UCF has made a splashy hire, plucking one of the game’s best young offensive minds off the Chip Kelly coaching tree.

Frost comes by way of Oregon, where he was first the receivers coach under Kelly and then the offensive coordinator the past three seasons for Mark Helfrich. He’s just 40, with a very high ceiling in the profession, so the Knights have taken a marked positive step in the aftermath of last year’s winless disaster.

Although George O’Leary put the program on the map, UCF was in dire need of an infusion of youth, energy and offense. The Knights now have all of the above in Frost, who’ll get a shot at early success at a school with outstanding facilities and one of the best recruiting backyards among Group of Five schools. 

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