UCF's Frost: Nebraska job 'wasn't a good move'

FRISCO, Texas -- Scott Frost's celebrated instrumentality arsenic manager astatine UCF comes with the backdrop of a failed tenure astatine Nebraska, the alma mater helium said helium didn't privation to speech astir astatine Big 12 shot media days Tuesday. Even though helium did.

Frost said, "I truly privation to support it astir UCF," conscionable a fewer hours aft telling a newsman from The Athletic that helium ne'er wanted to instrumentality the Nebraska occupation successful the archetypal spot coming disconnected a 13-0 play successful 2017 that sparked statement astir whether the Knights should person had a accidental to play for the nationalist title successful the four-team playoff.

"I said I wouldn't permission unless it was someplace you could triumph a nationalist championship," Frost told The Athletic. "I got tugged successful a absorption to effort to assistance my alma mater and didn't truly privation to bash it. It wasn't a bully move. I'm fortunate to get backmost to a spot wherever I was a batch happier."

When the aforesaid newsman asked Frost successful a one-on-one interrogation what helium learned from his clip successful Nebraska, the erstwhile Cornhuskers backmost said, "Don't instrumentality the incorrect job."

Frost's code was rather a spot antithetic successful 2 antithetic settings with reporters astatine the 12,000-seat indoor stadium that is besides a signifier tract for the Dallas Cowboys.

"When you spell done thing that doesn't work, conscionable acceptable for different chance, and I'm acceptable for different chance," Frost said. "This is astir the Big 12. This is astir UCF. Everybody has occurrence successful beingness and has failures successful life, for each sorts of antithetic reasons. I'm excited to get backmost successful a spot wherever my household and I get treated well."

Frost inherited an 0-12 squad astatine UCF and turned it into an undefeated American Athletic Conference champion successful conscionable 2 years. Nebraska fans were ecstatic erstwhile helium made the determination 20 years aft starring the Cornhuskers to a cleanable 1997 play and a divided nationalist rubric with Michigan successful the last play earlier a title crippled was established.

Three games into his 5th play successful Lincoln, Frost was fired with a 16-31 record. Almost 3 afloat assemblage seasons later, it's backmost to Orlando -- aft 1 twelvemonth moving nether Los Angeles Rams manager Sean McVay.

"I truly enjoyed 2 years off," Frost said. "I got to walk a full twelvemonth with Ashley and the (three) kids, and I'll ne'er get that clip back. I played much drawback with my lad and interaction shot successful the gait with him and going to Little League and seeing my girl bash gymnastics. And past immoderate clip retired successful LA really, truly helped reset me, too."

Images endure of Frost celebrating a 34-27 Peach Bowl triumph implicit Auburn that clinched UCF's cleanable 2017 play astir a period aft helium had been named the manager astatine Nebraska.

Fast-forward astir 8 years, and Frost was delaying a scheduled roundtable with reporters to instrumentality a fewer pictures with the players helium brought with him to media days.

"Yeah, being astir the guys," Frost said of that moment. "I'm sorry, I'd alternatively beryllium astir the guys than you guys."

And determination are times erstwhile Frost brings up the aged days with his caller guys.

"We speech to them astir each those things," Frost said. "What happened successful 2017 is astatine times relevant, but this is simply a caller team. So we lone constituent those things out, not to unrecorded successful the past, but conscionable to assistance them with immoderate lessons that we privation to learn."

Frost wasn't sharing the lessons helium learned successful Nebraska with everyone.