re: Gus left on private plane for family emergency.

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I think the game has passed him by and he won't adjust, or can't adjust. The games evolves much faster than it used to. I don't expect him to have a lot of success going forward. That would have been us if we had stuck with him.

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It has absolutely passed him by. There is absolutely nothing interesting or novel about his offense anymore. He's still trying the same flawed principles that DC's already figured out ~3+ years ago. The team he took over even played "faster" on offense under Heupel (the one gimmick that Malzahn relied upon is now done better and more effectively by about a dozen+ other offensive minds) so I'm not sure what his draw is going to be at UCF.

The results we're seeing is exactly what I expected. UCF's defense was horrible last season and the idea that Travis Williams & David Gibbs were going to fix that was a joke from the start. They are as horrible defensively as I expected. And there is no Kevin Steele or 5-star DL talent to save him now. So you're seeing a team that is really bad defensively playing behind Malzahn's flawed and outdated offense that has been broken for a while now.

The cherry on top was his actually good inherited QB going down with an injury. He had a bit of wiggle-room in terms of inheriting someone else's already developed QB as he's benefitting from so many times in the past before, but that luck turned on him.