Jason Beede caught up with TMo on Tuesday:
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When Terry Mohajir was hired in February 2021 to serve as UCF’s next athletics director, he had a problem.
The previous UCF AD, Danny White, who departed for the same job at Tennessee, left holes in UCF football’s future non-conference schedule.
The Knights only had three of their four non-conference games scheduled in 2022, two for the following two years, one in ‘25 and ‘27 and none in ‘26. The non-conference slate beyond 2027 was empty.
Mohajir, who hired former Auburn coach Gus Malzahn after White brought Josh Heupel with him to Tennessee, moved quickly to schedule football games.
Mohajir scheduled a future three-game series with the Florida Gators and a pair of home-and-home series with FAU and Maryland.
Things soon changed dramatically for Mohajir and Malzahn as the Knights accepted an invitation to a Power Five league: The Big 12 Conference.
“It changes everything,” Mohajir told the Orlando Sentinel on Tuesday. “We have to flip the switch on our non-conference scheduling.”
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When Terry Mohajir was hired in February 2021 to serve as UCF’s next athletics director, he had a problem. The previous UCF AD, Danny White, who departed for the same job at Tennessee, left h…
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