Frost’s lack of humility in public related to his Nebraska failures is striking. Frost could have won the day in Texas on Tuesday with a sentence or two to recognize Nebraska, which paid him more than $20 million in salary in addition to a buyout of approximately $15 million.

Frost finished with a 16-31 record and was fired three games into the 2022 season. He has since returned for a second stint at UCF, and at Tuesday's Big 12 Media Day, admitted to The Athletic's Chris Vannini he should have never left Orlando.

Scott Frost feels ditching the UCF Golden Knights for the Nebraska Cornhuskers in December 2017 was one of the biggest mistakes of his career. "Don't take the wrong job," the head coach, who has since reunited with UCF, said Tuesday at Big 12 media days when asked what his biggest lesson was at Nebraska.