Though he’s only been in charge for a little over a year, Scott Frost’s golden touch is already evident with Nebraska football. Big things are coming.
Two years ago, Nebraska was in a rough place. The Cornhuskers were reeling under hot-seat head coach Mike Riley who was a questionable hire in the first place.
Nebraska finished the 2017 season 4-8 and made the move to fire Riley and hired former quarterback Scott Frost who had just turned around UCF and made the Knights a national contender from the Group of Five with an undefeated campaign capped off with a Peach Bowl win over Auburn.
It was a splash hire for a program in desperate need of a blast from the past. The “good old days” were long gone and the blue blood program was far from its glory days.
Frost knows all about winning from his days as a quarterback, winning the 1997 national title, and offensive coordinator of Oregon. He turned a UCF program into a national power in just two short years and even after a 4-8 season at Nebraska in 2018, his golden touch has been evident.
The Cornhuskers started turning things around in the second half of the season and they looked more like the program of old. His recruiting touch is obvious, too. Nebraska should be reeling in some of the nation’s best prospects and he was able to hold on to the No. 23 class in 2018 despite having little time to work with new commits and targets after being hired.
With more time on his hands, Frost had the No. 18 class in the country in 2019 and the fourth-best in the Big Ten for the second straight year.
Wisconsin no longer has a free pass to the Big Ten title game through the “weaker” West division as Frost is slowly building a powerhouse back in Lincoln. The golden touch is evident.