Scott Frost's three-month tenure as UCF's new football coach has already renewed players' hope and belief in what they can accomplish in 2016.
But for Pete DiNovo, he'd already started the difficult job of rekindling his confidence long before Frost arrived.
Two weeks before the Knights' 2014 "home" season opener against Penn State in Ireland, DiNovo was named Blake Bortles' successor after a lengthy quarterback competition with Justin Holman.
It was his first and last time competing in a college football game. Then head coach George O'Leary pulled DiNovo after a poor first-half performance.