Have you played any athletic sports? Honest question. I have played from youth: travel Ice Hockey, Amateur Hockey, High School football and college. One thing I loved about my coaches? They motivated the living f#&% out of us and fired us up for games. And we wanted to rip our opponents’ heads off.
The games we lost sometimes we were a direct reflection of our coach. If something seemed off with him personally, he/they lacked the enthusiasm to go on. It weighs on a player’s psyche. Because a coach is like a father figure to you. You spend more time with coaches and assistants than your own family in college.
Yes, it is a teams job to pull together but when you’re a young athlete in this day and age, that is something kids take for granted. They want to be led by a leader who is in charge. One of the things I loved about Bo Pelini was how he talked about “the process” accountability, wanting IT every single day. Can you wake up everyday and get after it?
Do you see this under Scott Frost? Do you see any urgency to improve, to motivate his own players he recruited? Because I don’t. Thus, as the leader of our football program, his lack of motivational skills sticks out like a sore thumb now. His record is testimony to his failed coaching career at NU.
