Nebraska football fans might be tired of hearing the name Scott Frost, but now that he's back in coaching, they'd better get used to it. Because the man is still both bad at handling the media and at acknowledging that he indeed has some shortcomings that have nothing to do with peer pressure.
Frost's latest comments are annoying to Husker fans, but they should also make UCF faithful very nervous. When asked what he learned from his time in Lincoln, Frost made it clear the honest answer to that question is ... nothing.
"Don't take the wrong job," the former Nebraska football coach said in answer to the big question. "I said I wouldn't leave (UCF) unless it was someplace you could win a national championship. I got tugged in a direction to try to help my alma mater and didn't really want to do it. It wasn't a good move. I'm lucky to get back to a place where I was a lot happier."
Another comment hinted that he didn't like the expectations at Nebraska. At one point during his return to UCF at Big 12 media days, he said this event was "way more relaxed" than other media days he had done.
Scott Frost says taking the Nebraska football job was his 'biggest mistake,' not on-field failures
It's not hard to imagine he was thinking about the time he huffed and pouted his way through a Big Ten Media Days appearance just ahead of his final year with Nebraska.
And then there was this comment, which, his former assistants almost certainly didn't love, if they were told about it:
"I think all experience, good and bad, gives you wisdom and new perspective. Biggest thing I've learned, probably: You can't do anything alone."
The comment was probably aimed at his former boss, Trev Alberts, considering he's tried to blame the ex-NU AD for his struggles before. But it's certainly peak Scott Frost not to think all the way through his answers when he has a microphone shoved in his face.
One can hardly forget the times he claimed not wearing sweatshirts in frigid temperatures, or how many times someone vomited in practice was supposed to show how good a team was.
The most galling part of his answer, is that it's not like he was suddenly put on the spot. He had to know the question was coming. He could have come up with one answer that didn't blame everyone else. And he didn't.
Because he honestly thinks his biggest mistake wasn't that he took a job he wasn't cut out for, it was that he's a people pleaser or some other nonsense.
I can hardly wait until UCF fans are in the same situation as Nebraska football fans. I wonder how long it will take before he starts claiming he only went back to Orlando because there was too much pressure not to.