What went wrong at Nebraska? How Scott Frost went from slam dunk to failure with Cornhuskers

Scott Frost was supposed to be coaching Saturday against Oklahoma. Instead, he was fired just three games into his fifth season. What went so wrong?

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Editor's note: Parker Gabriel covered Scott Frost at Nebraska when Frost was hired in December 2017 through the spring of 2022.

Storm clouds gathered around Memorial Stadium, but the casual college football fan wouldn’t have known it early in the evening of Sept. 1, 2018.

The Alan Parsons Project’s "Sirius" blasted and the stadium pulsed as Scott Frost led the Nebraska football team through the famed Tunnel Walk, out of the home locker room, down the north end zone concourse and out the northwest tunnel onto the field for his first game as his alma mater’s head coach.