Scott's biggest mistake

[Tsakoi]

His biggest mistake is not knowing his team. He built it, he is with them daily, but they are strangers to him. Anybody with half a brain cell and any experience with sports and young athletes can see that they are fragile mentally. They take negative instances inside the game and let that affect them greatly. I would even go so far as to say that the positive things that they accomplish in the games are nowhere near as influential in a positive way as the how influential the negative instances are in a negative way.

Basically our guys don't get much of a boost from the big plays we make, but absolutely crater with any negative one. The problem is that we all recognize this but the god damned head coach doesn't.

The main example is the onside kick. We stuffed their first drive of the second half got the ball and scored. Then we caused a fumble, got the ball back and hit them with a big run play. We had all the momentum and Scott should have protected it. He should know that his team is fragile and that by failing with this trick play he will cut our juice and hand NW a lifeline they didn't earn. From that exact moment he let the idea of failure enter their minds. And it's something you have to know that the guys on this team just can't handle. There is just too much evidence of it to be oblivious.

It's unforgivable to me at this point that he is unaware of the "sports traumatized" team he has. It shows he isn't cut out for the job. Bill Callahan made this same kind of mistake of not knowing what kind of team he had in his first year. He tried to go west coast offense with a team and QB not built for it. We all know how that turned out.

 

[BorWhiskey]

Joe Dailey was a west coast QB back in New Jersey!

I may be a Billy C apologist but that team was pretty bare talent wise.

 

[MtnHusker]

Joe Dailey was a west coast QB back in New Jersey!

I may be a Billy C apologist but that team was pretty bare talent wise.

The roster that Frank left for Callahan had so many holes in it, was embarrassing. That was the worst recruiting staff we've had in my lifetime. If I remember correctly we only had something like 3 DT's returning and were forced to play some Freshman. I believe there was also a shortage of O Linemen and a few other positions. Kinda sounds like our current situation but Billy C didn't have the advantage of the Transfer Portal. Was hard for new coaches to retool a team before the Transfer Portal. Basically your first class was a wash because you had such a short time to recruit after being hired. Back then coaches truly needed 4-5 years to get their own players into the program. Basically you were starting rebuilding with Freshman & JUCO's after your 1st full season and building from there. Wasn't realistic to expect recruits to contribute their first year or 2

 

[Driveway Jordan]

Anyone who has listened to the player podcasts over the last few years knows this to be true. Scott does not have close relationships with his players...which is weird because when he was at UCF it appeared that he did. I'm guessing all the distractions of being the FB coach in Lincoln, and having a lot of buddies around all the time takes away from the opportunity to bond with his players. Jojo had the most insight on this, but I believe Austin Allen referenced it as well. It's not that the players don't like him...they just don't feel like they KNOW him. It's an odd dynamic because the single greatest reason why most coaches do what they do is because of the relationships and bonds that are formed with the players.

 

[RedSavage]

But isn't Frost like Garrett Nelson's dad?

 

[Husker_in_OK]

The main example is the onside kick. We stuffed their first drive of the second half got the ball and scored. Then we caused a fumble, got the ball back and hit them with a big run play. We had all the momentum and Scott should have protected it. He should know that his team is fragile and that by failing with this trick play he will cut our juice and hand NW a lifeline they didn't earn. From that exact moment he let the idea of failure enter their minds. And it's something you have to know that the guys on this team just can't handle. There is just too much evidence of it to be oblivious.

It's truly mind boggling how a HC doesn't realize how mentally fragile they are with close losses that Frost would pull something like this .. If there's anything that should be obvious about Northwestern, is you DO NOT give that team any lifelines late in the game .. if anyone can capitalize on that, it's Fitzgerald .. It's embarrassing just how big of a fucking idiot Frost actually is.

He's so delusional he still thinks he's running over Pac 12 teams with the Oregon swagger.