Scott Frost Predicts UCF Could Be National Power in 10 Years
Scott Frost has seen UCF football at its best. In fact, Frost was in charge when the Knights were at their best; leading them to a 13-0 record and a win over Auburn in the 2018 Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl.
That year, the Colley Matrix recognized the Knights as the No. 1 team in the country, giving UCF a right to claim a national championship, though its heavily disputed.
Chances are, Frost would give anything to go back to that moment. It was the last time that he finished a season with a winning record and it was also the last time that he wasn’t heavily scrutinized for his tactics as a head coach.
In the nearly five seasons that followed, Frost was in charge at Nebraska, a place very near to the former Cornhusker’s heart. Though he tried, he couldn’t get the Huskers back to the level of success that they saw when he was playing quarterback in Lincoln, or really to any level of success whatsoever.
Now, as the most recent coach to fail at Nebraska, Frost is looking for a chance to get back on the sidelines after spending his entire life intimately involved with the game.
“For the first time in my life, I don’t know what’s next,” the former Nebraska coach told CBS Sports. “I’m dying to get back in.”
“My whole life I was a little league player and a high school player and then a college player and then an NFL player and then a [graduate assistant], and then a position coach, then a coordinator and then a head coach. It was on a trajectory, and I knew what was next.”
While getting the chance to be the head coach at his alma mater will certainly be one of the things he’ll never forget, some of Frost’s fondest memories came during his time in Orlando. In fact, he believes that the program is on the verge of becoming truly special in the world of college football.
“In 10 years, UCF could be a [national] power,” Frost said of the Knights. “It’s the best college town in Florida by far. Orlando? The campus is beautiful.”
UCF is coming off a 6-7 season under Gus Malzahn in 2023, the Knights first year in the Big 12. However, there’s a ton of hope in Orlando that things will be even better in 2024 after UCF picked up some major firepower in the transfer portal.
With names like KJ Jefferson, Ladarius Tennison, Jesiah Pierre, and Deshawn Pace coming into the program, there’s a good chance that will be the case.
If so, their former coach will be rooting hard for them, and who knows, maybe he’ll find his way back to Orlando one day.
