And the actual ratings aren’t terrible.
There is potential there if they get more involved with the community
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Just saw a clip of Jim Barker on the Road Peterson show saying that the UFL-NFL signings are seemingly getting hurt in training camp more often and NFL don’t like to have to pay injury settlements, so he thinks the UFL-NFL signings may drop. I’m not sure I fully buy it, but it’s an idea.
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Reports of 2,500 on hand for Louisville fan rally today.
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Louisville seat map has them well on their way to a home opener sellout a little less than 2 months out.
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That callywood guy is a known optimist.
There were like 300-400 people there. Delusional to think 2.5K showed up
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That may be true but the event was also 4 hours long so its not unreasonable to see that number. Looking at the seat map, around 9k of the 11k permanent seats have been sold thus far. Im sure a significant amount in the support section has sold as well
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I don’t know man. I’ll believe it when I see it.
I don’t trust ticket maps to accurately represent the number of tickets sold/available
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Back at it again - Another rant - SO let’s take another look at the coaching hires— (Because we need another one of those) Look at that list — they’re not bringing in retreads or lifers trying to squeeze out another year. You’ve got former QBs like McCarron, Neuheisel, Redman, and Sumlin who’ve all spent serious time either playing or working directly with quarterbacks. Proehl was a longtime NFL receiver. Tedd Ginn came up as a DB and special teams weapon. This isn’t just a grab bag of names—it’s a calculated move. This might all backfire — this list says they want teachers and QB development and offensive infostructure.
With the UFL season you get 10 games, NFL-lite schemes, pro-level installs, and a clean structure. From where I am sitting that’s enough to give a young guy with traits a shot to show something on film.
On the NIL churn angle: just on an aggregate numbers thing — there are hundreds of college programs fielding football teams across the FBS, FCS, DII, DIII, NAIA—you’re talking close to 800 schools when it’s all said and done. That’s a crazy absurd amount of raw athletic talent. Now layer in the NIL chaos: coaching changes, transfers, injuries, depth chart shuffles, scheme misfits, and just plain bad timing. There are a lot of guys who are second- or third-stringers through no fault of their own — a metric ton of guys who never got a clean shot.
Now fire up the UFL and give them a clean shot in a ten game season. Find your 12 or 15 best misfits and outcasts and run them through a ten game UFL season —controlled reps, pro coaching, live bullets. Half of them won’t make it. But the ones who do? You’re not chasing ghosts—you’re mining undervalued assets in a broken market.
Full Disclosure: I could be absolutely wrong and this could be a dumpster fire of epic proportions.
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This has already been a thing as reported on also the old site, with also a few UFL players moving on from the UFL to the CFL also because the UFL is not going to be paying UFL veterans more money anyway.
Here’s merely one report of many on this front from earlier in this thread.
The UFL is a huge step down in pro football, including even from the NCAA!
What it becomes is up to the current ownership and management, if not simply another NFL Europe and feeder league for the NFL.
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There’s enough players to go around for all leagues.
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But it’s the talented and skilled players who count the most beyond the UFL, and those are fewer in a game of inches, and that’s his point. They have to be trained up and mined from the pool.
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Agreed, but most fans can’t tell the difference between a first string linebacker and a second one.
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As long as the CFL has quality QB , it can get by with second and third string players. If they loose there quality QB , than the average fan would notice that.
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That might be exteme, I’d say most can’t tell the difference between a 3rd stringer and a practice squad player. If you took the best ten players from a top CFL or UFL squad and replaced the bottom ten NFL on an NFL team, nobody besides maybe the scouts would be able to tell the difference.
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The NFL will get the best and the leftovers will go to the CFL and UFL. The average fan can’t tell the difference between the second string and third string. We see this in the CFL all the time. A starter gets injured and the backup comes in , Plug and Play . It’s the QB position that is most noticeable.
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Absolutely, man — Totally with you on this one. Joe Gibbs nailed it a few decades ago. He said that the top dozen guys on any NFL roster are freaks, no question absolute beasts. But after that? It’s a knife fight between solid players and slightly better luck in training camp. And the data or anecdotal evidence I like to use is — the guys like Jim Mora and Schottenheimer built winning teams out of what others saw as leftovers. Jim Mora built the Saints into a legit team with USFL players — That wasn’t magic; that was coaching, culture, and being smart enough to spot guys who just needed a shot.
Your point about the fans not knowing the difference between a first- and second-string linebacker? 100%. Most fans are reacting to jersey numbers, announcer hype, and whatever the latest Madden rating says. But insiders/coaches/GMS know the delta between a cut guy and a starter can be razor thin.
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https://x.com/i/status/2018471661067292938
Another issue with the UFL shop
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Oh-keyyyy, I see DC Defenders, but what the heck are we looking at here?
Or is the answer perhaps, “Yes.”?
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I believe it is some sort of border you put around your license plate to indicate you’re a fan. It is bent pretty badly though
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