Nebraska fires Scott Frost

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A home loss to a Sun Belt team, after blowing an 11-point lead to Northwestern on the heels of a 3-9 season, proved to be the breaking point for the patience of Nebraska's athletic department. Most (me included) thought that they would wait until October 1 (the day of a home game against Indiana), when his buyout would have dropped by $7.5M. Perhaps boosters approached the athletic department and told them no problem, we have seen enough.

Georgia Southern hung over 600 yards of total offense and 45 points on them. That isn't great.

Their AD acted after a loss to Georgia Southern. Ours dug in and doubled down.

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www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34571132/nebraska-cornhuskers-fire-coach-scott-frost-starting-season-1-2

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Now that Scott Frost is gone, stories are beginning to surface that explain the timing of Nebraska's decision to dismiss him. Hearing them, one wonders why he even got this season to try to fix things. Among the allegations, repeatedly late for practice, failing to follow up with recruiting calls. Assistant coaches also went to the AD with issues, because Frost wouldn't address them.

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Having said that, there’s a reason the saying “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” is such a popular one. It’s a truism of course. And when it comes to the things that have started seeping out about the Nebraska football program under Scott Frost, it seems as if the narrative pushed by far too many in the local media; that Scott Frost worked harder and longer and wanted success more than anyone else in the state, was not entirely true.

The whispers have been there before, they’ve been there since the beginning. But during a Sunday interview that just exploded on Tuesday afternoon, one local sports radio talk show host came close to blowing the lid off the house of cards that was Frost’s reputation.


Severe then detailed things that he said the Cornhuskers Athletic Director couldn’t talk about but were very clearly major contributing factors to why the former Huskers coach was fired just three games into the season and just a few weeks before his buyout would have been greatly reduced.

“He can’t talk about his head coach showing up late to practice every day,” Severe continued. “He can’t talk about his head coach not making recruiting phone calls.” The radio host also made it clear that now that the regime change has officially happened, he’s freer to talk about these things.

“There’s a whole bunch of stuff …” he added. “It was a mess up there.” He then dropped one of the bigger bombshells of the entire appearance and one that really should have raised red flags. To the point where it’s a surprise things were indeed kept so quiet around the Nebraska football program.

While Severe’s accusations are the most specific to come from a member of the local media in the wake of Frost’s firing, those around Nebraska football have talked about the perceived lack of attention to detail before. Of course, it certainly appears “lack of attention to detail” is an extremely generous way of describing what’s been going on in Lincoln for the last four years.