Scott Frost is out

[Coug90]

You have to bake a cake with the kids you can get, not the kids you can’t get. You have to invest your recruiting in areas you can get kids, not chase ghosts where you can’t.

There was a time when Texas kids chose between Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. Those days are over. There are simply too many hands in the pie now in Texas. Too many good teams on the way to Nebraska. It hurts them. If Im Nebraska I invest in SoCal and Chicago. They need to get back to the days of Husker Power and developing kids.

Nebraska is better off limiting the amount of perimeter players and getting back to power run game, play action pass and a QB that can run. Get out of the race for WRs and pocket passers.

My free two cents.

they still have a great football history and plenty of money dumping into the program I’d think with the right vision they could get back on the map. I hope they do I always liked the Huskers. If they could get back to power football to the point they can bludgeon teams like they used to, even better.

 

[Cougsocal]

FWIW....and no offense.....but this is not a good comment.

Scott Frost went 13-0 at UCF in his second season there. They finished #6 in the country. And don't forget that UCF went 0-12 in the year before Frost was there as the George O'Leary tenure imploded.

Scott Frost looked like a brilliant hire when it was made. Hindsight is 20/20...but if not for our own disaster with Wulff, we would not be traumatized by the idea of hiring an alum.

In hindsight, Frost clearly caught some "lightening in the bottle" at UCF. People forget that UCF was 12-1 in 2013, winning the Fiesta Bowl under O'Leary over #6 Baylor, and beating Penn State on the road. That was preceded by a 10 win season also, and 9 wins in 2014. The associated recruit classes were back bone of Frost's success. Cal before Tedford, UCF was not. Considering the Fla. recruiting talent pool as well, Scott was in the right place at the right time. The cautionary tale is you don't hire a coach based upon on a "one off" season with players he didn't recruit.

 

[BiggsCoug]

they still have a great football history and plenty of money dumping into the program I’d think with the right vision they could get back on the map. I hope they do I always liked the Huskers. If they could get back to power football to the point they can bludgeon teams like they used to, even better.

There are too many guys calling plays that never had to make a block. They never made a tackle. They never lined up across from 6’7” 345lbs and wondered “how in the f am I supposed to block this guy?” They stand around a white board and draw up a mish mash of routes. They only know half the game. It shows.

 

[Flatlandcoug]

In hindsight, Frost clearly caught some "lightening in the bottle" at UCF. People forget that UCF was 12-1 in 2013, winning the Fiesta Bowl under O'Leary over #6 Baylor, and beating Penn State on the road. That was preceded by a 10 win season also, and 9 wins in 2014. The associated recruit classes were back bone of Frost's success. Cal before Tedford, UCF was not. Considering the Fla. recruiting talent pool as well, Scott was in the right place at the right time. The cautionary tale is you don't hire a coach based upon on a "one off" season with players he didn't recruit.

Agree completely. I was reading an article about their coaching search and thankfully, the Scott Frost debacle means that Nebraska is unlikely to be seriously interested in an up and comer like Dickert who hasn't proven that he can be successful in the long term.

As you said, Frost's success at UCF was deceptive because the dropoff at the end of O'Leary's tenure now looks more like players giving up on O'Leary rather than a lack of talent.