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Matt Rhule gives honest answer about Scott Frost’s tenure

Scott Frost went 16-31 in his four-plus seasons on the sideline in Lincoln.

Since becoming Nebraska’s head football coach, Matt Rhule has been asked multiple times about the previous man in charge, Scott Frost. The current head coach has always spoken positively of the former Husker, even referring to him as a friend at his introductory press conference.

With Nebraska’s 2023 record standing at 5-4, Rhule was asked by Andy Staples of On3 about the process-oriented philosophy of the current roster. The head coach said that Frost and his staff played a significant role in creating that culture.

“It has been amazing. I think it’s a credit to Scott Frost and his staff. To me, if you’re a smart coach? You follow good staffs. I remember watching Urban Meyer, one of the coaches I look up to, and he followed Gary Blackney. He followed coaches that had taught guys the right things. So I try to emulate that. I have a lot of respect for Scott.”

Scott Frost went 16-31 in his four-plus seasons on the sideline in Lincoln. He is not currently coaching but has been linked to several possible head coach and offensive coordinator vacancies for next season.

Find a photo gallery of Scott Frost’s Nebraska coaching career below.

USC Big Ten tour of Nebraska with Cornhuskers Wire: why Scott Frost failed

We’re continuing to learn about our future #B1G neighbors. @CornhuskersWire explains how and why Scott Frost fell short.

June is unofficially “Big Ten month” here at Trojans Wire. We’re definitely following each new recruitment Lincoln Riley finalizes, but when not doing that, we’re spending time learning about USC’s future neighbors in the Big Ten.

We talked to Cornhuskers Wire editor Evan Bredeson about Nebraska football past and present, exploring a lot of different topics about the evolution and the decline of the program over time.

One topic we had to address was the failure of Scott Frost, which led to the recent hire of Matt Rhule in Lincoln. Why did Frost, a former Nebraska player who helped lead the school to a national championship in 1997, not thrive as the head coach of the Huskers?

“Scott Frost’s problem was he couldn’t develop talent. He brought in very solid recruiting classes, and the talent never developed,” Bredeson said. “The central piece was Adrian Martinez, his four-star quarterback from California who started as a true freshman, one of the few to ever do that at Nebraska. He never improved from Year 1 to Year 4. He always looked like the same player. That was a recurring theme across the entire team.”

You can catch the full one-hour conversation with Evan below. Follow Cornhuskers Wire for complete Nebraska football coverage:

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Does Nebraska regret parting with Bo Pelini in light of recent struggles?

Pelini, Nebraska’s former coach, won 8-9 games most years. Do the Huskers regret letting him go and hiring Mike Riley and Scott Frost?

The Nebraska Cornhuskers haven’t made a bowl game in several years. Do they regret parting with former head football coach Bo Pelini? After all, Pelini won eight or more games for most of his tenure in Lincoln. He never won a conference championship or reached a top-tier bowl, but compared to Mike Riley and Scott Frost, he was basically Woody Hayes or Urban Meyer.

Are there regrets among Nebraska fans and the school about the divorce with Pelini, given how poorly NU has fared on the field without him?

We asked Cornhuskers Wire Evan Bredeson about this subject.

“Everyone came to the conclusion that it was probably best that it come to an end,” Bredeson said. “At the end it was really bad. His relationship with the fans was bad. He was caught on hot mics going really hard after the fans. That stuff became public and it was really messy.”

So in other words: No, there are no regrets at Nebraska about Bo Pelini. His termination wasn’t just about wins and losses. He angered people on a personal level. It was time to break up the marriage.

Learn more about Nebraska football as we start our Big Ten tour here at Trojans Wire, in which we learn about the schools which will soon be USC’s neighbors in a new conference:

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Report says Scott Frost in the running for open head coach job

Could Scott Frost be back on the sidelines in 2023?

A recent report lists a former Nebraska head football coach as a candidate for a newly open position in the state of Florida. According to Zac Blobner from 95.3 WDAE, recently fired Nebraska coach Scott Frost is a possible candidate for the newly opened job at the University of South Florida. Jeff Scott was fired as the head football coach at USF over the weekend after going 4-26 in his two-plus seasons, including a 1-8 record this year.

The report is clear that Frost is only a possible candidate for the job and is in no way the current front-runner. Blobner states that USF boosters are ready to spend the money to hire former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden.

“Sources tell me the #USF job is Jon Gruden’s if he wants it (1A) & a couple Bulls Boosters are ready to write the check now…”

It’s the last sentence of the report, though, that caught the attention of Nebraska fans.

“Bulls expected to put in a call to Scott Frost too if Gruden declines.”

Frost previously was the head coach at the University of Central Florida during the 2016 and 2017 seasons. He would go 19-7 overall over those two years, including a 13-0 season in 2017. He was fired as the head football coach at the University of Nebraska on September 11th after going 16-31 in 4+ seasons.

There’s no doubt that Frost will get back into coaching at some point but I would honestly be surprised to see him as a head coach at the start of the next football season. This is a developing story so stay tuned to Cornhuskers Wire for the latest.

Below is a collection of social media reactions to Scott Frost being listed as a candidate for the head football coaching job at the University of South Florida.

Iowa Can Still Win the Big Ten West… But it Starts This Week

The Big Ten West Division is still there for the taking. Iowa just has to decide this week against Illinois whether or not it wants it.

This is the crucial point of the season.

Once seen as a potential trap game in between two Big Ten juggernauts in Michigan and Ohio State, Iowa’s midseason clash at Illinois on Saturday night is the defining matchup of the season. How this game in Champaign, Illinois will largely dictate the rest of the season for the Hawkeyes.

It has not been a great start to the season for the Hawkeyes. Iowa is 3-2 after five weeks, splitting their two conference games. While above .500, the method in which they’ve won their games has instilled little confidence into a restless Hawkeyes fanbase. Iowa is currently ranked 122nd in points per game, only scoring 16.4 points a contest. The offense has been flat out horrendous.

Twice this season Iowa has been held under 10 points, that was the first two games against South Dakota State and rivals Iowa State. Both of those contests, mind you, were at home. Scoring a combined 14 points against an FCS opponent and a rival Cyclones squad that is sitting at 3-2 as well. Their only other two wins are over Southeast Missouri State and Ohio by the way.

You know it’s bad when the offense is seen as improved after scoring 27 points against two bad opponents. Let this sink in. Incarnate Word were able to put up 28 more points against Nevada than the Hawkeyes were. It has been atrocious all year on offense, and we were reminded of that once again last week with yet another embarrassing loss to Michigan.

While hopes of making it to the Big Ten Championship may seem folly after a disappointing start to the campaign, the West Division is still ripe for the taking. The division is currently sitting in a seven way tie, pretty much every team with a 1-1 conference record through two weeks of Big Ten play. Entering Week Six, it seems that nobody has any real intentions of winning the Big Ten West.

It seemed at the beginning that Minnesota would finally stake their claim on the division, taking a much needed next step further under coach P.J. Fleck. The Gophers started the year off a convincing 4-0 with a big win over Michigan State. That feather in the hat looks increasingly less notable as the Spartans’ season progresses though.

Minnesota just lost their first game of the season last week to Purdue 20-10. The things that were bad about the Gophers in previous years returned. The Boilermakers are back to intriguing status after the upset, but have been massively inconsistent so far. So what you will about losing to a good Penn State team, you’d like to see a conference competitor do much more than beat Florida Atlantic by two.

Wisconsin and Nebraska are two teams in complete disarray as we approach the mid-way point. The Cornhuskers finally ripped the bandaid off a few weeks back, firing head coach Scott Frost. While they were dismantled the next week by Oklahoma, they did manage to beat Indiana this week… whatever that’s worth.

Wisconsin, meanwhile, finds themselves at the bottom of the Big Ten and without a coach. Long time head coach Paul Chryst found himself on the chopping block after a 34-10 loss to Illinois, ending an eight year tenure in Madison. Defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard will take over, but there is big trouble in Wisconsin. The Badgers have been embarrassed in back to back weeks by Big Ten opponents, falling victim to the Ohio State machine 52-21 the week prior.

It should be noted that Northwestern is there with their 1-4 overall record. That’s all the time I feel like devoting to the team that suffered losses to Southern Illinois and Miami (Ohio) and gained their only victory against Nebraska.

This leaves us with upcoming opponent Illinois. The Illini have appeared to be the most competent of the West Division squads so far, their only loss to Indiana. I will once again mention that a horrendous call went against Illinois that changed the game. Bret Bielema’s squad have won the rest of their games pretty convincingly though.

As you can see, for all of the woes Iowa has suffered so far this season, they’ve been equally replicated by everyone else in the division. Besides Illinois, who did lose to Indiana at the end of the day, everyone else seems to be derping their way through this year. The path to the Big Ten Championship is still visible, especially with the Hawkeyes’ Big Ten West slate still upcoming on the schedule.

This is the critical week, though. This is where we find out if there’s anything left to be gained from 2022.

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A running list of college football head coaches already fired in 2022

Keeping tabs on all the college football coaches who have been fired during the 2022 season.

Getting fired from a cushy college football coaching job isn’t great, and losing your job before the season ends is worse. But getting fired before the end of September is just embarrassing and a clear signal from the program that it didn’t have a ton of faith in you to begin with.

Well, a solid handful of college football coaches have already given pink slips — some of whom we predicted would be on the job hunt at some point this season. So as more coaches are looking for a new gig, we’re keeping tabs with a running list of FBS coaches who have been fired so far in the 2022 season.

Going into Week 6, there are already five names on this list to potentially shake up the coaching carousel.

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Behind Enemy Lines: Cornhuskers Wire previews No. 6 Oklahoma at Nebraska

To prepare for Oklahoma vs. Nebraska, we go Behind Enemy Lions with Cornhuskers Wire.

From 1921 to 1997, the Oklahoma Sooners and the Nebraska Cornhuskers met annually in a game that was once one of the better rivalries in college football.

When the Big 8 and members of the Southwest Conference merged to form the Big 12, the two teams would still play regularly until the Cornhuskers left for the Big Ten in 2012. After over a decade, OU and Nebraska renewed the rivalry in a defensive 23-16 win for the Sooners last season.

Now the Oklahoma Sooners will make their first road trip to Lincoln since their 10-3 loss in the 2009 season.

Sooners Wire had a chance to catch up with Cornhuskers Wire’s Evan Bredeson to get a little more up close and personal vantage point of the 2022 version of the Nebraska Cornhuskers!

Three keys that’ll help Oklahoma secure a road win against Nebraska

Oklahoma travels to Nebraska to take on the Cornhuskers. Here are three keys to the game that put OU in the best position to win.

We’ve seen two games from Oklahoma. While the results haven’t been bad, there’s this sense we don’t quite know what Oklahoma is this year.

We don’t have that answer yet, but Saturday’s game against Nebraska will go a long way in answering that question.

Sure, Nebraska isn’t a top 15 program as it once was. It also just fired a head coach who was a returning favorite son. Scott Frost didn’t get the job done at Nebraska, which will sting for a long time. However, the program moves on, and Oklahoma cannot get wrapped up thinking Nebraska will roll over.

With experience in the rivalry, Brent Venables knows what this game means to both sides. Venables will have to prepare his team for a hostile environment for the first time this season.

As for the on-field things to watch out for that could help Oklahoma leave Lincoln, Nebraska, as winners on Saturday night? We’ve got you covered.

Up Next: Keys to an Oklahoma win

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2022-2023 FBS Head Coaching Carousel

The Coaching Carousel is now officially live for the FBS head coaching changes from 2022 to 2023. Up first, Scott Frost.

With the first coaching change now already in the books, it is time to plug in the good old Coaching Carousel Tracker. I have taken it upon myself to track coaching carousel changes in FBS football for years on a previous website and am happy to finally bring my approach to the topic to Nittany Lions Wire.

As a refresher, we are tracking all head coaching changes at the FBS level. Any time a head coach gets removed as head coach, we will get this tracker updated as quickly as possible. It will also be a fun way to track all of the head coaching changes, who is gone for one reason or another, and who replaces them.

Scott Frost got us started with this year’s coaching carousel after getting removed as head coach just three games into the season by Nebraska. You can tell the university felt there was no other choice because Nebraska paid twice as much in the middle of September to move on from Frost as it would have cost if it waited until October 1.

As of September 12, 2022, there has been one head coaching change in the FBS. Below is the full chart of coaching changes listed by FBS school. Below that, there will be a more detailed breakdown of the coaching change.

Sun Belt triumph, Alabama’s close call and the downfall of Scott Frost: Winners and losers from a wild Week 2

Week 2 featured three top-10 teams falling and the first coach firing of the season.

What just happened?

Generally, the second week of the college football season is a bit of a slog compared to Week 1, and this week’s slate didn’t appear to be the strongest. How wrong we were.

In one of the wildest single weekends of college football in recent memory, three top-10 teams went down — two of which lost to opponents from the Sun Belt. Unranked Texas took No. 1 Alabama to the wire, and after yet another embarrassing one-score loss, Nebraska finally pulled the plug on the Scott Frost experiment.

Let’s try to make sense of the madness in Week 2 of the 2022 season, which is shaping up to be potentially bonkers.