I certainly did my share of mocking all of the hype over Frost earlier this year and as recently as a few weeks ago, I would have characterized myself as "OK" with hiring him and willing to give him a chance, but believing there were better options out there. Two embarrassing blowout losses to mediocre/bad teams in the last 3 games changed my outlook a lot. I realized how important it was to have a complete overhaul of the culture in the program and I could see there was nobody better to do it then someone who knew the program already, had experienced the best of it and had proven himself able to turn around a program as a head coach. Plus, I saw that the fanbase was beaten down and needed something to rally around and be excited about and I knew he could provide that.
Even then, before last Saturday I would have said he was who we needed to hire and I was fully supportive, if not overly excited. But after watching and hearing about multiple national analysts all day saying he was or should be going to Florida and treating us as if we were an afterthought and unworthy of him, I became a full-blown 100% supporter of him and as excited as anybody. I'veYou never wanted more to prove all of those people wrong and show them that we can win championships here again-and do it with a homegrown coach that they thought was too good for us. I've never felt this optimistic about our future in the post-TO era and for once I really feel like great things really are going to happen and I'm not having to come up with reasons to convince myself of that fact.