According to reports, Syracuse offered $1.2M and Scott Frost said "no thanks."
One of the things critics of Scott Shafer's firing have been saying since is that Mark Coyle and the Syracuse Orange better be ready to play ball with the big boys if they're going to take a chance like this. If the initial report over why Oregon Ducks OC Scott Frost is going to coach the UCF Knights instead of the Orange are true, it doesn't quite sound like we are.
Over the weekend Syracuse — whose athletic director had been at Boise State in 2013 — offered the job to Frost with a starting figure close to $1.