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Rams hire former college coach to join staff: report
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Rams hire former college coach to join staff: report

The Los Angeles Rams have hired a staff ahead of the start of the regular season next week. Former University of Nebraska head coach Scott Frost is coming to Los Angeles as a Senior Football Analyst.

College Gameday insider Pete Thamel broke the news via social media.

Frost comes to the Rams after a successful run in college football, seeing most of that success while at the University of Central Florida.

He oversaw the 2017 UCF team that went undefeated, going 13-0 on the season. This included a victory over the Auburn Tigers in the Peach Bowl.

UCF felt they should have been in the College Football Playoff because they were the only undefeated team in the FBS. It became a huge controversy and because of the rejection, the Knights declared themselves national champions.

After his undefeated year, Frost left UCF to join the University of Nebraska. He did not have the same success as he had at Central Florida, where he failed to win more than five games in each of his five seasons.

All in all, his record at Nebraska ended at 16-31, with no bowl games to show for it. He was fired by the Cornhuskers and has been unemployed ever since.

Coming to the Rams now is interesting because of the rumors swirling about the future of head coach Sean McVay. McVay nearly retired a few seasons ago and there is speculation that it could happen again soon.

While Frost won’t be joining the coaching staff, it’s not out of the question that if McVay does hang up, he could be a strong candidate. He would give them a coach with experience, albeit at the college level.

He has a lot of experience in his career. Frost started as a graduate assistant at Nebraska in 2002 and became an assistant at Kansas State in 2006. He got his first coaching job at Northern Iowa as linebackers coach in 2007.

Front then worked as co-defensive coordinator at Northern Iowa. He eventually went to Oregon, where he spent a couple of seasons as wide receiver coach and offensive coordinator before landing the job at UCF.

Now he gets his chance in the NFL and wants to help the Rams return to the playoffs.

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