UCF’s Charge On Tour stopped in downtown Orlando Tuesday night, and as coaches posed for pictures and signed autographs, talk focused around UCF’s name being linked to potential expansion of the Big 12.

“We are positioned well, if it happens. If it doesn’t happen, we are also positioned well,” said new men’s basketball coach Johnny Dawkins.

It is called stating the obvious as UCF is indeed in a good place. The fact that the Knights are even being mentioned as a potential Big 12 candidate is a sign of UCF’s meteoric rise since opening in just 1963.

“People may forget we weren’t Division I but 20 years ago. It’s happened really fast here, and I think that is a great predictor as to what the next 10-20 years can look like,” said Athletic Director Danny White.

UCF has two new head coaches at the two biggest money making sports on campus, both hailing from larger programs. Dawkins is a former head coach at Stanford, which is a Pac-12 school. Football coach Scott Frost was an assistant at another Pac-12 program, Oregon.

But according to them, the American Conference is just fine for now.

“My focus is to try to make our football team as good a football team as I can make it. I think those chips will fall where they may and I won’t have much to do with that,” said new Head Football Coach Scott Frost. “But I am excited about being in the American Conference right now and trying to get back to the top of that conference.”

Frost refused to give more credit to conference realignment rumors than necessary, and was also unwilling to discuss the potential of future match-ups.

“I think how we measure up to teams in the Big 12 conference is irrelevant, except in 2017 when we go to Texas,” said Frost. “The only teams I worry about measuring up to are the teams we play on the field.”

It’s the working message at UCF. Focus on the here and now and the things you can control.

”I think it’s important that we focus on ourselves. I think we have so much potential, more so maybe than anybody in America,” said White. “People see that about UCF, we don’t have to get caught up in and worry about what other people are doing.”