Scott Frost didn’t waste any time getting into the question and answer portion of his podium time Thursday at Big Ten Media Days.
At a mere 99 words, Frost had the shortest opening statement of any coach. For good reason though, plenty of questions tend to go towards the head of Husker football.
Being so short, here is the entire opening statement:
“Glad to be here really excited to take part in this, glad we could be doing this again. Really excited for this season, excited to kick off college football with our game against Illinois early in the year. Also really proud of the three young men that are here to represent us and really excited about some of the changes that have taken place in Nebraska in particular. Our new athletic director, Trev Alberts, who I’ve known for a long time and already had a lot of good conversation with. So couldn’t be more excited to get things started.”
For the team, Frost says this is the “most excited” and “most confident” he’s been about a team since he got to Lincoln.
“I’m excited for this season, we got to go earn whatever respect we get and so far we haven’t done enough of that, but our players are really excited to do it,” Frost said. “We really have been focusing on the things that we needed to fix as a football team.”
Of course, the quarterback came up as well.
“I couldn’t be more excited for Adrian (Martinez) than I am right now,” Frost said. “Adrian came in and earned the job as a 18 year old and had a phenomenal freshman season. I think he would tell you he wasn’t as satisfied with his sophomore season as he would have liked to have been.
“But he’s in a really good place mentally and physically and I think he’s primed to have a really good year.”
Frost also said that he expects the offensive line “to be one of our strengths”.
Name, Image, and Likeness was brought up a couple times. Frost said NIL is “going to change the landscape of college football”, adding that he’s excited for anything that benefits their student-athletes.
“I think Nebraska’s uniquely positioned to take advantage of it, just because of the passion surrounding Nebraska football,” Frost said. “We’re the only show in town, we have fans all over the country and all our eyes are on us in the state of Nebraska and I think there’s going to be a lot of people that are going to want to partner with our players and help give them some advantages”
Following up with Frost’s mention of Alberts in the opening statement, their relationship was asked about.
“I couldn’t be more excited than to have Trev, kept in touch with him over the years, so I already met with him four times, including once before he even started the job,” Frost said. So I know he and I are on the same page with a lot of the things that we want to do to try to help build this program and build the Nebraska athletics department.”
After the previous two coaches, Minnesota’s PJ Fleck and Maryland’s Mike Locksley shared slogans and mantras, Frost was asked if his team had one for this fall. In short, his team does not.
“I’m not into sloganeering,” Frost said. “If the players need me to motivate them or, all the time or come up with a unique slogan to get them to play harder, I probably don’t have the right players.”
Also from Big Ten Media Days
Leading off the event, Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren spoke. He outlined three major themes: respecting the tradition of the conference, protecting the conference, and transforming the conference. Within those, Warren announced the addition of Barry Alvarez as special advisor for football the Big Ten, the upcoming addition of a conference chief medical officer, and continuing conversations on NIL, playoff expansion, and league expansion.
When asked about COVID, Warren said protocols have not been finalized. Schools will propose policies that will then be put together next month.