UCF Knights football coach Scott Frost: ‘It’s gotta be daily progress’
UCF football head coach Scott Frost spoke to the media July 27, one day before the Knights open fall camp. He said he needs to see daily progress.
Scott Frost returns to UCF, aiming to replicate his prior success of quickly turning the program around.UCF faces low expectations entering the 2025 season as a Big 12 longshot, with many new players and few returning starters.A key focus is determining a starting quarterback among Brown, Jackson, and Fancher, aiming for consistency after rotating starters in 2024.
ORLANDO — Several slogans from Scott Frost’s first UCF era remain on the walls of the school’s football facilities, namely “rise and conquer.” It’s a challenge for his athletes to wake up and accomplish the day’s goals before sleeping and incrementally improving the next day.
In Frost’s mind, progress entering the 2025 football season equates to success.
“Sometimes it happens slower than you want; sometimes it happens faster than you want,” Frost said Sunday afternoon. “Last time I was here, it happened a lot faster than even we expected.”
Frost turned a winless squad into a bowl-eligible one in 2016, and then an undefeated offensive juggernaut the following year — a meteoric rise that set UCF’s eventual move to the Big 12 Conference in motion.
However, UCF is yet to find its footing as a Power Four program, losing 13 of its first 18 conference games. Gus Malzahn stepped down in November at the conclusion of his fourth campaign in charge, and Frost — who last coached a college game in 2022 at Nebraska — made a long awaited return.
Expectations are modest when considering projections across the college football landscape and betting odds from Las Vegas. BetMGM lists the Knights as 60-to-1 (+6000) underdogs, the league’s longest of…
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