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Nebraska Football: Don’t expect immediate success under Scott Frost

By Leigh Oleszczak

LINCOLN, NE - APRIL 21: Head Coach Scott Frost of the Nebraska Cornhuskers prepares to lead the team on the field before the Spring game at Memorial Stadium on April 21, 2018 in Lincoln, Nebraska. (Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images)
LINCOLN, NE - APRIL 21: Head Coach Scott Frost of the Nebraska Cornhuskers prepares to lead the team on the field before the Spring game at Memorial Stadium on April 21, 2018 in Lincoln, Nebraska. (Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images) /
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Nebraska football has a new head coach this year, former Huskers quarterback Scott Frost. The hype is real for the Frost era in Lincoln, but making a big statement in his inaugural season will prove difficult.

It’s not that I don’t expect Scott Frost to be successful as the Nebraska football head coach, but it takes time to build something special in college football and that’s what Huskers fans will see in year one of the Frost era. Not to say that Nebraska will be BAD in 2018, but a trip to the Big Ten Championship isn’t likely for Big Red.

For one, the schedule this season is absolutely brutal. The Huskers will have road games against Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa while hosting Michigan State and former Big 12 opponent Colorado. Those won’t be easy games by any means.

Another reason why success might be hard to come by in year one under Scott Frost is that it’ll take time to mold this team into a contender. The Huskers lost quarterback Tanner Lee to the NFL, so they’ll be starting over at the quarterback position. It’s no secret that quarterback is the most important position in football, so that’s definitely noteworthy.

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As of now, the Huskers don’t have a starting quarterback picked out yet, but we’re still a few weeks away from the season. They’ll have time to figure out who their signal caller is going to be and that’ll be vital in deciding which direction this team goes in this season.

Frost had a prolific offense while running things at Central Florida and many expect that to carry over to Nebraska. While the offense should be decent, it’s going to be a young team and growing pains are to be expected.

Speaking of growing pains, the defense will have its ups and downs too. Nebraska’s defense got shredded quite a bit last year and that’s definitely something Frost is going to have to fix or it’ll be tough for the Cornhuskers to stay in ball games.

I believe in Scott Frost and really think he can turn Nebraska football back into the powerhouse it once was, but it’s going to take some time. Fans shouldn’t expect Frost and company to immediately have Nebraska contending in year one. No, I’d say by year three of his Cornhusker tenure is when Nebraska should be at the top of the Big Ten.

Husker fans had a rough three years under Mike Riley and it was pretty obvious early on that the former Oregon State head coach wasn’t the right man for the job in Lincoln. Nebraska got its wish by hiring Scott Frost and now it’s time to sit back and let him get this program back to dominating college football.

It might take a few years for the turnaround to occur, but the Husker faithful should expect that to be the case. Hopefully by year three, the Cornhuskers are back on top where they belong.

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