Late Saturday night, FOX Sports reporter Bruce Feldman reported that sources told him that UCF head coach George O’Leary could be stepping down as coach this season as early as after the Penn State game in Ireland. Current assistant head coach Brent Key would be taking over for him.
O’Leary shot down the report.
“I don’t know anything about that stuff and where that came from,” O’Leary told the Orlando Sentinel. “I never spoke to anybody from Fox or anybody. I don’t have any idea what that’s about.”
O’Leary, who will turn 68 on Aug. 17, is entering his 11th season as the head coach of the Knights. In May, he agreed to a four-year contract extension with UCF that will keep him in place until the end of the 2017-2018 season.
Currently, the Knights are in the middle of training camp to get prepared for the opening game of the season against Penn State in Ireland on August 30.
