Nebraska's struggle for relevance.

[HugeCat]

Nub fans on Reddit have their radar focused squarely on Liepold.

A hire like he, Klieman, or Matt Entz is exactly what they need. Some of the lists I've seen are absurd, they don't learn their lesson.

For them to hire coaches like this, their fanbase, leadership & donor class would have to transition to accepting that they are a developmental program and that winning the recruiting rankings game is not the most important thing to winning football. I don’t think they can ever except that they are not the Tom Osborne era Nebraska and that they don’t deserve that flashy big name coach. Maybe they will prove me wrong like Kansas did when they hired LL.

[SkinnyBenny]

He gone.


In the end, EMAW always wins. 

[steve dave]

Wonder what they agreed on for that extra $7.5m. “We’ll give you $500k of it if we fire you now instead of in a month” would be my guess. He’d be dumb not to take it and they’d be dumb not to pay that amount. Obviously aren’t paying that $7.5m full amount.


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[MakeItRain]

I guess having Big 10 money doesn't exempt you from unnecessarily and unreasonably blowing cash. There was no reason to fire him before that buyout went down.

[HugeCat]

I thought buyout was cut in half from $15 million to $7.5 million after 10/1/22. Nebraska’s ego just couldn’t stand it, they had to prove that $7.5 million doesn’t matter when they’re being embarrassed like they were Saturday. They’re Nebraska after all

[mocat]

Wonder what they agreed on for that extra $7.5m. “We’ll give you $500k of it if we fire you now instead of in a month” would be my guess. He’d be dumb not to take it and they’d be dumb not to pay that amount. Obviously aren’t paying that $7.5m full amount.


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They can just not pay it?

[steve dave]

I thought buyout was cut in half from $15 million to $7.5 million after 10/1/22. Nebraska’s ego just couldn’t stand it, they had to prove that $7.5 million doesn’t matter when they’re being embarrassed like they were Saturday. They’re Nebraska after all

Yeah, like I posted above, there is a zero percent chance they are paying most of the $7.5m.


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[steve dave]

Wonder what they agreed on for that extra $7.5m. “We’ll give you $500k of it if we fire you now instead of in a month” would be my guess. He’d be dumb not to take it and they’d be dumb not to pay that amount. Obviously aren’t paying that $7.5m full amount.


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They can just not pay it?

If both parties to the contract agree to other terms, absolutely,


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[steve dave]

Frost doesn’t want to be dead man walking for 3 weeks any more than NU wants him to be. They both wanted out now. NU would have waited that time if he was holding them to the fire for $7.5m. But he’d be very wise to negotiate at least a small part of it to get out now.


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[chum1]

No reason for either side to just wait around for the inevitable. Why go through that? I don't know why either wouldn't agree to something like 10/1 buyout amount plus September salary.

[muqluk]

And he gone

https://twitter.com/huskers/status/1569013971415351298?s=46&t=p58w7YBddtn97ieJKI165A

[steve dave]

No reason for either side to just wait around for the inevitable. Why go through that? I don't know why either wouldn't agree to something like 10/1 buyout amount plus September salary.

Yep, I’d imagine Frost squeezed them for a bit more but not a lot. He had minimal leverage there.


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[steve dave]

Astounding stat

https://twitter.com/amie_just/status/1569018292836208646


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[cfbandyman]

Frost doesn’t want to be dead man walking for 3 weeks any more than NU wants him to be. They both wanted out now. NU would have waited that time if he was holding them to the fire for $7.5m. But he’d be very wise to negotiate at least a small part of it to get out now.


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I also like how much of this is also just he's a former Nubbs hero and treating him too rough would look bad, idk

[HugeCat]

Why would Scott Frost agree to anything less than a full buyout. It can’t get any more embarrassing for him. What’s another two weeks?

[wetwillie]

Why would Scott Frost agree to anything less than a full buyout. It can’t get any more embarrassing for him. What’s another two weeks?

His choices were
get the reduced buyout on 10/1  or get the reduced buyout+ whatever he negotiates now. Not to mention he doesn’t have to coach a team that hates him / face the fanbase for 3 more weeks.

[wiley]

https://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/1569023718814371841?s=20&t=PmRqR7pHTRMDPuIqSzlWIw

Here we go!


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[nicname]

What is Frost’s next move? And what was it that allowed him to flourish at UCF but fail miserably and in such an odd way at Nubb?

He’s obviously a good to great offensive mind. It will be interesting to see if he drops down as a HC or takes a big-time OC job.

[sonofdaxjones]

I guess having Big 10 money doesn't exempt you from unnecessarily and unreasonably blowing cash. There was no reason to fire him before that buyout went down.

Absolutely amazing and I’m here for all of it.


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[wetwillie]

What is Frost’s next move? And what was it that allowed him to flourish at UCF but fail miserably and in such an odd way at Nubb?

He’s obviously a good to great offensive mind. It will be interesting to see if he drops down as a HC or takes a big-time OC job.

Hopefully taking a year off to focus on his own mental health.  If he wasn’t a mess before he got there, he sure is now.

[pissclams]

What is Frost’s next move? And what was it that allowed him to flourish at UCF but fail miserably and in such an odd way at Nubb?

He’s obviously a good to great offensive mind. It will be interesting to see if he drops down as a HC or takes a big-time OC job.

he’s going to be the first one to hold two head coaching jobs at once #chum1

[BostonPancake]

Ugh.  We aren’t going to have to worry about this all year, are we?  Grrrrr

[Houstoncat93]

As much as I see Nubb suffering I do feel really bad for him. Imagine how it would feel to go back to your alma mater, where you had been seen as a hero, and then eff up the job this bad.

[Cartierfor3]

Ugh.  We aren’t going to have to worry about this all year, are we?  Grrrrr

nah. we're fine

[Pete]

This is all just delightful