Robert Smith has witnessed Scott Frost's program at a low point. A severe low point.
Smith, a Fox Sports college football analyst, was part of the crew for the Nebraska-Minnesota game last October in Minneapolis. The Gophers pushed around the Huskers that night, averaging 6.6 yards on 49 rushes in a 34-7 thumping.
A few days before the game, Smith met with Frost, the Nebraska head coach, and Husker defensive coordinator Erik Chinander.
"In talking to them, you could tell they didn't quite have the personnel that they wanted," Smith told me Friday. "And they weren't getting out of that personnel what they wanted.