Scott Frost - What is he talking about?

[Northside Hawk]

I could care less about Nebraska and I could care less about the number of wins kirk gets as that is like measuring strictly a batting avg in baseball. It only tells part of the story. I care more about who you’ve beaten and where and under what circumstances. To me, that’s more the measure of a coach and program. Just like the guy that hits 300 in baseball but can’t get the job done with runners in scoring position or when the game is on the line in a big game or the postseason

Understood. You don't like how Kirk goes about his business win or lose. You're not alone. TV execs never liked how Jack Nicklaus dominated the sport in his prime because he went about his job with surgical precision and...well he wasn't Arnold Palmer. Marvin Hagler was too dull for boxing people in the 1980's and they jumped for joy when Sugar Ray Leonard stole the title from him.

Kirk will never be Hayden Fry in your estimation and your mind is made up and that won't change. I've had my share of anti Kirk moments myself but he gained back some equity with me with that Mississippi State win and I'm hoping that will carry over to this season. For all the trash talk from MSU WE were the more physical team in the second half of that game and WE were imposing our will on their pretty skill position players as the game went on.

If he follows that up with an underachieving lackluster year I will note it duly.

 

[Grady]

Frost is an interesting cat. Most P-5 coaches when they begin a job try to lower fan expectations to give themselves time to build a winner. Some do this by reminding everyone how short of a time they've been coach there (PJFleck saying "our Year 2 is really Year 1 the best example), others do it by trashing the "culture" of the previous program. While Frost did the latter, he never really engaged in the former. His "you better get us this year, 'cause we're gonna get you next year" put an awful lot of pressure on himself and his team to perform in this, just his 2nd year. He can get away with this while most coaches don't, or choose not to try, because 1) he knows he's the NB Golden Boy who'll be given more chances than any other human on earth; and 2) he doesn't need to be coaching at NB to be a happy human being. Some people just carry an internal message which says "I don't need you" in a quiet kind of way, and these people are usually very successful. Others, like Bo Pelini, carry the same internal message, but in an asshole jerk kind of way -- they are often successful, but piss a lot of people off in the process.