Dear Scott Frost

Born N Bled Red said:
Well bud, we all knew what a huge rebuild project this was when Frost was hired. What's more he's had the worse string of luck any coach has had with cancelled games, pandemics etc. 

Additionally our team is completely devoid of senior leadership. Last year our line was bunk and our only real option at qb played the whole season injured. We all knew this would take time. Is the record worse than I expected? Yep. Should Frost's seat be hot at all, nope.

Do Nebraska fans need to quit offering coaches ultimatums yup. Solich says hi. Pelini was right, Fairweather. 
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I don't get it. We have high expectations. 

We can criticise Frost for mistakes which are warranted. Like leaving Jurgens at Center or running the ball on 3rd and 8 to settle for a field goal.

 
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If I were to give advice to Coach Frost, which would be pretty rich considering my non existent coaching resume, I would ask him to make this program HIS program. Hire an OC and DC who will enact the Frost vision for football, not their own. It was the reason I had a problem with getting rid of the OC last year. Was he running a bad system or not running the system Scott had laid out. If he was running his own offense, then Why? We hired Scott for HIS offense. From now on make sure that the offense is the Frost offense as directed by Lubik. And the Frost defense as directed by Chin. Lastly, Scott should be heavily involved in the special teams. Have help, I get that, but since the players, 80-90 percent of them, cut their teeth in coverage and protection packages, the coach should establish relationships with each guy there and let them know how Nebraska football is going to work. He would get the best athlete and position evaluations first hand for the guys who are going to make up the core of the roster. And HC involvement also gives automatic importance to the fine details that become the difference between wins and losses. Knowing the kick abilities for punt, place kick, kick off and onside kick makes it easier to make critical decisions down the stretch run of games. It would also provide a chance to evaluate the versatility of the specialist groups for any tricks or fakes or special kicks . 

I know we're all frustrated here. There's no easy answers. Scott is here for the immediate future and all we can do is hope that whatever change, scheme wise, needs to be made is indeed made.

 
huskerfan74 said:
In keeping with the theme of this post:

Dear Scott Frost,

please consider donating your paycheck and that of your coaches to charity. That would be the best use of this money since you have failed to earn it. Once you put a good product on the field, you can start cashing your checks again.
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While I get the message behind this post, I don’t agree with this. The amount of pressure and mental strain one has to put up with when a whole state plus millions of others are watching your every move and ready to scrutinize when something goes wrong is something most can’t deal with.
 

While I do think a gesture like him volunteering to bring his salary down this a year a bit due to covid and others losing their jobs in the athletic department would be a good thing, I think the man has some heavy f’n weight on his shoulders right now where it borderlines unhealthy. The guy wants to see this work and I think many of us need to realize he’s a god damn human just like the rest of us

 
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gossamorharpy said:
While I get the message behind this post, I don’t still agree with this. The amount of pressure and mental strain one has to put up with when a whole state plus millions of others are watching your every move and ready to scrutinize when something goes wrong is something most can’t deal with.
 

While I do think a gesture like him volunteering to bring his salary down this a year a bit due to covid and others losing their jobs in the athletic department would be a good thing, I think the man has some heavy f’n weight on his shoulders right now where it borderlines unhealthy. The guy wants to see this work and I think many of us need to realize he’s a god damn human just like the rest of us
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I do not disagree with at all. However, i wish he would come out and tell us the truth. Instead, his pressers sound like this team is one step away from being competitive. I would completely understand if we showed some signs of improvement but that is not the case. Nick Saban is under pressure, Urban Meyer was under pressure, but they were still scrutinized when their teams lost. He is a good man and a very decent human being but he is also getting a very high salary and not producing results on the field. If you hired a contractor to do some remodeling and they did a horrible job, would you pay them? In three years, tell me one improvement? We still commit the dumbest penalties that either bail teams out or kill our drives, we turnover the ball in almost every game, we play undisciplined football, we do not have many weapons on offense, we have no vertical threat whatsoever, we have no special teams, and we do not seem to take any steps to correct any of this...if it were anyone other than Frost, you would be saying the same thing. However, since it is Frost and since we know he is a decent human being, we are not asking for him to be fired but simply admit that this team is not making any progress so that they can begin to take corrective actions. When the players listen to him in pressers, they feel like the fans are expecting too much and that this team is on the right track. If you think we are on the right track then I have nothing else to add.

 
huskerfan74 said:
I do not disagree with at all. However, i wish he would come out and tell us the truth. Instead, his pressers sound like this team is one step away from being competitive.
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Did you not watch the game yesterday?  I know you did because you were in full meltdown in the game thread from start to finish.

We were competitive.  We had the ball at the end to win the game. Had it not been for the muffed punt by CTB we may have won.

We're not where we want to be but we're also not where we were during the last stages of the Riley years when we were getting absolutely dominated.  I know nobody wants to hear that because then their crying is all for not.  

 
huskerfan74 said:
In keeping with the theme of this post:

Dear Scott Frost,

please consider donating your paycheck and that of your coaches to charity. That would be the best use of this money since you have failed to earn it. Once you put a good product on the field, you can start cashing your checks again.
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I couldn't possibly care less what Frost does with his pay. But logic says that money represents opportunity cost.

I will guess that there are practically zero lifelong fans who would say that Frost is "earning his paycheck" with his current 'sker coach win percentage of 34%.

 
Undone said:
I couldn't possibly care less what Frost does with his pay. But logic says that money represents opportunity cost.

I will guess that there are practically zero lifelong fans who would say that Frost is "earning his paycheck" with his current 'sker coach win percentage of 34%.
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I would disagree.  Scott has by far had the toughest job of any husker coach in our lifetime.  Name another coach left in his position.  The man is earning his money... 

 
I think he just tried to do too much too soon and is now paying the the price.  He inherited a garbage program and instead of going with reasonable progress he tried to build a national champion.  It was too big of a gap to try and cover so quickly.  He has gambled a little bit.

He has made a lot of mistakes.  He has players that can’t run his scheme.  He has selected some high profile recruits that don’t appear to be good team players.  He has been too public with the state of the program when he arrived.  He appears to stick with guys that are hurting the team.

 
Born N Bled Red said:
Reading comprehension is a heck of a thing.

"but even Nebraska fans have our limits. You've been doubted before in Lincoln, so let's see it. 2021. No more excuses."
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So is reading into things and broadly applying them to a fanbase.  Look, no one worth their salt as a Husker fan should be looking for Frost to be fired, but that doesn't mean we can't criticize and nitpick.  Should we have sat on our hands while Osborne lost to Oklahoma repeatedly in the 80's?  

Seeing the same things lose us games over and over again in year three is bothersome.  It's called being a fan and its not always pretty.  Do you really want fans to loose their passion?  Become apathetic?  Because that will lead to a lot of empty seats at Memorial Stadium on Saturdays.  And a boring HuskerBoard.

Frost is clearly still learning as a coach and that's OK.  He'll get time.  Many of us probably unrealistically thought he was more of a finished product when he got here than he turned out to be.  But he's our guy and will get this thing figured out.  

 
Moiraine said:
If our team is bad because the coaches face pressure, we have s#!t coaches.
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What if our center can’t snap good because the other team was clapping? Haha. Ok so their clapping might make him snap early but does it make him also snap over the qb head, down at his ankles and off to the left and right? 

 
Scarlet said:
Did you not watch the game yesterday?  I know you did because you were in full meltdown in the game thread from start to finish.

We were competitive.  We had the ball at the end to win the game. Had it not been for the muffed punt by CTB we may have won.

We're not where we want to be but we're also not where we were during the last stages of the Riley years when we were getting absolutely dominated.  I know nobody wants to hear that because then their crying is all for not.  
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We got dominated by Illinois......  His winning percentage is less than Riley's....We are a bottom feeder of the B1G.  One of the worst offenses in the country.....I'm all for giving Frost time, but there needs to be an * by the expectations.  NU is a complete crap show right now.  We have 19 guys in the transfer portal right now.  #2 in the B1G out of the 7 teams that have guys listed.  JUCO's who haven't panned out. A senior OL player who gets beat like he stole something,  A TE converted to center who in year 2 continues with the same crap.  And we try to blame it on clapping....That's Frost's guy. You don't think players are WTH up and down the locker room with some of that coaching decisions....

 
I have some advice. Throw the headset away. Run the quadruple fleaflicker option and don't stop running it. The extra points you score will make up for any of the normal mistakes a team makes. I know the advertisers want it to be a nailbiter every time, but let's just score a bunch of points anyway.

 
lo country said:
We got dominated by Illinois......  His winning percentage is less than Riley's....We are a bottom feeder of the B1G.  One of the worst offenses in the country.....I'm all for giving Frost time, but there needs to be an * by the expectations.  NU is a complete crap show right now.  We have 19 guys in the transfer portal right now.  #2 in the B1G out of the 7 teams that have guys listed.  JUCO's who haven't panned out. A senior OL player who gets beat like he stole something,  A TE converted to center who in year 2 continues with the same crap.  And we try to blame it on clapping....That's Frost's guy. You don't think players are WTH up and down the locker room with some of that coaching decisions....
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And f#&%ing Oregon state upset Oregon last night with Gebbia throwing 62% completion 

 
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