Josh Heupel
2018: 12 - 1
2019: 10 - 3
2020: 6 - 4
Heupel was a first-time Head Coach following an undefeated season which was a tall order.
He did a decent job keeping the momentum going but the Covid season was a disaster by the standards of the previous 3 seasons.
Gus Malzahn
2021: 9 - 4
2022: 9 - 5
2023: 6 - 7
2024: 3 - 3 (likely to finish 4 - 8 or 3 - 9)
Gus is losing more games every season at UCF.
Gus is returning this program back to 2015.
We can't win games and our offense is boring and inept.
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Look at these excerpts from an ESPN article when Gus was fired by Auburn:
"Malzahn's genius ran out and his book on offense never came with a second volume. He struggled weighing his roots as a playcaller with the need to oversee an entire program. And as he flip-flopped his position calling plays, opposing coaches studied what he did and evolved, while Malzahn stubbornly remained the same."
"a star quarterback never materialized, which was perhaps the most striking indictment against a coach who had been billed a QB whisperer ever since he helped mold Cam Newton into a Heisman Trophy winner as offensive coordinator."
"Rather than give in, he leaned on the best advice he said he'd ever received: "Do what you know and stick with it." "
"As the years wore on, the knock Malzahn had entering the SEC -- that he ran an overly simplistic "high school offense" -- became true once again. It was the same small number of plays run over and over, sources said, adding that if he doesn't have elite talent, especially in the form of a running quarterback, it doesn't work."
"There was no sense of forward momentum, no progress, no positive change from year to year. Malzahn remained who he was, and the offense remained what it was, for better or worse."
Here is a pic of Gus at Auburn and Gus at UCF:
2018: 12 - 1
2019: 10 - 3
2020: 6 - 4
Heupel was a first-time Head Coach following an undefeated season which was a tall order.
He did a decent job keeping the momentum going but the Covid season was a disaster by the standards of the previous 3 seasons.
Gus Malzahn
2021: 9 - 4
2022: 9 - 5
2023: 6 - 7
2024: 3 - 3 (likely to finish 4 - 8 or 3 - 9)
Gus is losing more games every season at UCF.
Gus is returning this program back to 2015.
We can't win games and our offense is boring and inept.
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Look at these excerpts from an ESPN article when Gus was fired by Auburn:
"Malzahn's genius ran out and his book on offense never came with a second volume. He struggled weighing his roots as a playcaller with the need to oversee an entire program. And as he flip-flopped his position calling plays, opposing coaches studied what he did and evolved, while Malzahn stubbornly remained the same."
"a star quarterback never materialized, which was perhaps the most striking indictment against a coach who had been billed a QB whisperer ever since he helped mold Cam Newton into a Heisman Trophy winner as offensive coordinator."
"Rather than give in, he leaned on the best advice he said he'd ever received: "Do what you know and stick with it." "
"As the years wore on, the knock Malzahn had entering the SEC -- that he ran an overly simplistic "high school offense" -- became true once again. It was the same small number of plays run over and over, sources said, adding that if he doesn't have elite talent, especially in the form of a running quarterback, it doesn't work."
"There was no sense of forward momentum, no progress, no positive change from year to year. Malzahn remained who he was, and the offense remained what it was, for better or worse."
Here is a pic of Gus at Auburn and Gus at UCF:
