Scott Frost returned to UCF this year to lead the Knights to a 5-7 record in a position he also held in 2016 and 2017. After 2017, Frost was the head coach at the University of Nebraska, his alma mater, until he was fired during the 2022 season.
After that breakup, Frost had a brief hiatus from coaching, living in Arizona closer to his wife's side of the family before spending 2024 as an analyst for the Los Angeles Rams.
On a recent episode of the UCFast Cast, hosted by UCF running backs Myles Montgomery and Jaden Nixon, Frost made an appearance and spoke about his short stint away from the game. That break included an encounter with former NBA MVP, Hall of Famer, and head coach Steve Nash, who exercised at the same health club as Frost. Nash spent ten seasons as a player with the Phoenix Suns, six with the Dallas Mavericks, and two with the Los Angeles Lakers before spending just over two seasons as the head coach of the Brooklyn Nets.
When answering a question about what he has to look for in recruits during the roster building process, Frost detailed something Nash told him that still sticks with him: "talent without character is just as worthless as character without talent."
"We have to scan high school, junior college, transfer portal for talent," Frost told Montgomery and Nixon. "But at the end of the day, I want guys with character and toughness. Toughness really. Any guy that goes out there and right or wrong, makes mistakes, doesn't quite get the job done, but they're battling that, those are the kind of guys I want to go to games with. And you guys embodied that. We just need more of them."
Frost has previously noted his intention to add impact players for 2026 through the transfer portal in those weeks.
"I think every time you get to this stage in the year, you're excited to reset and rebuild," Frost said on Early Signing Day. "We got to do a great job of evaluation. We got to do a great job of selling UCF. I think we made a lot of strides this year, but we, you know, we need to turn the corner and get this over the hump - be a winning program. We certainly need some additions in order to make that happen, and there's a lot of work being done right now to make sure we get the right guys in here that can do that."
The transfer portal window opens on January 2 and remains open through January 16.
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