Touchdown Tommie throwing shade at the coaching staff

[Mierin]

This is cruel the way you fans take a single Tommie Frazier tweet and put malice into its meaning.  I find it very hard to believe that Tommie Frazier is going to maliciously go after his backup QB Scott Frost (from the '95 season) after Nebraska falls to 0-6.   I think Tommie was just shocked by the loss, but the Big Ten is gearing up for Nebraska right now.   I hate to see this happen.  I'm saddened by it too.   The ESPN culture typically has fans respond the way Tommie did.  In football, whether it's the NFL or college, the loss seems to fall on either the coaches or the players.  Naturally, in the NFL, the loss lays at the feet of those professional athletes while the coaching staff's role is viewed with less skepticism.  But in college ball, the brunt of a loss seems to attach the coaches to that situation -- or moment.   You guys are reading into Frazier's statements too much there.  I can't understand this hatred.  And to hold Tommie's short NAIA head coaching position over his head - is over the top in my opinion.   (Plus I think he did a fine job as an assistant coach at Baylor under Kevin Steele.)

Just imagine at my alma mater, the University of Georgia.   Are we as fans going to give our beloved Herschel Walker grief over a 2-year failed effort as head coach of Berry College?   LOL!  Hahahahahahaha!!  (Herschel ... You are a washed up loser!    LOL!!)    [I'm only kidding Herschel, if you see this post!   People on this website are being ugly to one of college football's finest players all time, and it saddens me.    You and Frazier are wonderful winners!]

That would not change Georgia fans' feelings of how they feel about Herschel Walker at all.   Believe me!   I know my own state.   And likewise, the short Doane College stint does not define Tommie as well.   Like Herschel Walker, Tommie Frazier guided Nebraska to national championships (somebody besides Alabama, thank the LORD).   And he played for Montreal in the CFL and also went on to coach at Baylor (where I think he needed to stay in the Division I level anyway).  

What year did you graduate?

 

[LaunchCode]

4-8....and lost the last 4 of the season...so in the big picture, Scott came in on a four game losing streak....at the end of a season when normally teams get better.

Wouldn't #17N'western, Minny, #8 Penn state, and Iowa also be better at end of season?  

 

[HuskerMoon]

All I know is that Tommie and I share a similar build. The difference is I was never a college athlete, or a Heisman contender, nor did I ever run a 4.4 forty.... And come to think of it, Tommie always had a little bit of a tude... even when and perhaps especially when he was a player... Anyway.. He'll get over it.

 

[BoSolich]

to the people saying he was being sarcastic... 

tommie was one of the few people saying frost was not a slam dunk hire and would be treated by fans no different than any other coach.

http://www.theticketfm.com/early-break/december-6th-tommie-frazier-sounds-a-little-bitter-about-the-frost-hire/

 

[Making Chimichangas]

No matter who it would or could be leading us to 0-6, there would be PLENTY of threads defending them. People aren't exactly rational, after all. Cheering for a sport team is a tribal social identity sort of a thing - people will always fundamentally look for reasons and justifications and stretches of the imagination to come up with some kind of optimism and belief that things will be good and okay and how they ought to be. 

Or...and I am just spit-balling here...maybe people realize just how terrible we are, the massive size of the rebuild, and that Coach Frost is 6 games into his first season.  And maybe, giving him some time, recognizing the positives, and not over-reacting like spoiled, petulant children is the proper course of action?  Ima go wit dat.

 

[beorach]

You are holding what he did as a 21 year old up way to high.  

Pardon the slight "necro" but you're not giving it (his leading the team many have called the greatest ever in college football) any respect by calling him (the person many consider the greatest Husker ever) names.  If you really think you can sum up what he gave the program as "what he did as a 21 year old," you clearly don't know your team's history.

 

[NUinID]

Tommie Frazier was a great great football player and exactly what the team needed to get over the hump at the time and go on their run.  I can appreciate all he did for Nebraska football as a football player.  

Tommie Frazier, from all I have seen since his playing days is not a great human being.  Even when he played his teammates said he wasn't always the most likable guy, but they respected him. He is still living his glory days and seems to be a little angry with his life in general.    

 

[HuskerPowerVA]

Riley was 4-8 in his third year with the program after a 30 year coaching career.

Frost is 0-6 after having a better season that Mike Riley EVER experienced.  Ever.

It does not matter to me what he did at UCF last year any more than it mattered what Riley did at OSU.  One could say that UCF has not missed a beat without him this year.  I am glad we have Frost, I really am,  but I am tired of hearing about last year at a Group of Five school that I don't care about.  There has to be a time when the kids on the roster right now respond to you, whether they are "his" kids or not.  You can't argue that zero wins more than halfway into the season is as good,  or better, than anyone.