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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Nebraska fires Scott Frost; who are head coach candidates for the Cornhuskers?

Until Saturday: A show about college football

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Ari discuss Nebraska's firing of Scott Frost less than a day after the Cornhuskers lost 45-42 to Georgia Southern. Frost was in his fifth season and finished his Nebraska tenure with a 16-31 record. Who could Nebraska target? Andy and Ari start the waaaay-too-early discussion.

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0:00.0

Welcome to a special edition of the Andy Staples show presented by Sling.

0:14.9

Scott Frost fired at Nebraska a day after losing to Georgia Southern and Clay Hilton.

0:21.6

And Ari, I don't know how many people could hear me, because for those who don't know, we started

0:25.9

this podcast, my mic was not working, now my mic is working, and we can talk.

0:31.6

Do we think Nebraska settled with Scott Frost?

0:35.9

Because remember, the buyout was supposed to drop October 1st

0:38.4

cut in half by $7.5 million to $7.5 million.

0:42.2

Or do we think that Scott Frost is getting $7.5 million more dollars to be fired three weeks early?

0:50.9

I would like to think that they probably came to a settlement.

0:54.4

Like the idea that you would just be like,

0:56.5

here's three beach houses because we can't endure this for another three weeks.

1:01.6

You stink today.

1:02.5

You're going to stink in three weeks.

1:04.3

If you paid seven and a half million more and there was no settlement,

1:07.0

talk about the level of angst just to move on. You know, so like that, that to me,

1:13.6

I think that rich people tend to have pretty good people helping them with their money and how to do

1:20.4

things. And the funniest thing to me is that I was under the understanding and this could be wrong,

1:25.1

but you tell me, is that Scott Frost was actually really close, like friendly with a lot of the Nebraska boosters. So if they didn't block the seven and a half million and they're just like, you know what? We're going to pay this thing in full. Because we can't handle this anymore. Then, you know, that's that's quite a bit. But like honestly, Andy, it it just like hold hold on I want to Jesse joined our

1:44.6

live chat and said imagine being the swim coach who's making like 80,000 years seeing this first of all

1:48.3

the swim coach probably makes more than that I think Nebraska is swimming second of all the next time

1:53.4

90,000 people show up at a swim meet the swim coach can worry about that yeah I mean also too it's just

1:59.3

like what about every other human being that makes a normal salary correct not just the swim coach what about me I feel about that. Yeah. I mean, also, too, just like, what about every other human being that makes a normal salary? Correct. Not just the swim coach. What about me? I feel bad. I wish somebody to pay $7.5 million to fire me. I just, I'm assuming there's a settlement. And I'm assuming it is between, you know, it's between $1 and $7.5 million. It's probably closer to $1 than $7.5 million,

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