http://www.firecoacholeary.com/2009/03/nearing-the-end-of-the-decade/ Time to Get Going Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.firecoacholeary.com/2009/03/nearing-the-end-of-the-decade/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Bro. Derik Fri, 01 May 2009 20:59:59 +0000 http://www.firecoacholeary.com/?p=144#comment-167 I understand what you are saying as a proud student of UCF (which I refer to as "The Kingdom") at are age we are better than the big three was when they were in our age of playing football. With that USF has gotten better and was almost in a BCS bowl game. FAU is winning bowl games. UCF is behind the curve. We need a young coach (Charlie Strong) our own Identity(where the hell is the black) and we need to keep big time talent (ray ray armstrong and andre debose) home. George O'leary is not the guy to bring us the swagger to compete. Every Successfull coach (with exception of Jimmy Johnson) who has built a program name has been linked with that team (most people think jimmy j/cowboys instead of the U) When you mention O'leary Football scholors won't UCF or even GT they are going to think the Guy who got fired from his dream job after three days. By the way when HE was a GT they were an above averge squad, WE want Domance not Mediocre or slitely above. I understand what you are saying as a proud student of UCF (which I refer to as “The Kingdom”) at are age we are better than the big three was when they were in our age of playing football. With that USF has gotten better and was almost in a BCS bowl game. FAU is winning bowl games. UCF is behind the curve. We need a young coach (Charlie Strong) our own Identity(where the hell is the black) and we need to keep big time talent (ray ray armstrong and andre debose) home. George O’leary is not the guy to bring us the swagger to compete. Every Successfull coach (with exception of Jimmy Johnson) who has built a program name has been linked with that team (most people think jimmy j/cowboys instead of the U) When you mention O’leary Football scholors won’t UCF or even GT they are going to think the Guy who got fired from his dream job after three days. By the way when HE was a GT they were an above averge squad, WE want Domance not Mediocre or slitely above.

]]> http://www.firecoacholeary.com/2009/03/nearing-the-end-of-the-decade/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Ranger Hank Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:08:49 +0000 http://www.firecoacholeary.com/?p=144#comment-157 I agree that our facilities are where they need to be. I don't think, however, that we can really compare what we're doing to what took UF 90 years to do. In our 30 years we haven't had to go through the building of college football from the ground up to include making conferences and even instituting the forward pass. UCF's tasks are far easier: recruit some talent, play to your strengths, and get better each year. Had UCF been doing that every year, heck even the past 5 years, we'd be in a lot better position. I'm not saying we'd be national champs or anything, but we could at least be well respected in CUSA and have a few bowl game wins. FAU has done far more with far less. I'd like to give USF some credit, but I hate them with such a passion it's hard to remain unbiased in the matter. I FIRMLY agree on the need for a coaching change. 30 years ago, his brand of football would work. I faced more complex offenses when I played high school ball than what O'Leary puts together. I'll stop before I get off on a rant. Here's something completely unrelated. I'm a Cowboys fan, and I visit their site regularly. Today I found a video talking about Smokin Joe. He's picked as their sleeper, and would be an EXCELLENT fit for the Cowboys in my opinion. Here's the video: http://www.dallascowboys.com/multimedia/multimedia_center.cfm The video is "The Blitz: CB Preview" They don't talk about Joe until about the 6:02 mark. I agree that our facilities are where they need to be. I don’t think, however, that we can really compare what we’re doing to what took UF 90 years to do. In our 30 years we haven’t had to go through the building of college football from the ground up to include making conferences and even instituting the forward pass. UCF’s tasks are far easier: recruit some talent, play to your strengths, and get better each year. Had UCF been doing that every year, heck even the past 5 years, we’d be in a lot better position. I’m not saying we’d be national champs or anything, but we could at least be well respected in CUSA and have a few bowl game wins. FAU has done far more with far less. I’d like to give USF some credit, but I hate them with such a passion it’s hard to remain unbiased in the matter. I FIRMLY agree on the need for a coaching change. 30 years ago, his brand of football would work. I faced more complex offenses when I played high school ball than what O’Leary puts together. I’ll stop before I get off on a rant. Here’s something completely unrelated. I’m a Cowboys fan, and I visit their site regularly. Today I found a video talking about Smokin Joe. He’s picked as their sleeper, and would be an EXCELLENT fit for the Cowboys in my opinion. Here’s the video: http://www.dallascowboys.com/multimedia/multimedia_center.cfm
The video is “The Blitz: CB Preview” They don’t talk about Joe until about the 6:02 mark.

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