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Frost Looks Ahead During Difficult Week

Coach discusses pain of firings, describes what he wants in an offensive coordinator
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Frost Looks Ahead During Difficult Week
Frost Looks Ahead During Difficult Week

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Two days after firing four assistant coaches on offense, Scott Frost said it's been a difficult week for him and the players alike but that "they're going to give their best effort in these last two games." 

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The Nebraska football head coach spoke after Wednesday morning's practice, the last one of the bye week before practices resume Monday for the Nov. 20 game at Wisconsin. 

"They’re hurting," Frost said of the players whose position coaches were let go. "I'm hurting. ... The guys we let go are really good coaches and even better men."

Frost announced the interim replacements for the four. All were elevated from the Huskers' ranks of analysts and other non-coaching staff:

InterimPos.Former

Steve Cooper

QBs

Mario Verduzco

Ron Brown

RBs

Ryan Held

Frank Verducci

OL

Greg Austin

Mike Cassano

WRs

Matt Lubick

Frost said he's been "wearing myself thin trying to run the offense and call the offense." The next coordinator, he said, must be someone he can trust and will be more fully in charge, though Frost said there would be no "wholesale changes" in the offensive scheme.

“We’re early in the stages of identifying people," he said, but "there's a lot of people with jobs in other places, and I imagine nothing can be done until after the season is over."

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Joe Hudson has operated a Husker-related website since 1995 and joined forces with David Max to form HuskerPedia (later renamed HuskerMax) in 1999. It began as a hobby during his 35 years as a newspaper editor and reporter, a career that included stints at the Lincoln Star, Omaha World-Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Denver Post. In Denver, Joe was chief of the copy desk during his final 16 years at the Post. He is proud to have been involved in Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in both Philadelphia and Denver. Joe has been a Nebraska football fan since the mid-1960s during his childhood in Omaha. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in journalism and economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976. He resides a few freeway exits north of Colorado Springs and enjoys bicycling and walking his dogs in his spare time. You can reach him at joeroyhud@outlook.com.

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