Scott Frost fired: Best memes and tweets
By Scott Rogust
Twitter reacted to the news that the Nebraska Cornhuskers fired head coach Scott Frost after five years on the job.
Entering the 2022 season, no head coach’s seat was hotter than Scott Frost’s. He was hired to bring his winning ways from Central Florida to his alma mater. The thing is, the Cornhuskers never even had a winning record at the end of each of his first four seasons. That made Year 5 that much more important for Frost to finally turn things around.
Instead, Nebraska lost two of their first three games of the season. That second loss came on Saturday, as Frost fell to Clay Helton and the Georgia Southern Eagles 45-42.
On Sunday, just before NFL kickoff, the Cornhuskers officially fired Frost.
Twitter reacts to Nebraska firing head coach Scott Frost
After the news was announced, the reactions flowed in on Twitter.
Scott Frost was so bad that Nebraska paid $7.5 million extra to fire him now instead of October 1
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 11, 2022
scott frost is getting an extra $7.5 mil just by getting fired before october. once again, my dream in life is to be a fired college football coach.
— Jessica Smetana (@jessica_smetana) September 11, 2022
Nebraska paying Scott Frost an extra $7.5 million because it couldn’t stand to employ him for 20 more days is amazing. https://t.co/XgehrrjFmV
— Scott Bell (@sbell021) September 11, 2022
Scott Frost knew he had to be EXTRA bad to start the season get the bigger bag. I'm so proud of him https://t.co/osmztXPMRs
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) September 11, 2022
Clay Helton, the first FBS coach fired in 2021, delivers the win that results in Scott Frost being the first FBS coach fired in 2022.
— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) September 11, 2022
Can't make this stuff up.
Firing Scott Frost and not waiting four weeks for the buyout to drop $8M?
— Bud Elliott (@BudElliott3) September 11, 2022
Big Ten money hits different
Imagine it's December 2017. UCF is undefeated. USC has just won the Pac-12.
— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) September 11, 2022
You walk up to a random college football fan and say this: "The last straw for Scott Frost at Nebraska will be losing to Clay Helton's Georgia Southern team."
Does that person call the cops?
Can't think of many hires that felt more like no brainers in the moment than Scott Frost at Nebraska, Tom Herman at Texas.
— Brody Miller (@BrodyAMiller) September 11, 2022
Both failed, while Ed Orgeron won a national title and Sam Pittman has Arkansas thriving.
We know nothing. Just accept it.
I don’t know if I’m the only person who feels this way but I am sad it didn’t work with Frost.
— Austin Jacobsen (@Austin2Jacobsen) September 11, 2022
It was just supposed to work. It was going to be perfect.
I’ll say thank you to Scott Frost for the effort. For doing everything he could.
It just wasn’t enough.
Like many had said, this was the hire that was supposed to help revive the Cornhuskers football program. Instead, it turned into a disaster.
The best season that the Cornhuskers had was in 2019, where they actually ranked 24th in the nation at one point. But, they finished the year with a 5-9 record and no bowl game appearance.
Frost’s tenure reached its end after Nebraska could not hold onto a 42-38 lead late in the fourth quarter, as Georgia Southern was able to march down the field and score a go-ahead touchdown. There was hope for Frost, as the team was able get into field goal range. But, they missed a 52-yard attempt, and the loss was clinched.
Nebraska opted against saving $7.5 million by waiting until after Oct. 1, and decided to buyout Frost’s contract at $15 million.
Overall, Frost leaves the program with a 16-31 record.
Now, the Cornhuskers will be led by Mickey Joseph, the team’s passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach, on an interim basis for the remainder of the season.
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