Scott Frost Fired
Statement from Vice Chancellor, Director of Athletics - Trev Alberts. pic.twitter.com/weczB1ghoB
— Nebraska Huskers (@Huskers) September 11, 2022
September 11th, 2022 at 1:49 PM ^
When Indiana basketball fired Archie Miller, there were 2 or 3 boosters who got together to pay his buyout so the school could move on.
I wonder if something similar happened at Nebraska. As many others have noted, it's odd when you're 20 days from a significant reduction in Frost's buyout.
EDIT: Just to clarify on Miller, one booster paid his buyout ($10.3 million) and one paid the cost of replacing him. I'm really curious if there were some wealthy Nebraska boosters who were willing to foot that bill.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:01 PM ^
I'd bet this is the case. Some impatient boosters funded the move just to get it done immediately.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:14 PM ^
His name is warren buffet
September 11th, 2022 at 5:51 PM ^
Warren Buffett pulled the change out from under the seat cushions to make this happen.
September 11th, 2022 at 1:50 PM ^
I always found people cheering for this man to be fired was a silly thing... I guess we want them to hire Urban or someone competent to stick it to us?
September 11th, 2022 at 2:00 PM ^
I don't fear Nebraska, regardless of their coach. I'd just like them to not have a total jagoff coaching them.
September 11th, 2022 at 1:52 PM ^
Au revoir Scotty
September 11th, 2022 at 1:54 PM ^
If there really is $7.5 million involved with waiting until October 1, they should have waited.
September 11th, 2022 at 1:54 PM ^
Fuck you, Frosty!
September 11th, 2022 at 1:56 PM ^
Wasted no time there, now Nebraska fans may fully dislike him as much as every other college football fan
September 11th, 2022 at 1:57 PM ^
Urbs not going to Nebraska.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:09 PM ^
Been there. Done that
September 11th, 2022 at 6:23 PM ^
Maybe he'll slip in the back door?
September 11th, 2022 at 1:58 PM ^
Of course. It had to be. They didn't even wait for the buyout to go down. They are indeed....upset.
September 11th, 2022 at 1:59 PM ^
What! Why?
Nebraska is a volleyball school anyway
September 11th, 2022 at 1:59 PM ^
So long, jackass.
September 11th, 2022 at 1:59 PM ^
He really tanked just for that extra $7.5 mil.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:00 PM ^
Nothing hits as hard as rejection.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:00 PM ^
I'm sure Alabama will need an OC eventually, he'll land on his feet.
Also fuck you, Frost, you cornfucker
September 11th, 2022 at 2:01 PM ^
I'm bummed. I was hoping to enjoy this for a few more weeks.
September 11th, 2022 at 5:50 PM ^
Nebraska isn't going to suddenly become competent next Saturday just because Frosty isn't roaming the sidelines. If anything they're probably looking at an exodus into the transfer portal as most of the players will be and to get waivers to get around any eligibility problems.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:01 PM ^
Stay frosty Scott, or don't, I don't care!
September 11th, 2022 at 2:02 PM ^
Watch a Frostless team rally and beat Oklahoma on Saturday.
And I know the fans are clamoring for a can't miss replacement no matter the cost, but I'm not sure such a coach exists.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:02 PM ^
That's great; now they'll have a coach who won't find the most creative and painful ways to lose a football game. I actually felt terrible for Nebraska fans. Who, in my opinion, are some of the friendliest fans I have met in the Big Ten.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:03 PM ^
Solich wasn't good enough for Nebraska so they canned him and made the genius move of bringing in Bill Callahan, who promptly cratered the program.
They realize they fucked up and canned Callahan and hired Pelini, who won at least 9 games every year, and had three 10-win seasons. Pelini wasn't good enough, so they canned him and made the genius move of hiring Mike Riley, who promptly cratered the program.
They realize they fucked up and canned Riley and hired Frost, thinking he'd be better than Solich and Pelini. Ooops.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:06 PM ^
You nailed it.
Nebraska leadership have catered to an entitled fanbase who have always believed Nebraska's success was IN SPITE of Tom Osborne. Idiots.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:15 PM ^
To be fair to Nebraska, Frost was an absolute home run hire at the time. It's absolutely stunning the result of his tenure there. I mean, it's almost impossible to have a +63 scoring margin and finish 3 - 9, but that is what Nebraska did last year. Honestly, I thought one of Michigan's best wins of 2021 was beating Nebraska on the road.
Just shocking all the way around.
September 11th, 2022 at 5:59 PM ^
+63 scoring margin isn't worth much when 90% of it was against an extremely bad rendition of northwestern.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:16 PM ^
I'm still shocked that they even attempted to hire Mike Riley. That never made sense to me.
September 11th, 2022 at 4:38 PM ^
This was my main argument during the most heated “Fire Harbaugh” days for keeping our beloved coach. Nebraska has created for themselves a revolving door of coaches with the firing two solid coaches who were winning at about 70-75% clip, but it just wasn’t good enough for them.
They are as prideful as we were when we essentially drove Lloyd Carr to retirement, and nearly pushed Jim out the door as well.
September 11th, 2022 at 7:29 PM ^
I think we can also say that Nebraska is a tough sell to recruits to now though. The BIG West has killed them. The SEC, Texas and Oklahoma is just a much more attractive option for recruits in that region than it was in the 90's. Pelini had decent records, but also had a BIG West schedule. He won 9 games a piece in his last 2 years, also didn't play Michigan or OSU in either of those years I don't think. Firing Pelini may not have worked out for them, but I can't really blame them for the move.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:05 PM ^
Nearly 100 comments so someone may have said this, but —
At first I was surprised Nebraska fired him before the buyout went down $7.5 million, as the season was already lost anyway
But THEN I realized it was a payout to Frost. Throwing around $7,500,000 for failure? A VERY expensive way to say "No hard feelings, buddy."
September 11th, 2022 at 2:05 PM ^
Nebraska hasn't had really good team for 20 years. Maybe their whole football program needs to be reevaluated.
I don't feel bad for Scott Frost, only the fans.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:13 PM ^
I don't feel bad for Husker fans. I'm a U-M alum who grew up in Nebraska, cheering for Big Red. However, I'm forever grateful that I left that "red state" following high school for my U-M education.
Nebraska fans never appreciated what they had under Osborne's leadership.
Pelini went 67-27 from 2008 to 2014, including appearances in conference championship games in two different conferences.
But that wasn't good enough for the entitled Husker fan base, who thought they deserved better.
September 11th, 2022 at 4:49 PM ^
Solich got screwed as well
September 11th, 2022 at 2:07 PM ^
This saddens me for one reason: I was looking forward to us beating the hell out of him one more time. I’m getting a small frosty from Wendy’s to celebrate.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:10 PM ^
Holy crap I thought for sure they would wait until Oct 1.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:10 PM ^
This hits harder.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:12 PM ^
RichRod was bad; Frosty says, hold my beer.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:15 PM ^
Dang - what other jobs do you make millions of extra dollars for being fired? If I get horrible test scores, etc as a teacher - I wouldn’t get even $15 of a buy out.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:15 PM ^
Dang - what other jobs do you make millions of extra dollars for being fired? If I get horrible test scores, etc as a teacher - I wouldn’t get even $15 of a buy out.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:15 PM ^
Dang - what other jobs do you make millions of extra dollars for being fired? If I get horrible test scores, etc as a teacher - I wouldn’t get even $15 of a buy out.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:15 PM ^
But....the puking....
September 11th, 2022 at 2:15 PM ^
Karma is patient and cruel. Ill-gotten 1 score win in 1997 is here to collect its due.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:28 PM ^
I would have liked to beat the living tar out of him at the big house later this year, like the 2018 game, before he was canned. But I don't blame Nebraska for doing this.
From the bratty douchebag who said Michigan didn't deserve the national title in 1997 (even after his own team needed a miracle illegal kick to force overtime against unranked Missouri) to showing he hadn't changed when his Central Florida team "out-hit" Michigan at the big house despite losing 51-14. You made it easy to hate you. And you made the joy out of beating you ten times better. That's my only regret.
It's not hard to see why you are the way you are, given how your mother acts. But maybe she'll write you a letter of recommendation for some other coaching job. I wouldn't put it past her.
See ya!
September 11th, 2022 at 2:29 PM ^
Holy Shith!!
September 11th, 2022 at 2:29 PM ^
Who do they think they can get as a replacement? Maybe Matt Campbell could be coaxed away from ISU. Although after (barely) beating (the offensively incompetent) Iowa for the first time ever, he'll never have to pay for a beer in Ames for the rest of his life should he stay.
September 11th, 2022 at 2:38 PM ^
Campbell would be among the most logical targets. And he might actually do it, since he's clearly not afraid of the challenge of coaching a beleaguered P5 team in a tough location for recruiting. Beyond that, I'd think about high-upside younger guys balling out somewhere less well-known, maybe FCS. Because most hot young coaches won't see this as a good opportunity to actually win, even if everyone has a price
September 11th, 2022 at 2:30 PM ^
My sources are telling me that Scott Frost was driven to the Lincoln airport at 1:46am in an unmarked SUV so that the team could formally leave him on the tarmac