Thompson hasn’t been officially named a starter yet, but it’s hard to imagine anyone beating him out for the job, especially after an impressive spring game.
Dion Waiters and Michael Carter-Williams leapt from small roles as freshmen to lottery picks after impressive sophomore campaigns. Tyler Ennis made the jump before he even arrived on campus.
A huge senior class, including Rice, Staats and Galasso, has departed. Two starting attackmen and the entire first-line midfield are gone; that’s roughly 60 percent of the team’s scoring in 2015.
UCF received its third commitment to the 2016 recruiting class when quarterback Sawyer Smith of Cantonment Tate High, which is on the Alabama-Florida border in the Panhandle, pledged to the Knights on Tuesday night.
One of the most highly anticipated non-conference games of the upcoming football season’s home schedule is the September 26 visit of Louisiana State to the Dome.