two messages on twitter that changed the rest of my evening:
Apparently the Orlando Sentinel's Mike Bianchi was suggesting that the Big East drop USF from its arsenal and add the clearly much more powerful likes of Central Florida. Of course, I felt the need to comment, but that has since fallen down the page, as many other people have felt the need to either rip Bianchi once again or praise him for yet another brilliant article. In his last line of the post, Bianchi suggested this:
"I've said it many times before and I'll say it again: If the Big East doesn't invite the Knights, a bigger and better conference will soon enough."
Now, we all know that Bianchi has been pushing for the Big East to add UCF for quite a while now, and he's done more than his share of trying to smear the name of USF in the process. If I were UCF, I would seriously be knocking down the door of the Orlando Sentinel to make them stop allowing Mike Bianchi to have access to the internet. He really is making them look even worse at a time when they need all the good publicity they can get.
In reality, I think Bianchi's posts suggesting various ways and reasons for the Big East to add UCF are doing exactly the opposite. Bianchi's columns are reducing the amount of respect that the university should be striving toward. In short, Mike Bianchi's idiotic drivel is exactly what UCF doesn't need right now, and he's single-handedly making all the schools in the Big East hate Central Florida. It's depressing to the rest of us that Bianchi gets paid to produce this, and it's insulting that he calls himself a journalist. Unfortunately, there are people who agree with this trash, making them dumber than Bianchi himself.
It's people like these that really would not make us sad if the entire city of Orlando just broke off from the state and drifted off into the Atlantic Ocean. UCF should take its chances and maybe campaign for membership in a "bigger and better conference". Let's see how Central Florida fares in the SEC. Vanderbilt would welcome that because it would mean they'd no longer be the bottom feeder of the conference. You know, UCF probably would establish a great rivalry with Florida too.
I'll have much more to say about this later
Bianchi is an embarassment to UCF. It is a good school, and insulting other state schools is sophomoric and juvenile. Jouranlists like him at the OS is why Orlando is and always will be second class.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what he thinks he's doing for UCF. If anything, he's making them look dumber just by attaching his name to them. Like I said, if I were a UCF fan I'd be asking Bianchi to please stop writing about them.
ReplyDeleteMike Bianchi is and always has been a joke. His unfounded rants and inuendo are a shame to the City of Orlando, Orange County, and in particular UCF.
ReplyDeleteThey have always been envious of The Bulls, and how can you blame them. We have done something in 14 years that they have not sniffed doing in over 30 years. Yes they beat UGA, but come on. We have beaten half the ACC and several others and for anyone to also suggest that our administration is behind an effort to black ball UCF from joining the BE is ludicrous. Grow up and earn your stripes and stop blaming someone else.