Scott Frost made a brief appearance on the radio show ‘Sports Nightly’ on Thursday night, announcing that he and his wife are corresponding to up to $ 125,000 in donations for anyone who contributes to the TeamMates mentoring program founded by Tom Osborne.
In addition, he offered some insight into Husker’s football program, including his thoughts on recent transfers this week that included quarterback Luke McCaffrey and 2020 receiving co-captain Kade Warner.
“Yes, we were surprised. You always kind of see them coming a little bit,” said Frost of those matches. “We do everything we can to get the right guys on the show. But to be honest with you, I love where the team is now and I can’t waste a second worrying about the kids who are not on the team. I have a lot of great players and excellent kids on this team. I have guys who want to be here and want to fight me and want to fight each other. And we have an entire locker room full of them. “
– Asked specifically about McCaffrey and the remaining depth of QB, he said: “One thing to point out is that we are not the only ones with children being transferred. I think there are more than 1,400 children on the transfer portal. So there are children with double digits leaving many places. And it hurts when the kids leave, but it also means that there are a lot more kids out there that you have the opportunity to pick up. I really want to give the kids on our program a chance to go through the spring dance and see what they can do. I hope we have the answer right here in the building and, if we don’t, we will keep our options open. “
Huskers still have two spaces open at this point to add to the list.
– Frost said wide receiver Will Nixon is “almost back to 100 percent” after a knee injury that kept him out of 2020 and that cornerback Braxton Clark is “participating in everything now” after losing the year too.
Defensive striker Tate Wildeman is improving after surgery in December, but still has a “way to go”, according to the coach. “We have a few more guys who were arrested. I hope most of them will be back for the spring dance.”
– Although winter conditioning was set to start last Monday, it technically didn’t start until a few days of snow from the storm passed. Still, Frost said “we still had 90 percent of the team showing up, finding our way here, hitchhiking with each other and walking through the snow to get here. We hoped to start on Monday and still got a great start.”
– Frost confirmed that he will change the role of Ron Brown, who was Nebraska’s personnel director for players.
“I can’t say enough about Coach Brown for who he is as a person and also the value he brings to our program on a daily basis,” said Frost. “I’m going to kind of reassign, I think, to get the most out of everything he brings to the table for us. He’s as good a coach as we have in the building. He’s a big influence on the players. We” are going to try maximize what it can do for us by moving it a little bit. “