If nothing else, UCF has hired a football coach who knows how to win.
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OR offensive coordinator Scott Frost will be UCF’s next head coach, according to Brandon Helwig of Rivals. The Knights went 0-12 in 2015 but were considered a better job than a winless team because of the location and recruiting base of the school.
Frost has served as the Ducks’ offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach since 2013, a stretch that includes Mariota’s Heisman-winning 2014 season. UCF won the Fiesta Bowl after the 2013 season.
Frost was a star college football quarterback in the 1990s, playing his final two seasons at Nebraska where he led the Cornhuskers to a national title in 1997.
A person with knowledge of the decision told AP about the hire on condition of anonymity because an official announcement was still being finalized.
The reports of Frost becoming the team’s new coach are after Bowling Green coach Dino Babers was mentioned over the weekend as a possibility to be O’Leary’s replacement.
He has been on numerous potential candidates lists in connection to several open head-coaching jobs, most notably Syracuse, in no small part because of his pedigree.
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Frost’s coaching career began with stops as a graduate assistant at Nebraska and Kansas State before serving as defensive coach at Northern Iowa from 2007 to 2008.
