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ORLANDO, Fla. -- As much as this offseason has been about a fresh start for UCF, it also has been about Scott Frost.New coach. New offense. New look. New energy.But with the Frost regimes official kickoff just days away, the 41-year-old coach wants the focus off him and on his team. UCF, which plays South Carolina State on Saturday night, is coming off a 0-12 season that saw the program part ways with coach George OLeary.This is not about me, this is about this university and this football team, said Frost, who comes to Central Florida after serving as Oregons offensive coordinator. I see myself as a servant of the players that they hired me to coach. Its my job to do whatever I can to help them be successful.While Frost doesnt want the attention, there is also no escaping itHis pedigree -- having been coached by Bill Walsh (Stanford) and Tom Osborne (Nebraska), winning a national title as the Cornhuskers quarterback, spending six seasons in the NFL as a safety and having held both the offensive and defensive coordinator titles in college football -- along with the fast-paced offense he has brought with him has created a palpable buzz around the UCF program.This spring the Knights drew 23,147 fans, a spring record for UCF, as everyone got a peek at the new offense that has been dubbed UCFast. There is likely to be even more buzz Saturday as the Knights unveil their new futuristic Nike uniforms. The uniforms will be black and white and different shades of grey jerseys, will feature custom number fonts, players names on the back of the jersey and a space-age look to the helmets that give a nod to Orlandos connection with NASA.Still, the real gains are within the team, which has bought into Frosts philosophy and players coach approach.It starts with Scott and his leadership and the staff he hired, said UCF athletic director Danny White, whose first job was to find the Knights a football coach as soon as he was hired last November. The way the team is responding to that. I know there is a tremendous amount of excitement among our student body, our fans because they can see how energized our football program is with the new uniforms, the new style of play, just kind of a new mojo a little bit among our football team.While much attention is being given to the new energy and excitement around the program, Frost has also been about the business of rebuilding the program and restoring the confidence in the players he inherited from last years disastrous campaign. He has done that by making them all compete for their jobs and holding them accountable on and off the field.Its definitely fun but most people think its just a lot of energy and not focused, but he is very intense guy, senior quarterback Justin Holman said about Frost. He focuses on the details and thats what I respect about him.Frost has been able to win over his team by being able to talk with them and connect with them in ways the 69-year-old OLeary probably couldnt.It feels amazing, the energy that these coaches brought in for us, said senior linebacker Mark Rucker. Coach Frost brought in a new system and we just bought in quickly.I feel like the players who were a part of that season last year that we are going to give so much effort toward coach Frost and those coaches because they gave us a system as do not be afraid to mess up. Last year we were afraid to mess up. Playing this game you cant be afraid to mess up and he teaches us that every day.Now the real test comes on the football field.This season is all about establishing a foundation for future success, not that we dont think we can have success this year but there is just so much unknown, said White, whose program has aspirations of joining the Big 12. 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And there is no jeopardy of being injured by someone wearing a hat depicting the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.Saturdays program also will feature the first noticeable tweak to the stakes schedule under the leadership of racing secretary David Jerkens, who came to the job in 2014. That summer, Jerkens was faced with a brand-new turf course not quite ready for prime time. Last year, he was similarly presented with the maiden voyage of a new dirt main track replacing the degraded Polytrack. When asked what major renovation he dealt with this time around, Jerkens paused to think.They painted the racing office, he replied.Yes, they did, going from some dull industrial shade to a calm, creamy white that certainly will guarantee full fields and happy horsemen all summer long.Del Mar long ago dropped any pretense of working with or around Arlington Parks Beverly D. Stakes for the female grass bunch. This year, to give the division a sensible, two-step series, the schedule shifted the 1-1/16-mile Yellow Ribbon Handicap from the rump of the meet to the first Saturday and pushed the 1-1/8-mile John C. Mabee Stakes to the final Sunday of the season, Sept. 4.Both are worth $200,000, which is about all you get for a Grade 2 race in California these days, and pretty much guarantees Jerkens and his crew will need to hustle if they are to avoid demotion to Grade 3.Still, no matter how hard they try, the trend does not seem to favor Del Mar. During the 39-day meet, there will be 21 graded races, six of which are Grade 1, led by the Del Mar Futurity, which has produced the last three winners of the Kentucky Derby.In contrast, during the 40-day Saratoga meet that begins next week, there will be 35 graded races, 16 of them rated Grade 1 by the American Graded Stakes Committee, a wholly owned function of the Kentucky-based Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. Conclusions may now be drawn.The Mabee sailed along as a Grade 1 racce for 26 years from 1984 to 2009.dddddddddddd As for the Yellow Ribbon, it was the premier distance grass race in California for fillies and mares for 33 seasons while run at Santa Anita during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet.When the group was booted from Santa Anita, the race name was retained by Oak Tree, along with some office furniture and stationery, and was offered to Del Mar in place of the Palomar Handicap. Since no one could recall why it was named the Palomar Handicap in the first place, the change was a no-brainer. It helped that Oak Tree funded most of the purse.Oak Tree does business in Northern California now and left the Yellow Ribbon behind for Del Mar to enjoy, and fund, as its own. On Saturday, the race will feature the graded stakes winners Queen of The Sand, Finest City, Her Emmynency, Nancy From Nairobi, and Keri Belle, plus the 1-2 finishers from the 2015 Yellow Ribbon, Shes Not Here and Prize Exhibit.Theres little doubt that Prize Exhibit likes Del Mar. She won the 2015 San Clemente over the course, finished third in the Del Mar Oaks, and was not embarrassed last fall against her elders in the Matriarch. She was off to the races this year with a win in the Monrovia at Santa Anita, but then her running style caught up with her, and she has had little joy since.Thats the price you pay with a stretch runner like her in big fields on the grass, said trainer Jim Cassidy at his Del Mar barn this week.In her last five turf starts, Prize Exhibit has been part of fields numbering 13, 14, 11, 11, and 14. Most recently, she was fifth behind the record-setting Celestine in the Just a Game at Belmont Park, beaten less than two lengths for second.And she would have been second with any luck at all, Cassidy insisted.Two stalls down, Prize Exhibit was eavesdropping in a shadowy corner, but her long, white blaze gave her away. The English-bred daughter of Showcasing has been knocking heads with some of the best in the division not named Tepin over the past year. If she has taken it to heart, it did not show in the glow of her dark brown coat. Cassidy leaked an admiring smile, then quickly recovered his game face.Shes at her best at a mile, he said, so well see if she can get the mile and a sixteenth. Even then, shell need luck.Then again, theres only nine in the field. Prize Exhibit might feel like shes all alone out there. ' ' '