Well, as I said in another thread, I have been wrong about a lot of things on this board over the past 13 years, so I am not gloating or happy about the situation. I just for the life of me do not understand how so many fans cannot see that Frost is an incompetent P5 head coach. Year one we could say that this was just a transition year with "bad apples" still in the fold and so on. Year two we could blame it on a "sophomore slump" from AMart. Year three we could blame it on Covid. Last year there could be no more excuses. He had had four years to build "his team" and last year was supposedly going to be his "breakout" year when all the bad luck was behind him and Frost finally got to shine. Then came game one and that disgusting loss to Illinois. THAT is when I knew that the previous three years had not been a fluke. The dude cannot coach. And in my opinion your last comment nails why he is a bad coach. It is because he is immature and an overgrown, spoiled frat boy.
I think Frost knows the technical aspects of the X's and O's of football. I think he can draw up a gameplan and talk some nice sounding **** to recruits. But what he cannot do because of WHO HE IS, is build a "culture" of maturity, accountability, and team before individual, since he himself has none of those qualities. Most coaches know the X's and O's of football. What separates the bad coaches from the good ones is that the latter can build that culture while the former cannot. And when you build that culture and you as a head coach embody that culture, then you can hire and retain staff and coaches who also have those qualities. Osborne had that quality of culture building. So does Pat Fitzgerald and ... Kirk Ferentz. And unless your school's name is Ohio State or Alabama or some other elite team in a recruiting hotbed you had better have a coach who can build that culture.
Nebraska is a mediocre school academically, in a flyover State with a tiny population and boring geography. It has no glitz or glamor. And its glory days are now about 22 years in the rear view mirror. Every school in the B1G is now on TV. Everyone has great facilities. Everyone has money. The Nebraska "brand" such as it is, is not enough anymore. You must have a coach who can build a culture, one damn brick at a time.
We thought Frost was that coach. We were all wrong.