This is my first post on your guys' board and I will preface it with yes, I am a Nebraskan/Husker fan. The only reason I've felt the need to respond is to your labelling Scott Frost as Benedict Arnold. Really? The man has poured his heart and soul into UCF football the last couple of years to put a product on the field that your university and your fans could be proud of. He did just that and even more by going undefeated this season and returning you to a New Year's Bowl, and a quality one at that in the first year of the Peach Bowl being hosted at beautiful Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta. But because he decided to take another job he's Benedict Arnold? He took said other job due to many factors, from the tradition and name-brand that Nebraska still has to this day, to the stadium that has no problem selling-out over 90,000 seats since the JFK administration (at what point this season did you begin to sell out Spectrum Stadium?), to the improved financial situation for both he personally and the program he is now in charge of, and oh yeah, that's neglecting the fact the man was the last person to quarterback a Nebraska team to a national championship which also coincided with Tom Osborne's last two seasons at the helm in Lincoln before retiring from coaching. Lest we forget, his parents live a half hour up the road from Lincoln in Ashland! If he would have taken the Texas A&M or Tennessee or Florida jobs, I would understand your disdain for the man, but the fact that seemingly the only job that would make him leave Orlando is to coach his formerly-great alma mater potentially back to its former glory - or even a fraction of - is a testament to how much he truly enjoyed Orlando and being your program's head coach. Even towards the end of the saga or whatever you want to refer to it as, he was having trouble committing to leaving because of the affinity he has towards UCF, its players, and its fans. You make it seem like the man willingly betrayed you when I'm sure emotionally it was much more conflicting than him choosing to attend Stanford over Nebraska when he was being recruited in high school because at that point in time, it was mostly about him. As a coach that he is now, it's the opposite and throughout the constant questions of "are you going to Nebraska" or "is a deal already done with Nebraska" he tried to keep the focus on the players and the program. Even when asked by Todd McShay after the AAC Championship game had ended if he could confirm that he had accepted the Nebraska job, his response - with tears coming from his eyes at that - was "I'm going to go celebrate with my team." I think his quote 20 seconds earlier was even better in that "we've given them a lot, they've given us even more" in reference to the Knights players. Does that sound like a man that is overjoyed to leave a group of kids that he's worked so hard with the last couple of years to become successful and based on your words seemingly stab a program, a university, and a fanbase in the back? Hell no.
I understand some of your frustrations, I do. However this was the one job and battle UCF wasn't going to win given the allure that the Nebraska program has to Scott Frost in particular. To speak like that of a man that gave you his all every day for the last two years and gave you a lot of joy this season is disgusting and probably more so speaks to you as a person and a fan and not the UCF fanbase on the whole, much as some of the scummier Husker fans coming to this board to flaunt our hire of Frost don't represent what our fanbase is truly about - class, integrity, and perseverance - as they do nothing but display the exact opposite. At the end of the day, the Nebraska head coaching job was the role Scott Frost has been spending the last 35 years of his life building up to and something I had personally been looking forward to since he was a position coach at Oregon. It was a perfect storm of events this year involving both the Nebraska program and Scott Frost, from AD Sean Eichorst getting fired and Bill Moos getting hired, to later Mike Riley getting fired and opening up the position the same year in which Scott Frost is the possibly the most sought-after coaching candidate in college football due to UCF's success. That's what it took for this to happen, as fortunate as it is for us and unfortunate as it is for you guys.
I will sort of apologize for any of the jackass posters that have come on here with the sole purpose of ruining your days. They're clowns, every program has them - we seem to have a few extra at times - but I'm not one of them hence I the reason I'm sort of apologizing for their douchy actions. I wish UCF the best of luck in the Peach Bowl and going forward, you are a program that can position itself very nicely when the day inevitably comes that major college football goes to 4 or 5 super-conferences and a program that if we're being honest - outside of the 0-12 season - has had more success than our Huskers have over the last 5-10 years. Sorry for the novel, but I've been reading several UCF fans thoughts - some rational others not - and the Benedict Arnold line did annoy me because in my opinion, he has tried to be nothing but the opposite of that throughout his time in Orlando and this whole process with Nebraska.
Happy holidays folks from the "barren wasteland" some of your fans have labelled our state otherwise known as Nebraska.
