UCF Scandal Defined
Thursday, February 21st, 2008The fan mail is streaming in from fans across the state of Florida. At this time FAU (UCF’s newest rival) is leading in total quantity of feedback. UCF fans are in second (some examples provided yesterday) and USF fans third. The FAU fans are the best, as they seem to understand the intent of the site (and they seem to possess a sense of humor). For the UCF fans that don’t quite get it, allow me to copy and paste from Dictionary.com (with easy to understand UCF examples in italics - those are the curvy looking letters):
scan·dal (skān’dl)
n.
- A publicized incident that brings about disgrace or offends the moral sensibilities of society: George O’Leary’s lying on his resume and the ultimate dismissal and public humiliation that followed.
- A person, thing, or circumstance that causes or ought to cause disgrace or outrage: Former coach Gene McDowell’s cover-up, obstruction and lying to the Feds during their investigation into wrongdoing at UCF.
- Damage to reputation or character caused by public disclosure of immoral or grossly improper behavior; disgrace. Brandon Marshall, the poster boy for UCF scandal and his assaults on fellow students and females. Add trespassing and DUI, and you have enough to strip him from the UCF record books.
- Talk that is damaging to one’s character; malicious gossip. UCF fan generated lies across the internet. Coach George O’Leary manipulating the media in his reasoning as to why USF has no interest in playing UCF. Simple failures to be honest and truthful when disseminating information such as the alleged USF-UCF “rivalry.”
It seems UCF fans don’t really know what a scandal is. They think a guy divorcing is wife is a scandal. We hope to help them in this shortcoming by continuing to dig through UCF’s past and present for examples even they can understand.
Coming up soon, full details on the UCF cell phone cover-up - a look back at the scandal that defined Central Florida.