No, I don't think he would survive another losing season. The problem I see is if he lucks out on a 6 or 7 win season with no real progress, he'll likely be back. My expectations are bare minimum 7 wins and we look like a well coached team. If Frost can't even meet those basic expectations by year 4, he shouldn't be coaching here.
This is exactly where I am at.
I can give you a lot of valid reasons why we should have expected some significant struggles early on given the situation he took over and the program stability he was facing in West and overrall inexperience on his staff. Then deal with Covid and no spring and non con to better prep the new receivers Fr llineman in a year a believe the staff thought they would turn a corner.
Those are all gone in 2021. Staff has had three years of on the Job Training in the Big Ten and should no exactly what it takes to win in this league. Most everyone they need is in the second year of program and they get a full winter, spring and fall with the few new guys they are counting on plus three very winnable games to work out the kinks to start season
- The OL, DL, and ML that will play are all in at least 3 year of S&C with exception of Corcoran so we need to be holding our own physically at LOS or something is wrong there.
- Roster has big ten players and depth at all positions with some very high end athletes (particularly by West standards) sprinkled through out.
- Walk-on program has matured over last three years and has bolstered numbers providing practice depth and even guys that may be able to help you on Saturday such as Hixson, Yant, Faulk, Miller, Noudini, Feist, Reimers and now seeing a kid like Sanford test as well as CTB.
There is quite literally no reason this is not a competitive football team in 2021 that wins games unless this staff, is in fact, not good.
I am personally kind of hoping it either works and we turn corner in 2021 or it doesn't work at all and implodes and we start over. Limping through a 6-6 season with a bunch of poor play, turnovers and a couple beat downs sprinkled in and then knowing that you are stuck with at least one more season of roughly same players and coaching would be brutal.