Bullshit, teams change as the season goes on.
You can pinpoint the exact moment that this Nebraska team started to falter.
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From the preacher:
"How about instead of like, making it about them and talking to them, how about we just make it about us and play the best football we've ever played? So I don't wanna see that anymore, I don't want to disrespect them, I want to respect us."
Not only is this soft as babyshit, it's a total inability to read the room. These players were jacked coming into the locker room up big on a rival. They were motivated by the Colorado shit talk, and they played with moxie. It literally disappeared after Rhule's speech, we were held out the entire next half, and never played like that again.
I get that for middle-aged losers, its hard to understand what motivates younger generations, but telling them to stop leaning into what it is that's making them play with an edge is absolutely not it. Rhule lost the team after this speech.
Go ahead and google how Saban and Smart talk pregame/halftime if you want to see how a winner communicates.
