As the Nebraska football team prepares for its second straight bowl game, UCF and Scott Frost are doing a post-mortem on just why they suffered through another losing season. To the surprise of no one, when Frost talked about what went wrong and how he would fix things, he did not point the finger at himself. Instead, he lined up another fall guy. This time, the blame fell on NIL and the transfer portal.
"It’s broken," Frost said during the Signing Day press conference. "College football’s broken. Yeah, I don't know if you’ll get that honest answer from everyone, but everyone would agree if they were honest."
It's worth pointing out that the former Nebraska football coach isn't saying anything that many failed coaches have said before him. Even if he tried to paint it as though he was departing some never-before-heard wisdom.
Scott Frost when asked at UCF at his National Signing Day Presser today how NIL has changed over the last few years he starts his answer with, "It's broken. College football is broken." But listen to what he went on to say! Oh my. @MyNews13 pic.twitter.com/ZBAaGIaanx
— Spectrum News Asher Wildman (@AsherWildman13) December 3, 2025
Former Nebraska coach Scott Frost blames NIL, transfer portal for UCF’s losing season
Frost then told a story that may or may not have actually happened.
"I laugh about it now, but I did my press conference last year and had a couple players and their agents waiting outside my office five minutes after I did my press conference to start telling me how much money I needed to pay them, and I didn't even know who the kids were."
"We're going to know our team now. We're going to know our strengths and weaknesses. I think we're in a better financial position to approach this."
This is hardly the first time that the former Nebraska coach and storied quarterback blamed forces beyond his control for his failures. It's not even the first time he's done it since joining UCF. He spent most of his first offseason with the Knights last year, blaming everyone but him at Nebraska for his getting fired after 4.5 seasons.
Frost has demonstrated plenty of times that he hasn't changed much since he ran Nebraska. That's bad news for UCF fans who are hoping for improvements in 2026 after the team went 5-7 this season and was a late rally away from going 1-8 in the Big 12 with a loss to the worst team in the conference. Who will be the fall guy next year if Scott Frost does that again.