Scott Frost: Son's birth was 'unbelievable experience'

Baby Frost is here.

Early Wednesday morning, 12:15 a.m. to be exact, Scott Frost's wife Ashley delivered a baby boy. It's the first child for the couple, who were married early last year.

Frost spoke about the experience following Thursday's practice.

On the birth of his son:

"It's just an unbelievable experience. Everybody that has one understands but I didn't really understand until it happened. Man, what a beautiful experience to go through, watching the birth of your child. I feel blessed and lucky that I was able to be there and watch it."

On the moment of the birth and his reaction:

"I didn't what to expect. I hadn't been through it before. I didn't how I would react. It was kind of a feeling of disbelief and joy all wrapped up into one. I didn't know if I'd get emotional or what would happen. I was half beside myself in disbelief that this was happening and half just thrilled to have a child. It was unbelievable. Ashley did great. She's doing great. We're happy."

On his day on Tuesday, waiting for the birth:

"She took a while to get to the point where she was ready to deliver. I wanted to be with her. I was out of here on Tuesday. We got it done Tuesday night, just after midnight. I spent the night there and then got to practice on Wednesday."

On whether he got any sleep:

"I'm doing okay. I haven't gotten a lot of sleep. Lack of sleep, I can deal with it. The stress waiting for it to come took more of a toll on me. The stressful part is over and I'm ready to go forward from there."

On the baby's numbers:

"Numbers? Statistics? He looked great. He was a little over seven pounds. Looks like a future baller. We'll be working on him."

On how the team treated him after they found out:

"They knew where I was. Every single guy on the team came up and said something to me. This is a big family and we have a new member of the family."

On the child being born in Florida:

"We delivered at Florida Hospital for Women and they have been so great to us. Unbelievable experience. Way exceeded anything that I expected. Just thrilled with the entire process and grateful to them."

On sharing the moment with the team:

"The players are excited for me, which is awesome. It shows how much we care about them and how much they care. A lot of the coaches just laugh at me. They've been through this before. Most of the coaches on our staff have kids. A lot of them have young kids. They're kind of laughing at me as I'm going through the same things they went through."

On the advice he's received:

"Just be there for mom. I think that's the best advice. I feel kind of helpless with mom and nurses and everybody around, to get my elbows too deep into it. I'll be there for mom and help her with whatever she needs help with."

On whether he's changed a diaper:

"No, but I'm going back this afternoon and have everybody teach me how to do it. Like I said, there's been all sorts of hands all over my son to this point. When we get him home, I'm sure my duties will expand."

On the distraction of the process:

"I think this week is going to be easy for me. Candidly, last week was hard because the stress of it was worse than anything else. Not knowing if I was going to be gone when it happened. Making sure Ashley was taken care of. Now that it's here, I can focus on being a good dad and being a good husband and being a good coach. Those things come a lot easier than dealing with the stress of waiting."

On being a new dad and the coach of an undefeated team with the No. 1 ranked offense:

"This has been an unbelievable year. I can't imagine, if I coach the rest of my life, having a year that would match this. Just from a team standpoint, watching our guys do everything we ask them. Watching the unity on this team and coaching staff. And some of the things that have happened for us and have happened in my life personally. This has been a very rewarding and satisfying year."

On the name of the child:

"We wanted to wait and meet him before we named him. We're close. I think we'll have a name by the end of the day."

On whether the College Football Playoff Committee has seen UCF play this season:

"I'm not going to say much about that. For us, it matters but it doesn't matter. We just need to take care of our business. I think any time it becomes people's opinions, I think it gets a little dangerous. I wouldn't complain for us. The teams I feel bad for are the Wisconsins and Miamis. As a football player, all you can do is beat the people they put in front of you. If you're undefeated, that's undefeated. That means a lot. I hate to see people's opinions have more emphasis put on them than the record on the field. But from our standpoint, we've just got to take care of business and a lot of good things are headed our way."

On how this life moment ranks with his past sports moments:

"I think the joy surrounding this surpasses anything that I've experienced. There's been a lot of ups and downs and a lot of satisfying things have happened to me in my career, but I don't think any of them can match the sheer joy of holding a baby for the first time. I'm just lucky that I get to do both. I'm in a really good place right now."

On when the wife and baby are coming home:

"Whether they bring her home today, or she's going to come home tomorrow morning, depends on some tests and how she feels. Everybody is great and doing well, so we're going to make that decision later today."

On whether his son is a future Knight:

"He's a Knight right now. We have so much UCF gear that people have given us and people have been so generous and nice to us. He's going to be decked out head to toe for a while."

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