Anyone is free to post their thoughts on why Scott Frost failed as the head coach. My thoughts are in no specific order.....
1: When he signed AM he said he would live and die with AM. As he goes, they both go type of thing. If I remember correctly, Frost had two QB's committed before he even coached his first game at Nebraska. Since then he only signed 3 QB's. He never created an environment of competition and one of the three QB's he recruited already left the program.
2: Terrible assistant hires. Florida would not allow him to bring his entire staff. Nebraska did and it was the wrong thing to do. There isn't a single elite recruiter on this coaching staff and most of them have no business coaching in the Big Ten.
3: Failing to create an identity right out of the game in the first game. After 3 years and 5 games into the 4th season, there is no identity in the offense. Are we still UCF or an option offense?
4: Using the wrong schemes for the OL and as part of that not believing in the importance of establishing a Big Ten rushing attack. These one cut and go bull shit schemes are fine for the Sun Belt, but not the Big Ten. In the Big Ten you need to allow your blockers to get on the defenders, push them back, create the whole, know you are going to get hit, and create yards after contact. You have to run and run and run to wear down a defense in the Big Ten.
5: Not putting a major emphasis on special teams. When you hire some young 20-year-old kid as an analyst to run the defense, it shows the head coach doesn't believe in the importance of that side of a football game. "oh, just snap the ball and kick?????" WTF?
6: Recruiting. Spamming out 400 plus offers in every class shows the coaches are not recruiting to an identity, but rather throwing out offers to find low-hanging fruit. For the 2022 class, the low-hanging fruit is so low it's turning out to be the worst class in the Big Ten.
7: No accountability. No discipline.
Plenty of other reasons, but IMO, those are major errors and it's going to end up in Frost being fired.
We gave Frost plenty of time and support to fix things. He just didn't get it done.
1: When he signed AM he said he would live and die with AM. As he goes, they both go type of thing. If I remember correctly, Frost had two QB's committed before he even coached his first game at Nebraska. Since then he only signed 3 QB's. He never created an environment of competition and one of the three QB's he recruited already left the program.
2: Terrible assistant hires. Florida would not allow him to bring his entire staff. Nebraska did and it was the wrong thing to do. There isn't a single elite recruiter on this coaching staff and most of them have no business coaching in the Big Ten.
3: Failing to create an identity right out of the game in the first game. After 3 years and 5 games into the 4th season, there is no identity in the offense. Are we still UCF or an option offense?
4: Using the wrong schemes for the OL and as part of that not believing in the importance of establishing a Big Ten rushing attack. These one cut and go bull shit schemes are fine for the Sun Belt, but not the Big Ten. In the Big Ten you need to allow your blockers to get on the defenders, push them back, create the whole, know you are going to get hit, and create yards after contact. You have to run and run and run to wear down a defense in the Big Ten.
5: Not putting a major emphasis on special teams. When you hire some young 20-year-old kid as an analyst to run the defense, it shows the head coach doesn't believe in the importance of that side of a football game. "oh, just snap the ball and kick?????" WTF?
6: Recruiting. Spamming out 400 plus offers in every class shows the coaches are not recruiting to an identity, but rather throwing out offers to find low-hanging fruit. For the 2022 class, the low-hanging fruit is so low it's turning out to be the worst class in the Big Ten.
7: No accountability. No discipline.
Plenty of other reasons, but IMO, those are major errors and it's going to end up in Frost being fired.
We gave Frost plenty of time and support to fix things. He just didn't get it done.