Scott Frost makes joke after clarifying squib or onside kick debate

Scott Frost can laugh about his onside kick call from Week 0 following Nebraska‘s victory on Saturday.

While fans thought they were transported to Ireland when a similar kick happened in Week 1, Frost made sure to clarify some key difference. No, he wasn’t trying to right his wrong and recover an onside kick one week later, it was simply a squib gone wrong.

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“Thanks for calling it a squib kick, I meant to open with a joke about that,” laughed Frost. “We have the smartest football fans in America, and I want them all to know that was not an onside. We practice that all the time, that if we get a 15-yard penalty on the PAT, rather than kick it out of the end-zone and give them the ball, we try to squib it and bury them inside the 20. Our aim has been off on a couple of those, and we hit somebody.

“So glad that wasn’t a penalty kick in a soccer game to win the game, or he would’ve hit the goalie in the face.”

At the least, Scott Frost is being a good sport about being questioned relentlessly regarding his special teams blunder against Northwestern. Onside, squib or any other kickoff decision be damned — if the Cornhuskers can put together some victories, all will be forgiven.

Scott Frost discusses Nebraska’s second-half adjustments in win over North Dakota

Moreover, it looked like it was going to go down to the wire, but Nebraska pulled away to get a victory over North Dakota in Lincoln on Saturday. Afterward, Scott Frost talked about the adjustments his team made after a rough first half.

“There’s a lot of good and a lot of bad,” Frost told Big Ten Network’s Rick Pizzo after the game. “We stunk on offense in the first half. We found a lot better rhythm in the second half, putting our kids in position to make plays. Two games in a row we preached turnover margin … we were negative in turnover margin both games.

“Made some dumb plays on special teams that I know our kids have gotten coached on because I’ve been in the meetings. Better to learn in a win than in a loss. So, we have a lot of things that we can fix and become a better football team.”

One of the big plays of the half came when Garrett Nelson forced a strip-sack fumble to take the wind out of North Dakota’s sails. At the time, Nebraska had a 14-7 lead at the time and the Fighting Hawks were marching toward the Cornhuskers’ side of the field. That was a big swing — and Frost said it came at a good time.

“A lot of momentum and we needed it,” Frost said. “We didn’t expect to be in that kind of game and I give those guys a lot of credit. When we need plays, we’ve got to step up. We’re playing well on defense and just giving up little things here and there. We’ve got to tighten that up.”