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ORLANDO, Fla. — UCF coach Gus Malzahn is resigning after four seasons with the school. ESPN’s Pete Thamel was the first to report the move, which will see Malzahn to leave to take the offensive coordinator job at Florida State. Malzahn previously worked with FSU coach Mike Norvell during their time at Tulsa under then-coach Todd Graham from 2007-08. The Knights ended a disappointing 4-8 season in which they lost eight of their last nine games, the longest losing streak since 2015. Malzahn, 59, was in the fourth year of a contract through 2028. His buyout, it is reported, would have been $13.75 million. He finished 27-25 at UCF but lost 16 of his last 22 games and was a dismal 4-14 in two seasons in the Big 12. After back-to-back nine-win seasons in 2021-22, the Knights went 6-7 in 2023 and 4-8 in 2024. This season started with high expectations as Malzahn made sweeping changes to the program. He retooled the strength and conditioning department and hired Ted Roof and Tim Harris Jr. as defensive and offensive coordinators, respectively. He also added nearly 50 new players to the roster, leaning heavily on the transfer market. UCF started by winning its first three games against New Hampshire, Sam Houston and a thrilling comeback at TCU, but offensive struggles saw the Knights tumble through a TBD-game losing streak to finish the season. Terry Mohajir hired Malzahn on Feb. 15, 2021, six days after he was hired to replace Danny White. The move came eight weeks after Malzahn had been fired at Auburn after eight seasons of coaching the Tigers. The two briefly worked together at Arkansas State in 2012 before Malzahn left for the Auburn job. “When he [Mohajir] offered the job, I was like, ‘I’m in.’ There wasn’t thinking about or talking about ...,” Malzahn said during his introductory press conference. “This will be one of the best programs in college football in a short time. This is a job that I plan on being here and building it.” UCF opened the 2021 season with non-conference wins over Boise State and Bethune-Cookman before traveling to Louisville on Sept. 17, where quarterback Dillon Gabriel suffered a fractured collarbone in the final minute of a 42-35 loss. Backup Mikey Keene would finish out the season as Gabriel announced his intention to transfer. The Knights would finish the season on the plus side by accepting a bid to join the Big 12 Conference in September and then by defeating Florida 29-17 in the Gasparilla Bowl. Malzahn struck transfer portal gold in the offseason when he signed former Ole Miss quarterback John Rhys Plumlee. Plumlee, a two-sport star with the Rebels, helped guide UCF to the American Athletic Conference Championship in its final season. However, Plumlee’s injury forced the Knights to go with Keene and freshman Thomas Castellanos. The team finished with losses to Tulane in the conference championship and Duke in the Military Bowl. Plumlee would return in 2023 as UCF transitioned to the Big 12 but would go down with a knee injury in the final minute of the Knights’ 18-16 win at Boise State on Sept. 9. He would miss the next four games as backup Timmy McClain took over the team. Even on his return, Plumlee couldn’t help UCF, on a five-game losing streak to open conference play. The Knights got their first Big 12 win at Cincinnati on Nov. 4 and upset No. 15 Oklahoma State the following week, but the team still needed a win over Houston in the regular-season finale to secure a bowl bid for the eighth straight season. From the moment Malzahn stepped on campus, he prioritized recruiting, particularly in Central Florida. “We’re going to recruit like our hair’s on fire,” Malzahn said at the time. “We’re going to go after the best players in America and we’re not backing down to anybody.” From 2007 to 2020, UCF signed 10 four-star high school and junior college prospects. Eight four-star prospects were in the three recruiting classes signed under Malzahn. The 2024 recruiting class earned a composite ranking of 39 from 247Sports, the highest-ranked class in school history. The 2025 recruiting class is ranked No. 41 and has commitments from three four-star prospects. Malzahn has always leaned on the transfer market, signing 60 players over the past three seasons. Some have paid huge dividends, such as Javon Baker, Lee Hunter, Kobe Hudson, Tylan Grable, Bula Schmidt, Amari Kight, Marcellus Marshall, Trent Whittemore, Gage King, Ethan Barr, Deshawn Pace and Plumlee. Others haven’t been as successful, such as quarterback KJ Jefferson, who started the first five games of this season before being benched for poor performance. Jefferson’s struggles forced the Knights to play musical chairs at quarterback, with true freshman EJ Colson, redshirt sophomore Jacurri Brown and redshirt freshman Dylan Rizk all seeing action at one point or another this season. This season’s struggles led to several players utilizing the NCAA’s redshirt rule after four games, including starting slot receiver Xavier Townsend and kicker Colton Boomer, who have also entered the transfer portal. 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. Get local news delivered to your inbox!
The superstar himself is acutely aware of the pressure and expectations resting on his shoulders. Determined to make a strong comeback and help his team achieve success, he has been pushing himself to the limit in training and preparations. His focus and dedication are unwavering, as he sets his sights on leading Real Madrid to victory in the crucial Champions League encounter.
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Gone, and now forgotten, is the Miami Dolphins’ three-game winning streak against losing teams. Throw it and the accompanying swagger away with the Thanksgiving cranberries. Here’s the way it still works against good teams for the Dolphins: It doesn’t. A muffed punt. An offense that can’t close. A defense that forgets how to tackle. A full team that played down to its emotional concerns. “We played soft,’’ linebacker Jordyn Brooks said, citing the elements and the moment after the Dolphins’ 30-17 loss at Green Bay on Thursday night. Competitiveness? They fell behind 27-3 before showing a pulse when the train was five miles down the track. Fundamentals? They were back to the team that couldn’t get out of its own way, even getting two delay-of-game penalties. Toughness? The Dolphins couldn’t score on three plays from the 1-yard line, trying to pass twice, with a chance to pull themselves back into the game in the fourth quarter. “The operation wasn’t our style of football,’’ quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said. So, the odometer rolls over again on these nattering nabobs of narratives: 3-16 against playoff teams in the Mike McDaniel era; 0-12 on the road against playoff teams the past three years; and 0-12 against teams since 2017 in weather below 39 degrees. “That’s the thing with narratives,’’ McDaniel said. “There’s one way to change them and so my expectation would be those who, the naysayers, you prove them right, they’ll be louder. That’s part of the territory. You carry that until you do something about it, and unfortunately, we didn’t tonight.” They are who we feared they are. That’s the epitaph being chiseled about these Dolphins. A good team against bad teams. A good offense against bad defenses. A bully that can run up a winning streak against losing teams in the Rams, Raiders and Patriots, but then can’t find its way against a good team like the Packers. This was the second time the Dolphins defense played a top-10 scoring offense. Buffalo, the first, came away with 30 and 24 points. It wasn’t the Packers points this night as much as the tone-setting efficiency of 102 rushing yards in the first half and the poor tackling by the Dolphins. This was the second time the Dolphins offense played a top-10 scoring defense after Buffalo, too. The Packers are tied for 10th. You can look at Tagovailoa completing 37 of 46 passes for 365 yards and two touchdowns and say he did his job. But no one did their job right. This offense put up three points in the first half. It couldn’t answer the Packers’ strong start. It can dink-and-dunk down the field all day against bad defenses, especially before friendly crowds at home. But try to do that every drive on the road against a good defense in unpleasant weather and breakdowns are likely to happen. Five sacks. Thirty-nine yards rushing. Two pre-snap penalties on their opening, seven-play drive. Those kinds of breakdowns. “Bad offensive lines don’t travel,’’ is a line inside the NFL. The Dolphins don’t have a bad line. But its value has been overstated on its best days this season. Thursday was perhaps its worst day. The Packers, like even the bad defenses, have figured how to shut down one of the league’s best home-run threats in Tyreek Hill. He had three catches for 16 yards in the first three quarters when the night was decided. He finished with six catches for 83 yards after some borderline garbage time at the end. Bottom-line: The Dolphins met a good opponent in the cold of Green Bay and it sent a shiver of reality up the spine of a Dolphins fans base starved for good news. It wasn’t just the fans who put a lot of stock into this game, either. The Dolphins players and coaches saw this as a measuring-stick game and statement-to-be of who they really were. “I’m excited to kill some narratives,’’ Tagovailoa said leading into the game. No narratives were killed. The Dolphins season wasn’t, either. It’s on oxygen and mathematical formulas. Some feelgood of another bad team at home is coming next week in the New York Jets. But until further notice, it’s less narrative than fact about these Dolphins: They’re good against bad teams. They’re bad against good teams. They’re still the team everyone feared they are. ©2024 South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Visit sun-sentinel.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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