Sources — UCF set to deliver again Scott Frost as soccer coach

UCF is ready to rent Scott Frost as its head soccer coach, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Chris Low on Saturday, a transfer that 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 exceptional 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.

Frost, 49, joined the Los Angeles Rams’ teaching workers in September and has not coached on the faculty degree since he was fired by Nebraska throughout the 2022 season.

The UCF job opened on Nov. 30 when Gus Malzahn resigned to turn into the offensive coordinator at Florida State underneath 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 by means of 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 searching for a spark from a head coach who turned this system into an offensive powerhouse in his two seasons in cost.

Frost’s 2017 UCF crew featured the No. 1 scoring offense in FBS at 48.2 factors per recreation and rolled to an undefeated season and an AAC title, a fast turnaround following a 6-7 debut season. The Knights have been unnoticed of the four-team College Football Playoff however claimed a nationwide championship after they defeated a Malzahn-led Auburn crew 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 attain a turnaround throughout his five-year tenure as head coach. The Huskers went 16-31 underneath his management and didn’t obtain a profitable season or play in a bowl recreation.

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.

Prior to 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 recreation and quarterback Marcus Mariota gained the Heisman Trophy.

The Orlando Sentinel first reported that UCF was closing in on hiring Frost.