Tik Tok is a bean counter. He’s not very good at what he does but who is going to fire him? UCF leadership at the top is weak.
Basketball is in shambles. Could be worse next year. The whole team went to the portal. UCF will be the training ground every year for the "big money" power 4 teams to fill their roster. Unless we dedicate money to the basketball program, every year we'll be in last place. You'll never see a team like Tacko, BJ, Dawkins, Brown, etc, ever again with NIL. Many of these athletes will make more in college NIL than elsewhere. It will be interesting to see who comes back from the portal to play next year.
Totally BNGAD, All gus had to do last year, was take out the god-awful QB he chose and it would have been a few more wins. If we go .500 this year it will be an improvement.
It was....considering the time it took, and that Frost apparently had no idea who he was going to hire as assistants (again because of how long it took) we can assume we were were turned down by multiple parties
that is the worry…remaining a consistent dumpster fire so long we end up back in the same neighborhood as USF.
I disagree. Who is the coach you want fired? They have been given all the resources to succeed. I don’t know of anybody that he hired that is currently out there that should be fired, maybe the women’s basketball coach ( I will admit it I’m not on top of that sport although I do know that the previous coach had success left and took everything with her) but otherwise I don’t know how he is the one who should be responsible for the lack of success on some of the coaches if not all.
I disagree on the "They have been given all the resources to succeed". This can't be true simply because we don't have enough NIL $$ to get the talent we need to compete. UCF's budgets for sports areas other than football are low. Thoughts?
Agree...but how do their basketball NIL budgets compare to UCF's? Also, I do not think Dawkins is the best we can do. We all know WHO he is, hall of famer, NBA, etc but, he's not keeping us in the race so to speak. Sometimes we compete, sometimes we get completely blown out. I'm out of answers for basketball.
I don’t disagree. You’re probably right. But in terms of what we have available to us I think he’s been pretty good with that. It’s just that we’re not fully vested in the big 12 right now and I’ve heard more than one coach state that. I think until we get fully vested it’s hard to lay accusations on anybody. Once we get fully invested, I think it’s a whole different story though. I think you let this thing play out until we are full compensated members and see how it translates on the fields/courts. I just think continuity is underrated.
I would venture to guess at least a third of those schools have similar budgets. Regardless. Teams with lower budgets do have success, they do win games. Maybe not final fours, but certainly not have finishing with a losing record in the conference almost every year.
