Quote:People seem excited because of the difference in styles between him and O'Leary.  He's more  young and brash while O'Leary was a plodder and boring.  It's funny you say that about Frost and Mariota when O'Leary had his best years at UCF it was with Bortles.  Once he was gone it was pretty much in the tank with UCF.

 

With O'Leary UCF never had names on the back of jerseys, they will now go back to that.  He also said he plans to try and recruit big name players, something O'Leary never really did.  He was more than happy to settle for the guys that the big 3 in the state were not going after.  If you don't take a chance on going after the big players you can't make any headway.

 

A lot of kids in Florida play in a spread type offense and the big college programs in the state play a pro style.  UCF is the only college now that gives kids a chance to stay in that type of offense.  It will be interesting if he can sell that to the kids.