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The boo birds came out during the Central Florida game in 1997. Pretty sure he got pulled for a series or 2 in the first half and London came in but Frost went back in after.

 
How many of you were contemporaries with Frost in 1995-1997? Seems like a lot of opinions are based off of message board gossip rather than actually being there in those days.

 
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knapplc said:
How many of you were contemporaries with Frost in 1995-1997? Seems like a lot of opinions are based off of message board gossip rather than actually being there in those days.
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Not sure what this is in response to.

But I had a friend (a few years older than me) in the marching band and she said he wanted to barge through the line at the ASU game to get to the locker room and they wouldn't let him pass which pissed him off, and the way she told me about it I could tell she thought he was in the wrong.

I think she, although she grew up in Nebraska, was somehow completely oblivious to what had happened in the game and what it meant to the team and to Frost.

 
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knapplc said:
How many of you were contemporaries with Frost in 1995-1997? Seems like a lot of opinions are based off of message board gossip rather than actually being there in those days.
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I was at NU from fall of 94 thru spring of 98. I saw every home game that Frost played in person. My opinions of his on field play were from my own two eyes.
Frost was booed against Central Florida in 97. He didn't play great and NU wasn't blowing them out like everyone thought we would. The main reason was Culpepper was a stud at QB and kept UCF in the game with his abilities.

 
@Moiraine & ColoradoHusk - those are similar to my recollections of Frost as well. Met him once or twice in that 1996-1997 span and he came across cocky and arrogant - similar to a lot of guys on a football team at that age.

I was at the UCF game where the crowd booed. I was at the Iowa State game where the crowd was full of praise. He evolved over the season, that team evolved, and it was deservedly in the national title picture at the end. No quarterback on that roster was going to beat Missouri besides Frost. The biggest problem that 1997 team had was a lack of killer instinct on the defense, although they seemed to figure it out for the bowl game.

 
I remembered wrong. I remember the booing and my teenaged self was excited to see London. I even remember the UCF game, just not that it was the same game. But I believe y'all now.

 
Moiraine said:
I remembered wrong. I remember the booing and my teenaged self was excited to see London. I even remember the UCF game, just not that it was the same game. But I believe y'all now.
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Another thing about the Akron and Central Florida games was that Osborne played those games pretty vanilla on offense. He was saving the designed QB traps and other designed runs for Frost until the Washington game.

In the Washington game, I remember everyone thinking "wow, Frost is amazing!!!" (well, maybe St. Paul didn't think that).

 
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Speaking of Akron, I remember hearing on the radio during the Akron game that one of the Akron players peed himself on the field and they had to take a time out to clean it up.

 
Tom Osborne's shotgun spread plays he ran for Scott Frost and even his single back under center formations are the basis for today's spread offense. If he would have coached another few years, he would have developed something like the run-spread option that Oregon made famous. It just would have been 10 years earlier than they did it. Combine that with the Blackshirts and we could have seen a run of dominance like never seen in CFB.

He was an offensive genius that had so many formations it was nearly impossible to prepare for when the talent was equal. When he had better talent, forget about it.

 
Moiraine said:
Speaking of Akron, I remember hearing on the radio during the Akron game that one of the Akron players peed himself on the field and they had to take a time out to clean it up.
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He didn't pee himself, he actually puked on the field. It was an afternoon game that was on August 30th, and it was so dang hot during that game.

 
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In the Deed the Glory said:
Tom Osborne's shotgun spread plays he ran for Scott Frost and even his single back under center formations are the basis for today's spread offense. If he would have coached another few years, he would have developed something like the run-spread option that Oregon made famous. It just would have been 10 years earlier than they did it. Combine that with the Blackshirts and we could have seen a run of dominance like never seen in CFB.

He was an offensive genius that had so many formations it was nearly impossible to prepare for when the talent was equal. When he had better talent, forget about it.
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Don't you get it!!! It was just option left, option right, and run the ball up the middle.

 
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