Yeah, back in September, there was a mom going at Frost’s throat on every tweet he made for a few weeks about the cart girl situation lol. Her account got banned and those tweets have since been deleted but you just never know in that fish bowl if a wild rumor is wholly false. The coaches bar hopping a bunch is basically as on the record as it can get tho. Sounds like they’re trying to get
Davison into politics so he’s not around the program anymore.
I actually don’t fully believe they had the money for the buyout. Definitely *could* have found the means to do so, but there are a few issues with that. One of the issues they’re dealing with is that a sizable amount of their big money donors are elderly people. These elderly people LOVE Frost. They love that he’s a handsome (their words) boy next door Nebraskan and they lap up the excuses. Frost could be failing in year 10 and they would blame Riley if Frost told them to.
This is why Alberts was hired, if Frost had to be let go, he fits the narrative those old people trust and are willing to believe in - a good handsome boy next door midwesterner. But ****braska had the hardest schedule this year! Of course, that doesn’t excuse the Purdue, Minnesota, and Illinois losses, but it doesn’t matter to the 35% of their fanbase that are still all in on Frost. And a chunk of that 35% are extremely important people in the donor pool.
Negotiating a smaller buyout for next year was a good choice for two sides that don’t have a lot of options. My only confusion is that Alberts is saying they need to get Frost someone to run the offense so he can be more of a CEO type of coach??? That’s literally his worst quality? Alberts also said they want to scrap the Oregon/UCF offense but we will see if that’s just talk. I wouldn’t be surprised if they hire Helfrich at OC and just run the same stuff. I mean, why would you keep Frost and then bring in an offense he has no expertise in?