Photos: From Wood River to Memorial Stadium to Orlando and back again, Scott Frost's Husker career
After returning to coach at the school where he stared as quarterback, Scott Frost was fired on Sunday. Click through for photos of his playing days at Nebraska and his subsequent coaching career.
Central Florida football coach Scott Frost watches his team against Florida International in August 2017.Â
Oregon offensive coordinator Scott Frost looks on as his team warms up before the college football game against the Wyoming at Autzen Stadium on Sept. 13, 2014, in Eugene, Ore.
Scott Frost speaks during the Nebraska Coaches Association Multi-Sports Clinic at Lincoln North Star in 2011.
Wood River native Scott Frost originally went to Stanford but transferred to NU for his final two seasons. He led the Huskers to a national championship in 1997.
NU coach Tom Osborne (in glasses), receivers coach Ron Brown and quarterback Scott Frost look to the scoreboard during a timeout during the 1997 game against Missouri.
Scott Frost runs the ball in the first quarter against Texas Tech on Oct. 18, 1997. Frost rushed for 83 yards on 19 carries in the game.
Scott Frost runs against Tennessee in the 1998 Orange Bowl.
Scott Frost rolls out against Kansas State during his playing career at Nebraska.
Coach Tom Osborne discusses strategy with starting quarterback Scott Frost in the third quarter during the Huskers' 38-24 win against Central Florida on Oct. 31, 1997.
Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost scrambles for an 18-yard gain against Texas Tech in 1997.Â
In the wildest finish in Nebraska football history, Nebraska receivers Shevin Wiggins (5) and Matt Davison (3) play ping pong on the final play of regulation in Columbia, Mo., in 1997. Scott Frost's pass with seven seconds left bounces off Wiggins, and before Missouri's Harold Piersey (2) can grab the ball, Wiggins kicks it into the air. Davison dove and grabbed the ball just off the turf, which helped NU tie the Tigers and send the game into overtime.Â
Nebraska trainer Jerry Weber pats NU quarterback Scott Frost (7) on the back after Frost's first-quarter touchdown against Texas A&M in the 1997 Big 12 Championship Game.
Scott Frost (7) looks downfield as he prepares to unload a first-half pass against Texas A&M in 1997. Frost was 10-of- 11 passing in the half for 176 yards and also rushed for a touchdown.
After transferring from Stanford, Scott Frost helped lead the Huskers to their fifth national championship in 1997.
Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost (front) gets a hug from Matt Davison after Frost's second touchdown against Colorado in 1997.
Scott Frost uses hand signals to audible a play during the 1997 game against Kansas State.
Scott Frost breaks into the open against Washington in 1997.
Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost breaks free on a first-quarter run against Colorado in 1997. Frost became the 10th player in NCAA history to pass for 1,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season.
Scott Frost (7) gets blocks from teammates Kenny Cheatham (6), Correll Buckhalter (36), Matt Hoskinson (62), Bobby Newcombe (12) and Eric Anderson (70) on a 24-yard run against Iowa State during his playing career.
Quarterback Scott Frost hugs Nebraska coach Tom Osborne during the news conference in 1997 when Osborne announced he was retiring.
Scott Frost and other members of the second-ranked Husker football team were the center of attention during Orange Bowl Media Day in Miami.
Former Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost (7) hands the ball to Ahman Green on a first-quarter running play in the 1998 Orange Bowl.
Scott Frost looks downfield during the 1998 Orange Bowl against Tennessee.
Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost lobbies for the No. 1 ranking as the Huskers move toward a win in the Orange Bowl.
Quarterback Scott Frost (with microphone) and his teammates and coaches greet the crowd of fans who gathered at the Devaney Sports Center to welcome the national champion Huskers back to Lincoln after their Orange Bowl victory against Tennessee.
Wood River High School graduate Scott Frost.
Scott Frost became Nebraska's head coach in December 2017.
Nebraska head coach Scott Frost walks off the field after the Huskers lost to Georgia Southern on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Nebraska coach Scott Frost talks with Bennett Case, 4, during Nebraska Fan Day ahead of the 2021 season.
Not long after taking over at Nebraska, athletic director Trev Alberts (right) met with the media to address an NCAA investigation into coach Scott Frost's use of analysts within the football program.
Scott Frost enters a truck to exit Memorial Stadium on Sunday after he was fired as Nebraska's head football coach.
Nebraska head coach Scott Frost looks up at Memorial Stadium as the team arrives for the Huskers' game against Georgia Southern.
Nebraska head coach Scott Frost (right) leads the Huskers onto the field to take on Oklahoma in 2021 in Norman, Oklahoma.
Nebraska head coach Scott Frost and Illinois head coach Bret Bielema shake hands after the Illini defeated the Huskers 30-22Â in 2021.
Nebraska Chancellor Ronnie Green (left) speaks with football coach Scott Frost at a groundbreaking ceremony for NU's facilities project in 2021.
Nebraska coach Scott Frost reacts after a fourth-quarter touchdown was called back due to a holding call against the Huskers during a game against Minnesota late in the 2020 COVID season.
Nebraska coach Scott Frost (right) talks with Maria Taylor during "College Gameday," which was broadcast outside of Memorial Stadium during the 2019 season.
Nebraska coach Scott Frost addresses the crowd assembled for the announcement of the Huskers' new football facility in 2019.
Nebraska men's basketball coach Fred Hoiberg (left) answers a question as Husker football coach Scott Frost looks on during an appearance with fans in 2019.
Nebraska coach Scott Frost leads his team onto the field to face Colorado early in his tenure at Nebraska.
Head football coach Scott Frost poses for photos during Fan Day on Aug. 18, 2018, at Memorial Stadium.
Scott Frost greets fans on the way into Memorial Stadium for his first game as coach in 2018.
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If you understand how a meeting in Philadelphia came to be, then you can understand how Frost wound up sitting, clean-shaven, in a gray suit and red tie, on the third floor of Memorial Stadium in front of hundreds of people Sunday, sleepless and hungry but also intent on turning around a program gone awry since he quarterbacked a national championship team here 20 years ago.
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"The results put us in a position where we thought it was the right thing to do," Chancellor Ronnie Green said. "It's a matter of accountability and standards."
Just three games into the 2022 season, Nebraska has fired Scott Frost, ending one of the worst coaching tenures in Husker history.Â
Roughly 13 hours after Nebraska’s latest gut-wrenching defeat, athletic director Trev Alberts was at a podium talking about accountability and a national coaching search.Â
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“Mostly what I feel bad about is it just didn’t work at Nebraska. I know he poured his heart and soul into the program,” said former teammate Matt Gideon.
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