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Scott Frost’s address at the Frank Broyles Award ceremony, where he was a finalist, had an obviously high bullshit content, proving anew that the Oregon offensive coordinator is indeed head coaching material. Thing is, it was also pretty funny. He warmed up the Little Rock crowd with some boilerplate humility, then segued into a gag about football coaches your grandpa probably heard on the radio when he was in junior high. (Somewhere,
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