Frost took a 0-12 team and had them 13-0 in just two years. That 0-12 team had a lot of talent, but their HC had totally lost them. Frost came in and turned them around and a lot of that had to do with rebuilding the chemistry. That undefeated team had chemistry coming out of the wazoo. So he definitely can build it. He just hasn’t been able to do it here. I think they’ve been able to do it on the defensive side to some degree, but the offense has been a hot mess.
Clearly Frost hasn’t been happy with the OL. He probably took too long, but getting rid of Austin was a Frost thing and not a Trev forcing him to do it thing. Scott has to hope that the new staff can get it turned around lickety-split otherwise he is toast.
NIL is a wildcard and I think it’s too early to see how it will play out long term. But it does seem like it is to our benefit this year anyway.
Simply NO. It wasnt a true chemistry issue it was simply a team had quit on their coach issue.
The UCF success was largely due to UCF having the most talent in their league (by far) and it wasnt close, and also having an elite QB. I will give SF credit for grabbing the QB..but his UCF teams if you actually sat and watched them..were not well coached as a whole and they made alot of errors in games that people didnt really notice because they overcame them and won the games because they had a huge talent advantage.
They made a lot of silly mistakes, and didnt pay attention to detail and a lot of minor errors. The reason that they were not hurt more by those errors was because of the fact that they had the most talent and an elite (for that level) QB. Milton was Frosts "sin eater"..AKA he erased the mistakes that SF made as a coach by in large. The oline flinches and puts UCF at a 3 and 12, no problem here comes Milton with a sidestep and a scramble for 13 yards and a first down, or a nice toss over the middle to his wide open TE for the first down...or name any number of plays he would make in any game...
If Frost wasnt happy with his OL, he should have made an OL coach change at least 2 years ago. I mean how many years do you need with an O line coach before you know he is not gonna cut it? He already had Austin for 2 years at UCF...and after say 2-3 years at NU? Is 4-5 years not enough time with an O line coach to know you gotta make a change? Good coaches dont take 6 GD years to figure out their O line coach needs to go...
All those little costly mistakes that his teams made at UCF that didnt hurt them, or cause them to lose are the same small costly mistakes that loses SF games at a higher level when he doesnt have a HUGE talent advantage..AKA he and his staff get out coached in most games they play. Heck NU has more talent than a good portion of the teams they play and still lose.
SF didnt wake up and grow a brain and say 'yeah I better make wholesale changes to my offensive staff"..LOL
His back was against the wall and he KNEW he needed to make changes or else his JOB was in jeopardy. So TA may not have official asked SF to make those changes, but SF KNEW he HAD to make some changes in order to appease people.
But dont get it twisted, had SF not felt his job was in jeopardy...he wouldnt have made all those moves.
We BOTH know that those moves he made could have easily been made at least a year earlier and it was overdue at that point. Yet he didnt make those moves.
He made them cuz his back was against the wall period.