"Without a doubt," Strong told me Wednesday on our "Open Mike" radio show. "With the job we're doing here at USF and the job they're doing at UCF, we can go beat those people [Power Five teams] right now. Just think if we had their resources. … The only thing they have that's different from us is that they are Power Five. There's nothing else. That's it. We have as many good players [as some of these programs]. They just have Power Five status."