UCF employed Scott Frost as its head soccer coach on Saturday, reaching settlement on a five-year contract via the 2029 season.
The transfer reunites the Knights with one in every of their most profitable coaches in program historical past.
Frost led UCF from 2016 to 2017 and led a outstanding turnaround in his second yr, guiding the Knights to an ideal 13-0 season and a No. 6 end within the Associated Press ballot. Frost earned nationwide coach of the yr honors for that achievement and went 19-7 in his two seasons earlier than leaving to take over Nebraska, his alma mater, in 2018.
“Today marks an thrilling reunion for UCF Football as we welcome again Scott Frost, a coach who ignites the spirit and keenness of Knight Nation,” athletic director Terry Mohajir stated in an announcement. “Scott’s love for his gamers alongside together with his management, enthusiasm and imaginative and prescient have been pivotal in making the choice to carry him again to UCF. Throughout this nationwide search, his ardour for UCF was clear. I consider nobody needed to steer our program greater than Scott.”
Frost, 49, joined the Los Angeles Rams‘ teaching workers in September and has not coached on the school degree since he was fired by Nebraska through the 2022 season.
The UCF job opened on Nov. 30 when Gus Malzahn resigned to change into the offensive coordinator at Florida State below coach Mike Norvell, who had beforehand labored for Malzahn as a graduate assistant at Tulsa in 2007 and ’08.
Malzahn went 28-24 in 4 seasons in Orlando whereas guiding this system via its transition to Power 4 soccer from the AAC to the Big 12 in 2023.
The Knights have completed 6-7 and 4-8 of their first two seasons of their new convention and are in search of a spark from a head coach who turned this system into an offensive powerhouse in his two seasons in cost.
Frost’s 2017 UCF workforce featured the No. 1 scoring offense in FBS at 48.2 factors per sport and rolled to an undefeated season and an AAC title, a speedy turnaround following a 6-7 debut season. The Knights have been ignored of the four-team College Football Playoff however claimed a nationwide championship after they defeated a Malzahn-led Auburn workforce 34-27 within the Peach Bowl to finish their 13-0 season.
Frost left on the finish of the season to rebuild Nebraska. The quarterback was a two-year starter for the Huskers and led this system to a nationwide championship in 1997, however he struggled to realize a turnaround throughout his five-year tenure as head coach. The Huskers went 16-31 below his management and didn’t obtain a successful season or play in a bowl sport.
Frost was dismissed three video games into his last season and was paid a buyout of roughly $15 million. He was out of teaching in 2023.
Before his first head-coaching stint at UCF, Frost labored as an assistant at Oregon from 2009 to 2015 and served as their offensive coordinator in 2014 when the Ducks made a run to the CFP nationwide title sport and quarterback Marcus Mariota received the Heisman Trophy.
