except it's not like he was left with nothing.A lot of things can be true at the same time, Frost can have inherited a horrendous roster AND also done a disappointing job coaching in the first two years. There were winnable games blown with playcalling and personnel decisions, notably Purdue last year. Special teams not being utter trash probably wins some games as well.
There are guys they might have been able to keep around like Greg Bell at RB, possibly other guys at other positions, but they're trying to build this "War Daddy Up or GTFO" culture. You might win another game or three in the near term with guys like that around. Hopefully they're correct that they can win more games in years 4 and 5 by replacing those guys with "guys who wanna be here." Ironic company line given the arc of his own playing career.
Scott disappointing through two years doesn't retroactively make anyone else a better coach. NU was blessed at HC in the late 1900s the way Green Bay has been blessed at QB. We got legends back to back in Devaney and Osborne. The law of averages has come home to roost since then and we've had a run of mediocre-to-good coaches.
Every time I watch an analysis of what HCSF likes to do on offense I spot a weakness of NU's that keeps him from being able to do it. He's trying to swallow some bitter medicine in the early years to build a deep, experienced roster.
Ultimately it's his job and his assistants' jobs to either teach kids to execute or failing that, call what they can run. Starting this year, they need to play like a team that gets coached well Sunday - Friday. The days of being able to blame the roster are over, he's had enough time to build a team that does better than 4-5 wins. If the kids he signs don't stay, guess who's accountable for that?
It's one thing to be outclassed by teams like OSU and Michigan that are loaded to the gills with 4* and 5* kids. It's another to outcoach yourself when teams are trying to hand you a game on a silver platter or to not be able to slap together 11 guys who can execute punt return well enough to catch the ball and move it forward a few yards.
Scott turned the entire frigging roster over, on his own accord. We had plenty of talent here, it just didn't fit his system. Scott ran off a lot of guys. Heck, there are players that Scott recruited that never even made it here. Scott has a funny way of securing nice talent, only to be left scratching your head in the summertime because either they didn't qualify, or changed their minds, or got injured and whatever the issue was.
That is still on Scott. You can't blame Mike Riley for what Scott has done with running everyone off and bringing in his own recruits.
Don't like to see what happened to Space Cowboy? Scott recruited him. Did he look after him? who knows... I just see the roster management the past 3 years as a revolving door with some wonder if anyone is developing anyone except the weight room coach?
Scott has been an abysmal hire so far and hate to see nice folks like yourselves make excuses for a lame coach.