1) Nebraska has the more talent than UCLA.
2) UCLA interviewed Tony White and they didn't want White. Instead they promoted their RB coach, Deshaun Foster to head coach with ZERO coaching experience. Let me say that again, Deshaun Foster's highest position coach in his coaching career is being a position coach.
3) UCLA vs Nebraska was Foster's 8th game in his career. It was Matt Rhules's 21st game at Nebraska and 149th game as a head coach. Matt Rhule was outcoached by a first year coach and it wasn't close.
4) UCLA's schedule - UCLA had difficult matchups against Indiana, LSU, Oregon and Penn State. Their other matchups: Hawaii, Minneosta, Rutgers, Nebraska and Iowa. UCLA scored the second most points on their season against Nebraska.
- Beat Hawaii by 3
- Lost to Minnesota by 4
- Beat Rutgers by 3
- Beat Nebraska by 7
- Beat Iowa by 3 - Iowa was playing with multiple injured QBs and even played a LB at QB.
5) Tony White - I have no idea what his defensive gameplan was against UCLA's offense. Players were constantly out of position, players were taking bad angles, couldn't tackle in the open field. Tony White will be lucky to get the Head Coach job at Kennesaw State next year.
6) This needs to be repeated - Deshaun Foster is a first year head coach, Matt Rhule is a 12th year head coach. Deshaun Foster signed a 5 year contract earning $3,000,000 per year with a $100,000 annual increase. Matt Rhule signed an 8 year $74,000,000 contract and is in year 2 earning $6,500,000 with a $1,000,000 annual increase.
7) UCLA is improving every week, Nebraska is regressing every week.
I have 0 faith in Matt Rhule's ability to turn this program around.
