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Sorry, Nebraska, Scott Frost wants to "keep the band together" at UCF
by Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel
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he more I talk to UCF coach Scott Frost, the more I’m convinced that he will eschew any potential offers from his alma mater — the Nebraska Cornhuskers — after the season and stay at UCF.
Frost made his weekly appearance on our Open Mike radio show Thursday and he essentially said he wants to keep the band — a.k.a. his coaching staff — together at UCF. Which, by the way, is the major reason he has contributed a significant amount of money to UCF’s “Football Excellence Fund.”
If you read a column I wrote earlier this week, you know that UCF athletics director Danny White has stated the school will aggressively try to raise more than $1.5 million a year from donors for the school’s “Football Excellence Fund.”
Much of that money would be used to increase UCF’s salary pool for assistant coaches. This is where I give Frost a lot of credit. He has sacrificed some of his own salary in the past so that his talented group of assistant coaches could be better compensated and now he is contributing to the Football Excellence Fund for the same reason.
“I contributed because I care so much about my assistant coaches and I appreciate them so much,” Frost told me during our radio interview on FM 96.9 and AM 740. “I’ve got a great group (of assistants) and a lot of what’s been happening around here has to do with those guys doing an unbelievable coaching job.
“We want to keep the band together. … It wouldn’t be as much fun for me to do my job without the guys I have around me.”
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why I think Frost is staying at UCF. Would he really be contributing money to a football program that he plans to leave after the season? Would he really be trying to get UCF donors to dig deep into their pockets and kick in a bunch of money to pay his assistants if he and his assistants were leaving?
Frost says he wants to keep the band together in Orlando. Well, guess what? He is the leader of the band; he’s the guy who writes the songs and sings them. I don’t believe he would say he wants to keep the band together if he actually plans on breaking up the band.
“We want to make sure we keep taking this program where everybody wants it go,” Frost said of a UCF team that has the highest scoring offense in the country. “The turnaround has been remarkable and we want to keep it on that track. Everybody wants this place to turn into a football powerhouse. In order to do that, we have to keep up with the Jones and keep moving the ball forward.”
Sorry, Nebraska, Scott Frost wants to "keep the band together" at UCF
by Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel
T
he more I talk to UCF coach Scott Frost, the more I’m convinced that he will eschew any potential offers from his alma mater — the Nebraska Cornhuskers — after the season and stay at UCF.
Frost made his weekly appearance on our Open Mike radio show Thursday and he essentially said he wants to keep the band — a.k.a. his coaching staff — together at UCF. Which, by the way, is the major reason he has contributed a significant amount of money to UCF’s “Football Excellence Fund.”
If you read a column I wrote earlier this week, you know that UCF athletics director Danny White has stated the school will aggressively try to raise more than $1.5 million a year from donors for the school’s “Football Excellence Fund.”
Much of that money would be used to increase UCF’s salary pool for assistant coaches. This is where I give Frost a lot of credit. He has sacrificed some of his own salary in the past so that his talented group of assistant coaches could be better compensated and now he is contributing to the Football Excellence Fund for the same reason.
“I contributed because I care so much about my assistant coaches and I appreciate them so much,” Frost told me during our radio interview on FM 96.9 and AM 740. “I’ve got a great group (of assistants) and a lot of what’s been happening around here has to do with those guys doing an unbelievable coaching job.
“We want to keep the band together. … It wouldn’t be as much fun for me to do my job without the guys I have around me.”
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why I think Frost is staying at UCF. Would he really be contributing money to a football program that he plans to leave after the season? Would he really be trying to get UCF donors to dig deep into their pockets and kick in a bunch of money to pay his assistants if he and his assistants were leaving?
Frost says he wants to keep the band together in Orlando. Well, guess what? He is the leader of the band; he’s the guy who writes the songs and sings them. I don’t believe he would say he wants to keep the band together if he actually plans on breaking up the band.
“We want to make sure we keep taking this program where everybody wants it go,” Frost said of a UCF team that has the highest scoring offense in the country. “The turnaround has been remarkable and we want to keep it on that track. Everybody wants this place to turn into a football powerhouse. In order to do that, we have to keep up with the Jones and keep moving the ball forward.”
