I actually did a term paper on that subject in Spring 78, as the name change was taking place (and before UCF was officially selected). At our founding in 1963 the BOR actually wanted to name the school UCF, but a store front diploma mill in a downtown business park already held the copyright to the name. They then named the school FTU because it was roughly halfway between Kennedy Space Center and Martin Marietta, with the charter that the school would be an engineering center of excellence like Ga Tech or MIT. But the truth was that even though those programs were well founded, those technical programs never attracted more than 20% of the student body. In 1976 a statute was passed that regulated diploma mills, and (at the same time) negated copyrights to college names for those convicted of violating the law. The store front diploma mill was convicted of that law, and when Trevor Colbourn was named our 2nd president he was told by the BOR to change the name to UCF, just like they wanted it to be all along. I got a B- minus on the report, not for the research or content, but because the professor wanted the name to be the University of Florida - Orlando. I had footnotes and everything - I can't make stuff like this up!!