Scott Frost reportedly receives 5-year, $22.1 million deal to return to UCF
After his stint at Nebraska didn't pan out, Scott Frost is making the jump back to UCF
Scott Frost isn't taking much of a pay cut moving back to UCF after all.
Frost, who was hired to return to lead the Knights in December, received a five-year, $22.1 million deal with the school, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Frost will start out making $3.9 million a year, just shy of the $4 million he was making in his last season at Nebraska. He will slowly increase his salary before it hits $5 million in the final year.
There are several standard bonuses in the deal, including a $75,000 bonus if the Knights reach the Big 12 championship game. If the Knights reach a bowl game this season, his contract will automatically be extended by one year.
By comparison, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart is the highest-paid college football coach in the country. He makes just more than $13 million per season. Only eight other coaches in the country, including Colorado's Deion Sanders and new North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick, make at least $10 million.
Frost got his start at the college level at UCF, where he led the team to a 13-0 season in 2017 and a win at the Peach Bowl. That led him to take the Nebraska job the following fall, though he struggled with the Cornhuskers. He went just 16-31 there and failed to reach a bowl game before he was fired after just three games in the 2022 campaign.
Frost spent last season working as an offensive analyst with the Los Angeles Rams under Sean McVay. He previously worked as an offensive coordinator and assistant at Oregon, too.
Frost is returning to take over for Gus Malzahn in Orlando. Malzahn left UCF in November to become the offensive coordinator at Florida State after just four seasons. The Knights went 4-8 last year and went just 2-7 in Big 12 play. They failed to reach a bowl game for the first time since 2015.
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