Sadly, I think we’re going to see a lot of this.
For the opportunity to Start next year. That's what they want, playing time and all the glory.
hard to transfer with no tape though. it's not like those currently redshirting are blue chip prospects. blue chip guys like john walker can transfer because he has a lot of tape to go on.
Bullshit!! If that was the case, Gus wouldn't have been saying he believed we could run the table after the OU game. He just failed. Again. On his birthday. On homecoming.
Give ‘em 4 games of experience without burning a year of eligibility.
I have watched the play on the field and I've watched my team lose numerous games that they could've won. It's so frustrating watching a coach call run plays almost 99% of the time on 1st and 2nd down and 90% of the time on 3rd and long! His only element of surprise is an occasional trick play.
Our G5 roster was up to snuff against Auburn in 2017. Our independent roster also was in 98 when we should've beat yall. Stfu and leave.
Did you play Auburn, Thuga, uat, lsWho, Arky, Ole Piss, etc., back-to-back-to-back-to-back...
Tired P5 elitist arguments.
Yes, we did play numerous back to back to back games against SEC schools in the late 90s and early 2000s when we were independent. Competed better than your nut daddy Gus during some of those seasons too. Growing pains my ass. He just sucks. Out here in the "real world."
Not talking about SEC. Talking about P5 in general.
Yes. Gus is not the best motivater. Don't have to be a football genius to see that. He probably needs to hire a team psychologist like sabahr did about a decade ago. And yes, I am being serious.
Competing and winning are two different things. UCF went from a pass happy spread under HYPEl to a run-oriented spread team under Gus. It takes time, especially when you go to the P5 with a roster not built for your offense.
Listen man. Nobody and I do mean nobody -- outside of a program that is 1-10 in bowl games in the last decade -- gives a sh*t about bowl games. I have literally NEVER went to a bowl game. Not even either of Auburn's National Championship Games.
This is slightly true. Malzahn does have a little wiggle room.
Right. This is what I always say. Gus ran off the players that could play a passing (ie: interesting and fun to watch) offense and tried to install a running offense with players he didn't have, players which _everyone_ says are hard to get in the G5.
You are correct. Gus threw out the baby with the bath water on offense when UCF was in the G5's AAC. It made no sense when he did it.
We seemed to match up ok against the top team in the conference in Oklahoma on the road. Also hung with the 2022 conference champ on the road into the 4th as well. But when we play shitty teams that haven’t had a top 40 recruiting class in a decade and get embarrassed at home then the excuses start flying. The problem is precisely that we aren’t orders of magnitude worse than the top of the conference. But you wouldn’t know it based on how we look against terrible teams. Navy 2021 and 2022 wasn’t a fluke.
I don't know. The take on OU is their running game is not good, and I tend to agree. I think the results show that. Our defense did some things against their rushing game because they're not good running the ball. Every team we've played that have an average or better rushing game have gashed our defense.
We didn't just compete, we beat Alabama, or uat as you call them, in 2000. With our independent, non P5 players. So stfu still.
Agreed brother. Our Defense is absolutely atrocious.
don't expect gus to turn 2 or 3 stars into NFL players. at auburn he had a hard time turning 4 and 5 stars into NFL players.
What about guys like Dredrick Snelson? Never made it in the NFL, but definitely one of the best wide receivers in UCF history. Baker and Hudson are somewhat on that level. Just mismanaged in my opinion.
Honestly, I'm getting sick of this type of revisionist commentary. Let's face it Oklahoma tried to gift wrap the game for us on a silver platter and we sent it back. Any team with half a pulse and Oklahoma gift wrapping that game wins.
The refs jobbed us before halftime. That was not PI. That erases three off their score.
SNelson’s best season was 46 catches for 695 yards and 8 TDs (his stats weren’t even that good the next season). Not even anywhere near top 10. He made a bad decision not coming back for 2019 and maturing in the position. We had a lethal WR corps in 2019. The addition of him might have got us over-the-top in the three games we lost (all by three points or less).
very much this. although if gus is letting the offensive coordinator do his job then he would have enough time for roster management to be his responsibility.
I keep saying, “There are coaches that can recruit. There are coaches that develop. There are few that can do both across the roster.”
Let's see how many get drafted this year.
