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 discuss at Massive 12 soccer media days Tuesday. Although he did.
Frost stated, “I actually wish to hold it about UCF,” just some hours after telling a reporter from The Athletic that he by no means wished 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 until it was someplace you might win a nationwide championship,” Frost instructed The Athletic. “I obtained tugged in a course to attempt to assist my alma mater and did not actually wish to do it. It wasn’t a superb transfer. I am fortunate to get again to a spot the place I used to be so much 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 completely different in two settings with reporters on the 12,000-seat indoor stadium that can be a apply area for the Dallas Cowboys.
“Whenever you undergo one thing that does not work, simply prepared for an additional likelihood, and I am prepared for an additional likelihood,” Frost stated. “That is concerning the Massive 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 crew at UCF and turned it into an undefeated American Athletic Convention champion in solely 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 cut up nationwide title with Michigan within the ultimate season earlier than a championship sport was established.
Three video games into his fifth season in Lincoln, Frost was fired with a 16-31 document. Virtually 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 a complete yr with Ashley and the [three] youngsters, 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 L.A. actually, actually helped reset me, too.”
Photographs 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 a number of photos with the gamers he introduced with him to media days.
“Yeah, being across the guys,” Frost stated of that second. “I am sorry, I would 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 speak to them about all these issues,” Frost stated. “What occurred in 2017 is at instances related, however this can be a new crew. 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 be taught.”
Frost wasn’t sharing the teachings he discovered in Nebraska with everybody.