"Excuses and alibis from past failures have expired. The time has come for the Sunshine State to prove it under the lights. As football fans in this once-dominant pigskin peninsula, we want more in 2025. We deserve more. Excuse my cynicism, but I'm tired of the blind optimism that comes with fresh playbooks and shiny new uniforms. No more. This year is different."
"In 2015, UCF went 0-12. Winless. Hopeless. The joke of college football. Frost was hired from Oregon's coaching staff, and within two seasons he pulled off one of the most remarkable turnarounds in modern college football history: a perfect 13-0 season in 2017, a Peach Bowl win over Auburn and a self-proclaimed "national championship" that still gets under Alabama fans' skin."
"At Nebraska, Frost was a disaster. His record: 16-31. Zero bowl games. A staggering 5-22 mark in one-score games - which basically means if there was a close game, you could count on Frost to lose it. And Nebraska fans, a patient bunch when it comes to corn harvests, had seen enough. They fired him three games into his fifth season rather than wait a few weeks to save $7.5 million on his buyout."
August optimism is cheap and excuses from past failures have expired. Florida football programs and NFL franchises enter 2025 with a mandate to win meaningful games rather than trade on hype. Fans are weary of blind optimism tied to new playbooks and shiny uniforms and demand tangible results on the scoreboard. Scott Frost engineered UCF's dramatic turnaround from a 0-12 season to a perfect 13-0 campaign and a Peach Bowl win. Frost then flamed out at Nebraska with a 16-31 record, zero bowl appearances, a poor one-score-game mark, and an early-season firing that cost a large buyout.
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