November 16th, 2019 at 9:51 AM ^
Nebraska has nowhere else to go. Doubling down is literally their only move.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:31 AM ^
They didn't have to extend him. He had a seven-year contract IIRC. Were recruits worried that he had only five years left?
November 16th, 2019 at 10:41 AM ^
Edit: buyout is the same, but with the two year extension, adds another $5M to his buyout, possibly putting him out of the range of other schools currently looking for a head coach.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:23 AM ^
What program would honestly consider trying to get Frost from Nebraska, thinking they actually could, but another 5 million on the buyout scares them off?
November 16th, 2019 at 10:44 AM ^
You can imagine how the recruiting pitches go for- and against- Nebraska
"Frost is a dead man walking over there. They'll fire him."
or
"Look son. I know things aren't great right now but we're improving. Nebraska just signed me and my staff to another 2 years so they believe in what we're doing here. You've got nothing to worry about"
I'm sure this is more about perception than anything else
November 16th, 2019 at 10:50 AM ^
I don't think there really is a sense of urgency yet. It's only his second year. He can lose out and still probably won't be considered in danger of losing his job.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:26 AM ^
Yeah, it's strange. I get wanting to make it clear his seat isn't hot, but that's just exposing yourself to a bigger financial loss if he continues to be terrible.
November 16th, 2019 at 1:15 PM ^
They have a never-ending supply of money and they have to spend it all or they risk having to give some of it to the players that are earning it for them. Extending Scott Frost is about as dumb as putting TVs in toilet stalls and Nebraska already did that.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:34 AM ^
Maybe Bo Pelini wasn't too bad
November 16th, 2019 at 5:04 PM ^
He was too timid on the sideline...
November 16th, 2019 at 9:55 AM ^
IMO this is a good move. Frost is a solid coach, but some transitions are tougher than others.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:03 AM ^
Agreed. I’d imagine recruiting high profile players to come to Lincoln, Nebraska could be a challenge too. Even with a 1-11 record in his first season, not everyone can turn a program as quickly as Matt Rhule has.
November 16th, 2019 at 9:56 AM ^
You gotta do this stuff sometimes to help with recruiting. If Frost can't get Nebraska to be elite again, I don't think anyone will
November 16th, 2019 at 10:39 AM ^
I feel like Nebraska's days as an elite program are over. They have a great history and a loyal fan base, but I don't think they have what it takes to compete in modern college football.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:08 AM ^
ESPN speculated this very thing this week.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:27 AM ^
Wow.
His parents started timing Frost's 40-yard dashes when their son was 2. Most parents scratch marks into the walls to chart a child's growth; they logged 40 times to memorialize speed progression. "It's in his baby book," Carol says. "I have a record of him from 2 through 18. He went from 13.8 to 4.5."
November 16th, 2019 at 11:19 AM ^
Im good with no one ever getting Nebraska to be " elite " again .
November 16th, 2019 at 9:57 AM ^
He has one of the more punchable faces in all of sports.
Just like his mother.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:08 AM ^
mmm bop
November 16th, 2019 at 10:03 AM ^
In any other performance based job, you would get the axe. Two years of that shit show and he gets an extension. That’s a homer move, let’s see if he makes it the end of the extension?
November 16th, 2019 at 10:08 AM ^
I mean he's 4 and 5 right now still with a chance to go to a bowl. We have Rich Rod another year for about the same.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:22 AM ^
Supply and demand matter
November 16th, 2019 at 10:08 AM ^
He may not have earned it but continuity at a place like Nebraska is very important. Good move by them they'll know much about frosts ability in a couple years.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:14 AM ^
Frost at Nebraska reminds me of Rodriguez at Michigan
I hope it goes better for them
November 16th, 2019 at 10:17 AM ^
I don't.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:55 AM ^
Not sure I follow that. Rrod was a stranger in a strange land in Michigan. Frost is a former Nebraska player who understands the culture of Nebraska football. If anyone might succeed there, it is someone like him. But I agree that time has passed Nebraska by unless they can recreate a Wisconsin scenario with a lot of walk ons and a lot of three stars who stick around 4-5 years, with an occasional good RB sprinkled in.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:09 AM ^
Frost at Nebraska reminds me of Harbaugh at Michigan, but with a much worse start. He's the coach they want, from the fanbase to the administration to the former players. He'll get a lot of time. He's basically the anti-RR in those respects.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:18 AM ^
These are always more perfunctory extensions than a necessary reward for performance, so I get it. If Nebraska has any chance to get back to being pretty good recruits need to know Frost is going to be around, and so I get it.
I still think he's going to disappoint relative to expectations because Nebraska will never be able to recruit at the level you need to be a consistent national power, especially in a conference with OSU,PSU, and UM.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:18 AM ^
His only hope for a Pelini-like run is to bring back the option or fire all his assistants. His staff is absolutely terrible and not at all a recruiting asset for the Midwest.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:30 AM ^
His only hope is to time travel back to the 80’s when Nebraska’s “strength and conditioning” program was run by the East German Olympic team and the rest of college football hadn’t quite caught on. There is no reason Nebraska should be good at football. They should be the Kansas (football-wise) of the Big10.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:40 AM ^
Plus nearly every high school in Nebraska used to run the same offense, and they used to sign players on scholarship for track so they didnt count towards football.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:23 AM ^
Smart by Nebraska IMO. There is some value to head coach stability. Michigan fans should take note.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:38 AM ^
His initial contract was 7 years. Having 5 years remaining isn't exactly an unstable situation.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:41 AM ^
Speaking of Nebraska, here's your Michigan-related factoid for today:
In 1898, the then-named Nebraska Bugeaters (Independent) were captained to a respectable 8-3 record under head coach Fielding Yost.
After a single season at Nebraska, Coach Yost was lured away to coach at Kansas to the tune of $350 (with a conditional $150 bonus), and promptly led the team to a 10-0 mark in his only season there.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:01 AM ^
Remember every talking sped picking Nebrasker to win the B1G West this year?
I do. And I didn't.
Think I had them 4th which looks to be off as well.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:06 AM ^
They'll be lucky to beat Illinois next year.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:07 AM ^
Scott Frost's entire head-coaching resume is built on taking a traditionally good non-BCS team, in a fertile recruiting ground, and having an undefeated season. This is what has earned him the messianic adulation and these statements like "if Frost can't bring Nebraska back, no one can." That is complete garbage. Does anyone on this site think that Urban Meyer couldn't bring Nebraska back, or Bob Stoops, or Dabo the Clown wouldn't? Meyer would have Nebraska at 9-4 this year and nearly beating the good teams in the West.
There's a littered battlefield of the corpses of people like Frost who parlayed one great season into deification. Larry Coker, Charlie Weis, Charlie Strong, all come to mind. Guys who have a brief very good run, often with the inheritance of someone else's recruits. But couldn't run an elite program when their chance came.
Frost has (possibly, I'm not an expert) shown that he has some innovative ideas on offense, or, at the least, that he knows how to run a contemporary offense. That's it. He's yet to show that he knows how to coach defense or even attract other coaching talent that does. He's yet to show that he can run a juggernaut program year in and out, balancing the whole unwieldy ship of recruiting, staffing, PR, personal health, game management, preparation, player management, enduring injuries and malaise at losses, all while keeping the team motivated and believing. Resurrecting a program doesn't happen because you were Chip Kelly's WR Coach and know what RPO's are.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:57 AM ^
I was pretty impressed with his UCF stint
November 16th, 2019 at 11:17 AM ^
Going to take him a while to get that thing turned but i hope he does. Need a good Nebraska in the west
November 16th, 2019 at 11:17 AM ^
The best thing about Frost is he always looks like he's about to cry after Nebraska loses:
November 16th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
I’m sure it says volumes about my sports fan pettiness, but the ‘97 experience leaves me at forever hoping his mommy is crying too.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:24 AM ^
Probably a good move. If Nebraska didn't have the history they have, they'd be Iowa State. He's a good fit for them, even if the expectations for him coming there were way over-hyped.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:46 AM ^
Iowa State is a much better program than Nebraska right now.
November 16th, 2019 at 11:47 AM ^
.....and why not? He's responsible for their meteoric rise from 11th best program in the Big Ten, to the 10th best team.
November 16th, 2019 at 1:36 PM ^
Frost is kind of an unknown capacity at this point. Could all go to hell very quickly a la Chad Morris or be a turnaround later on.
November 16th, 2019 at 3:22 PM ^
Good continue the mediocrity
November 16th, 2019 at 3:33 PM ^
Weird times in Nebraska.
The Omaha newspaper is dying, so they've decided their key to survival is to be hyper-critical of AD Bill Moos and Frost. I guess Moos feels like this is a way to show commitment to potential recruits.