PHILADELPHIA – After reaching the top 25 in the 2010-11 season, UCF has found the road tougher since joining The American. However, as they look forward to 2017-18, the Knights are reestablishing themselves on the national scene.
The sun is finally starting to come out again at this huge school with an enrollment of 66,000 and beautiful campus, located in the shadow of Disney World.
Danny White, one of the best young athletic directors in the country, has made two inspired hires, luring football coach Scott Frost from Oregon, where he had been the Ducks’ prolific offensive coordinator, two years ago; and then locking up Johnny Dawkins, the national player of the year when he played for Duke and then became a fixture on Mike Krzyzewski's staff before taking the head coaching job at Stanford.