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It’s going to start getting ugly for UCF coach Gus Malzahn.
Actually, it was already starting to get ugly.
Really ugly.
Painfully ugly.
Embarrassingly ugly.
Noxiously ugly.
The kind of ugly that turns murmurs into calls for change as fans and alumni wonder if Malzahn can get the Knights back on track — or if he even deserves the chance.
In the aftermath of Saturday’s not-as-close-as-it-sounds 37-24 homecoming loss to 11th-ranked BYU, Malzahn and UCF athletic director Terry Mohajir will now hear the noise in the system that will be louder than standing right next to the amp at a Mastodon concert. When you’ve lost five straight games and have a 1-4 conference record, there will be more empty seats just as there were Saturday. More calls for Malzahn to be fired. More speculation on whether UCF’s administration will try to buy out the $13 million remaining on his contract.
Personally, I think such talk is way too premature, but there’s no way to make it stop other than winning games. When Malzahn was asked before Saturday’s game how he and his players are dealing with the negative noise, he replied: “It’s real life. It’s the Twitter world. People are going to be on social media with their opinions. You have to learn to deal with it.”
Even before the loss on Saturday, Malzahn was getting savaged by the growing number of critics on social media. And then, to make matters even worse, the head coach was lustily booed by some UCF students at the school’s annual “Spirit Splash” homecoming celebration on campus Friday afternoon.
Another controversy developed during the week when a former UCF defensive end Kaven Call posted a letter to Malzahn on Twitter in which he accused the UCF coaching staff of recently kicking him off the team when he requested to be redshirted. Call’s letter evoked sympathetic…
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Author : Orlando Sentinel
Publish date : 2024-10-28 09:30:00
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