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On Nov 24: "Scott Frost to Nebraska is a done deal." Do his teams play Defense?? Gave up 55 today!!

Hey Nebraska! Here's your clock.

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obfuscating said:
You sure about that hero stuff being more patient?

Frank Solich was named Tom Osborne's successor on Dec. 10, 1997. Solich was a part of the NU coaching staff for 25 years. He guided NU to a 12-1 record, Big 12 Championship and No. 2 final ranking in the coaches poll in 1999. In 2001, Solich led the Huskers to an 11-2 record and an appearance in the BCS title game in the Rose Bowl.

In 2003, Solich coached Nebraska to a 9-3 regular-season record, but did not coach NU in the Alamo Bowl, as defensive coordinator Bo Pelini served as interim head coach. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Solich was a member of Bob Devaney's first recruiting class in 1962. As a fullback, Solich earned All-Big Eight honors in 1965 and was the first Husker to rush for 200 yards in a game.
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I don't think you can compare the two situations. They're nearly polar opposites. One coach took over for a head coach who just won 3 NCs in 4 years. The other is taking over for a coach who just went 4-8 and barely showed a pulse in the second half of the season.

1) The program is in a completely different place than it was when Solich took over. The roster was FULL of studs. Nebraska football was a machine and expectations were unreasonably high. Frost is coming in and taking over a program that lost more than it won in two of its last three seasons. Most fans should understand this is a long rebuild now. I don't think everyone understood that before. Solich took over a program that had gone 55-3 with three national championships over the prior 5 seasons. He didn't take over for a fired coach who under performed and put a product on the field that lacked toughness, energy, and effort.

2) In his second year, Solich went 12-1 in 99, won the B12 title and narrowly missed playing for the title. His middle three years, he went 33-5, including playing for another national title. Then he went 7-7 and 9-3. I've heard some former players talk about it, and there is interesting agreement among them about how the staff that remained from Osborne had gotten lazy. It wasn't good. There was so much talent even on those last two rosters, there was no reason they should ever have gone 7-7 and 9-3.

3) I'm not saying it's right, but when your program goes 97-12 over the previous 9 years (including a 9-4 season when Solich took over), going 7-7 is met with near violence from a die-hard fan-base. Follow that up with 9-3, and fans lose their minds. It's a weird thing about success in sports. Once you get to the mountaintop, it's really easy to forget how long it took or how hard it was to get there. You just expect to always be there, and when you're not, going 7-7 and 9-3 in consecutive seasons is unacceptable.

5) Frost won a national title at Nebraska, something Solich never did. I don't think you can look at Solich as a Nebraska hero like Frost is and say, "see, he won't get any more patience than Solich."

6) Pelini and Riley were polarizing for our fan base for different reasons. Frost is a coach that many fans agree on being a good hire right now. Because there is more consensus (and that thought that if we don't get Frost now, we may never get him if he blows up at his next stop), I think there will be much less of the fan base that will start rolling out the "Fire Frost" threads a few games into his tenure like was done with Riley.
 
Rifler said:
Frost would be a good hire, provided the fan base gives him the time required to rebuild.... I'd plan for a minimum of 3-5 years....
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100%. We MUST be willing to take the good with the bad and allow him to build some program continuity. Transitioning from Pelini to Riley was really difficult, it took two years to flush the poison out of the program that Pelini left behind. That was probably one of Riley's mistakes - not telling a number of players to hit the road. But that's easy to say in retrospect. Hopefully now fans can chill the F out and let the rebuild happen.
 
ThrowBones92 said:
100%. We MUST be willing to take the good with the bad and allow him to build some program continuity. Transitioning from Pelini to Riley was really difficult, it took two years to flush the poison out of the program that Pelini left behind. That was probably one of Riley's mistakes - not telling a number of players to hit the road. But that's easy to say in retrospect. Hopefully now fans can chill the F out and let the rebuild happen.
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Lol...most of my family and friends live in SW Iowa/Omaha and are UN fans. They think Frost is going to do exactly what he did at UCF.
 
ThrowBones92 said:
100%. We MUST be willing to take the good with the bad and allow him to build some program continuity. Transitioning from Pelini to Riley was really difficult, it took two years to flush the poison out of the program that Pelini left behind. That was probably one of Riley's mistakes - not telling a number of players to hit the road. But that's easy to say in retrospect. Hopefully now fans can chill the F out and let the rebuild happen.
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You think Nebraska fans will all of a sudden adopt that mentality?
 
Johnsoda123 said:
Lol...most of my family and friends live in SW Iowa/Omaha and are UN fans. They think Frost is going to do exactly what he did at UCF.
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They're wrong, at least in the short-term, which is what you may be referring to since his work there is a 2-year effort.
 
myteamcanbeatupyourteam said:
You think Nebraska fans will all of a sudden adopt that mentality?
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All of a sudden? The situations are completely different. There are plenty of stupid fans in every fan base. Hell, ya'll wanted to fire Ferentz (again) a little over a week ago. Yes, I think there are fewer fans that can't understand the current status of the program, and I think for the first time in a while there are a lot more fans who realize we are (and have been) in full rebuild mode.
 
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All of a sudden? The situations are completely different. There are plenty of stupid fans in every fan base. Hell, ya'll wanted to fire Ferentz (again) a little over a week ago. Yes, I think there are fewer fans that can't understand the current status of the program, and I think for the first time in a while there are a lot more fans who realize we are (and have been) in full rebuild mode.
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Do you think he will bring his DC with him (who was in his first year, gave up a ton of points and runs a 3-4)?
 
Tread carefully Husker fans, patience is what you need now. Osborne told Frost it was time to come home and it appears its gonna happen. Don't be that weird grandpa badgering him about when he's gonna become a fortune mogul.

He's been gone for a while learning under Chip Kelly and turning around a program in Orlando. Impressive yes, but the American is not the BIG and coaching at UCF is not Nebraska. I imagine he will face much tougher competition and scrutiny in Lincoln as the fan base will expect to be playing Ohio State or Michigan or Penn State in Indy next year.

Wisconsin isn't going anywhere, Northwestern is tough and Iowa should be better next year. The western division is going to be better. Give your man time, don't pull a Tennessee for goodness sake.
 
I have serious doubts Frost will take Nebraska to an elite level. They are ONCE AGAIN ignoring their glaring weakness: A refusal to adopt a physical style that competes in the BIG. How evidently awful are they year after year with their line play? Iowa manhandles them physically even with some of our weaker renditions. Also, not at all impressed with the defense at UCF and the fact that they ran a 3-4 bodes well for Iowa. They won't ever run a 3-4 as effectively as Wisconsin does because the latter has a focus on that physicality and a grinding offense that dominates time of possession.
 
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ThrowBones92 said:
Every year that passes that no FBS programs, let alone any Power 5 schools, are willing to do so much as fart in Bo Pelini's direction serves as additional justification that he is NOT a coach anyone wants leading their program. He's right where he belongs if he wants to be a head coach. Riley didn't work out, and it's too bad. But Bo was an embarrassing train wreck for reasons on and off the field. Firing Bo was the right move, regardless of how the replacement hire turned out. He was a cancer and needed to go.

Hopefully Frost can get things headed in a positive direction. We need toughness and athletes, both which we lack right now. Time will tell. I'm not someone who insists on Frost as the next HC, although it's inevitable at this point, but I think a hometown hero will garner more patience from a fan base that is in great need of such a thing right now. This will be a flat out rebuild. Riley was going to be a rebuild due to the roster issues he left. Riley wasn't able to produce enough performance in the field in the interim while he worked on rebuilding the roster. Thus, we have will now have 1 Pelini class, 1 interim Pelini/Riley class, 2 Riley classes, and 1 interim Riley/Frost class when the Huskers step on the field next winter.

Ugh. It's gonna be a mess. This is what happens when one coach neglects recruiting, and we fire the next one before he has a chance to rebuild the roster. No Frost shows up with a CF of a roster to work with.
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Since you're in the know, whatever happened to Solich? Was he fired and run out of town or did he just retire or ... I'm just curious and don't want to look on Wikipedia. ;-)
 
huskerjack1948 said:
I've heard it may be a 7 yr deal
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7 years is really a 3 year deal considering you want to always have time on the contract to cover the entire duration of a recruits time there. Otherwise you face recruiting issues. It's rare to have a coach have less than 4 years on their contract.
 
ThrowBones92 said:
I don't think you can compare the two situations. They're nearly polar opposites. One coach took over for a head coach who just won 3 NCs in 4 years. The other is taking over for a coach who just went 4-8 and barely showed a pulse in the second half of the season.

1) The program is in a completely different place than it was when Solich took over. The roster was FULL of studs. Nebraska football was a machine and expectations were unreasonably high. Frost is coming in and taking over a program that lost more than it won in two of its last three seasons. Most fans should understand this is a long rebuild now. I don't think everyone understood that before. Solich took over a program that had gone 55-3 with three national championships over the prior 5 seasons. He didn't take over for a fired coach who under performed and put a product on the field that lacked toughness, energy, and effort.

2) In his second year, Solich went 12-1 in 99, won the B12 title and narrowly missed playing for the title. His middle three years, he went 33-5, including playing for another national title. Then he went 7-7 and 9-3. I've heard some former players talk about it, and there is interesting agreement among them about how the staff that remained from Osborne had gotten lazy. It wasn't good. There was so much talent even on those last two rosters, there was no reason they should ever have gone 7-7 and 9-3.

3) I'm not saying it's right, but when your program goes 97-12 over the previous 9 years (including a 9-4 season when Solich took over), going 7-7 is met with near violence from a die-hard fan-base. Follow that up with 9-3, and fans lose their minds. It's a weird thing about success in sports. Once you get to the mountaintop, it's really easy to forget how long it took or how hard it was to get there. You just expect to always be there, and when you're not, going 7-7 and 9-3 in consecutive seasons is unacceptable.

5) Frost won a national title at Nebraska, something Solich never did. I don't think you can look at Solich as a Nebraska hero like Frost is and say, "see, he won't get any more patience than Solich."

6) Pelini and Riley were polarizing for our fan base for different reasons. Frost is a coach that many fans agree on being a good hire right now. Because there is more consensus (and that thought that if we don't get Frost now, we may never get him if he blows up at his next stop), I think there will be much less of the fan base that will start rolling out the "Fire Frost" threads a few games into his tenure like was done with Riley.
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You are no longer in the Lil 8 or Lil' 12 - this is the B1G, your past will not help you.
 
It's a done deal, folks.

Here are a couple tweets; start at the bottom and work your way up.

Parker Gabriel‏@HuskerExtraPG 1h1 hour ago
Parker Gabriel Retweeted Mike Bianchi

Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi writes a farewell to Scott Frost. #Huskers

Parker Gabriel added,

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Mike BianchiVerified account@BianchiWrites

Farewell to Frost: After interview with #UCF coach #ScottFrost this morning, it's pretty clear he is the next coach of the #Cornhuskers ... My column: http://bit.ly/2kdsudp
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Franisdaman said:
Steven M. Sipple‏@HuskerExtraSip
Steven M. Sipple Retweeted Lars Anderson

Here you go

Steven M. Sipple added,

Lars AndersonVerified account@LarsAnderson71
I've heard from a source that I trust that Scott Frost to Nebraska is a done deal.
4:21 PM - 24 Nov 2017

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Looks like Lars Anderson was right after all.

7 yrs, $35M?

I hope Frost brings the same style of defense that he plays at UCF to Nebraska. That would be a definite restore of the "black shirts."
 
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Officially announced while his team is still in OT? I'm sure someone said that they could announce it at a certain time but come on...

This is really crappy for the kids at UCF. Heck of a season and now you have this looming over you for a huge bowl game. Man...
 
Brett McMurphyVerified account@Brett_McMurphy

Source: Scott Frost has agreed to 7-year, $35 million deal with Nebraska, but in days leading up today’s AAC title game was still having some “serious cold feet & remorse.” @LarsAnderson71 previously reported contract figures
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Just the latest attempt by Debbie to put a Spread/west coast style O in place. Hard time recruiting the speed and talent up to the upper midwest. 2 years coaching in Florida ain't enough to build a pipeline.

Here's to the new Texas Tech of the B1G West.
 
Slappy Pappy said:
Just the latest attempt by Debbie to put a Spread/west coast style O in place. Hard time recruiting the speed and talent up to the upper midwest. 2 years coaching in Florida ain't enough to build a pipeline.

Here's to the new Texas Tech of the B1G West.
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Gotta have big monsters on both lines of scrimmage and you have to be able to run the ball.

Defense is not optional in the Big 10. He realizes Nebraska is no longer in the Big 12, correct? =)
 
Edward AschoffESPN Staff Writer

After talking with a person close to Scott Frost at UCF, this wasn't an easy decision for Frost to leave UCF for Nebraska. Emotionally, he was torn between both schools and appeared to be going back-and-forth all week. He and has family were very happy in Orlando, but in the end, going back home was just too tough for Frost to turn down.

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IowaFBmediocre4life said:
Hey look everyone, it’s “recent history” Iowa fan, if you’re looking for “woulda, coulda, shoulda” Iowa fan, he’s around here somewhere.
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Hey look it’s what Nebraska did before the 21st century guy who can’t live in the present cause his team is garbage now.
 
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