RF2044
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It was always the problem. He'd be coaching with one foot out the door, just waiting for the phone call.
Nebraska's record so far this year probably has him in bit of a depression. But it's balanced out by Oregon's. His other foot would be happy enough going back there for that head job.
My issue with Frost was never that he'd leave at the earliest opportunity [which was certainly not a non-inconsequential factor], but that he wasn't necessarily an offensive innovator on the level that we needed to overhaul the program. Frost was the guy who followed a guy who followed a guy at Oregon. Sure, they had success while he was there, but I'm just not sure if it was attributable to Frost and his coaching acumen or if he was just able to maintain what they already had. Plus, the lack of head coaching experience wasn't something I wanted to see, after the previous staff train wreck.
We needed an infusion of new thinking here--again, nothing against Frost, I'm just not sure that he would have brought that the way Babers was clearly able to.