Although we didn’t get to know Ereck very well on the football field, his accomplishments off of it in the game of life seem nothing short of amazing. It appears he’s touched so many already in his short life. From everything I’ve read he was the type of kid that any parent would dream of having, a great role model for others to look up to. It’s all such a shame.
RIP Ereck Plancher, you left us all too soon.
UCF pitched a no hitter against Wagner on St Patty’s Day using two different pitchers. Add to that Coach Jay Bergman getting his 1,200th win and you have yourself an eventful night of baseball. It’s been quite a year for UCF baseball so far as we are now ranked 16th in the nation! Be sure to head down there and check out a few games!
Here’s the blog posting on the no hitter on the Orlando Sentinel.
I guess the man above isn’t a big SEC fan…
Thanks to KnightVision and UCF for getting this video up on YouTube! Great stuff from the basketball crowds this year, especially Biggie dancing!
Sorry I’m a little late on this, I actually just flat out forgot. Here are just a couple pics I took of Senior Night / Sign Protest ‘08. Honestly I was too involved in the game and even the events in the student section to remember to take many pics. However there is a set of crowd shots (5,600+) and pics of the Helmet-Man/Rowdy Knight sign protest, as well as one of our own. Exciting game that went down to the wire with UCF beating Rice in front of an electric crowd.
First off a huge thank you to the seniors. I am REALLY REALLY going to miss watching MOD and Dave Noel play. I can’t say enough great things about what they’ve meant to UCF as we moved from the A-Sun to C-USA. No one expected much from UCF making that giant leap, but a 5th, 2nd, and now possibly 3rd/4th place finish in the past 3 seasons can be attributed heavily to their contributions. Chip, Stanley, and Mike B were also absolutely instrumental over the past twos and especially this year. Stanley has flat out exceeded expectations this year, Chip is a magician with the ball, and no one has a smoother shot that Battle. It’s too bad that Billings and Battle had some injury problems during their career here.
As for the whole sign issue. I put 100% of the blame on the UCF Administration for letting the issue get out of control on Saturday night. Anyone could have seen that coming from a mile away. They created so problems this year, that didn’t exist. They have no one to blame but themselves. I sincerely hope that the re-evaluate their policies over the off season and come back with a better game plan. There is no reason for signs to be banned, end of story. Not only that, they really need to lose the us vs them mentality if it does exists. Let’s work as a team- coaches, players, students, and administration to make UCF basketball the best experience it can be. Oh and lastly Helmet Man will go down in history for his masterful plan to sneak in 50 signs. GREAT JOB!
Back to the important business, the Knights play two final games this season and if they win out they will get 3rd place which is huge considering it means not playing Memphis until the Champ game. It all starts this Wednesday night at Houston, it doesn’t get much bigger of a game than that…
GO KNIGHTS!
Note: I’ll be skiing in Colorado for the next week so this may be my last post in awhile.
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