Paul Finebaum explains why Nebraska couldn't wait any longer to fire Scott Frost

With three Sun Belt upsets this weekend in college football, Nebraska’s was arguably the most costly. Texas A&M’s and Notre Dame’s will cripple their College Football Playoff chances. The Cornhusker’s loss, though, cost them their head coach. The program’s loss to Georgia Southern was the end of the disastrous, five-year tenure of Scott Frost. To ESPN’s Paul Finebaum, the school made the decision at the right time but, also, arguably not soon enough.

Finebaum joined ‘McElroy & Cubelic In The Morning’ on Monday to share his thoughts on Frost’s firing. He said Nebraska had to change the narrative of this season with a Top-10 team coming to Lincoln this weekend. Finally firing Frost was the only way to do it.

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“I do (think it was time). They would’ve saved money by waiting but I frankly thought that was a good sign by the school saying that everything is not about money, even though it is,” said Finebaum. “I also think they did not want to go into a big weekend with Oklahoma coming in and having this be the only conversation. At some point, you just have to change the narrative.”

Nebraska has started the season 1-2 with a loss to Northwestern, an unconvincing win over North Dakota, and this weekend’s defeat to the Eagles. Enough was finally enough and the athletic department ended Frost’s tenure three weeks into the season. Overall, Paul Finebaum it says it doesn’t matter what the agreement was to get Frost out of town. Losing games how he did at Nebraska meant that all that mattered was getting him gone as soon as possible.

“I don’t know what the separation agreement was, but I’m sure they figured something out to get him out of these because he had to go. That’s not debatable,” said Finebaum. “When you lose the kinds of games he has lost, he should be fired. He shouldn’t have been brought back, but how many times have we seen that movie before?”

The decision has now left Nebraska to face the Sooners with an interim head coach and a program whose future is now uncertain. Even so, some will take the uncertainty over what Frost could have managed down the stretch. The Cornhuskers had seen more than enough over this dreadful half-decade. It may make this season a major question mark. In the end, though, it could lead to a brighter future depending on who replaces Frost down the road.