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    ** Scott Frost megathread all things SF***

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    Was looking ahead at Friday after Thanksgiving's schedule. Will be nice to be able to see Scott Frost's UCF/So. Fla game on ABC. (That is a sentence I never thought I would write regarding a Husker Game Day.) I thought it was funny, on the graphic attached, that the UCF game has the highest ticket prices (by a long shot). NU/IA is 3rd, in that category.

     

    Technically, the Memorial Stadium game is still a sellout (correct?) but I'm a little worried about how full the stands are going to look that day. (First time I can ever remember having that thought run through my mind).

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    ** Scott Frost megathread all things SF***

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    I have not read every post, so apologies if this question has come up before:
    How do you think a hire of Scott Frost (and Company) would affect this year's recruiting class. Don't you think that almost **anybody** previously looking at Nebraska would see Scott Frost as an even better reason to come here? In other words, would we lose anybody (unless Frost's team didn't think they were a good fit). On the flip side, are there any good recruits that Frost & Co. might convince to leave Florida and come with them from their list of recruits, that were not on Nebraska's radar?

    ** Scott Frost megathread all things SF***

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    52 minutes ago, GamingGlen said:

    Would Scott Frost stay at UCF if they offered a pay raise, gave free tickets to the game to students (so there would be 12 more people at the games), and renovate the stadium including a Runza stand?


    Maybe he would if the Runza stand offered the Italian Runza and the Philly Runza all year long.

    ** Scott Frost megathread all things SF***

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    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Coach Power'T said:

     

    This is the kind of thing that bothers me. If in 2012 in an interview, he said NU was his dream job...if that's the case, why take more money to eliminate funding toward assistants he wants.

     

    He doesn't seem like that kind of guy to me.

    The whole Assistant Coach question is an interesting one. Sure we are going to pay big bucks for Scott Frost. But how much are we going to give him for assistants?

     

    LSU led the NCAA in 2016 with almost $5.8M for assistants. Clemson was 2nd with almost $5.4M. Alabama was only $70K behind Clemson. Nebraska was 20th on that list, with $3.75M. Central Florida spent $2.13M on assistants. Source (click the column heading you want to sort on).

    ** Scott Frost megathread all things SF***

    in Husker Football

    Posted · Edited by cheekygeek
    added "had they lost" for clarity

    There is no alternate universe in which to find the answers, but I wonder how much the cancelled UCF games added to SF's future paychecks? Georgia Tech might have been one of the toughest tests on their schedule (and would have surely bumped them from the Ranking that they now enjoy - had they lost). Even if they were not losses, those two cancelled games are games in which no UCF players were injured, which paid unknown dividends down the road. While those two hurricanes caused a lot of financial damage, they likely resulted in quite a windfall for Mr. Frost & Co.

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    Turn Around - How long?

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    Posted · Edited by cheekygeek
    typos

    We have talented players on the roster. But we have a combination of things happening right now that could be changed quickly by a competent coaching staff: 

     

    • Good coaches match their schemes to their personnel. I feel like Diaco's first mistake was coming in with a scheme and trying to make the existing personnel fit that. As was said at the start of the season, it effectively turned everybody on defense into Freshmen.

     

    • We also need to get back to basics on both lines. Everything starts there. Your "skill" players don't get much of a chance on offense if the line doesn't do its job. 

     

    • When it comes to motivation, I feel like it is a combination of knowing that this coaching staff's evaluation of their play is not going to affect their position on the depth chart NEXT year **and** going into "don't want to get injured" mode. I don't have a better explanation for how Minnesota could rush only 3 and still sack a mobile QB at the end of that debacle of a game. 

     

    • Finally, we need a coach on the sideline that understands human psychology. A lot of people forget that Tom Osborne had both a Masters and a PhD in Educational Psychology. If you don't think that influenced his coaching then you missed a lot. Now our next coach doesn't need a PhD in psychology, but they do need to understand how to push players buttons and motivate them. And they need to understand how important it is to dominate your opponent psychologically. You don't do things in a game that give hope to the other side (like go for it on 4th down in your own territory when there is a lot of game left to play and the score means that it is still anybody's game).

     

    • A new coach is not going to make next year's schedule any less daunting, but they CAN affect the product on the field and way the players approach each game (and the amount of effort we see there).

     

    This is not, by any means, an exhaustive list but just the things I see "off the top".

     

     

     

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    ** Scott Frost megathread all things SF***

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    2 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

    OK....if I knew the fan base was searching the web for my wedding pictures and spreading them around.....I probably would find that somewhat disturbing.


    Fair enough. Some might find that someone could post over 20,000 times to a forum that was not about curing cancer somewhat disturbing. But to each his own. :D In fairness, most of our fan base, if given the choice between the Cornhuskers returning to greatness and curing cancer would probably choose the former.

    ** Scott Frost megathread all things SF***

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    As long as I'm running my ignorance up a flagpole to see if anybody salutes...

     

    I'd just like to add that, from a bargaining standpoint, Moos needs to have somebody else he is (allegedly) interested in when going after Frost. He needs to be able to throw a little scare into Frost that the job is NOT just automatically his and he might go a different direction (to also keep the price tag at least somewhat reasonable). I'd just like to throw out there this: That Les Miles' expressing interest in Oregon State is really just a way of him saying that he is very open to job openings right now. Being a former coach himself, he knows better than to publicly express interest in a job that already is manned by a sitting coach (even one who is expected to be fired). That is just professional courtesy.

     

    So, I'm guessing that Les Miles is also on Moos' short list right now.

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