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A COPY OF THE OFFICAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR ORLANDO SPORTS FOUNDATION, INC., A -BASED NON PROFIT CORPORATION (REGISTRATION NO. CH28053, MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE 1-800-HELP-FLA (435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE OR BY VISITING www.800helpfla.com. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE. LET’S NOT SUGARCOAT IT. we are Soldiers. WE TURN OUR BACKS ON THE ODDS, REFUSING TO HEAR THE LEGION OF VOICES SHOUTING OUT THE GRUESOME STATISTICS. NUMBERS MEAN NOTHING TO US. BECAUSE WE ARE WARRIORS. we leave fear in the dust, becoming braver as the battle gets tougher. OUR ENEMY ISN’T GOING TO GIVE UP EASILY. BUT NEITHER ARE WE. WE’LL KEEP SWINGING WITH EVERY OUNCE OF OUR BEING. THERE WILL COME A MOMENT WHEN THE ENEMY PUSHES BACK, HARDER THAN IT HAS BEFORE. WE MAY FALL. BUT BE SURE WE’LL GET RIGHT BACK UP.

BECAUSE WE’RE NOT FIGHTING ALONE. WE’RE A TEAM. AND UNITED WE STAND. UNITED IN THIS BATTLE. TOGETHER, WE CAN WIN. WE CAN TACKLE THIS. QUICK FACTS HEROES Name of ...... AutoNation presented by Florida Hospital Year...... Inaugural (2015) NEEDED. Founded...... May 28, 2008. Bowl Charity Partner...... Breast Cancer . Research Foundation Location...... Orlando, Florida ARE YOU IN? Pairing...... American Athletic Conference The Orlando Sports Foundation’s mission . vs. is to bring teams together to find a cure for . Date...... December 19, 2015 cancer. As we launch the country’s 40th . Kickoff...... 7 p.m. (EST) collegiate football bowl game, we’re partnering Television Network...... CBS Sports Network ...... Orlando and seeking to partner with sports media, . Surface...... AstroTurf GameDay Grass 3D fans and advocates, including individuals, . Capacity...... 65,000 corporations, foundations and families who Tentative Team Selection Day...... December 6, 2015 have been directly impacted by cancer. . Online Credentials...... SportsSystems.com/curebowl Join AutoNation, Florida Hospital, CBS . Website...... CureBowl.com Sports Network, Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and more as we give cancer its TICKETS toughest opponent yet. Prices...... $22, $35, $40, $60, $170, $250 Groups of 20+/Memberships...... Contact OSF at 407-235-3925 TABLE OF CONTENTS Tickets Online...... Ticketmaster.com ORLANDO SPORTS FOUNDATION STAFF Page 1...... Quick Facts Executive Director/CEO...... Page 2...... Leadership Director of Internal Operations...... Cherry Masih Page 3...... Executive Director, Alan Gooch Director of Ticket Operations...... Jackie Kotary Page 4...... Cure Bowl Story Business & Financial Manager...... Nicole Caron Page 5...... Cure Bowl Timeline Website...... OrlandoSportsFoundation.com Page 8 ...... Corporate Champions Office...... 407-235-3925 Page 9...... 2015 Cure Bowl Event Schedule Fax...... 407-317-7717 Page 10 ...... American Athletic Conference Mailing Address...... Orlando Sports Foundation / UCF EDC Page 12...... Sun Belt Conference 36 West Pine St., Orlando, FL 32801 Page 14...... Media Policies BOWL HOTELS Page 16...... Orlando Citrus Bowl Page 18...... Citrus Bowl Map American Athletic...... Loews Royal Pacific Page 19...... Citrus Bowl Parking Map at Universal Studios Page 20...... 2015 Bowl Schedule 888-273-1311 Page 21...... BCRF Information Sun Belt...... Loews Portofino Bay Hotel 888-273-1313 CREDITS Media...... Rosen Plaza The 2015 AutoNation Cure Bowl Media Prospectus was 407-996-9700 written by Nate Blythe along with editorial contributions Game Officials...... Hard Rock Hotel from Cherry Masih, Christine Wydra, Alfonso Ruiz. Mike 407-503-2000 Foristall of Knight Agency provided the layout for the inside and designed the four covers. BOWL MEDIA RELATIONS Director of Communications...... Nate Blythe Photos are courtesy of Macbeth Photography, . Orlando Sports Foundation. E-mail...... [email protected] Office...... 772-240-8742 Fax...... 407-317-7717 2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 1 LEADERSHIP

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OSF STAFF

MEGAN DOWDY ALAN GOOCH PRESIDENT & HOST EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO COMMITTEE CHAIR [email protected] [email protected]

JEFF LAGOS CHERRY MASIH VICE PRESIDENT & SELECTION DIRECTOR OF COMMITTEE CHAIR INTERNAL OPERATIONS [email protected] [email protected]

DEBORAH CATALANO JACKIE KOTARY GENERAL COUNSEL & DIRECTOR OF TICKET OPERATIONS GOVERNANCE OVERSIGHT [email protected] [email protected]

DAVE ALMSTEAD NICOLE CARON MEDIA/TV CONSULTANT DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS & FINANCE [email protected] [email protected]

KAY STANNEY MATT STOVER SCIENCE OFFICER EXTERNAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE [email protected] [email protected]

SCOTT ROSE ALFONSO RUIZ TEAM SCOUTING OPERATIONS ASSISTANT COORDINATOR [email protected] [email protected] CHRISTINE WYDRA PUBLIC RELATIONS [email protected] BOWL SCOUT TEAM SCOTT ROSE ALAN GOOCH OSF CURE BOWL SCOUT TEAM DIRECTOR [email protected] EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [email protected] DAN BROWNE AMERICAN ATHLETIC COORDINATOR [email protected] JIM WARMUS CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER DAVE MARCINKO [email protected] SUN BELT COORDINATOR [email protected]

2 2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS ALAN GOOCH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ORLANDO SPORTS FOUNDATION // CEO OF THE AUTONATION CURE BOWL

Gooch began his career at the University of Central Florida (UCF) as a defensive back in 1981. He went on to spend 22 seasons as a member of the coaching staff. He started his coaching career in 1983 as a graduate assistant, quickly moving thru the ranks and becoming UCF’s recruiting coordinator.

During his eight years as the recruiting coordinator, he aided the program’s transition from Division II through I-AA and into I-A status. He was named assistant head coach in 1998 and took over as interim Alan Gooch has head coach at the end of the 2003 season. Gooch and Gary Gibbs of committed his life to University of Oklahoma are the only two coaches in Division I football to rise from player to head coach without leaving their alma mater. one thing…helping others. His primary At a White House ceremony in April 1998, Gooch and former UCF tailback vehicle for doing this Dwight Collins (who is deaf and received ESPN’s 1997 National Spirit Award) has been his work for were recognized by President Bill Clinton and the National Consortium for more than 25 years in Academics and Sports. Gooch was a finalist for the National Student-Athlete Day GIANT STEPS Award in the category of Collegiate Coach joining Dean Smith college athletics and, of North Carolina and Eddie Robinson of Grambling. He finished runner-up primarily, football. to Robinson, but was honored as the inaugural NCAA Division I-A Assistant Alan is the Executive Football Coach of the Year at the 1998 AFCA National Convention in Dallas. Director of the Orlando NCAA All-Americans and UCF Hall of Fame members Willie Sports Foundation English, Marquette Smith, Elgin Davis and Dee Brown are running and the CEO of the backs who played for Gooch. Others who went on to play in the AutoNation Cure NFL include Aaron Sam, Terrance Williams and Alex Haynes. Bowl. The goal of the organization is Upon leaving coaching in 2004, Gooch accepted a position as the Executive Director of the UCF Athletic Association’s Golden Knights Club. In 2005 after 25 to bring a new and years of service to the university, he left UCF and entered into private business different college opening Florida operations for an Atlanta commercial real estate firm. In 2007, football bowl game Gooch opened his own commercial real estate firm, Tizon Commercial, LLC. experience to the Gooch was inducted into the UCF Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006. The following Citrus Bowl in year he was named “Educator of the Decade” by the UCF College of Education. Orlando, Florida, while creating awareness Prior to the 2007 season, Gooch accepted a position as President and an additional and General Manager of the Arena Football League’s (AFL) financial resource Orlando Predators. Gooch led the two-time AFL World Champions to their 20th straight playoff appearance during 2008. for cancer research. Gooch, who received his bachelors and masters degrees at UCF, continues as the Managing Partner/Broker of Tizon Commercial and an adjunct professor at UCF teaching Coaching Methods. He is married to Linda Gooch, UCF’s longtime Cheerleading coach of 31 years, who has won national championships in 2003 and 2007. Alan and Linda have two sons, Zachary (17) and Noah (14).

2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 3 CURE BOWL STORY

THIS BOWL WAS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT. In Fall 2007, in Orlando experienced a surge of support thanks to the completion of a new, on-campus stadium at the University of Central Florida. The community enthusiasm inspired a group of Orlando leaders and philanthropists — many of who, were UCF alums — to bring a new college bowl game to Orlando and to make it unique by directly tying it to a charitable cause.

Among those initial supporters were the founding Board of Director members and Advisory Board members : Mack McLaughlin, Alan Fidelo, Joe Mckinney, Jeff Lagos, Dave Almstead, Joe Hornstein, Megan Dowdy, Scott Rose, Alan Morrison, Mike Foristall, George Lamelza and Executive Director, Alan Gooch.

As the bowl game committee was being formed, Laura Goldstein — who was a strong, early advocate for OSF — was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. These unfortunate events inspired the initial board to choose breast cancer research as its charitable funding focus.

Through years of experience working with and supporting college athletics, Florida Citrus Sports and the NCAA College Football Bowl system, this group knew that each college bowl game donated its profits to a charitable cause. However, the general public typically is unaware of which charitable causes are being supported. To separate this bowl from the rest, the founding board wanted the bowl game to be different, to allow the public to support the game as well as a significant cause. To do this it was decided the cause would be permanently incorporated into the game title. As a result, the Cure Bowl was born.

4 2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS CURE BOWL TIMELINE MAY 28, 2008

Orlando Sports Foundation was founded and is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to raising funding and awareness for organizations working to find a cure for cancer. OSF is led by a volunteer Board of Directors and Advisory Board.

Laura Goldstein The goal of the foundation is to manage a bowl game with the proceeds benefitting cancer research. OSF also runs community events such as Strike Out Breast Cancer and Fire in the Park — Avalon Park Chili Challenge.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT EVENTS: Strike Out Breast Cancer The OSF has come together to host six annual Strike Out Breast Cancer bowling events during the organizations history to raise funding and awareness for cancer research. The seventh annual event is set to take place on Sept 27, 2015 at Colonial Lanes. The Sandi Breitenstein inaugural event was held Sept. 4, 2009 Fire in the Park — Avalon Park Chili Challenge Unfortunately, Laura Goldstein The second annual Fire in the Park - Avalon Park Chili Challenge will not be able to experience presented by Specialty Rx Source was held Jan. 24, 2015. The event the bowl game that she included a day filled with award-winning chili, music, games, local helped inspire. She lost her restaurants and family fun with a focus on raising funds for the long and hard fought battle Breast Cancer Research Foundation. with breast cancer on April Beneficiaries of the Orlando Sports Foundation have been the 20, 2011. On March 24, 2005, American Cancer Society, Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Board CFO Sandi Breitenstein Florida Hospital Cancer Institute, Susan G. Komen, Young . passed away from Stage IV Survival Coalition. liver cancer. The loss of Laura, Sandi and others who will lose their battle today, tomorrow, and the days to come against the disease of breast cancer, will continue to motivate us to make the AutoNation Cure Bowl a success.

2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 5 APRIL 16, 2014

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and leaders from the OSF announce the creation of the Cure Bowl, a post-season NCAA football game with strong ties to charitable organizations working to find a cure for breast cancer. The inaugural MAY 2014 game is set to take place on December 19, 2015 at the Orlando Universal Studios agrees to Citrus Bowl. be a partner in hosting the teams and events during The American Athletic Conference Cure Bowl Week. The teams (AAC) and Sun Belt Conference will be staying at world-class (SBC) become the official resorts: Loews Royal Pacific FEBRUARY 1, 2011 conference partners of the Cure at Universal Studios and Bowl. Each conference will send Loews Portofino Bay Hotel. Orlando Sports Foundation makes the one of its members to the game first of many $5,000 annual donations beginning in 2015. to community cancer groups that OSF reveals that the Breast include the Florida Hospital Cancer Cancer Research Foundation Institute, MD Anderson Cancer (BCRF) becomes the official charity Center, American Cancer Society, partner for the Cure Bowl. BCRF Breast Cancer Research Foundation, is one of the nation’s most fiscally and the Young Survival Coalition responsible charities by spending through its Strike Out Breast Cancer 91 cents of every dollar on research bowling event. The annual event, and public awareness. held in October, raises funding and awareness to find a cure for breast cancer.

6 2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS OCTOBER 23, 2014 AutoNation partners with the OSF JUNE 23, 2015 to become the title sponsor of the AutoNation Cure Bowl. The partnership Florida Hospital is announced as the presenting sponsor. It expands AutoNation’s already strong will also host The Florida Hospital Cure Village at the Citrus history of charitable involvement focused Bowl — a hub where fans can receive mammograms and other on cancer-related initiatives. lifesaving screenings on game day. The partnership enhances a collaboration between Florida Hospital and UCF College of Medicine Associate Professor Dr. Annette Khaled. She was recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) to fund her work into developing new technologies that treat metastatic cancer cells. Proceeds from the AutoNation Cure Bowl presented by Florida Hospital will help fund BCRF grants, such as Dr. Khaled’s, that allow researchers to continue their work toward finding a cure for breast cancer.

CBS Sports Network signs on to broadcast the AutoNation Cure Bowl to a national television audience on December 19, 2015. The AutoNation Cure Bowl will become the first bowl game that the network produces in its history.

MAY 2015

Delta Air Lines becomes the official airline partner of the AutoNation Cure Bowl. Delta’s Breast Cancer 1, the airline’s signature pink-and-white-liveried Boeing 767, flies internationally year-round to raise awareness for breast cancer around the world through its long-standing . partnership with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 7 CORPORATE CHAMPIONS

WHEN A CURE IS ON THE LINE, Florida Hospital is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit healthcare providers with 22 campuses serving WE SAY communities throughout Florida. Being a not-for-profit hospital means they GAME ON. are there for something much more important: you. For more than 100 years, they have been profoundly committed to those who seek their care. They have become known the world over for the expert, compassionate, individualized attention given to the millions who have already passed through their doors, and In 2014 AutoNation concentrated its vast community the million plus patients who visit them outreach and charitable involvement to focus on each year. cancer-related initiatives. Through their partnership Since 1908, their commitment to with Indy 500 champion Ryan Hunter-Reay and his providing unsurpassed health and wellness services has expanded to meet charity Racing for Cancer, AutoNation has raised over the increasing needs of our ever-growing $2 million in their coast to coast fight against this population. As they have adapted with deadly disease. AutoNation’s latest partnership with the the changing times, their mission has remained a constant—to extend the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the Orlando healing ministry of Christ. Their heritage Sports Foundation to form the AutoNation Cure Bowl of whole person health—achieving is the next step in their continued involvement to help wellness of the mind, body and spirit for their patients—is of paramount fund research to aide in eradicating this deadly disease. importance to each member of their With over 23,000 associates coast to coast, AutoNation exceptionally talented clinical staff. is America’s largest automotive dealership group and is using their brand to fund research and bring attention to a disease that is responsible for more than 585,720 deaths in the United States and Canada alone in 2014.

8 2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 2015 AUTONATION CURE BOWL EVENT WEEK SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 2015 TBD . Teams Arrive. 6:30-8:30 p.m. . Team Welcome Reception,. Hard Rock Live THURSDAY, DEC. 17, 2015 7-11am CBS Sports Network, the 24-hour cable home of CBS Sports, Team Practices, . airs more than 400 live games annually, showcasing an array Dr. Phillips High School. of college and professional sports, as well as in-depth studio Afternoon. shows, documentaries and original programs. CBS Sports Universal Orlando Resort Park visit. Network also provides extensive shoulder programming Afternoon . around CBS Sports’ Championship events, including the Super Shuttle available to I-Drive/. Bowl, The Masters and PGA Championship. Millenia Mall/Outlets. Time TBD . CBS Sports Network is available across the country through AutoNation VIP Reception local cable, video and telco providers including Verizon FiOS FRIDAY, DEC. 18, 2015 Channel 94 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 643 (1643 in HD) and via 7-11 a.m. . satellite on DirecTV Channel 221 and Dish Network Channel Team practices, . 158. For more information, including a full programming Dr. Phillips High School/Olympia schedule and how to get CBS Sports Network, visit High School/Orlando Citrus Bowl. CBSSportsNetwork.com. TBD . Team visits Florida Hospital. Afternoon . Team charity give back activity . at Clean the World. Afternoon . Delta Air Lines and its subsidiaries operate over 5,400 flights AMC Movie Pass at City Walk. daily and serve an extensive domestic and international Afternoon . network that includes 333 destinations in 64 countries on six Shuttle Available to I-Drive. continents. The headquarters of the corporation and its largest Millenia Mall/Outlets. hub are located in Atlanta, Georgia. International hubs for Delta 6-7 p.m. . include Amsterdam, Paris and Tokyo. Pep Rally/Battle of the Bands, . City Walk Delta and its employees have a civic obligation to give back SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 2015 to the communities where they live and work. As a part of 12 p.m. . Delta Air Lines Force for Global Good, the Delta Air Lines Florida Hospital Cure Village. Foundation and its employees contribute time, energy and 5 p.m. . millions of dollars to a host of philanthropic causes. One of AutoNation VIP/. those beneficiaries is the Breast Cancer Research Foundation Pre-game concert. (BCRF), which is a partnership that has spanned over 10 years 7 p.m. . and includes an annual “Breast Cancer One” charter flight Kickoff. from Atlanta to on Delta’s iconic Pink Plane. 11 p.m. . Teams Depart

2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 9 CONFERENCE PROFILE AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

In the course of its first two seasons, the American American Athletic Conference teams Athletic Conference has taken a place at the forefront have advanced to the College World Series, the semifinal and final rounds of intercollegiate athletics, earning a collection of of the NIT and the match play round of national team and individual championships and the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship. football postseason wins that place The American Half of the conference’s baseball- among the elite Division I conferences. playing members reached the NCAA Championship in 2015, while The American had the best men’s basketball postseason record of any conference in 2014, when conference teams were a combined 13-4. Teams from The American have registered top-10 national rankings in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, baseball, men’s soccer and men’s golf.

The American is quickly making its mark in professional sports as well, beginning with the selection of UCF quarterback Blake Bortles by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the No. 3 pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. The American consists of 12 prestigious institutions: the University of Central Florida, the University of Cincinnati, East In the 2015 NFL Draft, UCF’s Breshad Carolina University, the University of Connecticut, the University Perriman and UConn’s Byron Jones of Houston, the University of Memphis, the U.S. Naval Academy were selected consecutively in (football only), the University of South Florida, Southern the first round – Perriman to the Methodist University, Temple University, Tulane University and Baltimore Ravens at No. 26 overall the University of Tulsa. and Jones to the Dallas Cowboys at No. 27. It was the second straight year Under the leadership of commissioner Mike Aresco, the in which The American had at least American Athletic Conference has earned an impressive list of two first-round selections. accomplishments, both in and out of the competitive arena. In football, two American Athletic The league has produced three NCAA championship teams Conference football teams were (UConn men’s basketball in 2014 and UConn women’s ranked in the top 15 of the final basketball in 2014 and 2015) and two individuals who have won 2013 Associated Press poll, while NCAA titles, most recently SMU’s Bryson Dechambeau, who was the 2015 national champion in men’s golf. Additionally,

10 2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS Memphis finished the season in the top 25 of the 2014 polls as the Tigers tied UCF and Cincinnati for the conference title. Six of the 12 teams that compete in The American in 2015 played in bowl games to cap the 2014 season as Memphis, Houston and Navy earned postseason victories.

The American Athletic Conference holds media rights partnerships with ESPN and CBS Sports which give the conference outstanding national exposure on the two industry leaders in sports television. The football portion of the contract calls for nearly 90 percent of conference-controlled games on national broadcast or national cable platforms. The first American Athletic Conference Football Championship, which will be played Dec. 5, 2015, will be carried on either ABC or ESPN on Championship Saturday.

American Athletic Conference teams have access to the pinnacle of college football’s postseason structure. An American representative would be chosen for the semifinals if it is among the top four teams in the CFP selection committee’s final ranking. Otherwise, the league would place its champion in either the Vizio or the Chick-fil-A if it is ranked higher than the champions of Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference, the and the Sun Belt Conference.

Additionally, The American holds primary or secondary partnerships with 12 bowls for the current six-year cycle, ensuring multiple annual matchups against the nation’s top conferences and providing desirable postseason destinations to member institutions and their fans.

The American Athletic Conference administers to its membership from a state- of-the-art office located in Providence, Rhode Island. The location of the conference headquarters – just steps from the city’s Amtrak station and 10 minutes from T.F. Green International Airport – gives the conference easy access to its member schools.

2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 11 CONFERENCE PROFILE SUNBELT CONFERENCE

The Sun Belt Conference’s “Together We Rise” profile and the desire of its member- motto isn’t just hyperbole. It’s a proven fact on many ship brought about football sponsor- ship in 2001, the conference was different levels, not the least being its place in the figuratively reborn, and now stands as hierarchy of collegiate athletics. As the league one of the 10 premier college football prepares to celebrate four decades since its founding leagues in the country. in 1976, the Sun Belt occupies a “seat at the table” as And, with the recent debut of the a permanent part of the NCAA’s 24-member Board of College Football Playoff system, the Directors. That alone insures that the conference has Sun Belt is guaranteed universal ac- a voice in determining the future as college sports cess based strictly on performance. A worthy football team in the Sun continues to change and evolve. Belt can be in the national champi- onship picture, and the league is a permanent part of the “Group of Five” conferences (joining the American Athletic Conference, the Mountain West Conference, the Mid-American Conference and Conference USA) that will send its highest-rated champion to a premier Jan. 1 bowl game.

In only 15 years of football, the Sun Belt has earned ties to no fewer than seven bowl games. In addition to the potential of the College Football Play- off, the league has guaranteed spots in the R+L Carriers Bowl, the GoDaddy Bowl, the Raycom Changing and evolving have been hallmarks of the league since Media Camellia Bowl and the Au- its existence. College basketball might be a shadow of its cur- toNation Cure Bowl for bowl-eligible rent self had the Sun Belt not led the way in the establishment teams each and every season. Begin- of the shot clock. The conference also wrote history at the start ning in 2016, the Sun Belt will also be of the century when it inaugurated football as a league sport – part of a conference rotation that will becoming the first already-existing Division I conference to take send teams to the Popeyes Bahamas such action. Bowl and the .

The Sun Belt was originally founded to give home to some of . No football conference in history has the nation’s premier mid-major basketball teams, and the ever boasted as many bowl relation- league’s history is dotted with success in many different men’s and women’s sports. But when the desire for a higher national

12 2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS ships in its first two decades of existence, but such breakthroughs have been the rule rather than the exception for a league that continues to exceed expectations. Just in the last three seasons, league members have recorded 52 non-conference wins including a record 21 victories outside the league in 2013. The Sun Belt also has a winning record over its fellow “Group of Five” conferences over the past two seasons, and has claimed three bowl victories in those two years.

Gridiron success has grown in the league for sev- eral years, but success can also happen overnight. New league member Georgia Southern claimed the Sun Belt football title in its first year in the confer- ence last fall. Appalachian State, another league newbie, rattled off six consecutive wins to close the 2014 football season and finish with a winning 7-5 record. Texas State has finished its two football seasons in the conference as a bowl eligible team, going 6-6 in its inaugural Sun Belt campaign and then 7-5 this past season.

Football, though, is by no means the only hallmark of success for the league. Just this past season, Georgia State knocked off third-seeded Baylor in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and Little Rock defeated sixth-seeded Texas A&M in the women’s NCAA tournament. Baseball and softball continue to put the league in the national spotlight during the spring season, with deep runs into postseason play and high visibility in the national polls becoming a tradition. UL Lafayette’s baseball team was the nation’s No. 1 team in the final third of the 2014 season and has reached the NCAA Super Regional round each of the past two years, while the UL Lafayette softball team has advanced to the Super Regional three straight years including a trip to the 2014 College World Series.

The strength of any league lies in its membership, with the Sun Belt’s 11-school football membership including Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Geor- gia Southern, Georgia State, Idaho, UL Lafayette, UL Monroe, New Mexico State, South Alabama, Texas State and Troy. Little Rock and UT Arlington compete in all sports as non-football members while Idaho and New Mexico State are football-only members. Those members give the Sun Belt a mix of the “old” and the “new”, with many long-time Sun Belt institutions continuing to have success and a solid corps of conference newcomers ready to make their marks on the league and national levels.

2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 13 CURE BOWL MEDIA POLICIES

INTERVIEWS. REGISTRATION/CREDENTIAL PICKUP Participating schools are asked to make Media members who have been approved may pick up their their players and coaches available to the credentials during media registration at the media hotel, media throughout bowl week. Interview the Rosen Plaza Hotel, during bowl week. No credentials availability and practice schedules for will be mailed. At registration, media who have been players and coaches will be supplied by approved to cover the game will receive their credential, each school’s media relations department. media gift and parking pass (if applicable). The game day Orlando Sports Foundation (OSF) will do its credentials must be worn at all official bowl functions. best to provide updated practice information, but please utilize each school’s media Wednesday, Dec. 16 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.. contacts as your definitive source for this Thursday, Dec. 17 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.. information. Friday, Dec. 18 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. POST GAME INTERVIEWS If you do not pick up your credential prior to 5 p.m. on Each team will receive a 10-minute cooling Friday, Dec. 18, they will be available at Media Will Call at off period. Following the 10-minute cooling the stadium starting three hours prior to the 7 p.m. kickoff. off period, the head coach and at least one If you have been approved for a parking pass, then you player from the runner-up team will be MUST pick it up prior to gameday. made available in the Media Interview Room WILL CALL/MEDIA ENTRY (located in the south end of the stadium). Credentials not picked up from media registration will be After the runner-up team’s appearance, available at Media Will Call located at the south end of the the winning head coach and at least two stadium. The booth will open three hours before kickoff. (2) players will be available. One (1) of the players will be the game’s Most Valuable PARKING Player. No interviews are permitted on the A limited number of parking passes are available. field after the game, with the exception of Parking passes may be applied for during the credential the CBS Sports Network broadcast and live application process. Media are encouraged to utilize the radio with contracted broadcast rights. media shuttle from the Rosen Plaza Hotel on gameday. The media shuttle schedule will be posted at the media hotel Each school’s media relations director during bowl week as well as in the bowl’s media guide. should notify Nate Blythe of their school’s post-game interview policy as it pertains to GAMEDAY MEDIA SHUTTLE locker rooms. If a team’s locker room is not The AutoNation Cure Bowl media shuttle will depart the open for post-game interviews, school and Rosen Plaza Hotel in approximately 30-minute intervals bowl officials will work to determine the best and return from the stadium in similar shifts. location for breakout interviews. DEPARTING THE HOTEL. CREDENTIALS, Location: In parking lot just . PRESS & TV / PHOTO outside of Media Registration. Members of the media who wish to cover Times: 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. the AutoNation Cure Bowl may apply for credentials by visiting the “Media” LEAVING STADIUM page at www.CureBowl.com or www. Location: Lot J. SportsSystems.com/curebowl. OSF will Times: 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. CURE BOWL ask the media relations directors of the MEDIA CONTACT: ORLANDO CITRUS BOWL Nate Blythe participating schools to review the list of 1 Citrus Bowl Place Phone: 772-240-8742 applicants on all credentials requests with Orlando, FL 23805. Email: [email protected] applications subject to final approval by 407-440-5700 the OSF Staff. The deadline to apply is date Friday, December 11. 14 2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS FREQUENCY COORDINATION RADIO It is a policy for the AutoNation Cure Bowl Each participating institution may originate a non-exclusive that you must frequency coordinate all broadcast of the bowl game for distribution to its regular wireless devices used anywhere on the season terrestrial network. Space has been reserved stadium property whether it be pregame, and as a courtesy, phone lines (ISDN, Dry, Pair, etc.) for during the game or postgame. Coordination the network’s broadcast willl be offered. Billing will be at includes all microwave transmissions, the current AT&T rate. The exclusive contractual rights wireless microphones, IFB, two-way radios, to national live radio, satellite and internet broadcasts of etc., exclusive of cell phones. An email the bowl game outside of the local markets has yet to be reminder will be sent to all credentialed determined. media with the information of the GDC, which is TBD. HOSPITALITY The media hospitality room will be at the Rosen Plaza Hotel. MEDIA HOTEL Media may check the location at the registration desk. Media The media hotel for the AutoNation Cure hospitality will be open on the following dates and times: Bowl is the Rosen Plaza Hotel. The room rate for approved media staying at the Wednesday, Dec. 16 6:00 - 11:00 p.m.. hotel is TBD. Reservations for the hotel Thursday, Dec. 17 6:00 - 11:00 p.m.. may only be made online when applying for Friday, Dec. 18 6:00 - 11:00 p.m. credentials. Deadline to reserve a room in MEDIA GUIDES the media block is Wednesday, December 9. It is requested that the sports information department ROSEN PLAZA HOTEL ship 100 regular season media guides and 250 post season 9700 International Drive media guides to Rosen Plaza Hotel, 9700 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819 Orlando, FL 32819; attention “OSF/AutoNation Cure Bowl” (407) 996-9700 MEDIA ATTENDING TEAM INTERNET/STATISTICS THEME PARK VISITS . The press box at the Orlando Citrus Bowl is Media members are often eager to cover team theme park equipped with wireless internet and wired visits, however, all three of Orlando’s major theme parks ethernet connections at each seat. Media require each media member to have an assigned escort will be given a passcode for wireless use on before entering the parks. Please contact the park(s) through gameday. Statistics will also be accessible the media relations person for access. OSF involvement with from any laptop in the pressbox. A website these visits at bowl time is limited. will be distributed prior to the game for TEAM PRACTICE SITES / TBA. those interested. Leading up to the game, teams will be designated to practice TELEVISION at one of three locations that will be determined and The Orlando Sports Foundation has announced during Bowl week: partnered with CBS Sports Network to DR. PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL broadcast the AutoNation Cure Bowl. 65500 Turkey Lake Rd. CBS Sports holds the national television Orlando, FL 32819 broadcast rights for the contest. OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOL 4301 S Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, FL 32835

ORLANDO CITRUS BOWL 1 Citrus Bowl Place Orlando, FL 32805

2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 15 ORLANDO CITRUS BOWL A WORLD CLASS FACILITY

The Orlando Citrus Bowl is the home of the AutoNation Cure Bowl presented by Florida Hospital. This postseason, a record three bowl games — AutoNation Cure Bowl, Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl and Russell Athletic Bowl — are being hosted at the state-of-the-art venue.

In 2014, the stadium went through a $207 million reconstruction project. About 90% of the stadium was torn down and replaced between January 29 and November 10, including portions of the original construction that have stood since 1937. Only the upper decks, which were added in 1990, remained.

In addition to being the temporary home to Orlando’s new professional soccer team, the Orlando City Lions, the Orlando Citrus Bowl hosts signature annual events including the AutioNation Cure Bowl, Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl, Russell Athletic Bowl, Florida Blue Florida Classic and Monster Jam. The new venue allows Orlando to pursue more high-profile sports tourism events such as neutral-site college football games, NFL preseason games, international soccer matches and big-name concerts.

The facility was built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project by Franklin D. Roosevelt at a cost of $115,000. The venue has also taken on a number of different names during its history: Orlando Stadium (1936-46), Tangerine Bowl (1947-75), Citrus Bowl (1976), Orlando Stadium (1977-1982), Florida Citrus Bowl (1983-2013) and Orlando Citrus Bowl (2014-present). 16 2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS AMONG THE NEW FEATURES AND ENHANCED AMENITIES FOLLOWING THE 2014 RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT:

• All-new lower bowl with six additional • Enhanced sound system featuring inches of leg room per row and coverage in concourses, restrooms individual chair-back seating and concession areas • Expanded concourses with the • Enhanced vertical transportation ability to circle the entire facility on (elevators, escalators and the field and plaza levels stairwells) for improved access • 20,000-square-foot plaza deck between levels overlooking the north endzone • Improved disabled seating with • New concession stands and improved sightlines restrooms • Ticket windows in the northeast • Additional suites on the stadium’s corner to supplement the Box Office west side, increasing suite seating . in the stadium’s south endzone to over 1,000 • Upgraded team facilities with a • Brand-new premium club spaces renovated locker room, showers, offering upgraded seating with training rooms, a physician’s exam private concessions and restrooms room and media room for over 5,000 guests. • Rebuilt Tom Mickle Press Box with • High-definition video boards and facilities for working press, food sideline fascia ribbon boards, service areas and boxes for TV, . offering nearly 360 degrees of . radio and coaches digital coverage • Flexibility for expansion in the . south end zone

2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 17 ORLANDO CITRUS BOWL STADIUM & PARKING MAP

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2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 19 FRANKLIN AMERICAN MORTGAGE 2015-16 SEC vs. ACC/Notre Dame or Big Ten . Nashville, TN . BOWL SCHEDULE Wed., Dec. 30 / 7pm ESPN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Big Ten vs. Pac-12 . SATURDAY THE INAUGURAL San Diego, CA . AUTONATION CURE BOWL Wed., Dec. 30 / 10:30pm ESPN DEC. American vs. Sun Belt CHICK-FIL-A PEACH Orlando, FL At-Large vs. At-Large (New Year’s Six) . 19 7 p.m. CBSSN Atlanta, GA . Thu., Dec. 31 / Noon ESPN

ARIZONA BOWL . ST. PETERSBURG . GOODYEAR COTTON PLAYOFF C-USA vs. MWC . American vs. C-USA . SEMIFINAL GAME Tucson, AZ . St. Petersburg, FL . Arlington, TX . TBA CBSSN Sat., Dec. 26 / 11am ESPN Thu., Dec. 31 / 4 or 8pm ESPN GILDAN . HYUNDAI SUN CAPITAL ONE ORANGE PLAYOFF C-USA vs. MWC . ACC/Notre Dame vs. Pac-12 . SEMIFINAL GAME Albuquerque, NM . El Paso, TX . Miami Gardens, FL . Sat., Dec. 19 / 2pm ESPN Sat., Dec. 26 / 2pm CBS Thu., Dec. 31 / 4 or 8pm ESPN ROYAL PURPLE . ZAXBY’S HEART OF DALLAS BOWL OUTBACK Pac-12 vs. MWC or BYU . Big 12 vs. C-USA . Big Ten vs. SEC . Las Vegas, NV . Dallas, TX . Tampa, FL . Sat., Dec. 19 / 3:30pm ABC Sat., Dec. 26 / 2:20pm ESPN Fri., Jan. 1 / Noon ESPN2 RAYCOM MEDIA CAMELLIA BOWL . NEW ERA BUFFALO WILD WINGS CITRUS MAC vs. Sun Belt . ACC/Notre Dame vs. Big Ten . Big Ten vs. SEC . Montgomery, AL . Bronx, NY . Orlando, FL. Sat., Dec. 19 / 5:30pm ESPN Sat., Dec. 26 / 3:30pm ABC Fri., Jan. 1 / 1pm ABC R+L CARRIERS . . FIESTA C-USA vs. Sun Belt . ACC/Notre Dame vs. SEC . At-Large vs. At-Large (New Year’s Six) . New Orleans, LA . Shreveport, LA . Glendale, AZ . Sat., Dec. 19 / 9pm ESPN Sat., Dec. 26 / 5:45pm ESPN Fri., Jan. 1 / 1pm ESPN MIAMI BEACH BOWL. FOSTER FARMS BOWL. GAME C-USA vs. American . Big Ten vs. Pac-12 . Big Ten vs. Pac-12 (New Year’s Six) . Miami, FL . Santa Clara, CA . Pasadena, CA . Mon., Dec. 21 / 2:30pm ESPN Sat., Dec. 26 / 9:15pm ESPN Fri., Jan. 1 / 5pm ESPN . MILITARY . ALLSTATE SUGAR MAC vs. MWC . ACC/Notre Dame vs. American . SEC vs. Big 12 (New Year’s Six) . Boise, ID . Annapolis,, MD . New Orleans, LA . Tues., Dec. 22 / 3:30pm ESPN Mon., Dec. 28 / 2:30pm ESPN Fri., Jan. 1 / 8:30pm ESPN . QUICK LANE TAXSLAYER MAC vs. American . ACC/Notre Dame vs. Big Ten . ACC/Notre Dame or Big Ten vs. SEC . Boca Raton, FL . Detroit, MI . Jacksonville, FL . Tues., Dec. 22 / 7pm ESPN Mon., Dec. 28 / 5pm ESPN2 Sat., Jan. 2 / Noon ESPN SAN DIEGO COUNTY CU LOCKHEED MARTIN ARMED FORCES . AUTOZONE LIBERTY POINSETTIA BOWL. Big Ten vs. MWC . Big 12 vs. SEC . MWC vs. Army . Fort Worth, TX . Memphis, TN . San Diego, CA . Tue., Dec. 29 / 2pm ESPN Sat., Jan. 2 / 3:20pm ESPN Wed., Dec. 23 / 4:30pm ESPN RUSSELL ATHLETIC VALERO ALAMO GODADDY BOWL. ACC/Notre Dame vs. Big 12 . Big 12 vs. Pac-12 . MAC vs. Sun Belt . Orlando, FL . San Antonio, TX . Mobile, AL . Tue., Dec. 29 / 5:30pm ESPN Sat., Jan. 2 / 6:45pm ESPN Wed., Dec. 23 / 8pm ESPN ADVOCARE V100 TEXAS CACTUS POPEYES . Big 12 vs. SEC Houston, TX . Big 12 vs. Pac-12 . C-USA vs. MAC . Tue., Dec. 29 / 9pm ESPN Tempe, AZ . Nassau, Bahamas . Sat., Jan. 2 / 10:15pm ESPN BIRMINGHAM Thu., Dec. 24 / Noon ESPN SEC vs. American . CFP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP HAWAI’I BOWL. Birmingham, AL . Semifinal Winner vs. Semifinal Winner . American vs. MWC or BYU . Wed., Dec. 30 / Noon ESPN Glendale, AZ . Honolulu, HI . Mon., Jan. 11 / 8:30pm ESPN BELK SEC VS. ACC/NOTRE DAME Thu., Dec. 24 / 8pm ESPN Charlotte, NC . Wed., Dec. 30 / 3:30pm ESPN

20 2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 91 CENTS OF EVERY DOLLAR RAISED BY BREAST CANCER RESEARCH DIRECTLY SUPPORTS BREAST CANCER RESEARCH

THANKS TO THE WORK OF BCRF-FUNDED BCRF is unique among non-profits as RESEARCHERS AND OTHERS, WE NOW it is the only charitable organization KNOW THAT… solely dedicated to the direct funding …breast cancer is, in fact, several diseases— each developing, progressing and responding of breast cancer researchers, directing to therapies differently nearly $400 million for this purpose …every breast tumor contains different types of over the past 20 years, $45 million this cancer cells that may respond to therapies differently resulting in drug resistance or disease recurrence year alone, to 217 scientists worldwide. … mutated genes cause cancer We enable BCRF-supported research- ers to think big, explore new ideas, WITH BCRF SUPPORT, SCIENTISTS ARE DEVELOPING WAYS TO IMPROVE BREAST delve into unknown territories, follow CANCER OUTCOMES, INCLUDING: promising leads and achieve what was …better diagnostic tools that can help doctors once thought impossible. decide what drugs to use to treat a particular breast cancer While we have accomplished more than …tougher drugs that can “outsmart” the tumor we ever imagined back in 1993, our and reduce drug resistance work is far from done. According to …targeted treatments that go straight to the National Cancer Institute, in the US tumor cells for more effective cancer treatment and fewer side effects there will be 232,670 new cases of …personalized medicines that are based on the breast cancer in 2014 and 40,000 unique characteristics of a woman’s cancer deaths. And breast cancer continues …improved quality of life for breast cancer survivors, to be the leading cause of death in who now number over 3 million in the US alone women worldwide with incidence THANKS IN PART TO THE SCIENTIFIC rates increasing 20% since 2008. ADVANCES BCRF HAS MADE POSSIBLE… As long as there is breast cancer we …the 5-year relative survival rate for female invasive breast cancer has improved from will remain steadfast in our vision 75% in the mid-1970s to 90% today that research can—and will—achieve …mortality from breast cancer in the US has prevention and a cure. declined over 30% since the early 1990s

2015 CURE BOWL MEDIA PROSPECTUS 21 Dr. Khaled is one of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s newest research grantees and will receive direct funding to continue her research in to the treat- WE CAN ment and eventual cure for metastatic breast cancer. This grant was made possible through the Orlando Sports Foundation’s partnership with BCRF. When you choose to support the AutoNation Cure Bowl, you will TACKLE provide funding for Dr. Khaled and more than 200 of her colleagues who will find a cure for breast cancer. THIS. So, get in the game because together, we can tackle this.

DR. ANNETTE KHALED, UCF SCHOOL OF MEDICINE INFOCUREBOWL.COM 407.235.3925

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