CHARLIE KAIJO | Times
Eleven of the American Athletic Conference's 12 football coaches participated in Wednesday's annual spring teleconference (Charlie Strong had a previously planned meeting he couldn't miss). Here are some of the more significant items to emerge:
* UCF second-year coach Scott Frost took a not-so-subtle jab at those who might have underestimated his staff's recruiting chops. Only 16 months after the Knights' 0-12 debacle came to a merciful end, Frost's staff hauled in a 2017 signing class deemed the Group of Five's best by Rivals and 247Sports.
"We don't put much stock in ranking, but I think as a coaching staff, we spent a lot of time listening to people talk about how recruiting in Florida was gonna be tough with (coaching) changes at USF and FAU and FIU, and they never mentioned us," Frost said.