Kent wrote:Ok. I'm getting convinced.
Dennis Dodd, Senior College Football Writer
"I'm having a hard time finding anything wrong with this hire. In fact, you can make the case that this is the best hire for a Group of 5 school since we started calling them a Group of 5."
"Gus Malzahn, I think, kills it at UCF."
"There's nothing negative to say about Gus's recruiting. When you're going against Alabama, head-to-head, 24/7, 365, I think he's done a hell of a job."
Barrett Sallee, College Football Writer
"It's a great hire for UCF. Gus Malzahn will get the Knights back to a New Year's Six Bowl Game, I have absolutely no doubt about this."
"It's kind of ironic: Tennessee hires Josh Heupel away from UCF and UCF still comes in with the better end of the deal."
"I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is a marriage that lasts until Gus Malzahn wants to retire. It does depend on what the fit is at other Power 5 jobs. He's not going to jump to a random Power 5 job that he can't be successful with, there's no doubt in my mind."
"He wants to win. And he understands that he can win, successfully recruiting in south and central Florida. So I think UCF, they didn't get a short-timer; they got a long-term solution as long as the best of the best Power 5 coaching jobs don't open up and even if that does happen, I think it still remains to be seen how attractive he would be to those jobs knowing that sometimes they just wouldn't be good fits for guys who run offenses like Gus."
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National media seems to love the hire. More praise from CBS: