Bill Moos’ Scott Frost confession makes Nebraska failure look even worse

Count Bill Moos among those who have taken the opportunity to bash Scott Frost now that the UCF head coach is no longer with Nebraska. What makes Moos' recently surfaced comments is that the former Husker AD was the one who hired Frost and then gave him an unwarranted extension.

Granted, considering that Moos was so bad at his job once he came to Lincoln from Washington State that NU paid him $3 million to retire, his decision to hire Frost despite not wanting to, illustrates his poor decision-making.

Moos is releasing his memoirs, titled "Crab Creek Chronicles: From the Wheat Fieldsto the Ball Fields and Beyond." As is the case with most books like this, excerpts have started surfacing online as people start to read and take note of the juiciest bits.

Why Nebraska hired Scott Frost despite knowing the risks

In this case, one of the juiciest bits from the ex-Nebraska AD came in a section giving readers a look behind closed doors when Moos interviewed Scott Frost for the head coach job as Mike Riley finished out his lame duck run. Moos eventually hired Frost on December 2, 2017.

HuskerMax writer and local sports radio talk show host Josh Peterson posted a section of Moos' tale. The ex-Nebraska AD noted that the interview went wrong right from the beginning, as Frost brought an old teammate, friend, and former member of the athletic department, NU broadcaster Matt Davison, to the meeting. Moos noted this immediately made him angry, but it also allowed him to keep his wife, Kendra, around to get her read on the conversation.

"Like many times before," Moos wrote. "Her intuition proved to be invaluable."

"He's not ready," she said after closing the door that left just the two of us in the room. "Too immature."

"Yep, I agree. But if I don't pursue him with everything I've got and he ends up at Tennessee or Florida, I'm screwed."

Moos clearly felt like he was in a no-win situation and was more worried about Frost succeeding somewhere else, rather than whether he would succeed at Nebraska. The ex-Athletic Director then credited his wife with very accurately predicting the danger of making the hire despite their reservations.

"Yeah, but if you bring Nebraska's golden boy home and he falls flat on his face, you are really screwed."

Scott Frost did indeed fall flat on his face. He compiled a 16-31 record as head coach of the Huskers and was fired by Moos' successor, Trev Alberts, three games into the 2022 season.

Since leaving Nebraska, Frost has essentially admitted he wasn't ready. However, he's blamed NU officials for hampering more than he's been willing to blame himself. Now with UCF, he finished his first season back with his old school with a 5-7 record and a 2-7 record in the Big 12.