FRISCO, Texas — Scott Frost’s celebrated return as coach at UCF comes with the backdrop of a failed tenure at Nebraska, the alma mater he stated he did not wish to speak about at Huge 12 soccer media days Tuesday. Though he did.
Frost stated, “I actually wish to maintain it about UCF,” only a few hours after telling a reporter from The Athletic that he by no means needed to take the Nebraska job within the first place coming off a 13-0 season in 2017 that sparked debate about whether or not the Knights ought to have had an opportunity to play for the nationwide championship within the four-team playoff.
“I stated I would not go away except it was someplace you could possibly win a nationwide championship,” Frost instructed The Athletic. “I obtained tugged in a path to attempt to assist my alma mater and did not actually wish to do it. It wasn’t a very good transfer. I am fortunate to get again to a spot the place I used to be quite a bit happier.”
When the identical reporter requested Frost in a one-on-one interview what he discovered from his time in Nebraska, the previous Cornhuskers quarterback stated, “Do not take the mistaken job.”
Frost’s tone was fairly a bit totally different in two totally different settings with reporters on the 12,000-seat indoor stadium that can also be a follow area for the Dallas Cowboys.
“While you undergo one thing that does not work, simply prepared for one more likelihood, and I am prepared for one more likelihood,” Frost stated. “That is concerning the Huge 12. That is about UCF. All people has success in life and has failures in life, for all types of various causes. I am excited to get again in a spot the place my household and I get handled nicely.”
Frost inherited an 0-12 workforce at UCF and turned it into an undefeated American Athletic Convention champion in simply two years. Nebraska followers have been ecstatic when he made the transfer 20 years after main the Cornhuskers to an ideal 1997 season and a break up nationwide title with Michigan within the last season earlier than a championship recreation was established.
Three video games into his fifth season in Lincoln, Frost was fired with a 16-31 report. Nearly three full faculty seasons later, it is again to Orlando — after one yr working underneath Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay.
“I actually loved two years off,” Frost stated. “I obtained to spend an entire yr with Ashley and the (three) children, and I will by no means get that point again. I performed extra catch with my son and contact soccer within the yard with him and going to Little League and seeing my daughter do gymnastics. After which a while out in LA actually, actually helped reset me, too.”
Pictures endure of Frost celebrating a 34-27 Peach Bowl victory over Auburn that clinched UCF’s excellent 2017 season virtually a month after he had been named the coach at Nebraska.
Quick-forward virtually eight years, and Frost was delaying a scheduled roundtable with reporters to take just a few footage with the gamers he introduced with him to media days.
“Yeah, being across the guys,” Frost stated of that second. “I am sorry, I might reasonably be across the guys than you guys.”
And there are occasions when Frost brings up the outdated days along with his new guys.
“We discuss to them about all these issues,” Frost stated. “What occurred in 2017 is at instances related, however this can be a new workforce. So we solely level these issues out, to not dwell up to now, however simply to assist them with any classes that we wish to study.”
Frost wasn’t sharing the teachings he discovered in Nebraska with everybody.