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.
Nobody knew we had a huge rebuild project when Frost was hired, and the expectations were reasonable: Frost was expected to immediately do better than Mike Riley with what he was handed (that's why you hired him) then steadily improve as he brought in his players, system and culture.
Nebraska fans weathered the worst start in Nebraska football history (0-6) in 2018 and were hugely optimistic about how the team finished that year. Nebraska fans were not alone in their expectations: the college football world and the pollsters put Scott Frost's 2019 team in their Top 25 and Sleeper lists. Our young, inexperience QB was on most Heisman lists.
Scott Frost has not had the worst luck. Everyone has bad luck. Everyone is dealing with adversity. Do you think he'd be luckier if he got to play Wisconsin this year?
Bad trends and patterns have emerged in this third season. The players under-performing, not buying in and transferring out are largely Scott Frost recruits. This is legitimately troubling,
So let's get it straight. Fan expectations last year were for a sign of improvement, six wins and a low-tier bowl berth. This year we simply wanted to see some bad trends get addressed, maybe play .500 ball in this weird season.
Husker fans are famous for their loyalty and friendliness to opposing fans, but they are also pretty good students of football, and generally smart enough to know that coaches dictate a lot of the problems we're seeing on the field.
Do you know what fanbase would be this critical of a team playing this poorly? Every fanbase.
Frank Solich says hi from Ohio University and a .571 lifetime percentage in a mid-major conference. Bo Pelini says hi from LSU, where he is no longer a head coach but is getting utterly roasted by a fanbase with even higher expectations.