Scott Frost has become a national pinata in the past 24 hours for unimpeachable reasons. How do you explain a 5-21 record in one-score games as the Husker coach? How do you explain an all-time record: 7 straight losses by single digits?
How do you explain losing to a team that you walloped 56-7 in 2021? Let us explain. You team has stormed back from a 17-14 halftime deficit to score 2 TD’s in the third quarter. Sporting an 11-point lead and huge momentum, Frost decided that an onside kick was in order. OOPS! Northwestern said “thank you” for the great field position and quickly scored.
A 31-28 loss ensued, arguably the biggest clunker in Frost’s hideous closet. Nebraska was likely the more talented team but one cannot help but think that if the coaching roles were reversed and veteran Northwestern coach, Pat Fitzgerald, was coaching the Cornhuskers, Nebraska would have wound up on top.
Poor Husker fans! Usually, an early sign of the coming winter in Lincoln comes in early November via the first frost. The Nebraska fans in Dublin observed what may prove to be a football winter in August with yet a different Frost warning.
In few sports is coaching more paramount than college football. Another example: With the possible exception of Michigan, Utah State was THE surprise team of 2021. Picked to finish 5th in the Mountain Division, the Aggies romped to an 11-3 record and a conference crown that featured a 46-13 smackdown of San Diego State in the title tilt. Utah State’s first-year coach, Blake Anderson, proved to be nothing short of a miracle worker.
Anderson’s outfit did something unusual yesterday in their expected triumph over UConn. For the seventh time in Anderson’s brief tenure in Logan, the Aggies recovered from a double-digit deficit to triumph!
So, the Odyssey will do no more bashing of the forlorn Frost. Instead, we salute Pat Fitzgerald and Blake Anderson: both true Anti-Frosts!