UCF Transfer Portal Updates

[Poolside Knight]

Shark Boy is clueless. What UCF would attract interest in the portal? Not Colson, for sure Not Rizk…those dudes would be left to an FCS team.

Malzone failed UCF football in every possible way…none of the QBs are any good. UCF would be lucky to get Pribula…he would become QB1 the minute he signs.

Hopefully our depth chart being so thin helps us bc Ole Miss is tough to compete with but he would be signing up for a similar situation as Penn St if he goes there

 

[80'sKnight]

Not really, played in 5 games at BC in 2023, had 23 catches for 235 yards and a TD (another rushing TD), was injured in game 6 so bad he had to retire. He wasn't catching much more than 4.5 balls a game here.....plus his QB Tommy C was (and is) not a good passer.

So not a good example of a bad transfer experience.....

Except for transferring to a QB that was 'not a good passer' So exactly a great example of a bad transfer experience...

 

[LoboCane]

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Lol…athletic? Not at all. Very strong yes, but his movement is limited. He missed the 2023 season rehabbing a knee surgery.

Good news…started 11/12 games. Bad news…the Washington OL was terrible in 2025, gave up ten sacks to Oregon.

 

[Poolside Knight]

saw a comment that he didn’t give up a sack so maybe it was the other side getting abused by the Oregon DLine

 

[KRH55]

Listen I’m all for the Frost hire… but sheesh this portal cycle was a must for us. We haven’t gotten crap. This team will go 3-9 next year with a realistic (non UCF goggles) outlook

 

[AuburnLegacy_1]

Listen I’m all for the Frost hire… but sheesh this portal cycle was a must for us. We haven’t gotten crap. This team will go 3-9 next year with a realistic (non UCF goggles) outlook

Frost is lowering the expectations to achieve his 7th career losing season.

(Ten isn't his number--yet.)

 

[UCFootball14]

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Frost is lowering the expectations to achieve his 7th career losing season.

(Ten isn't his number--yet.)

expectation couldn’t be lower from where Gus left off

 

[Central Floridave]

Memmelaar Will Join UCF After Playing in Sun Bowl​

Story by Dan Raley
• 10h • 2 min read

Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/co...oin-ucf-after-playing-in-sun-bowl/ar-AA1wcmwg

 

[PositYourself]

Sounds like a mean, tough hombre. Like that he grew up on a ranch. Welcome!

 

[Poolside Knight]

There are limitations in the transfer portal when the motivation for some is the highest bidder.

Texas Tech will either win the Big 12 or it will be a disaster and a lot of money spent. Unless that Crypto guy shareholder starts personally investing massive amounts UCF we won’t be in the same neighborhood. We have to recruit and develop out of HS.

 

[Yaes]

The problem is, they’re also still student athletes and they need to find a new home before the semester starts.

They need to find a way for the players to be fairly compensated, while also limiting their ability to bounce around from team to team so much.

As much as I love College Athletics, and in particular football, things seem to have gotten way out of proportion. And, yeah I know I am going to get a lot of kickback for posting this about compensation but among the many things student athletes receive, aren’t free tuition, free room and board, free tutors and counselors, along with a number of other perks all of which are a form of compensation? On the one hand people complain about how much a college education costs and how many students are deeply in debt when they graduate. On the other hand, we then say student athletes who are getting a free ride and more aren’t being compensated. Some people may believe they aren’t being compensated enough but they are being compensated. Perhaps the discussion should have more emphasis placed on the question of why did a student athlete enroll in school in the first place. Did they enroll to get a good education or did they come to school to play ball in the minor leagues for the pros. If the system is set up so that a student just comes to school to play in the minor leagues for the pros then perhaps a case could be made that, under those conditions, athletics no longer belong in Higher Education.

 

[akhenaten]

As much as I love College Athletics, and in particular football, things seem to have gotten way out of proportion. And, yeah I know I am going to get a lot of kickback for posting this about compensation but among the many things student athletes receive, aren’t free tuition, free room and board, free tutors and counselors, along with a number of other perks a form of compensation? On the one hand people complain about how much a college education costs and how many students are deeply in debt when they graduate. On the other hand, we then say student athletes who are getting a free ride and more aren’t being compensated. Some people may believe they aren’t being compensated enough but they are being compensated. Perhaps the discussion should have more emphasis placed on the question of why did as student athlete enroll in school in the first place. Did they enroll to get a good education or did they come to school to play ball in the minor leagues for the pros. If the system is set up so that a student just comes to school to play in the minor leagues for the pros then perhaps a case could be made that, under those conditions, athletics no longer belong in Higher Education.

I think we will eventually see them drop the "student athlete" charade entirely, at least for football. NIL didn't just make it possible for the average college football player to be able to afford a pizza, which used to be the argument for some form of compensation. It immediately transformed into pay-for-play and some of these guys are becoming millionaires just for stepping on the field. They don't have to do a car commercial or hope for a percentage of jersey sales in the school bookstore -- they're professional athletes. Once they end the prohibition against the university paying the athletes directly and dissolve these straw-man NIL collectives, it's all over. They will just be employees, or at the very least independent contractors.

 

[Yaes]

I think we will eventually see them drop the "student athlete" charade entirely, at least for football. NIL didn't just make it possible for the average college football player to be able to afford a pizza, which used to be the argument for some form of compensation. It immediately transformed into pay-for-play and some of these guys are becoming millionaires just for stepping on the field. They don't have to do a car commercial or hope for a percentage of jersey sales in the school bookstore -- they're professional athletes. Once they end the prohibition against the university paying the athletes directly and dissolve these straw-man NIL collectives, it's all over. They will just be employees, or at the very least independent contractors.

Sad.