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From a corner office that looks out on FBC Mortgage Stadium, Terry Mohajir sums up the role the school’s on-campus football facility played in the University of Central Florida’s long road from playing its first game in a cow pasture in 1979 to joining the Big 12 conference earlier this year.
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No, the school’s athletics director says, the Knights did not get into the conference because of its athletic venues — whether that is the aforementioned football stadium or Addition Financial Arena, both of which debuted in the fall of 2007.
But at the same time, Mohajir is confident that without the venues — and FBC Mortgage Stadium, in particular — UCF may never have been in position to join the Power 5 conference.
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