Handling of Frost hire makes NU the class of the coaching carousel
Nebraska football’s handling of the Scott Frost hiring set it apart from every other big-time school looking for a coach.
When it comes to Nebraska football and the way it handled the Scott Frost hiring, not everything went perfectly. What stuck out the most is that people seemed to know he was coming before Mike Riley had been fired.
There was also the wave of leaks that hit the national media while UCF was still fighting for its life in the AAC championship game. Asking Frost right after his team won in overtime made for an awkward situation.
No, the Huskers didn’t handle everything perfectly. When you look at how other schools handled their own coaching searches, it’s clear AD Moos handled it about as well as you’re going to see in the day and age of instant information.
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Rumors certainly started circulating about Frost before they should have. Reporters even decided they needed to stake out the former Husker quarterback’s parents’ house.
Moos, for his part, kept quiet. There weren’t tweets about coaches that every fan hated. There wasn’t a growing list of coaches who turned the program down.
There wasn’t a coach who was hemming and hawing publicly. There also wasn’t a player uprising, angrily denouncing the new hire.
Because it’s always fun to look about how much better the Huskers did something, let’s take a quick peek at how some of the other big name schools managed to handle the coaching carousel this fall.
It’s going to be hard to objectively look at this list and claim that the Nebraska football team and the athletic department didn’t handle the hiring of Scott Frost about as well as you could ever expect a school to handle it, especially in the midst of the worst on-field season in nearly half a century.