EUGENE -- When Scott Frost departed for UCF last week, Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich joked that there was a heightened awareness around the Ducks' practice facility.

"It's a high security situation," Helfrich said. "It's a double yellow."

Helfrich had been asked whether or not Frost would be allowed back in to pack up his things and clean out his office. Helfrich said they took the liberty of boxing up some of his belongings. They took a picture and sent it to Frost, telling him to hurry up and come get his stuff.

"He hasn't had time to get back here and do that," Helfrich said.

Well, now he has.

Frost is back in Eugene this week, making the rounds back at the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex and showing his face around town. Frost had center court seats at Tuesday night's Oregon men's basketball game against UC Irvine and flashed an "O" to the crowd when he was shown on the video board.

He even made up with the Oregon Duck, whose Twitter account spent the majority of last week getting over the loss of the former Oregon offensive coordinator.

Everyone around the Oregon program seems happy for Frost, who is now in his first head coaching job after seven seasons at Oregon. Frost left to take over a Central Florida program that went 0-12 in the AAC and has quickly implemented some of the Oregon mainstays. He's led a rebranding charge, creating the hashtag #UCFast, and said his goal was to turn the Knights' football program into a Florida version of Oregon's blur offense.

He's rid his Twitter account of any Oregon references, but this week it seems like he's taking in his old school one last time.

"I've seen him a couple times," junior quarterback Jeff Lockie said. "We've been pretty close since he's been the quarterbacks coach. It's good to see him around here. He said to call him whenever I'm done playing and maybe he'll have a job for me someday."

-- Tyson Alger

talger@oregonian.com

@tysonalger