Game planning ways to stop Memphis' prolific offense is probably the easiest part of UCF coach Scott Frost's week as he prepares for the American Athletic Conference championship game.
Frost, 42, has a captive national audience after making college football history with the Knights, turning a winless team into an undefeated team in two years.
The Nebraska native wants the attention to stay on his players, but that's becoming increasingly difficult as noise surrounding his coaching future hit a fever pitch this past weekend after Nebraska fired Mike Riley and athletics director Bill Moos made it clear he wants Frost.
During Frost's weekly press conference Monday, he addressed questions surrounding his future. Here are some of the highlights:
Question: What do you want to say regarding web reports about your coaching future?
Answer: I'm not gonna say much. I can't tell you how much I care about these players and that's true in my past and that's going to be true every year I'm coaching and our entire staff is that way. These guys are special and they deserve my best. I've said that all year. They deserve our coaching staff's best. Every year in college football there's tough decisions to make and those kind of things happen. And when the time's right we'll make them. I know it'll be really hard to leave this team because of how much love I have for this group of guys and how much effort they've given us. So all I'm gonna do is go back in my office and watch more film.
This shouldn't be about me. I know the questions are gonna come but these guys have earned the right to have this conversation be about them and about the game they won on Friday and the game they're gonna play this Saturday and this shouldn't be about me or the future or anything else, but these kids.
Q: Are you interested in Nebraska?
A: I'd be hurt if Nebraska weren't interested in me. We're undefeated, I'm from there. When you win, a lot of people are interested in you. That doesn't matter. Like I said, what matters is these players and what they've accomplished and they deserve the focus to be on them and not me.
Q: Have you talked to players about your coaching future?
A: No, I don't even want to bring it up. I just want them to see me continue to work and do everything I can to help them finish this off. When they see that, they've been doing the same exact thing.
