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I'd bet (heavily) on a press conference on Sunday.

This thread will not make it to 400 unless it is to talk about Scott after he's hired.

Another day slips buy with silence from our AD and next HC.

This is an amazing display of professionalism and discipline by Moos and Frost.

Imagine when these traits begin to take hold in our football team.

In addition to Nebraska, the following P5 schools will have new head coaches next year... Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Arkansas, Texas A&M, UCLA, Arizona State, and Oregon State. But it appears that Florida State and potentially Oregon will keep the coaching change wheels turning and who knows how many more P5 coaches will switch locations as a result. We've certainly learned that all it takes for a recruit to back off a commitment is a rumor (FSU, which doesn't technically have a head coach opening yet, has already lost 3 commitments).

When considered from a Nebraska recruiting standpoint, all of these coaching changes (or even the rumors of change) could be very welcome news. Why? Because the uncertainty is likely to make many recruits hold off on signing during the new early signing period which starts on December 20. All of this churn should give Scott Frost more time to get his recruiting sea legs at Nebraska.

So let's get Scott home and hope the heads keep rolling at as many big time programs as possible!

1 hour ago, FTW said:

NU will not announce on Sunday due to NFL. Frost will fly up after his game and officially be introduced as our head coach Monday 12/4.

Frost tells his UCF players right after the game. Press release drops almost simultaneously.

Will be interesting to see if it also names assistants. It's going to be tricky due to UCF bowl game.

Wouldn't be surprised if recruiting starts immediately, in Florida.

Wise men speak because they have something to say.

Fools speak because they have to say something.

Bill Moos and Scott Frost are wise men.

These things are TRUE ....

1 - Nebraska is interested in Frost (confirmed by Moos). 

Interestingly, the only direct press conference question Moos didn't answer was whether or not he was in Philadelphia the weekend UCF played at Temple. Remember that Moos did not travel with the team to Penn State.

2 - Nebraska has no incentive to wait another week for any of it's top candidates except Frost.

Scott is the only guy on the identified short list that is coaching next weekend. Moos knew Riley was going to be fired weeks ago. He could have had the press conference for any of the other candidates lined up for tomorrow. Fuente coached last game yesterday. Campbell coached (poorly) his last game today. 

3 - Frost is the only guy on Nebraska's short list that has an incentive to wait another week if making a change.

Scott wants to coach his undefeated team to a conference championship. The other candidates would want to start immediately, especially with the early signing date looming and a class of 7 kids.

4 - If Frost was staying at UCF, he has incentives to shut down the speculation and sign a lucrative extension. He hasn't done that.

We know Scott wants to coach UCF in the AAC CCG, but if he wanted to stay at UCF beyond that, why would he be waiting to make that known to them? He's clearly not playing them for a pay raise. Plus, what logical reason does Scott have to keep Nebraska waiting if he's not coming? Wouldn't he want to tell Nebraska that he wasn't interested so they could move on?

None of these items guarantee that Scott Frost will be the next Nebraska head coach, but if you put all of it together along with information that has been shared on this board (thanks Hedley), it really isn't difficult to figure this out. Barring a change of heart from one side or the other, Frost is coming home after he coaches for AAC Championship.

1 minute ago, hskrpwr13 said:

Anyone hear the crap the announcer was spewing at end of FSU FLA game? Scott should go to FLA. Can't win national titles at NE. If wants to be like Urban or Saben has to go to FLA. It was annoying.

Remember the talk (before the press conference) about silly season?

IT' HERE !!!

Bray is interim head coach. Is anyone else out? I would guess all stay until new HC decides if he wants to keep anyone. I suppose they could resign, but they'd lose their severance, right?

Watch Florida now. If they are rebuffed by Frost, they will have to move on pretty quickly as silly season is fully underway. Can't picture them waiting until December 3 for Frost (even if they could get him).

4 minutes ago, Redreign22 said:

You mean they dont fire them walking of the field?

If, by they, you mean Athletic Directors. Some of them have come pretty close to firing coaches as they walk off the field.

All Husker fans should be preparing themselves for a week of rumors, lies, and misdirection. The truth will lie somewhere in between and it is usually far less dramatic than the 24/7 media portray.

We all get to choose what we want to believe, but it is a fact that Hank Bounds, Ronnie Green, and Bill Moos have been planning this out for a while now. I don't believe they are going to deviate significantly from that plan now that we've reached the end of the season. They know what the boosters want. They know what the fans want. Better yet, they've listened and learned from people that know what it will take to get Nebraska back on the winning track.

As for the firing... Coaches will be called in. Players will be called in. Once they've been told, Moos will inform all of us through the media. That's how professionals do this.

2 minutes ago, dvdcrr said:

Not sure, Allan maybe a couple years before you?

Ever tried saying what you believe even when you know you are going to catch hell, or do you just jump like a lemming?

 

If Scott cared so much about NU, why did he bolt the state for Stanford?  

Why didn't he throw his hat in three years ago?

Other than cold green cash, why would he want to come to this meat grinder conference, crushing fan and media expectation, with real recruiting difficulties, a place where coach careers go to die in the last 15 years?

When he can wait for a better spot, equal cash while playing annually for CC's?  

Love of the state?  He seems a little too goal oriented for that to me.

Yes, Scott is about to be among the highest paid coaches in the country, but the thing that will bring him to Nebraska is the challenge. He knows the history. He knows the story of Bob Devaney taking over after several coaches tried and failed to bring Nebraska out of a 20+ year slump. He knows that Devaney used the unrivaled passion and grit of an entire state to re-establish Nebraska as one of the winningest college football programs of all time. He knows that Devaney handed the team to a Nebraska kid named Tom Osborne. The point is, Scott knows that Nebraska football is not defined by the last 15 years. Despite the problems Nebraska has experienced recently, the Huskers still have the best record of any college football team in the last 50 years and own the fifth best record of all time.

Scott Frost literally grew up with that history in his blood. Both of his parents spent their lives coaching football in Nebraska. Yes, Scott disappointed Husker fans when left the state to go to Stanford, but he came home to accept the immense challenge of following in the footsteps of a two time national championship quarterback. He knew It would be a difficult path, but he came home anyway, on a mission. He fought hard to win his stripes and ultimately rewarded his home state and his beloved coach with another national championship. 

Frost is clearly confident in his ability to lead others to greatness on the football field. He was not pleased when the now fired AD didn't even call him 3 years ago. So, in 2017, when his home state, represented by the AD that led Oregon out of the wilderness, calls and offers him a lucrative salary to return his alma matter back to the top, why wouldn't he believe he can do the job? Scott doesn't look at Nebraska as a struggling program, he sees it as a team he will coach back to greatness. What could be more goal oriented than that?

2 minutes ago, o-line54 said:

Yes, I was so sure we were going to get news tonight, but we must be a little bit more patient.  We will hear the first batch of good news in the morning.  I am reluctantly going to sleep.  Hope comes tomorrow.

Coaches will be called in first. Then players. After that there will be announcement followed by press conference. 

That was the T.O. playbook and I would be very surprised if that same blueprint isn't used here.

The only question is whether any coaches will be retained for recruiting, etc..

13 minutes ago, Coach Power'T said:

Larry and Carol do not live in Wood River. I was there for 6 years from 2010-2016 and I've never seen or heard of them being there while I was there. Unless they moved back. I could be wrong though.

They live in Lincoln.

5 minutes ago, MichiganDad3 said:

The silver lining of MR's horrible tenure is he created a patient fan base. We are so bad now, that we will wait for success, as long as we see improvement. The next coach will have the easiest time at Nebraska since Bob D.

This is an excellent observation and I wholeheartedly agree. Finishing 4-8 this year may be a blessing in disguise for the next HC. It will be a killer schedule in 2018, but 6-6 without any blowouts will actually have to be viewed as an improvement and if it is 7-5 or 8-4... stop the presses.

3 minutes ago, T_GBR_FAN said:

I was just thinking how quite it is. Either that is really good or really bad... Not much for smoke

It is very good if it is quiet. These are not things any AD or HC wants to play out in public (unless they are simply posturing).

Did anyone hear Matt Davison say, "I can't watch this crap" toward the end of the game? Greg Sharpe was quick to move on to another topic, but wow. 

Good for Matt !!

2 minutes ago, ladyhawke said:

I think that Scott through his agent had conditions in his contract with Moos.  Things like:

-The decision will not be discussed, which Moos has not.

-Scott would be allowed to coach his UCF team for as long as they played.

-The contract would not be signed until the UCF season, including bowl games were over.

-Scott has full control with regards to the hiring of his new staff.

 

Like I said, I will eat crow if I'm wrong but I believe Scott is . Others have tried but they have all failed.

Waiting for Frost until after the bowl game? Not gonna happen.

1 minute ago, Hedley Lamarr said:

I do get pissed at some of Rileys responses....the I know how to fix all of our problems etc. He did not have to go there or say that. He is a career 500 coach and now he had a eureka moment? BS Mike 

Yeah, that was bad. I think he's just having a hard time believing this all unraveled so quickly. Just a short while ago it seems he was living in a world where Tanner Lee was going to turn the offense around and Bob Diaco was going to fix the D. To have it all go so badly has to be a blow to whatever ego he has left.

Just now, FrantzHardySwag said:

This will be a terrible opinion on here, but is it possible that Frost is putting Moos in a bad spot? If he plays the waiting game and doesn't choose us, aren't we kinda boned and he leaves Moos holding his you know what?

What possible reason would Frost have to put Moos (or Nebraska) in a bad spot.

Perhaps you heard how tough it was for Matt Davison to call the game tonight? That's Scott's best man.

This brings up another very valid reason to believe Scott is coming home. Seriously, if Scott wasn't coming to Nebraska, wouldn't he have told them to move on so they could hire another coach and start recruiting?

1 minute ago, Vince R. said:

so then why would it have been stupid?

Because waiting until tomorrow gives players and coaches closure. Firing Riley tonight would have done nothing to help the program.

This is all playing out exactly as it should.

8 minutes ago, Chalk1988 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't it interesting he didn't have to field any questions like this about Nebraska?