Nebraska Football: Former assistants comments crystallize why Scott Frost was always going to fail
Two former Nebraska football assistant coaches recently talked about why things went wrong in Lincoln and it underlines a regime doomed to fail.
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In a new article by The Athletic a couple of former Nebraska football assistant coaches know why Scott Frost and his bunch failed in Lincoln and it was quite clear that things were never going to work after they came over from UCF.
One assistant said... Frost’s approach at UCF worked because "his lack of attention to detail" and "loosey-goosey style" followed George O’Leary’s more militant attitude. Unfortunately, with the Nebraska football team, Frost was following Mike Riley, who was a player’s coach and had already tried the laid-back method.
The other assistant said... UCF players were a bit more willing to learn and responded to what the coaching staff was saying and doing than the Cornhuskers’ players did.
“At UCF, they just wanted people to love them up and make football fun again," the assistant said. "Those kids wanted to be great. They just wanted to be loved and understood. We were a young staff. We’d play noon basketball. Frost would be playing too, and the players were jumping into it with us. Practices were short and fun. We coached off emotion. At Nebraska, I think they’d been chasing (recruiting) stars … and we (ended up) letting more things go.”