Firstly, nobody is going to measure Scott Frost off of his first six seasons if he's Nebraska's coach two decades from now like Kirk Ferentz has been at Iowa. The only people who are still talking about Iowa playing in the Orange Bowl in the mid-2000s or where they finished rank in some season several years ago are either die-hard Iowa fans or trying to legitimize their stance in a weak argument.where did I say they won the conference outright. They did not have the opportunity to win the conference outright those years because of no conf championship game. It is still a conference championship - much in the same way when Nebraska has 46 conf championships on the wall in the practice facility it includes co champion years. The trophies in the trophy case don’t delineate co and outright conf championships either.
Nothing is keeping Nebraska from going undefeated in reg season big ten play or finishing in the top 10 like Iowa did in the first 6 years under Ferentz.
I certainly am not going to nitpick if Frost does not win the conference but goes undefeated in the regular season conference but loses in the CCG, goes to a NY6 bowl and finishes in the top 10. That would be a hell of a season and would be considered, in my book, equal to what Ferentz accomplished.
Secondly, Ferentz took over a program from a coach that had been at Iowa for nearly 20 years. Frost took over a program that had four coaches and at least two major shifts in philosophy in a lesser amount of time prior to his arrival. There's no comparison to their starting points in building their programs unless you're going to completely ignore the entire context of where the programs were prior to their first years as head coaches.