Today is not a happy day. It is not a day for "I knew it all along" Chris Silva Jersey victory laps.Nebraska football admitted defeat.Nebraska fired a native son, an alumnus, and the quarterback of the most recent national championship team.Do you remember how great it felt when Scott Frost was hired? It was not a question of "if" he would lead Nebraska back to prominence and glory. It was a question of "when". I figured by Year 5 NU would be a perennial Big Ten West favorite. Now, we're the Big Ten's favorite team to play in the West. Even if you hopped off the bandwagon early - or never got on at all - try to remember that many of your friends and neighbors desperately wanted this work. I disagreed frequently with Frost fanatics who backed every questionable decision with unwavering blind faith. I feel for them because they're in the same place I'm at, likely the same place you are too: sad, disappointed, and wishing it had worked out differently for the players and coaches.No, today is not a happy day.There is not piece of empirical data to suggest that Scott Frost ever was - or ever would be - succe sful at Nebraska.None.We can parse his record a million different ways: Home/Away, Conference, Division, after a win or lo s, one-score games, and on and on. But we always end up in the same place. For every win, there were two lo ses.We can dig deeper into the program and see the respectable recruiting cla ses, the players in the NFL, the relatively clean arrest sheet. These are good things.But they did not translate into wins, or even consistent play within games. Nebraska has been - and always should be - about more than winning. Meyers Leonard Jersey The words "Not the victory, but the action; not the goal, but the game; in the deed, the glory" are etched into the side of the stadium. But losing this often and in this matter was not sustainable. There were too many excuses and not enough accountability. We all know the truth: the only reason it took this long to fire the head coach is because of who that coach is, and what he represented.It sucks that we had to find our previous rock bottom and keep drilling down to where we are now. That sucks for us as fans. It sucks for the players who deserve better. And it sucks for the program as a whole. I have no idea how far the 2022 season will set the Nebraska program back. That makes me sad.You'll see people second gue sing Trev Alberts's decision to bring back Frost last November. At the time, I asked . To complete the analogy, you could easily argue that Trevs punt looked a lot like the fateful kick in to the wrong side of the field, and easily returned for a touchdown. It's easy to look back and say Alberts's decision to retain Frost last November was bad. But I firmly believe that Trev made the right decision.This fan base has been so invested in Scott Frost being succe sful, that we needed to prove - beyond a shadow of a doubt - that it could not and would not work. I think this is ultimately why Trev Alberts didn't fire Frost after going 3-9 in 2021. Alberts saw Husker Nation going through the five stages of grief over Scott Frost. How could Scott freaking Frost - the guy who took UCF to an undefeated season - lose his first six games at Nebraska? Impo sible. It's got to be because of the Akron game being canceled or something Mike Riley did. Looking back, there were many games that made me angry. At Colorado in 2019 was one of the first. But two home lo ses in 2020 - Illinois by 18 points, and a severely short-handed Minnesota - really made me mad. . The greatest 3-9 team in history was so, so close. That "we're so close" narrative - - gave fans hope that a turnaround was still po sible. With everything else going on - new facilities, NIL, the Paul Eboua Jersey basketball program also in shambles - Alberts could not afford to alienate Husker fans and boosters by firing Frost too soon. . NU was up by 11 points against Northwestern and attempted an onside kick. We may never know the reasoning (Incompetence? Panic? The knowledge that the defense was that bad?), but it was a depre sing "here we go again" start to the season. . Georgia Southern, who also was 3-9 a year ago put up 600+ yards of total offense as the boos rained down from the stands. It was time.If you asked me at the beginning of the season - or as recently as Thursday - I would have said there was no reason to fire Frost until the buyout dropped from $15 to $7.5 million on Oct. 1. But I was wrong. Scroll to ContinueThere was no reason to wait three more weeks. Sure, the monetary savings would have been nice, but most fans don't care about NU's budget. As Trev Alberts said on Sunday, decisions "are always done with what we think is the best long-term interest of the University of Nebraska and our athletic department."Here are a handful of reasons (in no particular order) why firing Frost early was the right - if expensive - decision:It should be obvious by now that the team's performance was not going to improve under Frost's leadership.The weight of playing for their coach's job was impacting performance. Maybe a change can salvage the season for the players and fans.With Fox's "Big Noon Kickoff" coming to town on Saturday, NU can present a positive and optimistic narrative instead of what would have surely been dreary and pe simistic. If Miami Heat Hoodie they let Trev talk for 3-4 minutes, Nebraska could recoup a lot of value very quickly.The relationships among Frost and the players, media, and fans would likely deteriorate as everybody counted down the days until Oct. 1. Nobody liked Frost - and/or the players - getting booed during games. The contract said Frost's buyout would drop AFTER the Indiana game on Oct. 1. How ugly would that game have been?How could Frost - or any of his a sistants - po sibly recruit with so much negative speculation over their future? For those who still care about the , firing Frost now is the best chance for it to survive the season.Frost - the native son and former player - deserves better. No matter what you think of his time here, or the generosity of his buyout, it would be borderline cruel to have make him endure another three weeks of this only for the purpose of saving money. That's not how Nebraskans treat people - even if they were 16-31 as head coach.It gives Trev Alberts more time to plan Nebraska's future, and saves him from having to do it behind Scott Frost's back.I agree with you: $15,000,000.00 is a big, big number. But what is the cost of not doing anything for the next three weeks?I'm glad we don't have to find out.For the last 25 years, this has been my default setting: I trust Nebraska's athletic director Jimmy Butler Jersey (and leadership) to make a good hire. Obviously, that has ultimately backfired on every head football coaching hire made since 1997, but I'm excited to see what Trev Alberts can do.Trev has a unique opportunity: For the first time since Tippy Dye hired Bob Devaney, a Nebraska athletic director has the chance to lay out his vision for the future of Nebraska footb