Iowa football: Scott Frost makes Hawk fans appreciate Kirk Ferentz

The actions and words of Nebraska head coach Scott Frost should make every Iowa football fan appreciate head coach Kirk Ferentz even more.

This isn’t a slam piece on Nebraska, but there will be some hard-spoken truth for any Huskers fans that find this. Huskers’ head coach Scott Frost is a joke, and as an Iowa football fan, he makes me appreciate Kirk Ferentz even more than I already do.

This has nothing to do with winning and losing, although you could probably do a better job justifying Frosts’ actions and words if the Huskers were winning.

Scott Frost is an unaccountable whiny baby.

When discussing why Nebraska kicked deep to Ihmir Smith-Marsette (on the kick that he returned for a touchdown), Frost said he didn’t know why and that he wasn’t able to make it over to the special teams unit before they went on the field.

First of all, if you have coaches and players literally not following directions, that’s a problem. But you don’t bring it up during the press conference. Just say it’s on you and move on.

And let’s not forget about him wanting a taunting penalty on kicker Keith Duncan after he kicked the game-winning field goal. A taunting penalty wouldn’t have helped much at that point anyway, but maybe instead of yelling at the ref about the Iowa football team’s kicker taunting you, how about you get control of your own players like safety Marquel Dismuke who repeatedly taunted the Iowa football team throughout the game. Or your entire team after they disrupted the Iowa football team’s warmups in Kinnick last year.

What’s concerning is this isn’t a one-time thing though. This is becoming a trend. When the going gets tough, Frost is more willing to place the blame on his players (these 18-23 year old college athletes) than himself.

He did it after a loss to Indiana, and he’s done it after other games as well.

You would never hear Kirk Ferentz doing that. Ever.

And that’s why Scott Frost makes me appreciate Kirk Ferentz as the head coach of the Iowa football team.