Saw this on the AAC fans facebook page

[SCKnight]

"Insider chatter, UCF's Brent Key and certain staff had cleaned out office up to 3 weeks prior to final game. (Leaving field at 2 PM, no more team meetings, etc) Also that that they might not of put a game plan together for ECU or USF, instead used info from past season.

This should be treated as an unconfirmed rumor, but 2 weeks prior I had been told something similar in reference to the decline of UCF program, "Coaching staff had become very dysfunctional before and after O'Leary's departure"

All this is starting to make sense. There is no way that a halfway prepared team could perform as poorly as UCF has over the last 3-4 games. This team was doomed the moment that the keys to the kingdom were handed over to Key. My father used to say that things have a way of working out for the best. I can only image what UCF football would have been under Key as a head coach with this kind of ethic. Have some pride and finish what you started.

I really feel for the seniors on this team. This was no way to go out.

 

[Stormthecourt?]

"Insider chatter, UCF's Brent Key and certain staff had cleaned out office up to 3 weeks prior to final game. (Leaving field at 2 PM, no more team meetings, etc) Also that that they might not of put a game plan together for ECU or USF, instead used info from past season.

This should be treated as an unconfirmed rumor, but 2 weeks prior I had been told something similar in reference to the decline of UCF program, "Coaching staff had become very dysfunctional before and after O'Leary's departure"

All this is starting to make sense. There is no way that a halfway prepared team could perform as poorly as UCF has over the last 3-4 games. This team was doomed the moment that the keys to the kingdom were handed over to Key. My father used to say that things have a way of working out for the best. I can only image what UCF football would have been under Key as a head coach with this kind of ethic. Have some pride and finish what you started.

I really feel for the seniors on this team. This was no way to go out.

There were also rumors that his wife was leaving mail unopened on her desk and that she was turning the coffee off early.

 

[ucfversusbcs]

There were also rumors that his wife was leaving mail unopened on her desk and that she was turning the coffee off early.

Key and his wife are gone. Spill the beans on the wife allegations.

 

[Poolside Knight]

wow that's inexcusable if it's true.

 

[jtGoldenKnights]

Makes no difference if they did Game plan Key still can't call a game.

 

[ucfversusbcs]

I really hope we can find some leaders to pull UCF out of the muck. It was obviously hijacked by sociopaths and shysters plus steeped in nepotism and entitlement for its offspring.*

 

[HoseEmDown]

I love how everyone is hating on Key because this season went to shit. Key has been here for a long time and the team had it's best seasons ever with his help. Was he a good choice for OC or HC, doesn't look like it but he could've easily turned it around, not every coach has immediate success when promoted. This season was a disaster and it wasn’t all Keys fault at all.

 

[Poolside Knight]

" My father used to say that things have a way of working out for the best. I can only image what UCF football would have been under Key as a head coach with this kind of ethic. Have some pride and finish what you started.

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yeah I was thinking about that....what if Akins and Holman stayed healthy & they got at least 4 wins? There is a chance that either GOL drags on for another year or Key gets his shot which would have been a disaster. Bottoming out exposed their flaws

 

[jtGoldenKnights]

I love how everyone is hating on Key because this season went to shit. Key has been here for a long time and the team had it's best seasons ever with his help. Was he a good choice for OC or HC, doesn't look like it but he could've easily turned it around, not every coach has immediate success when promoted. This season was a disaster and it wasn’t all Keys fault at all.

Our offense was ranked 128th (3,221 yards). That's dead last. The defense was just as bad but as far as Key goes he was a total flop at OC. He was a good line coach but a very vanilla and poor OC. Being ranked 128th won't keep you around at any school.

Going from Key to Babers would be a total 360 and a home run hire.

 

[ucfversusbcs]

Its an interesting time if you're a UCF fan right now. I can't recall so much hype over an AD and head coach selection. I've never witnessed our fanbase scrutinizing the actions of a new AD from day one or listening to his every word..as he gathers the fanbase around and convinces them everything will be alright.
GOL was the last time this happened. I feel like our fanbase has done more research in reviewing coaches than ever before. When Charlie Taffe was hired, i remember most of the fanbase wondered who he was because he spent the last couple of years in Canada. The Orlando Sentinel didnt even mention him being the former offensive coordinator with the Maryland Terrapins under Ralph Friedgen...at least not that i recall. Did anyone realize how special this hire was in 2008?

Anyways there's plenty of good chatter. Eight years ago 80 percent of our fanbase wouldve said no to Dino Babers because his current coaching stint was at Bowling Green.

 

[ucfversusbcs]

I still want to hear the dirt that happened during the last days of the GOL reign though.

 

[SCKnight]

I still want to hear the dirt that happened during the last days of the GOL reign though.

GOL wanted to retire after the Fiesta Bowl. My guess is that he had picked Key to be his successor and handed things over for the most part before the end of last season. Thus the reason for closed practices. If I had to guess GOL has been a bystander for a long while but it has been kept under wraps. By the time things spiraled out of control it was too late to pull out of the spin. I blame this on the admin. When a coach tells you he wants to retire, you don't keep him around.

 

[SCKnight]

I love how everyone is hating on Key because this season went to shit. Key has been here for a long time and the team had it's best seasons ever with his help. Was he a good choice for OC or HC, doesn't look like it but he could've easily turned it around, not every coach has immediate success when promoted. This season was a disaster and it wasn’t all Keys fault at all.

If the allegations in the above quote is true then he is a quitter. It has nothing to do with whether he did good while he was here. If he went out giving it all he had for UCF then I would have no issues with him. But if he punked out like this indicates then good riddance.

 

[Knight_Classes_begin_7pm]

"Insider chatter, UCF's Brent Key and certain staff had cleaned out office up to 3 weeks prior to final game. (Leaving field at 2 PM, no more team meetings, etc) Also that that they might not of put a game plan together for ECU or USF, instead used info from past season.

This should be treated as an unconfirmed rumor, but 2 weeks prior I had been told something similar in reference to the decline of UCF program, "Coaching staff had become very dysfunctional before and after O'Leary's departure"

All this is starting to make sense. There is no way that a halfway prepared team could perform as poorly as UCF has over the last 3-4 games. This team was doomed the moment that the keys to the kingdom were handed over to Key. My father used to say that things have a way of working out for the best. I can only image what UCF football would have been under Key as a head coach with this kind of ethic. Have some pride and finish what you started.

I really feel for the seniors on this team. This was no way to go out.

I actually hope you're correct. Maybe we'll win some games next year. If we win 4 games, that will prove GOL and Brent Key = MAJOR FAIL

 

[Knight_Classes_begin_7pm]

If the allegations in the above quote is true then he is a quitter. It has nothing to do with whether he did good while he was here. If he went out giving it all he had for UCF then I would have no issues with him. But if he punked out like this indicates then good riddance.

I agree!

 

[Victorywayz2.0]

I love how everyone is hating on Key because this season went to shit. Key has been here for a long time and the team had it's best seasons ever with his help. Was he a good choice for OC or HC, doesn't look like it but he could've easily turned it around, not every coach has immediate success when promoted. This season was a disaster and it wasn’t all Keys fault at all.

Key sucked well before this year

 

[Victorywayz2.0]

Key and his wife are gone. Spill the beans on the wife allegations.

His wife was given job in the athletic department by gol to ensure he had allies in the department. She had never served in role prior

 

[Knight_Light]

His wife was given job in the athletic department by gol to ensure he had allies in the department. She had never served in role prior

wow...you are officially off the rails.

Key MET his wife while she worked in the UCF Football Office...where she had for several years BEFORE she and Key dated, let alone before they got married.

Step away...just step away from the keyboard...you are doing it wrong...oh so wrong.

 

[ucfversusbcs]

GOL wanted to retire after the Fiesta Bowl. My guess is that he had picked Key to be his successor and handed things over for the most part before the end of last season. Thus the reason for closed practices. If I had to guess GOL has been a bystander for a long while but it has been kept under wraps. By the time things spiraled out of control it was too late to pull out of the spin. I blame this on the admin. When a coach tells you he wants to retire, you don't keep him around.

This has been explained time and time again....and yet here are the quotes of GOL and Dr Hitt from the end of the Fiesta Bowl to his official retirement.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/ucf-knights/os-george-oleary-ucf-football-retirement-post.html - Jan 2015
"I've already said that I expect to coach next year unless you know something I don't know," he laughed. "That hasn't changed."

O'Leary told the Orlando Sentinel earlier last month he planned to coach the 2015 college football season. But he wasn't exactly emphatic about his plans in an interview two weeks earlier, telling the newspaper that he hadn't "ruled out" retirement before his contract ends in 2017.
"I'll know when it's time," he said.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ach-george-oleary-dismisses-retirement-rumors

"I don't know anything about that stuff and where that came from," O'Leary told the Orlando Sentinel. "I never spoke to anybody from Fox or anybody. I don't have any idea what that's about."

It's not a super strong denial, but a denial nevertheless.

"I'm not going to be 72 coaching, but I'm not going to start a season and not finish what I do," O'Leary later told CBS Sports. "I preach to the kids I don't quit."

...but its the quote below that speaks volumes!

http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...sources-considering-stepping-down-2014-080914

“Coach O’Leary would never quit after one game in a season,” UCF president John Hitttold the Sentinel. “Whoever wrote that doesn’t know George O’Leary. George will retire when he retires. We hope his health stays great. He’s often said when he has two straight days when he goes to work and doesn’t have fun then he’ll retire. We think and hope it will be a good, long while before that happens.”


So why won't anyone discuss the real details of the demise since the Fiesta Bowl, not the official reason. You mean Hitt and company ordered him to sell that song and dance of never having two straight days of not having fun for so long? I doubt it.

Too bad K_L or UCFBS or matty won't talk about what really went on behind the scenes.

 

[UMknight15]

Our offense was ranked 128th (3,221 yards). That's dead last. The defense was just as bad but as far as Key goes he was a total flop at OC. He was a good line coach but a very vanilla and poor OC. Being ranked 128th won't keep you around at any school.

Going from Key to Babers would be a total 360 and a home run hire.

180 and I completely agree

 

[Ucfmikes]

I doubt that Key and other coaches quit before the last game unless they were told to do so. Key got a $700,000 buyout and I'm sure there was stipulations that he has to finish the season.

If he didn't, he's a bum and shouldn't get a coaching job at another college, because it's abandonment and he's a quitter. Very unprofessional. If he did quit, it was because he was asked to leave which is possible. Did we see him on the sidelines. This should have been obvious.

Nonetheless, the coaching and play was even worse at times after GOL retired and at least 1 player quit the team. Possibly because of the losing culture and total chaos.

The last days of GOL and UCF were like the last days of Pompeii. Let's bury this city and start fresh. What a freaking mess!!!

 

[Victorywayz2.0]

wow...you are officially off the rails.

Key MET his wife while she worked in the UCF Football Office...where she had for several years BEFORE she and Key dated, let alone before they got married.

Step away...just step away from the keyboard...you are doing it wrong...oh so wrong.

Or I lurked here for awhile, decided who would easily get annoyed with egregious information and have been laughing when those same people have been irritated enough to respond.