“Ego is not your amigo.”
I had never heard that rhymical phrase until a couple of months ago during a conversation with UCF athletic director Terry Mohajir.
It is one of Mohajir’s favorite sayings and the major reason, I believe, why Scott Frost is the head coach of the Knights today.
“It’s never been about ego for me,” Mohajir told me. “For me, it’s always been about hiring the right coach for the job, and I truly believe Scott Frost is the right coach for this job.”
Maybe so, but most ADs spend their careers chasing legacy, and their legacies are largely built on the credit they get for the football coaches they hire.
Mohajir’s decision to hire Frost proved he’s playing a different game. He made a decision not to secure his own legacy, but to reignite the legacy of someone else. Mohajir looked past his coaching hire’s miserable tenure at Nebraska and all the baggage that came with it, and brought Scott Frost back to UCF.
Yes, that Scott Frost. The golden boy. The one who led UCF to a perfect 13–0 season in 2017 and was so beloved that his two-year stint at UCF has been compared to Knight Nation’s version of “Camelot.”
And, yet, Mohajir — a man who didn’t hire Frost the first time, who has lived in the shadow of former UCF athletic director Danny White, and who had every reason to seek his own “guy” — decided to hand the keys to the program back to the prodigal son.
It’s no secret that White was UCF’s wunderkind AD — the architect of the football renaissance. He hired Frost in 2015 when the Knights were coming off a winless season. In just two years, Frost took the program to college football heaven, capping an undefeated season with a Peach Bowl win over Auburn, after which White self-proclaimed UCF as “national champions.”
White could do no wrong. He…
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