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Article: CENTRAL FLORIDA'S PROGRESS WORRIES HOKIES TECH WARY OF UPSET VS. GOLDEN KNIGHTS.(SPORTS)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2001
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Byline: HARRY MINIUM THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
The University of Central Florida was once a prime example of how not to run a college football program.
The Orlando school began football in 1979 with a volunteer coach and no scholarships, without a bankroll or a solid plan to balance the books. Predictably, when Central Florida began having big-time dreams, it had big-time money problems.
The debts ran so deep after the school began offering scholarships that the budget for its 1985-86 basketball team was sliced in half. Heck, trainers even ran out of tape.
All this was happening while Old Dominion University was thinking of beginning a ...