Official UCF Sports Thread - Basketball: NIT Bid? Football: Spring Practice Underway

Post #1421 » by **UCF** » Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:02 am

UCFJayBird wrote:I saw somewhere that MAR would be our highest rated recruit ever if we go by his rating out of HS (i think it was according to 247 ratings). Huge get if he lives up to that potential.

Was Storm Johnson rated lower? He was a 4* back for us.

MAR had a significant injury that he’s hopefully recovered completely from. Looking forward to seeing him play.

Post #1422 » by **UCF** » Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:50 pm

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Post #1423 » by **UCFJayBird** » Thu Feb 25, 2021 4:39 pm

UCF wrote:
UCFJayBird wrote:I saw somewhere that MAR would be our highest rated recruit ever if we go by his rating out of HS (i think it was according to 247 ratings). Huge get if he lives up to that potential.

Was Storm Johnson rated lower? He was a 4* back for us.

MAR had a significant injury that he’s hopefully recovered completely from. Looking forward to seeing him play.

I might've been wrong about the 247 rating. Just looked and Storm was indeed higher, he was the 40th ranked player in the nation, while MAR was 90th. On Rivals, MAR was 99 while Storm was 106.

I guess it just depends which you're going based off of. Either way, he's at least ONE of our top recruits ever, lol.

Post #1424 » by **UCF** » Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:19 pm

I figured he was the best comparison since he was also a transfer student. If he’s anywhere near that level of talent we’ll be very happy to have him carrying the ball.

Post #1425 » by **Knightro** » Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:56 pm

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Post #1426 » by **UCF** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 4:46 pm

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Post #1427 » by **UCF** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:20 pm

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Post #1428 » by **UCF** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:22 pm

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Really interested to see if this 4 and 5 star offers amount to anything in the end. I like that they’re trying at least...

Post #1429 » by **UCF** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:27 pm

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Spring game announced!

Post #1430 » by **UCF** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:54 am

Huge win for baseball knocking off the #1 team in the nation tonight.

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Post #1431 » by **UCF** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:16 pm

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Post #1432 » by **UCF** » Tue Mar 2, 2021 6:19 pm

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Staying on trend of former Auburn players transferring in. This one is for one year and I’m down with that. Second team all SEC is a nice pickup.

Post #1433 » by **UCFJayBird** » Tue Mar 2, 2021 8:32 pm

If nothing else, it's kind of crazy to see so many recruits (highly rated ones at that) touting offers on Twitter. Definitely didn't used to see that much with Heupel.

Post #1434 » by **UCF** » Tue Mar 2, 2021 9:27 pm

UCFJayBird wrote:If nothing else, it's kind of crazy to see so many recruits (highly rated ones at that) touting offers on Twitter. Definitely didn't used to see that much with Heupel.

Agreed, it’s a bit odd feeling. Just need to start landing commitments. Getting into the conversation is the first step.

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Post #1435 » by **UCF** » Tue Mar 2, 2021 10:19 pm

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Post #1436 » by **Knightro** » Wed Mar 3, 2021 7:58 pm

I believe this is the most up-to-date staff list.

Head Coach: Gus Malzahn (2.3M)

Co-Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks: GJ Kinne (300K)
Co-Offensive Coordinator/Running Backs: Tim Harris Jr. (325K)
Wide Receivers: Darrell Wyatt (240K)
Offensive Line: Herb Hand (300K)
Tight Ends/Special Teams Coordinator: Brian Blackmon (275K)

Defensive Coordinator/Inside Linebackers: Travis Williams (600K)
Co-Defensive Coordinator/Secondary: David Gibbs (450K)
Defensive Ends/Outside Linebackers: Kenny Ingram (200K)
Defensive Tackles: Kenny Martin (175K)
Cornerbacks: Addison Williams (250K)

Offensive Graduate Assistant: Kam Martin (RB)
Defensive Graduate Assistant: Tre Williams (LB)

Offensive Analyst (QB): Will Bryant
Defensive Analyst (DB): Charles Moore
Special Teams Analyst: Ben Larson

Director of Sports Performance: Chris Dawson (400K)

Director of Football Operations: SJ Tuohy
Director of Football Recruiting: Devin Ducote
Assistant Director of Recruiting: Kareem Reid
Assistant Director of Recruiting: Cole Heard
Director of Player Personnel: Dave Shumate
Assistant to the Head Coach: Ross Newton
Director of On-Campus Recruiting/Executive Assistant: Beth Burkett

Post #1437 » by **UCF** » Wed Mar 3, 2021 9:53 pm

That’s a lot of people to hire in a week. I was wondering if we might see more analysts with this new coaching staff.

Kent · Post #1438 » by **Kent** » Thu Mar 4, 2021 4:42 am

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Post #1439 » by **UCFJayBird** » Thu Mar 4, 2021 1:50 pm

Kent wrote:Hype Mode: ENGAGED

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Considering our enrollement the last 20 years i'd expect "Number of Living Alums" to be a lot higher than 325k. Interesting.

Post #1440 » by **UCF** » Thu Mar 4, 2021 2:35 pm

I’ve been going to the campus since the mid 90’s when my brother enrolled. It was like 32k at best at that point.

We’re so young compared to other schools with much more established/senior alumni. If you went to FTU when it opened you would be around ~70 years old. I would argue the most important thing UCF has to do now is build out its alumni development team (at the individual college/school level) to take the university to the next level.