Only three weeks into the college football season we have our first major shakeup at a Power 5 school.
Scott Frost has been unceremoniously fired by Nebraska after a 1-2 start to the season. The school’s former National Championship-winning quarterback just couldn’t turn around the program in his first four years back in Lincoln.
The start to Year 5 under Frost had been so disastrous that the school was willing to pay him an extra $7.5 million to go away. Had the Huskers been able to hold out until October 1, Frost’s buyout would’ve dropped from $15 million to $7.5 million.
A loss to Northwestern in the season-opener, followed by a way-too-close-for-comfort win against North Dakota already had the coach on the hot seat. Saturday’s 45-42 defeat at the hands of Georgia Southern solidified his fate.
Statement from Vice Chancellor, Director of Athletics – Trev Alberts. pic.twitter.com/weczB1ghoB
— Nebraska Huskers (@Huskers) September 11, 2022
The former UCF coach finishes his Nebraska tenure with an abysmal 16-31 record (10-26 Big Ten).
Nebraska entered the season +1500 to win the conference. Those odds are significantly longer now at +6600. Frost may want to take that extra money and go on a nice long vacation somewhere without internet access.
Twitter was stunned at the timing of Frost's firing
This is amount is subject to offset if he gets another job "in a football capacity" at an NCAA Division I school or in the NFL https://t.co/YV3lOiJ6mV
— Steve Berkowitz (@ByBerkowitz) September 11, 2022
Frost had a buyout set to drop from $15 million to $7.5 million on October 1.
Nebraska goes:
-Oklahoma on Saturday
-BYE
-Indiana in the next few weeks— Richard🇬🇾Johnson (@RJ_Writes) September 11, 2022
thank you for the memories pic.twitter.com/4KONWY2mQZ
— no context college football (@nocontextcfb) September 11, 2022
Yeah man, Nebraska doin the job three weeks in is wild as hell.
— Andrew Hammond (@ahammFreePress) September 11, 2022
Scott Frost didn’t even make it out of September. Wow. https://t.co/3eu1Op4f7m
— jordan mendoza (@jordan_mendoza5) September 11, 2022
Door Number One it is. Things were so bad that they couldn’t wait https://t.co/Vi0Q4GC6TE
— Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) September 11, 2022
The timing of Scott Frost being fired is stunning from this standpoint: His buyout was to drop from $15 million to $7.5 million Oct. 1 but obviously things were not going well there at all.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) September 11, 2022
Week 2, 2021: USC fires Clay Helton.
Week 2, 2022: Clay Helton beats Nebraska, which then fires Scott Frost.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) September 11, 2022
El. Oh. El.
Maybe if he asks really nicely, he can come back to UCF as a DBs coach or something 💅 https://t.co/TqLoGtzZwI
— jeremy taché (@jeremytache) September 11, 2022
Scott Frost bagging an extra $7.5 million by losing to Georgia Southern. https://t.co/nL0RWKjvRl pic.twitter.com/4stPFMY2Qz
— Jim Weber (@JimMWeber) September 11, 2022
Nebraska paying Scott Frost an extra $7.5 million because it couldn’t stand to employ him for 20 more days is amazing. https://t.co/XgehrrjFmV
— Scott Bell (@sbell021) September 11, 2022
(Caveats: we don’t know yet if a donor just stepped up to pay it or if it was negotiated down, etc. But the point stands re: paying someone more than you would have in three weeks to leave now.)
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) September 11, 2022
this take wasn’t even that bad https://t.co/oUgDosFUqT
— no context college football (@nocontextcfb) September 11, 2022
If you listen closely to the winds on the plains you can hear Nebraska and Kansas switching places in the football world.
— Copperman (@tacopperman) September 11, 2022
scott frost is getting an extra $7.5 mil just by getting fired before october. once again, my dream in life is to be a fired college football coach.
— Jessica Smetana (@jessica_smetana) September 11, 2022
images that precede unfortunate events https://t.co/k95qdqL9XQ
— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) September 11, 2022
Scott Frost went from next Nick Saban to next Nick Saban offensive analyst real quick
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 11, 2022
