With the SEC, B1G ten and possibly ACC passing rules against "pro" returning to play in college, wondering if some of the G6 conferences might gain a little by being the ones to allow those players to come back and play if they have eligibility left?

Now a Dallas judge waves the Dikembe at the SEC...

A few thoughts from two-timing UCF Head Coach Scoot Frost from earlier this season after UCF knocked off BYU, giving him his for

Quote:After knocking off #2 BYU, Scott Frost reflects on why a lot of good coaches lose their jobs, while average coaches win

Scott Frost finally got the win that had eluded him for nearly eight years, and he used the moment to say something every coach on a hot seat already knows.

UCF knocked off #2 BYU 39-31 in double overtime Saturday night October 24, 2026 in Orlando, the first win over a top-five opponent in program history. It was Frost's first win over a ranked team since January 1, 2018, when his undefeated Knights beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl during his first stint with the program.

Between those two games, he went 0-19 against ranked opponents, including 0-14 during his five seasons at Nebraska.

"There has to be alignment at the university, you have to get support from campus, you have to have a good AD, you have to have the right players, you have to have the right assistants. You have to be at the right place at the right time, and there's been a lot of coaches that have done average jobs and won a lot because they're in the right place at the right time. And there's been a lot of coaches that have done everything they possibly can do and haven't won and lost their jobs."

"That's this business. I'm seeing a lot of good coaches that are on the hot seat and getting fired. When you take a job like this, that's what life's like. And one thing I've learned is it's not all about the head coach."

Frost has lived both ends of that. He went 6-7 in his first season at UCF in 2016, then 13-0 in 2017, and parlayed that into the job at his alma mater. Nebraska went 16-31 under him before firing him three games into the 2022 season. He spent 2024 as an analyst with the Los Angeles Rams before UCF brought him back in December 2024. The Knights went 5-7 in his first year back.

Frost also pointed to the money side of the equation, noting there are "teams spending $45 million and other teams spending $15 [million]" on rosters, and adding that UCF needs "to find more ways to have more resources in the athletic department."

He's right, and while the resources may be talked about in millions, resources aren't just a college football issue. Any high school coach who has worked for a supportive principal and AD, and then for an administration that wasn't, has seen how much of a program's ceiling gets set outside the building. The head coach gets the credit and the blame, but alignment from the top down decides a lot of outcomes before the first snap.

UCF has offensive coordinator Steve Cooper and defensive coordinator Alex Grinch (one of OWL#s former favorites for the Rice job) in their second seasons on staff.

Ok....so notice he says 1) College football is a BUSINESS and needs to be treated as such, 2) To win you need alignment and support from the University, not just the athletic director and dept. 3) It helps to have a bit of luck, right place at right time.

Now....when is the last time Rice could honestly say they had 2 of those 3 things? I'd say probably never, although Graham caught lightning in a bottle during his one season here and selfishly used us to get him out of Dodge....He treated it as a BUSINESS, which it is more now than ever.

If Rice had made football and big 3 men's sports a priority as BUSINESS Marketing for the university (which it absolutely is) instead of a necessary evil for a Texas school to have, maybe we'd be in the (bottom of) the SEC today along with Arkansas...Hey, life could be worse, as we have seen since that fateful early-1990s time.

Unfortunately, Rice's athletic Marketing message seems to have been: we suck, and you can suck too if you come here (we'll teach you, it's called the 'Rice Way'), in other words, we sure aren't gonna help you too much. And while you're on campus at S. Main, you likely will endure a student body selected mostly not to care much if at all about supporting you, a largely apathetic alumni base that's pretty small compared to most other places you could go, limiting future networking opportunities, and a truly weird on-campus cultural environment that is as alienating as any in the country that you may well have to ignore and/or endure with added stress. We do have some pretty buildings, though, and Houston is a cool big city, so there's that. Come play for Rice: it's a mindf--k as bad as any in the country; RFND: it just has very little pulse most of the time.

Sorry, I'm just astounded we're 1 and f'in 8 in the American.

(11-08-2026 12:39 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  A few thoughts from two-timing UCF Head Coach Scoot Frost from earlier this season after UCF knocked off BYU, giving him his for

Quote:After knocking off #2 BYU, Scott Frost reflects on why a lot of good coaches lose their jobs, while average coaches win

Scott Frost finally got the win that had eluded him for nearly eight years, and he used the moment to say something every coach on a hot seat already knows.

UCF knocked off #2 BYU 39-31 in double overtime Saturday night October 24, 2026 in Orlando, the first win over a top-five opponent in program history. It was Frost's first win over a ranked team since January 1, 2018, when his undefeated Knights beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl during his first stint with the program.

Between those two games, he went 0-19 against ranked opponents, including 0-14 during his five seasons at Nebraska.

"There has to be alignment at the university, you have to get support from campus, you have to have a good AD, you have to have the right players, you have to have the right assistants. You have to be at the right place at the right time, and there's been a lot of coaches that have done average jobs and won a lot because they're in the right place at the right time. And there's been a lot of coaches that have done everything they possibly can do and haven't won and lost their jobs."

"That's this business. I'm seeing a lot of good coaches that are on the hot seat and getting fired. When you take a job like this, that's what life's like. And one thing I've learned is it's not all about the head coach."

Frost has lived both ends of that. He went 6-7 in his first season at UCF in 2016, then 13-0 in 2017, and parlayed that into the job at his alma mater. Nebraska went 16-31 under him before firing him three games into the 2022 season. He spent 2024 as an analyst with the Los Angeles Rams before UCF brought him back in December 2024. The Knights went 5-7 in his first year back.

Frost also pointed to the money side of the equation, noting there are "teams spending $45 million and other teams spending $15 [million]" on rosters, and adding that UCF needs "to find more ways to have more resources in the athletic department."

He's right, and while the resources may be talked about in millions, resources aren't just a college football issue. Any high school coach who has worked for a supportive principal and AD, and then for an administration that wasn't, has seen how much of a program's ceiling gets set outside the building. The head coach gets the credit and the blame, but alignment from the top down decides a lot of outcomes before the first snap.

UCF has offensive coordinator Steve Cooper and defensive coordinator Alex Grinch (one of OWL#s former favorites for the Rice job) in their second seasons on staff.

Ok....so notice he says 1) College football is a BUSINESS and needs to be treated as such, 2) To win you need alignment and support from the University, not just the athletic director and dept. 3) It helps to have a bit of luck, right place at right time.

Now....when is the last time Rice could honestly say they had 2 of those 3 things? I'd say probably never, although Graham caught lightning in a bottle during his one season here and selfishly used us to get him out of Dodge....He treated it as a BUSINESS, which it is more now than ever.

If Rice had made football and big 3 men's sports a priority as BUSINESS Marketing for the university (which it absolutely is) instead of a necessary evil for a Texas school to have, maybe we'd be in the (bottom of) the SEC today along with Arkansas...Hey, life could be worse, as we have seen since that fateful early-1990s time.

Unfortunately, Rice's athletic Marketing message seems to have been: we suck, and you can suck too if you come here (we'll teach you, it's called the 'Rice Way'), in other words, we sure aren't gonna help you too much. And while you're on campus at S. Main, you likely will endure a student body selected mostly not to care much if at all about supporting you, a largely apathetic alumni base that's pretty small compared to most other places you could go, limiting future networking opportunities, and a truly weird on-campus cultural environment that is as alienating as any in the country that you may well have to ignore and/or endure with added stress. We do have some pretty buildings, though, and Houston is a cool big city, so there's that. Come play for Rice: it's a mindf--k as bad as any in the country; RFND: it just has very little pulse most of the time.

Sorry, I'm just astounded we're 1 and f'in 8 in the American.

so sad but true. When the sports marketing budget is based on how much is spent, not as a net revenue generator, that tells it all. When since Jess Neely has Rice ever said we are going to make this happen? What a mess....