Let's hear from you Common Fans: if the Akron game hadn't been cancelled, would that have changed everything?

This one hurt. 2021 will go down foe me as one of the most painful seasons to watch. That horrific MSU loss just killed me, and it never got better. We all wanted Frost to succeed, but he just wasn't the guy

Hey, at least they had a good week of practice. Probably the best week of practice they’ve ever had.

Two things really struck me when SF was hired. 1. A lot of the fans thought he was going to change his scheme when he got here. They said either (he's gonna run Tom's offense or they said well he will have to. I asked the fans how will you feel when his offense allows other teams to rack up more yards and points. They told me that wouldn't happen. 2. SF is the oddest Nebraskan ever. Remember in the heart of the 90's he chose to not play for Nebraska. He also chose to live in places on the coast. He is the least like what typical Nebraskan would ever be like. While someone like Matt Rhule is much closer to what you would describe as someone like that.

Fantastic conversation with Evan. Really appreciated his candor and insight!

Remember first game we had against Akron. the storm that canceled the game. Almost was a sign from the football gods that this wasn't going to work out.

Scott Frosts horrific special teams lost us a lot of games

Answer: Because the fans and media (yes, you're complicit) still obsess over issues like this almost two years later.

One word.... cocaine. (joke) That's a rolling joke on our show. This is a great open convo about this, and really we think the answer sits in the muddy blend of false bravado, insecurity, poor leadership skills and immaturity. A conversation we had a lot before his termination was focused on him "holding on too tightly". He was too invested in the program. Hindsight, we're not sure it was the program he was so tightly grasping, but his own personal achievement and gravitas.

Need a Mickey Joseph episode. There is a lot worth discussing there.

He’s not a ceo coach, he’s a play caller coach. And the pressure of the job got to him, reports are that he got pretty lazy once things weren’t going well and there were some personal ‘health’ issues that he struggled with probably daily

Good subject . I think Frost getting a huge contract $$$$ kind of changed him .

Loved this series. My opinion is that the Calahan and the Riley hires were horrible. I loved Pelini, but hated the bad losses and was OK he was let go. And Frosty... The Chosen One Star Wars reference is perfect. So disappointed that his tenure was such a train wreck. Still have fingers crossed that Rhule "saves" the program. And "saves" is not an overstatement...

Scott Frost. The savior of Nebraska football. How could one of our own, experienced a natty, not get us back? Early, did not understand B1G and what it took to win. Had AM2, but after the first year, didnt have the O line to protect him. By year 3, still no culture and it started downhill. Then the fishbowl took its toll on him personally. Dad died. All these are things I know. Cant speculate on other reasons. Fail to fire and bring in B1G coaches. I don't hate em. Just didnt work. I've moved on completely. Rhule is the guy. One way or another. Rhule is going to take us back. GBR ☠️☠️☠️☠️

Drunk

i think there was one thing you didnt touch on that i think effected Frost quite a bit was his his dad passing away. specially with all the pressure he was under at the time. i think it was just a lot on his plate and it got overwhelming quick cause he is an alum and former player. media hounded him pretty good. also had a lot of guys on the team who didnt buy into what he was trying to do. i think there was some big factors that turned Frost away from wanting to be at Nebraska. i feel like he kinda gave up.

The Illinois blowout and Minnesota loss vs basically their 3rd string in the Covid season was the nail in the coffin for me. I admittedly never thought he was gonna work not that I didn’t want him to. He was my favorite player when I was a kid and the reason why I’m still to this day a NY Jets fan. However I knew for a fact he wasn’t ready. His UCF squads both years played extremely undisciplined football it had just bounced their way in 17 where it hadn’t 16 when they went 6-7. You could really see in the 21 season where they played everyone really close that it wasn’t a talent issue. They had really good football players but they always found a way to beat themselves. I admit that I am not the common fan. I pretty much have disagreed with everyone on this series as well as the majority of our fanbase. I don’t think Scott Frost is a really good football coach. I do think he had potential to be one eventually. I think he out of all the coaches discussed in this series he is by far the worst one. He was given by far the most leeway. His tenure honestly made me hate our fanbase and question if I even wanted to be a fan anymore. Thinking back on it still pisses me off the amount of excuses I heard from blaming Riley to the refs or the big ten was out to get Nebraska. It was never the lack of halftime adjustments or the poor clock management or the blatant ignoring of special teams as a whole or the fact that not once did they have a year with a positive turnover margin. It was never the fault of coaching. Rhule has really restored a lot of confidence I have as a fan of this team but I don’t know if my confidence in the common fan will ever return. This series has shown me that y’all haven’t changed a lick. The most dedicated fans in the country surely but very far from the greatest. Thanks for reading.

How did Scott Frost not work out? If you believe the rumors are true..he and his buddy Matt Davidson treated the athletic dept. like freshman year in a fraternity. Use your imagination. He blew it.

To start he brought everyone from UCF and those assistance were not big10 ready. Which of those guys works now at a big time job...any...I'll wait. Those OC, any working as an OC at a big time school. He was stubborn, egotistical, wanted to maybe relive some 'glory days' gambling, drinking, Larry's passing, not grounded.

He was too busy getting drunk and knocking up country club waitresses. He hardly even came to work.

At least they weren't doing the wrong squats. Didn't the OWH have a special edition superhero comic book on the return of HC Scott Frost? Seriously, though, he was our Rich Rod. Dynamic offense at a lower tier but couldn't make things work in the Big 10.

The one thing that could have changed the wins an lostes is the not tackling all week long. What you do all week is the way you play in the game. Most of the one score loses could have been won if they tackled some of the tackles that were missed. You can not if you do not tackle all week long.

Coach Frost had no passion or enthusiasm on the sidelines when he got to NE. I watched him coach at UCF and he had energy, brought energy to the team from the get go, I think he tried to be the stoic Coach Osborne and that only worked for TO. It almost looked like he knew he made a mistake but he was going to ride it out until they fired him? Plus, if the stories of his night life with his pal Matt Davison were half right, he made a poor role model for the team, which I think he lost very early in his tenure. Who knows for sure why, but glad he is gone.

Like Scott Fraudst gives one shit about his wife or family. Come on.

We never should have extended him after year 3. Might’ve been the 2nd worst decision our athletics department made besides firing Pelini

What did SF even mean when he said combine Husker Power with Oregon Speed? Like really think about that. I doubt you can combine that. He made some big mistakes with the team being surface level tough but actually pretty soft.

Like you said there's a lot of layers as to why it didn't work, but I think the overall lack of attention to detail was the root of most of the problems. Just to add another layer that didn't help anything that you guys didn't bring up (I'm sorry if you did and I missed it) was Scott's dad passing away in 2020.

I felt like the golden child was our savior..i also had a strange feeling he was coerced or pressured into coming to Nebraska and he may have had reservations.. i also from the start after watching his body language and listening to him something seemed off but i ignored it . He seemed like he hated talking to the press and seemed unfriendly. .i supported Frost right up until the on side kick in Ireland and looking at him lost on the side lines like he checked out ...Now i hope he stays out of the state. I have lost all respect for the guy .

He is a drunk. It's not hard to figure out why it didn't work out!

To me it all comes down to one word. Character < the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. Scott lacked the full gamut of the qualities required to lead a complex organization like NU football. I think we all know of many examples or rumors of things that showed him failing in several areas. Tragic actually. Personally, I wish him the best.

He failed for three reasons: arrogance, failure to defend teams, and laziness! That defense throughout his years was like Bill Callahan’s defenses! Clueless and stupid! Hiring buddies who are poor coaches is just plain stupid! The RB coach/recruiting coordinator was the worst coach!

I'm a Buckeye and I was scared that Frost was the "home run hire" Nebraska needed to become nationally relevant again. You never know

Simple... our recruiting became soft under Riley...and Frost had to use those classes. Imagine if Frost came after Pelini or Callahan or Solich who all were better recruiters then Riley

All sorts of reasons. But here is the biggest. 1: He never managed to get the Inside Zone to truely work. I know 2 offenses really well from studying them. (Okay three if we include T.O.'s offense.) I understand the flexbone and the chip kelly system. The system is predicated on getting the inside zone to work consistently. Not the Zone read and not the bubble screen. Now I think part of this was the SF moved away from Chip's core system. 2: The hurry-up offense doesn't work as well in a grind-it-out league. Before people say anything what Chip/SF run was not what tOSU runs. It just isn't. The way to beat Chip/SF's system became to play very fundamentally sound. Stanford did it to him all the time after the 2011 season, (Stanford was also doing it in 2010 before they collapsed in the 2nd half of that game). So, moving to this league it was always going to be difficult in a league that for the most part still grinds wins out. 3. Development of players. SF (unlike Matt Rhule at Temple who had equal if not worse talent) played with a speed/talent edge at UCF. They also were pretty good (going to a BCS bowl the year before they went 0-12) and beating the team they played. SF never developed players well at all. He seemed to believe that his name (for one season alone) would attract top end speed guys who could beat opposing teams. 4. Run Game we have to look back at this again. I really think people were tricked into thinking we had a good run game 2018 - 2022. We did statistically have a good run game usually in the top 30 of college football. But outside of the 2018 season we never developed (and we are still struggling to find/develop) a running game that flows through the Running backs not the QB. QB rush yards are nice but they are not (unless you are Tebow) going to wear and tear the opposition down.

In hind sight, maybe journalists around husker football should leave his family out of spotlight. It's a fair request. Maybe Scott didn't feel welcome because unfortunately not all nebraska fans are good people.

Nebraska’s demise started the day Tom Osborne retired. Solich, from ohio, was a bum! Pellini, from ohio & a buttnut grad, was the guy driving NU into the big 10 and off the cliff. The powers that “are” in the big 10, were not going to allow NU, after entry, to have any success. Frost’s failure was a calculated one.

Baggage & alcohol

I believe there's a curse hanging over Nebraska ever since bo pelini was let go. I hope the curse left when Nebraska fired scott frost.

Alcohol

Drinking Problem

You're willing to forget that Phillips beat a woman and Scott stood up for her? How demented are you to think the PROGRAM is more important than do the right thing?

I blame it on powers beyond our own comprehension. Lightning storms and curses. That’s it.

Let it fucking go

George leary set up ucf not frost

Who cares

Because he’s a bad coach and even worse person.

Was it Scotts fault? He made one bad decision. He came to Nebraska when Nebraska was in the Big Ten. One way of winning is playing lesser competition. Osborne coached in the Big8 . Wins against lesser competition can be celebrated. In that era if you ran the Big 8 then it was coin toss at a bowl. Rhules time of failure is coming. Nebraska is like the guy who borrows too much on his mortgage to make his wife happy. Then they deal with the stress of not belonging in the house.