Nebraska Situation So Bad They Couldn't Wait to 10/1/22 to Fire Frost

[ohiovalleycat]

It looks like things were just too bad in Lincoln after Nebraska's upset loss to Georgia Southern that they could not wait three weeks for his buyout to substantially drop from $15 million today to what would have been $7 million if they had let him stay till October 1 :

Nebraska fires Scott Frost: Cornhuskers pay massive buyout to dismiss coach three games into fifth season

Frost was unable to find success in four-plus seasons at his alma mater

www.cbssports.com

 

[Titanium999]

Wow!

 

[Sheffielder]

Part of me questions if it was honestly a not-so-subtle gesture to Frost who is still I think a favorite son in UNL. On the other hand, cut bait this early and hope bowl eligibility is within reach with some new direction?

PS, am I the only one whose eyes bugged out a little today in learning that Trev Alberts is the Nebraska Athletic Director? Honestly had no idea the schlubby dude who used to host the late Saturday CFB show with Mark May went on to do anything respectable after broadcasting.

 

[hdhntr1]

Part of me questions if it was honestly a not-so-subtle gesture to Frost who is still I think a favorite son in UNL. On the other hand, cut bait this early and hope bowl eligibility is within reach with some new direction?

PS, am I the only one whose eyes bugged out a little today in learning that Trev Alberts is the Nebraska Athletic Director? Honestly had no idea the schlubby dude who used to host the late Saturday CFB show with Mark May went on to do anything respectable after broadcasting.

Are you sure it is respectable?

 

[Dugan15]

Nebraska is quite literally setting $7.5 MM on fire (the difference in buyouts between now and 18 days from now). If there anyone else left who is upset about NIL or conversations about compensating football playing employees of universities, how would they defend this?

 

[NUCat320]

Part of me questions if it was honestly a not-so-subtle gesture to Frost who is still I think a favorite son in UNL. On the other hand, cut bait this early and hope bowl eligibility is within reach with some new direction?

PS, am I the only one whose eyes bugged out a little today in learning that Trev Alberts is the Nebraska Athletic Director? Honestly had no idea the schlubby dude who used to host the late Saturday CFB show with Mark May went on to do anything respectable after broadcasting.

He did not have a notable record of success in his 12 years as AD at Nebraska-Omaha, a job he appeared to have gotten based on name recognition only; he did not have previous administrative experience.

 

[RevCat]

Nebraska is quite literally setting $7.5 MM on fire (the difference in buyouts between now and 18 days from now). If there anyone else left who is upset about NIL or conversations about compensating football playing employees of universities, how would they defend this?

Quite literally? C'mon man. Nobody had a bic and lighter fluid.

You fire a coach when he needs to be fired. It is not fair to the program, the "kids" (who I am in agreement need compensation for putting their bodies on the line for "good ole" U.) to keep cynically a coach 3 games past his expired date, knowing all the while you will be firing him. That's 3 games in a holding pattern, 3 games of chaos, 3 games closer to an unsalvageable season. Do what needs to be done and make the best of what remains.

Alberts got this exactly right. The optics of firing a coach first chance you get after October 1 in order to save money --knowing all the while you were going to fire him for weeks, would have created a much greater backlash than anything you are seeing now.

 

[Harris_Island]

Quite literally? C'mon man. Nobody had a bic and lighter fluid.

You fire a coach when he needs to be fired. It is not fair to the program, the "kids" (who I am in agreement need compensation for putting their bodies on the line for "good ole" U.) to keep cynically a coach 3 games past his expired date, knowing all the while you will be firing him. That's 3 games in a holding pattern, 3 games of chaos, 3 games closer to an unsalvageable season. Do what needs to be done and make the best of what remains.

Alberts got this exactly right. The optics of firing a coach first chance you get after October 1 in order to save money --knowing all the while you were going to fire him for weeks, would have created a much greater backlash than anything you are seeing now.

Even if Alberts got this right, the situation is still absurd. Nebraska is a state-run "non-profit" educational institution and they paid $7.5m to fire a sports coach a few weeks early, lol.

 

[eastbaycat99]

Even if Alberts got this right, the situation is still absurd. Nebraska is a state-run "non-profit" educational institution and they paid $7.5m to fire a sports coach a few weeks

Where Alberts got it wrong was in retaining Frost at the end of last year’s season. While he used the fig leaf at that time of reducing the buyout, he did not exercise the reduction in the end by firing now. While he saved a fraction of Frost’s salary, he also allowed Frost to hire Whipple as OC, most probably at a cost that outstripped the Frost salary reduction. He also allowed Frost to try to save his bacon by going big on the transfer portal and by letting him recruit one more class. My guess is that unless they retain Mickey Joseph as permanent HC, they will need to buy out Whipple at year’s end, lose their current freshmen recruiting class and get saddled next year with a number of in-transfer players who will take a roster spot but contribute little to the plans of whomever they hire. Unless they go 7-2 or better the rest of the way, a very unlikely outcome, they won’t retain Joseph.
The long and short of it is that by retaining Frost, Alberts delayed a rebuild a year, burned through some money and created a lot of bad feeling, essentially pouring gasoline on what was already a dumpster fire.

 

[Katatonic]

Frost should be a happy man.

He was going to be fired sometime this season; getting fired now means he gets more than 4x his yearly salary (gotta love those golden parachutes for failing).