{"id":136740,"date":"2023-08-21T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=136740"},"modified":"2024-02-12T12:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:51:57","slug":"building-ucf-athletics-brand-tweets-and-timelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/building-ucf-athletics-brand-tweets-and-timelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Building UCF Athletics&#8217; Brand: Tweets and Timelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As UCF approaches its inaugural season as the youngest member of a Power 5 conference, the athletics department is taking a look back to commemorate this special moment in history. The following feature is a part of UCF\u2019s 12 for XII series \u2014 12 stories that define UCF and the meteoric rise of the Knights in their journey to the Big 12 Conference.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>May 24, 2023. Big 12 Business Summit. Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric DeSalvo \u201909<\/strong>, UCF associate athletics director of #content, settles into his seat among the crowd of marketing and sales leadership staff from around the Big 12 Conference as the league\u2019s commissioner, Brett Yormark, takes the stand for his opening remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe starts it off and he goes, \u2018These are the four things that are my pillars: innovation, creativity, disruption and taking risks,\u2019\u201d DeSalvo recalls. \u201cAnd I immediately think, is he talking about himself or UCF?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Being \u201cbold\u201d and \u201cinnovative\u201d and \u201cdisruptive\u201d might just sound like hot buzz words for brands to adopt in 2023. But in UCF\u2019s case, it\u2019s authentic. The Knights actually <em>are<\/em> all of these adjectives because they\u2019ve had to be.<\/p>\n<p>Without the resources of longer-established universities \u2014 <em>University of Florida was founded in 1853, UCF in 1963\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Without a longstanding history of fandom and donor support \u2014 <em>University of Texas\u2019 alumni association was organized in 1885. UCF\u2019s in 1975\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Without decades of nationally televised games and promotional broadcasts \u2014 <em>Ohio State has hosted ESPN\u2019s<\/em> College GameDay<em> a record 22 times, UCF once\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UCF has had to strategically rely on its youth to find ways to break through the noise in a state that boasts three other Power 5 institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Enter: The benefit of big and the power of social media.<\/p>\n<h2>Building a Brand<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136763\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;\" class=\"figure mx-auto d-block\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid w-100 wp-image-136763 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand.jpg\" alt=\"A graphic highlighting UCF's brand pillars and including the words &quot;We are bold. We are modern. We are youthful. We are entrepreneurial. We are energetic.&quot;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid w-100 wp-image-136763 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"A graphic highlighting UCF's brand pillars and including the words &quot;We are bold. We are modern. We are youthful. We are entrepreneurial. We are energetic.&quot;\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand-360x240.jpg 360w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_UCF-Brand.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">A graphic highlighting UCF&#8217;s brand pillars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Established in 1963, UCF\u2019s meteoric rise to the Big 12 Conference makes it the youngest Power 5 institution in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a modern athletic department. I think it\u2019s the future of higher education. It\u2019s the future of college sports,\u201d says Zack Lassiter, vice president of athletics for Abilene Christian University who served as UCF\u2019s\u202fsenior associate athletic director of external operations from 2012-15.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t always necessarily this way.<\/p>\n<p>DeSalvo knows UCF\u2019s brand arguably better than anyone. The son of UCF graduate <strong>Joe DeSalvo<\/strong> <strong>\u201975<\/strong>, he grew up going to UCF games in the mid-1990s at the Citrus Bowl and went on to graduate from UCF himself. He has worked for the athletic department since 2011 \u2014 first in communications before he transitioned to what is now known as the #content department in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He says in his youth, he would have described UCF as having \u201ca lot of potential\u201d and \u201con the brink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a long time, UCF was \u201cUC-If\u201d \u2014 If we only didn\u2019t get a phantom holding call against Georgia. If we didn\u2019t miss the extra point here. And there were so many of those games across all sports that you were like, you\u2019re right there \u2014&nbsp; if only,\u201d he says. \u201cBut you saw the potential. You were definitely on the cusp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On3 National College Football host Andy Staples, who moved to Central Florida as a middle schooler and graduated from Lake Mary High School, echoes the same sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t think of UCF in the same way you would have thought of Miami or Florida State or Florida,\u201d Staples says. \u201cYou\u2019d go to the campus and you didn\u2019t see a lot of UCF gear. It didn\u2019t feel like a destination-type campus. We went there a lot for science fairs or somebody would be having their graduation at the arena \u2014 it didn\u2019t feel as much like a place that people say, \u2018I grow up wanting to go to UCF,\u2019 or \u2018I\u2019ve been a UCF fan my whole life.\u2019 You just never would expect anybody to say that back in the \u201990s. Watching it change over the decades has been pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c \u2018I\u2019ve been a UCF fan my whole life.\u2019 You just never would expect anybody to say that back in the \u201990s. Watching it change over the decades has been pretty amazing.\u201d \u2014 Andy Staples, On3 National College Football host<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When former Athletic Director Todd Stansbury recruited Lassiter to join UCF\u2019s athletic department in 2012, the west coast native didn\u2019t have much familiarity with UCF.<\/p>\n<p>Lassiter made it a point to ask a lot of questions and listen to campus counterparts, young alumni and students to gain a better understanding of how the university had gotten to where it was so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were young, but we were big, and so in that sense you could tell that, that was something that we could probably do better than anyone else,\u201d Lassiter says.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, UCF\u2019s enrollment in 2012 just tipped 60,000. Today it\u2019s more than 68,000. The university confers more than 18,000 degrees annually, and its alumni base clocks in at more than 368,000 \u2014 nearly half of which still live in Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most important stat is that the average alumni age is 42 years old. So, by the time that Lassiter joined the fold, social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter, founded in 2006) and Instagram (founded in 2010) were starting to really take off in the sports world and UCF\u2019s biggest fan base was <em>very<\/em> active on social media.<\/p>\n<p>It was the perfect combination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerception is reality. And if you feel like you\u2019re getting hit up by a bunch of UCF fans on Twitter, their reality is you are because the numbers are there between our enrollment and alumni,\u201d DeSalvo says. \u201cOur fanbase can celebrate the big moments with big numbers. They can pile on to somebody who shows some disrespect. They can win a Twitter poll like no other. By always showing up, they\u2019ve backed up what is on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, the department decided to lean into social to stand out. UCF Athletics hired a full-time social media manager, <strong>Keal Blache \u201911<\/strong>, who served a short stint. When he vacated the position in 2013, Lassiter approached DeSalvo about the opening because of DeSalvo\u2019s penchant for being creative with the social accounts in his role at the time as the communications contact for the volleyball and baseball teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll never forget \u2014 I think I\u2019m at (former UCF basketball player and athletics staff member) Mike O\u2019Donnell\u2019s wedding. And Todd Stansbury\u2019s there and he goes, \u2018Hey you\u2019re moving over to the social role, right?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 He goes, \u2018Alright. Push the envelope.\u2019 OK. Todd is telling me to push the envelope. I\u2019ll do my best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can thank Blake Bortles and Storm Johnson and <strong>J.J. Worton&nbsp;\u201914<\/strong> &nbsp;and <strong>Terrance Plummer \u201921<\/strong> and that crew for helping me push the envelope because there\u2019s no greater year one than going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ucfknights.exposure.co\/cardiac-knights\">Fiesta Bowl<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the last decade, UCF has had three athletic directors \u2014 all of whom DeSalvo says have continued to buy-into the \u201cpush the envelope\u201d mentality \u2014 four football head coaches and four university presidential leadership transitions. But the same voice on social media, which has benefitted UCF immensely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is somebody better at what Eric has done and what he has built, I haven\u2019t met him. And there were a lot of other talented people that were a part of that. But I think what made him so great is he believed it,\u201d Lassiter says. \u201cHe could do it in a way that could connect, and a lot of our folks loved that it was a UCF person doing this. That\u2019s the authenticity of what social can be at its best \u2014 how do you become yourself in a way that galvanizes and gets people excited? He ran with it in ways that I hope 50 years from now if there\u2019s a story about who were those individuals that played a part of that, I think Eric deserves a ton of credit for what he did. I think he had a lot of really talented people around him, and he was given kind of the keys to the kingdom so to speak, and we took off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those talented people are who DeSalvo credits for the team&#8217;s ability to not only stay relevant but maintain UCF\u2019s status as one of the best brands to follow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe staff is key. I can&#8217;t have all the ideas. The ideas can come from anyone \u2014 from the AD (athletics director) to the interns, and many have over the years,\u201d DeSalvo says. \u201cWe also have a work environment to where it\u2019s loose, but they are well aware of who our brand is. I always say, &#8216;There\u2019s no bad ideas.&#8217; I also get to say, &#8216;We don\u2019t say no around here a whole bunch.&#8217; If it\u2019s trending and there\u2019s a way we can insert UCF\u2019s brand into this conversation and it makes sense, let\u2019s do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>The Tweets That Made Us<\/h2>\n<div class=\"embed oembed oembed-rich d-flex flex-column align-items-center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dang&#8230;Bama got in over us.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UCF Football (@UCF_Football) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCF_Football\/status\/937374795494289408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Nicole Auerbach, The Athletic Senior Writer:<\/strong> Not everyone realized this as early as UCF, where social media is about fun. It\u2019s about engaging and having fun, maybe going viral. But it\u2019s about doing things that are different and not just having no personality. They always had personality, and I think that was immediately embraced by the fan base that was very online and very ready to engage on any topic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric DeSalvo: <\/strong>The tweet was on a whim. I\u2019m with (former Associate Athletics Director for Strategic Communications) Dan Forcella and I drafted it before the playoff selection show had gotten to it. We were wanting it to be Bama. And it happens, and I hit send. It really put us out there. It\u2019s my favorite tweet I\u2019ve gotten to send.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed oembed oembed-rich d-flex flex-column align-items-center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have cracked the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFBPlayoff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CFBPlayoff<\/a> Top-10 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JiKRMa5YTN\">pic.twitter.com\/JiKRMa5YTN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UCF Football (@UCF_Football) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCF_Football\/status\/1065034672780898305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Eric DeSalvo: <\/strong>That was designed by (former graphic designer) Channing Curtis. We kept seeing the Elmo version, and I asked him, \u201cHey can you just put Knightro in his place?\u201d The first time we ever got to use it \u2014 he made it that day \u2014 we cracked the top 10 in the College Football Playoff rankings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andy Staples:<\/strong> I use Knightro gifs pretty frequently. I think Knightro with flames behind him is a very effective way of getting your point across. Those folks are very online. They\u2019re very savvy. They know how to get our attention in the media, and they know how to keep the discussion going. They will defend UCF tooth and nail. They will not let you get away with slandering UCF in any way, shape or form. Which I appreciate. And there are other fan bases that are like that. But [UCF] seems to be a little more in on the joke than some of the others. The more established fanbases, you get people who are just mad at you. UCF Twitter, they know what they\u2019re doing. And they know they know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-136766 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-136766 img-fluid lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch-360x240.jpg 360w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_JJ-Catch.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric DeSalvo<\/strong>: I wasn\u2019t at that game \u2014 I was at my mother-in-law\u2019s. But the game was on ESPN3. You could actually rewind, thankfully. He catches that ball. I\u2019m losing my mind.<\/p>\n<p>That was the No. 1 Vine for us for a long time. That one was getting so much national play.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s up there because it was so iconic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed oembed oembed-rich d-flex flex-column align-items-center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.@UCFDannyWhite didn\u2019t stutter&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChargeOn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChargeOn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ozdNaz4MCW\">pic.twitter.com\/ozdNaz4MCW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UCF Knights (@UCFKnights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCFKnights\/status\/947950301432119296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<p>DeSalvo: I joke that my iPhone that shot Danny White saying \u201cnational champs, undefeated\u201d should go to the (UCF Athletics) Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody knew Danny was going to say that. We had a plan in place where we would continue to challenge the CFP. That\u2019s what we were doing and needed to do for our team. (Senior Executive Associate Athletics Director of Brand Advancement and Chief Branding Officer) Jimmy Skiles took precedent from when he saw the year&nbsp;Auburn wasn\u2019t&nbsp;in the national championship game and were undefeated \u2014 they had national championship rings made for their team. It was on the front cover of <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>. And he remembered it. If they could do that back then, why can\u2019t we?<\/p>\n<p>So, we crafted messaging for like &#8220;undefeated champions.&#8221; We didn\u2019t straight up say national champions. (Former graphic designer) Chris Stoney made some motion graphics, &#8220;13-0. Only undefeated team, who\u2019s next?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We knew if we didn\u2019t do anything by the time our game ended and the playoff game started that day, we would be kind of irrelevant in the grand scheme of games. It would be a nice win and move on.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136768\" style=\"max-width: 2560px;\" class=\"figure mx-auto d-block\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1600\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid w-100 wp-image-136768 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-scaled.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-1200x750.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-640x400.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-360x225.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1600\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid w-100 wp-image-136768 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%202560%201600%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%202560%201600%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 2560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-1200x750.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-640x400.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-360x225.jpg 360w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2023\/08\/UCF_Big-12-Series_Brand-Email-scaled.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Senior Executive Associate Athletics Director of Brand Advancement and Chief Branding Officer Jimmy Skiles&#8217; archived email outlining a strategy to promote &#8220;Undefeated Champions of College Football&#8221; \u2014 which quickly pivoted to National Champions former Director of Athletics Danny White emphatically stated the phrase following UCF&#8217;s Peach Bowl win over Auburn on Jan. 1, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People should know Danny looking into my phone wasn\u2019t anything new. I kind of conditioned him to do that, especially at road wins. I would go live at Facebook right as the clock would hit zero to take fans behind the scenes. A lot of the time we\u2019d be walking by Danny as we went to the locker room. So, it wasn\u2019t anything new for him to see my phone get shoved in his face.<\/p>\n<p>He just quickly says those magic words. Oh boy. Here we go.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed oembed oembed-rich d-flex flex-column align-items-center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">tHeRe Is A pAtH fOr UcF <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ijSWxvHm3N\">pic.twitter.com\/ijSWxvHm3N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UCF Football (@UCF_Football) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCF_Football\/status\/1069284021719445504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Andy Staples: <\/strong>Don\u2019t run afoul of UCF Twitter. That\u2019s all I got to say. This is a very passionate, very aggressive online fan base. Which listen that will fit right in (the Big 12). The good thing about UCF is that passion will match with Kansas State and Oklahoma State and Iowa State \u2014 they are extraordinarily passionate people. They really love their teams. These are groups that will really appreciate one another.<\/p>\n<h2>Charging On<\/h2>\n<p>As social media has served as one of the tools to help define UCF\u2019s brand over the years, one constant has been the Knights\u2019 ability to rise up, to band together, to believe in its potential \u2014 to Charge On.<\/p>\n<p>As a rallying cry, Charge On was introduced during the Stansbury and Lassiter era.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn\u2019t as though there was one calling card that really captured the energy or the belief of a UCF fan \u2014 like \u2018Go Knights!\u2019 was something to where, well how many other Knights are there in college athletics?&#8221; Lassiter says. &#8220;And I remember thinking that in social media hashtags were really important. What is that we can do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cObviously a decade later it\u2019s become something that I feel is the perfect, simple way to describe who UCF is.\u201d \u2014 Zack Lassiter, UCF\u2019s\u202fsenior associate athletic director of external operations from 2012-15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then Charge On surfaced. Lassiter recalls the idea came from an alum, who suggested it because the phrase is part of the lyrics in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/the-origin-story-of-ucfs-fight-song-charge-on\/\">UCF\u2019s fight song<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the idea was proposed, it seemed to make too much sense,\u201d Lassiter says. \u201cThis describes who we are. There\u2019s a great history behind it. It\u2019s incredibly nimble and flexible in how you can apply it certain ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, Lassiter conducted an experiment. He walked around UCF Athletics\u2019 main administration buildings and starting using the term without explanation to elicit genuine reactions from the staffers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody could figure out a way to say why that wouldn\u2019t work,\u201d he says. \u201cObviously a decade later it\u2019s become something that I feel is the perfect, simple way to describe who UCF is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is still so much of UCF\u2019s story to be written. More traditions to carve out. 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