Frost Fired!

[ColoradoHusk]

1 minute ago, irafreak said:

Exactly. The right call was to end this after last season. 

I pushed for Frost to be fired last season.  However, there were still a good portion of the fan base who wanted Frost to get more time.  Trev took that fact, re-negotiated Frost's buyout, to the current amount, and allowed Frost's failures to get even the ardent Frost supporters to agree to firing Frost.

[teachercd]

4 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

Booster, "I'm willing to write checks for all of the buyouts and all of the next assistant coaches."

 

Trev, "Maxine, please get Scott Frost on the phone."

Maxine!  Haha!

[Dansker]

1 minute ago, knapplc said:

 

I don't watch a lot of "we just fired our coach" press conferences, but I think the Riley firing was the first time I've even heard about the former coach being there for their termination presser.

I just don’t want anymore unnecessary curses, lol.

[irafreak]

48 minutes ago, krc1995 said:

Spot on. I hope  fans think better of running him and his tenure into the ground. 

His tenure was a disaster. There's nothing wrong with saying this. He's still one of the all time best qbs in husker history.

[ColoradoHusk]

1 minute ago, JJ Husker said:

$7.5M to the athletic department is like $20 to any of us. It doesn’t really matter.

Plus, Trev re-negotiated the original buyout, so Trev saved the Athletic Department money in the long run.

[cheekygeek]

8 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said:

 I am sure that booster didn't enjoy his trip to Ireland and watching last night's game in his skybox last night, so he was willing to help pay for the $7.5 million to get rid of Frost now.

Thank you John Ricketts!

[walksalone]

4 minutes ago, knapplc said:

It'll be 2009 all over again.

 

Only if some talking hairdo asks whoever the coach is, "if Nebraska football is back"

[The Dude]

2 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

$7.5M to the athletic department is like $20 to any of us. It doesn’t really matter.

 

Thank you!  What a bizarre hang up.

[I AM FOOT FOOT]

Someone on another board said last night that there was an altercation after the game and frost would be fired today, and word on this? 

[RedDenver]

3 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

Booster, "I'm willing to write checks for all of the buyouts and all of the next assistant coaches."

 

Trev, "Maxine, please get Scott Frost on the phone."

And that would be a bad decision by Trev. Instead Trev says, "Done. In 3 weeks we'll announce it and get make that money you're giving go even farther than if I did it today."

 

2 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

These are ridiculous.

Trev isn’t just tossing him an addl $7.5M. I doubt he has a coach ready to sign but it does give him maximum time to find one. And this was in no way incompetent, it simply had to be done and was entirely due to the lack of performance by Frost. The addl $7.5M is not an issue for UNL, really.

 

Most likely explanation is that they finally reached the tipping point with more big $$ donors. The restructuring Trev did was likely a compromise between firing him sooner and some donors that couldn’t let go of Frost yet. It was earned and needed to happen. How can it be incompetence?

The additional $7.5 million is still money we could have had going forward instead of paying it to the fired coach. For the next set of assistant coaches, NIL money, etc.

 

Firing Frost now instead of in 3 weeks is just frustration and knee-jerk reaction instead of careful planning. Handicapping the next coach/NIL deals is not a good way to move forward.

[Dansker]

Color me blind but this feels exactly like the Mike Riley firing. Like Riley, Frost fired all his assistants on one side of the ball. Many called for MR to be fired early in his final season but there was no point as SF was patiently waiting. I do NOT think Trev has anyone lined up right now.

 

I do think this is a statement to let the rest of the country know that we have a job opening. It does give us an advantage as far as negotiating goes. This allows Trev ample time to contact HC’s agents. He can’t talk to them directly but at least he can ask: Would you be interested?

[The Dude]

Just now, man eating mastodon said:

Someone on another board said last night that there was an altercation after the game and frost would be fired today, and word on this? 

 

Fired with cause?

[teachercd]

5 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

I don't watch a lot of "we just fired our coach" press conferences, but I think the Riley firing was the first time I've even heard about the former coach being there for their termination presser.

Riley hung out for like 45 minutes AFTER the presser to talk!  Dude was unreal.

[walksalone]

1 minute ago, man eating mastodon said:

Someone on another board said last night that there was an altercation after the game and frost would be fired today, and word on this? 

 

The fabled aquarium guy?

[In the Deed the Glory]

1 minute ago, RedDenver said:

And that would be a bad decision by Trev. Instead Trev says, "Done. In 3 weeks we'll announce it and get make that money you're giving go even farther than if I did it today."

 

The additional $7.5 million is still money we could have had going forward instead of paying it to the fired coach. For the next set of assistant coaches, NIL money, etc.

 

Firing Frost now instead of in 3 weeks is just frustration and knee-jerk reaction instead of careful planning. Handicapping the next coach/NIL deals is not a good way to move forward.

This just isn’t how it works. Like, at all.