UCF Scandal

UCF’s Brandon Marshall Arrested and in Jail After Fight

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:18:47 +0000

By PAT GRAHAM and ARNIE STAPLETON, AP Sports Writers Pat Graham And Arnie Stapleton, Ap Sports Writers – 3

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Marshal was suspended for a game last year for repeated run-ins with the law. He was looking at perhaps a suspension of eight games or more.

Marshall was arrested in Atlanta on Sunday morning following a fight and spent five hours in Atlanta City Jail before posting $300 bond.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told The Associated Press on Monday the league was investigating the latest incident.

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O’Leary mum - barred players from speaking with Sentinel

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:14:32 +0000

Iliana Limon |Sentinel Staff Writer
July 21, 2008

UCF Coach George O’Leary declined to answer questions from the Orlando Sentinel and barred his players from granting interviews with the newspaper during Conference USA media day on Sunday.

He also refused to speak with other reporters if a representative from the Sentinel was present at the UCF table during the only session for print reporters at media day.

O’Leary said last week he would not speak with the Sentinel until the newspaper corrected errors in its coverage of Ereck Plancher’s death.

The newspaper has asked UCF officials to outline the mistakes, but the school has declined to discuss the errors in detail.

Conference USA officials and Ryan Powell, the media relations representative for the UCF football team, attempted to mediate the situation and allow a reporter to sit at the UCF table without asking questions, but O’Leary would not change his stance.

“We are sensitive to the needs of the Orlando Sentinel to cover the University of Central Florida, and we’re also sensitive to the passion Coach O’Leary brings to his job,” Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky said. “It’s our hope that this issue can be resolved so that Central Florida fans can enjoy coverage of their team throughout the football season.”

Orlando Sentinel

What gives with this guy and this school? A player dies and the head coach pouts about errors in the reporting but refuses to identify the errors? Sounds like a smokescreen to me. There is too much that does not add up.

Vacation over for blog - new felony arrest at UCF

admin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:37:54 +0000

Kyle Hightower, the esteemed reporter at the Orlando Sentinel features a story on his blog on the most recent felony acts available.

Hightower reports that sophomore UCF football player Ricky Kay was suspended from the team after he was charged with a felony and a misdemeanor for an incident that occurred on campus and caused over $5,000 in damage.

Kay, 19, was charged with preventing or hindering firefighter equipment (a third degree felony) and misdemeanor damage of property. He was arrested Saturday night. He posted $1,100 bond and was released from the Orange County jail.

Read all the sordid details at OrlandoSentinel.com.

It just doesn’t seem to end over there at Mickey Mouse U.

Is it just me, or is anyone else wondering

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:21:29 +0000

which end of the bat Jay Berman was allegedly attempting to cram up the chute of the equipment manager. Yes, call me demented. Call me sordid. Call me anything. My mission is to report on the yahoos to the east at UCF.

What would possess a guy his age to allegedly engage in bat rape? That’s just queer.

A couple years ago he allegedly tried to choke a kid in the dugout, now he allegedly wants bat-sex? Damn right. I’d fire him too.

So what’s next? O’Leary allegedly shoving a football somewhere inappropriate?

Too much.

Now that was too easy…get home after a full tilt at Friday’s

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:15:15 +0000

and do just one search to find

Former UCF Football Star Sentenced To 5 Years For Armed Robbery

Charles Lee was stone-faced Thursday as he pled no contest to the robbery charge as part of a negotiated settlement with the state.

Lee was arrested December 5, 2007, a week after he held up two students at Pegasus Landing, an off-campus student housing complex near UCF. Lee stole more than $11,000 in cash from his victims at gunpoint.

Blah, blah, blah…read more on the UCF football player by visiting WFTV.com

Okay, so I have been on a break lately

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:03:01 +0000

Yes indeed, sailing my little yacht in the Atlantic. But who really cares? I do have a volunteer staff here that doesn’t do much. That’ll teach me to consider the lower waged UCF applicants. They’ll write anything, if there is a lunch involved. But UCF ain’t buying lunches these days. Anyway, I have had some email lately. And I know you guys are just teasing, asking me who’s the latest UCF joker to get busted. Well, I don’t know. I guess I need to wade through the obvious candidates and look past the Jay Bergman rape allegations and the George O’Leary/Keith Tribble blatherings to answer these queries. Give me a day or two. The UCF universe is full of fun stuff. It’s hard to keep up and live a life normal for folks that don’t kneel for the UCF bat. Ha. Be back shortly.

Programs in reverse: UCF (Surprise?)

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:54:11 +0000

According to published reports, UCF continues its backwards slide:

Five teams moving ahead and five in reverse

Five in reverse:

four on the list omitted in the interest of brevity

UCF. A season of hope has been crushed by the death of wide receiver Ereck Plancher during conditioning drills — and players anonymously speaking out against coach George O’Leary’s practice/conditioning tactics. All of that talent — and there’s enough for another C-USA title — means nothing now. The team is fractured, and it will take more than just one season to heal.

Link to SI story

There. If anyone needed an established mag like SI to confirm the fact UCF is going backwards, now you have it. Happy Muthas Day.

Okay, so according to media reports, Bergman attempted to rape an equipment manager with a bat?

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:34:00 +0000

This is too sick EVEN for our staff.

I hope you UCF people find the right vehicle for repentance.

Disgusting.

13 News: UCF Fires Head Baseball Coach

admin — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:12:43 +0000

Friday, May 02, 2008 12:21:45 AM

ORLANDO — News 13 has learned the University of Central Florida fired baseball coach Jay Bergman because of allegegations of harassment.

Bergman has been coaching the Knights for more than 25 years.

The school said he’s being fired because of a personnel issue. But sources close to the school told News 13 it was due to allegations of harassment from a fellow worker in the athletic department.

Bergman did not accompany the team to New Orleans for its most recent round of games.

The school only released a short statement saying a national search will begin for his replacement.

The Knights have 10 games left during this year’s regular season.

Link to story at 13 News

Man, it just keep getting funnier over there at UCF. Scandal karma killin’ you guys.

The Irony of all ironies

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:27:41 +0000

From Mike Bianchi’s Orlando Sentinel column:

Short stuff: UCF Coach George O’Leary continues to take shots at the Sentinel for our reporting on the Ereck Plancher story. O’Leary spoke to a booster club in Brevard County Thursday night and questioned the motives and even the authenticity of the four football players who spoke anonymously to the Sentinel in the aftermath of Plancher’s death.

“I don’t want to dignify any comments by responding to unnamed sources,” O’Leary told Florida Today columnist Peter Kerasotis. “Who knows who they were, or if they were even players?”

We have now reached the irony of all ironies: George O’Leary accusing somebody else of making stuff up. . . .

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