Where's the urgency?

"Guys knew their assignments, but they were hesitant," said Neal, a graduate transfer from Central Florida. "By Thursday, you have to know it. We've gone three days, four days, watching film by then. As soon as you're asked a question, you should answer. Seeing that kind of stuff, that's where you get iffy. You can't go into a game with those sorts of doubts, period."

Frost sounds increasingly open to personnel changes.

"Guys are either going to have to figure it out, or we're going to have to get some guys who want to do it," he said Saturday.

He was asked an excellent question, one that gnaws at fans: At the start of the season, did he imagine such a sizable gap between where his team is now and where he wants it to be?

"Yeah, I knew we had a lot of work to do," he said. "We're not giving up. They brought us in here to get it right, and we're going to get it right. But we knew it was a big job because there is just so much that had to be fixed and changed."

If last week were any indication, practice habits still need work.