Another name to consider: Scott Frost

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The Oregonian
A player's instinct and teacher's eye put Scott Frost in line for possible head coaching job

By Andrew Greif | [email protected]
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on December 28, 2013 at 6:11 PM, updated December 28, 2013 at 7:09 PM
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Ricky Rahne knew about Scott Frost’s prodigal-son backstory as the quarterback who returned to football-mad Nebraska and left with the national title. He knew about the purebred football pedigree from years spent under coaches like Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells, Bill Belichick, Jon Gruden, Dennis Erickson and Mike Tomlin.

But what Rahne couldn’t tell about Frost upon moving in together in the winter of 2006 in Manhattan, Kan., was whether the star player would be any good at his second career, as a coach.

Then he watched Bogey, Frost’s brown and white splotch of a hunting dog.

“You knew he was going to be a good coach because it was the most well-trained dog ever,” said Rahne, who spent the year with Frost as roommates and graduate assistants for Kansas State and is now Vanderbilt’s quarterbacks coach. “It did anything he wanted it to.”

Frost’s face lights up at the story, and he pulls a cell phone from his khaki pocket along a press conference dais to share a photo of the animal he calls “my best friend.” In it, Bogey sits next to a lifeless, ring-necked pheasant, with a look that is less pleasure than been-there, done-that. It is just the latest big prize captured by a meticulous process that has also led Frost, 38, to coaching success – and maybe the cusp of his career's next step.

For 12 years, Bogey has followed his owner from the end of an NFL career as a standout special teams player into coaching. After Frost’s first season as No. 10 Oregon’s offensive play-caller, where UO’s offense was more potent than Chip Kelly’s but stagnant in losses to Stanford and Arizona, it is Frost and Bogey’s next destination that is a prime question around the Ducks, one raised by his reported interview for the Boise State head coaching vacancy.

In the opinion of those who witnessed Frost’s early coaching years, the time and place of his next move is hazy, but his future position -- a head-coaching job – is clear.

“I expect Scott to be a head coach in the near future,” said Chris Klieman, who was co-defensive coordinator with Frost at Northern Iowa in 2008 and was named North Dakota State’s next head coach Dec. 15. “Now, I didn't expect to be a head coach two weeks ago but it happened to me. We always talk, guys like myself and Frosty in the same age range, saying, ‘Are we ready?’ You never really know if you are until you're thrust into it.”

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No openings now, but that's a good name to remember. He was awesome as a player at Nebraska. I didn't know he was at Oregon now.