I know this might register in the "who cares" category for some of y'all given that he's on the way out, but I would not be surprised to see Ryan O'Keefe end up at Boston College where former UCF WR coach Darrell Wyatt is on staff.

ROK always liked Darrell Wyatt, who was also his recruiter. Interestingly, Boston College was ROK's only P5 offer coming out of high school as well.

What are your guys thoughts on biggest transfer needs remaining:

- OLINE - 2-3 solid prospects to block in the Big 12

- Linebacker - 1-2 more good linebackers
- Defensive Back - What a mess. We had some good freshman recruits last year, but we need at least 2 solid prospects here.

If we could do well on these three position groups we could actually be competitive in the Big 12

Has anyone had a locksmith program and after market key fob? Was is easy and what did they charge you?

Cox has UCF in his top-three. Update on Rivals:

Not sure if she'll appreciate page 17, but figured that you guys would.



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i see lots of video with Tony Johnson around other players (football) at UCF

is he permanently off team and around for school? his removal off roster came with no explanation - so suspension?

@Brandon any insights?

I wanna know who my third favorite college football team is gonna be

That’s the buzz out of Gainesville. Any confirmation?

Dupe

NEW from the Sons of UCF: “They’re playing really well right now. Ole Miss is projected to be one of the best teams in the SEC this year,” UCF Head Coach Johnny Dawkins says of the Knights next opponent.

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I love the Vax I think I will get 1 a day until I die.


I hate the Vax and everybody that has gotten it.


Please post every stupid thing you want about the Vax here. I don't give a crap about your opinion and I will not be posting anything to this thread.

Just Please, Please, Please stop posting in the Jake Hescock thread unless it is an update on his condition or well wishes and prayers. Nothing else should be in that thread! I keep going to it hoping to hear some good news and all I get is stupid crap!

@Brandon please clean up that thread!

Story from Rivals' Jed May:

On UCF: I like Coach Malzahn (Gus Malzahn, head coach) a lot. I play on Cam Newton’s 7-on-7 team. Coach Malzahn recruited me at Auburn, so he also recruited me while he was at UCF. (Newton) doesn’t know a lot of things as far as UCF, but he knows a lot of stuff about Coach Malzahn. If I have a question about Coach Malzahn, he’s going to answer that question. I asked him, I was like, ‘What’s the hardest he’s been on you?’ He was like, ‘One time he said if I don’t complete this pass that I’m going to have to do this and that.’ He completed the pass. Just pushing you in different types of ways on and off the field."

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Congratulations buddy! Can I borrow $10?

@Flem3000

to get his own statue in front of FBC Mortgage Stadium...

At his 9-win per season clip, future Winningest Head Football Coach in UCF History Gus Malzahn needs just seven more years to surpass GOL in less than a decade.

H*ll, y'all talking crazy about firing the man. Do you really think Gus will let UCF go from sugar to sh*t in the Big12?

Gus coached in the toughest division of the greatest conference in all of college football and never had a losing season, even with boosters undermining him at every opportunity. The jackleg that replaced Gus produced back-to-back losing seasons en route to an unceremonious firing.

You better give Gus a raise, contract extension, and increased buyout ($3 as of Jan 1 ain't enough) before his native state of Texas comes calling. 8-4 ain't acceptable at Texas, and the Longhorns are entering the SEC without a sure thing at head coach.

One of the US’ most respected soccer journalist died in Qatar today. At the start of the WC he was detained for wearing a rainbow shirt to honor his brother (who is gay), and other gay soccer players. Yesterday he wrote the piece I linked below.

His brother suspects foul play. Grant received death threats after wearing the shirt. His brother said Grant was in good health before going over there.

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Where did they all go?



I will see myself out.

Football is the ultimate team sport. Football, more than any other popular sport, requires a team effort. Unlike sports like basketball, one guy still needs his team to perform.

For success in football, 11 people must be in unison. 11 people must not only execute a play, they also need to execute it as a group while modifying how they execute it depending on what the other 11 men on the field are trying to do. Success only comes if all men on the field are a team, trust each other and spend countless hours building chemistry and bonds.

“Family”. This word is used more in football than any other sport for a reason. A good team needs to be like a family.
THIS, takes time. Takes kids being at the same place, working on the same goals, and building bonds for several years.
THIS, is what makes CFB so different than even the NFL. In CFB, kids are turning into men while working together to reach a common goal. When this comes together, it is special.

NIL and the Transfer Portal are ripping at the fabric of what CFB is. Individualism, narcissism, and the “gotta think about #1 above all” mentality, may make CFB unrecognizable in the near future. There are correlations between society as a whole and what is happening to CFB, as we see a massive turn towards individualism in every aspect of our lives.
It’s everywhere.
The common good is no longer fore front. We have less and less people playing CFB to accomplish a team goal. They are on the field with their own goals. Their own agendas.

The first victim…. Bowls. With the rash of transfers and holdouts, bowls are getting less interesting and are starting to produce less money.

The next victim… High School athletes. Less scholarships are being offered at the D1 level than ever before because teams are using those spots for transfers.

Another victim: The players. NIL is unregulated. What happens when a kid is paid and leaves? Do you think a kid is going to sue a collective? What if he doesn’t get what was promised? Do you think kids have the $ to vet these contracts?

It will continue to go down this path..

Although D1 CFB remains massively popular, if this unregulated era of the transfer portal and NIL continues as-is, it will change CFB for the worse. College presidents and ADs are drunk on the money that is coming in. They cannot see straight therefore they won’t change it.

The players are trying to figure out ways to cash in and find the greener grass like never before. I heard Marc Daniels’ show last week and two stats stayed with me
-70% of players that entered the portal last year did not find a new place to play.
-55% of players in the portal last year did not play college football at the D1 level at all.

Let that sink in. 55% of kids LOST their scholarship. Lost the opportunity for a free college education.

**The only difference between the two numbers is that some kids were taken back by their old school.**

It’s an ugly path we are going down and I don’t know how it ends up not changing CFB for the worse…

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Out of everything that’s going on, this may be what bothers me the most.

Over the past 5 years we built a brand called UCFast. Exciting offenses that were balanced and put up numbers.

Now our team identify is what? Is Gus WANTING to have a UCFast offense with his spin on it or he doesn’t care about that and wants to be a predominantly run heavy offense?

Is our current situation based solely off of personnel? In other words, will Gus have a dynamic offense with different players? I wish this to be the case, but I’m not so sure.

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$MSPR is down 87% in the past month


edit: to be clear i have no idea how SPAC stuff works, and a UCF tagged dude on r/cfb said it's not uncommon for this sort of legal posturing to happen

assume he posts here too so... feel free to weigh in if this isn't newsworthy? i genuinely have no idea beyond an immediate 'lol the u is back' reaction, maybe i got bamboozled by an inflammatory tweet