Fans like you literally don’t know anything…lifelong G5 fans who are clueless. None of you in this site really know college football. None of you. Not Brandon, nor anyone else.
I am not those people.
G5 fans. Zero of you have an idea as to what a national championship roster needs to look like. Flexing on an army of DBs when your trenches are trash.
"An army of DBs" is exactly what is needed to compete in the PAC-12. All this
nonsense about 'stopping the run' during spring was some of the
most ignorant crap I have heard in some time.
As I stated in another thread 8 or 9 of the 12 opponents on the 2024 schedule prefer to attack defenses by throwing the football. Only three 2024 opponents (West Virginia, 3rd; Cincinnati, 5th; and Utah, 33rd) finished in the Top 50 for rushing offense (Utah lost its starting RB to Arkansas). UCF faces only one 1,000-yard returning rusher from 2024: the kid from Arizona.
Yeah…your DL is also trash, mostly due to having two DL coaches who can’t coach their way out of a wet paper bag.
UCF has an SEC-caliber interior defensive line. The unit will be ranked among the top four in the Big 12 in preseason publications, but it is clearly the top unit compared against any opponent on the 2024 schedule--and probably the best unit in the entire conference. Kenny Martin is a rock star defensive line coach in the making. UCF will not struggle to retain his services in 2025. Somebody will buy him.
You are correct on Kenny Ingram. Gus should have replaced him with a better recruiter and X's and O's coach. Ingram is not a P4-caliber defensive ends/bucks coach. Under Gus, UCF has a history of not pressuring the quarterback. Ingram is a big reason why. However, Ingram does fit the climate and culture of the program that Gus is establishing/rebuilding in Orlando. Ingram's loyalty to Gus is unparalleled and is reciprocated. That is why Ingram remains on staff.
You people would be calling out old head Malzone for hiring a CB coach that has NEVER coached CBs at any level.
Hiring Trovon Reed was an incredible move by Gus that no one seen coming. Gus was going to promote Reed to cornerbacks coach at Auburn, but the opportunity never presented itself. Reed is a tireless recruiter with connections in prospect hotbeds across the Southeast. This was a brilliant hire by Gus. He got Reed for pennies on the dollar.
You would be calling out Malzone for hiring a WR coach that has ZERO experience coaching WRs and never played the position.
Gus dropped the ball when he hired Grant Heard. It was one of the most questionable and short-sighted decisions that Gus has made since he has been at UCF. Heard was overpaid. The obvious hire was former Florida standout Ike Hillard, who was unemployed at the time after having been fired by Auburn following the removal of Bryan Harsin. Ike Hillard is now the wide receivers coach for the Atlanta Falcons. Heard, meanwhile, is coaching at Eastern Michigan. Gus listened to Hugh Freeze and UCF got burned.
You would be calling out Malzone for hiring a sock puppet OC with zero OC or play calling experience.
Gus Malzahn is the OC, has always been the OC, and took the UCF job only because it was the best gig that would promise him total control of the offense. Hinshaw assuming QBs Coach is a great move for UCF. Hiring Tim Harris Jr. as a wide receivers coach will have an incredible impact on the UCF running game because the wide receivers will actually stalk block.
You would be calling out old head Malzone for sacrificing a young, well regarded coach (Ernie Simms) just so he could move Addison Williams (who has ZERO business to be a DC) back to safeties coach (done to save face).
Addison Williams is an ELITE recruiter.
E-L-I-T-E
Gus kept an obviously overwhelmed and underperforming coordinator because his value as a recruiter was irreplaceable.
Per
your terms, "an army of DBs" isn't marching onto the UCF campus for no reason. The Mid'KnightsMen want to play for Addison.
If you think the issues with the LBs or with the defense last year were attributed to Simms…then you are a real life clown. It’s the fault of Malzone for NOT having any viable LBs and of a CLULESS DC.
Ernie Sims was unemployed when he took the job at UCF.
Again…NONE of you know anything. ZERO of you, including ALL of the people covering UCF football (they are afraid to lose the little access they have) balls to ask tough questions or to call out Gus Malzone on anything.
I have thought about volunteering to write for one of these sites, but I live 6 to 7 hours away from UCF's campus and flights to and from games would require multiple flight transfers.
Ernie Simms was used as a scape goat. It derailed his career and was not fair to him or his family.
Simms was put in a position to fail. Look at the guys he had to play and at the guy in charge of the defense/calling defensive plays. Pathetic.
Scape goat? You must be kidding. Sims was the last addition to the 2023 UCF coaching staff and the lowest paid assistant coach on staff. Not much was expected of him and he delivered "not much."
As the linebackers coach, he assumed Travis Williams' role as run game coordinator, and UCF finished 122 out 130 in run defense. He now is an "analyst" at the school where he played. He is terrible. Nobody wanted him.
Good riddance.
Now about you getting laid...