It wasn't the Alabama-UCF showdown college football fans would prefer, but the Twitter beef between the schools' athletic directors Sunday was entertaining nonetheless.
Alabama's Greg Byrne decided to tweak UCF after the Crimson Tide women's basketball team defeated the Knights in the Women's NIT. In particular, he took a poke at UCF for staging a parade for its undefeated football team at Disney World in January.
Great win today over UCF for @AlabamaWBB! We're not ready to make it more than it was and schedule a Disney Parade...but we'll definitely take it. #RollTide pic.twitter.com/LyjvFKbmoO
— Greg Byrne (@Greg_Byrne) March 18, 2018
UCF's Danny White wasn't having it.
Our policy has been to schedule Disney parades when we win New Year’s Day bowl games. We’ve won 2 in the last 5 years. The most recent in 2017 when we were the only undefeated team in America, & National Champions. If y’all wanna have a parade for WNIT wins - more power to ya! https://t.co/pgFLN8mqj9
— Danny White (@UCFDannyWhite) March 18, 2018
White is claiming a championship based on UCF's 13-0 record and a No. 1 ranking in the Colley Matrix, a computer model. Byrne can, of course, point to the 13-1 Tide's overtime victory over Georgia in the College Football Playoff final.
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And he can keep pointing, with whichever finger he chooses, once the championship ring arrives from the jeweler.
