Former Florida QB puts UCF AD in his place after complaints of 'lack of respect'
UCF regularly makes its case to be mentioned among the elite teams of college football.
The Golden Knights last year had those arguments at full throat when they went 13-0 and beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl. This year, they have kept up, but the results aren’t as strong. Case in point: UCF narrowly escaped Memphis on Saturday.
Former Florida QB Luke Del Rio responded to UCF Athletics Director Danny White who used part of his argument to explain that UCF is the fastest-growing university and city in the country.
“You had to stage a huge comeback to beat an unranked Memphis team, and your schedule is a joke,” Del Rio tweeted. “No one cares how fast your city is growing either.”
To his point, Memphis led 20-7, and then 30-14 before the Golden Knights came back. Memphis, interestingly, has the best record of teams on UCF’s schedule.
You had to stage a huge comeback to beat an unranked Memphis team and your entire schedule is a joke.
No one cares how fast your city is growing either. #kidstable https://t.co/u2lOpqtUo5— Luke Del Rio (@Ldelrio12) October 15, 2018
UCF has beat:
1-5 UConn
1-4 South Carolina State
3-3 FAU
3-3 Pitt
2-4 SMU
4-3 MemphisCombined opponent record of 12-18 but the country is supposed to respect them?
— Hale Pheasant (@_FourVERTICALS_) October 15, 2018
You know you’re bad when Luke Del Rio calls you out.
I think it’s the “kids table” stuff that makes them so mad. Expand the playoff so that everyone gets exposed (including P5 pretenders), just like in every other sport. I’d rather we control the expansion than some anti-trust edict from on high.
So a UCF fan pretending to be a LSU fan…. Good one.
Maybe you cannot read so well BamaTime, but WinWolf clearly said UCF would get exposed and gave that as the reason to expand the playoff. I know reading hard…
The “Golden Knights” are a hockey team that plays in Vegas. I guess I’ll go back to reading sports journalists that actually do their homework rather than a tired never-was.
Good catch. I had to go back up to make sure that I read that right.
Luke who?
Get off this site loser
You have a right to be sensitive after this weekend
Georgia is a legitimate football program with real awards that people respect..UCF is a laughing stock with 8 fans that live in fantasy land..
So UF and ND have to mount comebacks against ACTUAL lousy teams, yet they are “elite” and move up in the polls? Whatever you say, Luke! UCF beat Pitt 45-14, ND only escaped 19-14 AT HOME. As far as Memphis not being good, that’s the real joke, because they are good. I’d say when you haven’t lost a home game since Nov 2016, your offense is currently 6th in scoring, and 38th overall defense, you’re pretty decent. Not to mention Memphis’ RB leads the nation in rushing yards. UCF QB McKenzie Milton is 100X the QB Luke Del Rio EVER WAS… and McKenzie would never tweet some garbage about another team because he’s got too much class for that. Like WinWolf said, let UCF in the playoff, and if they’re exposed, they’re exposed, but I think they’ve proven they can hang. It was a thorough beat down of Auburn in the Peach Bowl. Last time I checked UCF has more new years six bowls than Luke’s Gators since the playoff era began.
Look at the schedule Memphis plays.. It’s as bad as UCFs and they have 3 losses…. LMAO.
Alabama fans should not talk about strength of schedule, its a joke.
Wow…
That is one seriously sore ass ya’ got there, bud.
Please do not use stats to prove your point. The Pitt game is a great point. Milton was in the game with less than 8 minutes to go. Up by 39 and still throwing. Great, he got another TD in a game long over. Building stats against inferior teams only means that you are better than a crappy team. If they are “let” in I believe the constant story line will be how the other team got a bye week. I know they beat Auburn last year. They played better and deserved the win. In all the brew ha ha people do seem to forget that they didn’t play the best team on their schedule. Would we talking if they had played and lost to GT?
How can anyone legitimately claim that their team is elite when this is what they’ve accomplished?
1-5 UConn
1-4 South Carolina State
3-3 FAU
3-3 Pitt
2-4 SMU
4-3 Memphis
And why does that schedule justify putting that team into the CFP? It doesn’t. And so what that you went undefeated last year? You played a similar schedule. UCF would not go undefeated in any P5 conference. UCF wouldn’t go undefeated playing Norte Dame’s schedule.
And y’all got up to beat a demoralized Auburn team last year that Georgia had ripped the guts from. Congratulations, that was quite an accomplishment, just ask Tennessee.
UCF fans get mad when you bring up facts. They are like cult members who just can’t bear to be told that their guru is just some slob who is boning their wife while they meditate in front of his picture. If Danny White handed them poison, they’d drink it.
Say what you will, there is no team in the SEC that wants a match with UCF. You wonder why Alabama cant fill there stands, because they wont play anybody. So all this talk about strength of schedule goes out the window. National Champs
What? Stop being bias and actually watch the games being played. UCF would be fools to want to go against Bama, hell every team would be fools if they want to go against BAMA. BAMA is a freaking cheat code. UCF is certainly a top tier football team this year but they’re not elite. We will learn more about UCF over the next month or so. Until that time has come, relax and enjoy having a good football team.
Luke Del Rio? What the heck has that dude down to deserve any legitimacy for his comments? Everyone is getting way to caught up on the rankings. Instead of complaining about which conference/team is a joke, how about you watch the game and analyze that team.