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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 4386107, member: 3723"] They’re completely different jobs with completely different situations and surrounding circumstances You can (pretty easily) make the case that the situation Scott walked into at UCF was much better setup for immediate success than at NU. 2 Years removed from a BCS bowl and had double digit NFL players on the roster at the time he arrived. Scott also defied the odds winning ALL of his one score games in 2017 including insane finishes against USF and Memphis in back to back weeks. Nebraska was part of the problem in the sense that Bill Moos his AD essentially went MIA once he hired him and moved back to his Montana ranch to essentially ride out his contract and retire. Frost had no direct boss in person overseeing the Day to Day activities and as a result was on his own to navigate being a HC at a major program for the first time. But Scott did himself ZERO favors bringing his entire staff from UCF (they were absolutely not a Big Ten caliber staff as a whole), he was too hesitant to move off Adrian Martinez (could’ve had Joe Burrow and infamously said “is he better than what we got?”), replaced Troy Walters at OC with a guy who was literally working in financial services at the time, among many other poor choices. On top of it all, there’s been plenty of rumors that have popped up over the last five years about his time spent on activities outside of football and his general lack of understanding of what it takes to run a successful program in a league like the Big Ten (infamous “we want the Big Ten to adjust to us” quote in his opening presser). I actually think Scott can still be a good coach at a non B1G or SEC school, G5 school or a school like UConn where the spotlight is lower, program requirements are less, etc. But Scott shockingly never figured out what it would take to run a successful high end Big Ten program and was far too slow to react when there were glaring weaknesses that needed fixed from the get go (Special Teams comes to mind). Nebraska has challenges like 99% of FBS teams do but Scott was fired because of his own decisions (or lack thereof). [/QUOTE]

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