Apparently you can go home again - "Scott Frost reportedly receives 5-year, $22.1 million deal to return to UCF"

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I don't know if this was discussed back in December when he apparently was hired, but I guess they released the financial details today. It always amazes me when a coach who uterly failed in his last role as HC in a power conference gets another chance. Maybe it's not the fact that he got another chance, but more that despite that failure, they are willing to pay him $4M a yr, which is what he was getting paid in his last year at NEB. Unfortunately, I don't think that works for most of us in the real world unless you got a little nepotism going on. Oh yeah, speaking of an utter failure and nepotism, was that going on for a certain team just south of our border? Hey..... the shot was too easy not to take.

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Scott Frost reportedly receives 5-year, $22.1 million deal to return to UCF

Scott Frost, who led UCF to an undefeated season in 2017, returned to the program in December.
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99Gopher said:
I don't know if this was discussed back in December when he apparently was hired, but I guess they released the financial details today. It always amazes me when a coach who uterly failed in his last role as HC in a power conference gets another chance. Maybe it's not the fact that he got another chance, but more that despite that failure, they are willing to pay him $4M a yr, which is what he was getting paid in his last year at NEB. Unfortunately, I don't think that works for most of us in the real world unless you got a little nepotism going on. Oh yeah, speaking of an utter failure and nepotism, was that going on for a certain team just south of our border? Hey..... the shot was too easy not to take.

sports.yahoo.com

Scott Frost reportedly receives 5-year, $22.1 million deal to return to UCF

Scott Frost, who led UCF to an undefeated season in 2017, returned to the program in December.
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Frost had that magical year in 2017 for UCF when they went 13-0 and beat Auburn in a bowl game so they are obviously hoping that it will work again. I bet he does pretty well - it's tough to win in a league full of sharks in the Big Ten.
 



I wonder if his contract has some kind of alcohol treatment stipulation
 


99Gopher said:
I don't know if this was discussed back in December when he apparently was hired, but I guess they released the financial details today. It always amazes me when a coach who uterly failed in his last role as HC in a power conference gets another chance. Maybe it's not the fact that he got another chance, but more that despite that failure, they are willing to pay him $4M a yr, which is what he was getting paid in his last year at NEB. Unfortunately, I don't think that works for most of us in the real world unless you got a little nepotism going on. Oh yeah, speaking of an utter failure and nepotism, was that going on for a certain team just south of our border? Hey..... the shot was too easy not to take.

sports.yahoo.com

Scott Frost reportedly receives 5-year, $22.1 million deal to return to UCF

Scott Frost, who led UCF to an undefeated season in 2017, returned to the program in December.
sports.yahoo.com sports.yahoo.com
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Coaches getting another chance after failing somewhere else is very common. But this is a gamble by UCF for sure because when Frost was there before they were in the AAC. They are in the Big 12 now so the level of difficulty will be much harder then it was back in 2017. Big 12 is nowhere close to the Big Ten or SEC in football but still a power conference so teams won't be pushovers.

Good chance they are not able to catch lightning in a bottle the way they did in 2017
 

I don't see why not.

At UCF what do you want? Someone who can take your team to an undefeated season?

I know a guy ...
 


MNVCGUY said:
Degree of difficulty will be much higher this time around.
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I don't expect the same outcome, but when looking at candidates "this guy actually lead us to an undefeated season" is a pretty big plus that few will have.
 



A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
I don't expect the same outcome, but when looking at candidates "this guy actually lead us to an undefeated season" is a pretty big plus that few will have.
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Not a horrible gamble on UCF's part....will be interesting to see if he is able to replicate anything close to the level of success they had in 2017.

On the plus side for UCF, they don't have to worry about his dream job swooping in again since they already did that once and it went horribly. :)
 


MNVCGUY said:
They are in the Big 12 now so the level of difficulty will be much harder then it was back in 2017. Big 12 is nowhere close to the Big Ten or SEC in football but still a power conference so teams won't be pushovers.
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True, but the counter to that is he now will have legit P4 recruits in his own backyard vs. trying to get anyone with a pulse to want to go to Lincoln Nebraska.

I'd love to see him succeed there while Nebby wallows in 5 or 6 win seasons.
 

GopherTheJugular said:
True, but the counter to that is he now will have legit P4 recruits in his own backyard vs. trying to get anyone with a pulse to want to go to Lincoln Nebraska.

I'd love to see him succeed there while Nebby wallows in 5 or 6 win seasons.
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If you put any stock at all in recruiting rankings he wasn't having any trouble getting talented players to commit to Nebraska even if they weren't in his backyard. Nebraska under Frost was the poster child for a team where the recruiting rankings and on field performance did not match at all because in theory they had top 20 level talent coming in most years.

In Florida there is a ton of talent but there is also a crazy amount of competition for that talent.
 



MNVCGUY said:
If you put any stock at all in recruiting rankings he wasn't having any trouble getting talented players to commit to Nebraska even if they weren't in his backyard. Nebraska under Frost was the poster child for a team where the recruiting rankings and on field performance did not match at all because in theory they had top 20 level talent coming in most years.

In Florida there is a ton of talent but there is also a crazy amount of competition for that talent.
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In doing no work to confirm or deny this, my perception was that Frost had superior talent in his first stint with UCF compared to his conference rivals. In the big ten he may have had better recruiting classes than some, but the discrepancy was smaller. Is the 20th class that much better than the gophers 36th ranked? (Example, no idea on actual numbers)
 

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