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As others mentioned, the difference is coaching.

For some reason, Rhule decided to fool around and hand the WR room over to a 23 year old with no coaching experience and whose own athletic career topped out as walk-on benchwarmer at Baylor.

We have had two years to observe the on-field results from the position group that he leads. They don’t run great routes, they don’t get separation, they dog it when they are not the target, they cant hold on to a contested ball if they are, and they are terrible at blocking. That is all coaching. Either he doesn’t know what to do, doesn’t know how to teach it, or doesn’t know how to command respect of those he leads. Probably all of the above.

Rhule needs to upgrade here. But he probably would feel guilty for hiring the kid and dealing him a career setback before it really starts. But he gets paid many millions to do what it takes. If he doesn’t like it, he shouldn’t hire people like that. It really shows bad judgment on his part.

Maybe we could land a 5 star WR like Terry, but not with who he sees will be coaching him. Maybe DR loses faith in his Nebraska experience and transfers at season’s end. These can be the potential consequences of trying to be cute with who you hire.
I agree that Rhule hiring the inexperienced young son of a buddy coach was ridiculous and needs to be fixed for 2025. But those two portal dudes had come here with an expectation they were working on improving their draft stock. Instead, neither one can block or get open. Imagine CU’s Hunter playing here. He would be getting open even if you or I was his coach. So it’s more than incompetent coaching. It's kind of a repeat of our portal qb last year.

Expectations

We should all agree the Univ. is paying coaches enough to set reasonable and proper expectations or goals.
The “Chasing 3” goal that Rhule set is nothing close. “We just need those 3 points to win those close games and turn this thing around. Just make one more play.”
Well what would 3 pts really look like?

2023-2024: We ranked 120th with 18 points per game.
Additional 3 pts per game = 21 which would have ranked 102nd last year.

2024-2025: We currently rank 95th in points per game with 24, exceeding Rhule/Satt’s expectation at +5 pts per game.
"Chasing 3" additional points now = 27 which would only rank us at 77th.

Sound familiar?
Satt's admission of no goal or awareness of the very basic measure yards per play left him “guessing” numbers that would rank similarly.
He and Rhule seem ok with the very low standard or expectation.

This is frankly infuriating. Having a proper goal isn't rocket science.
Why were we not “chasing 11” pts per game to get us at least into the top 50 of scoring offenses? Or just imagine “chasing 14” pts per game to get us around the top 25. But we were good with taking slow baby steps to only make one more play or “chase 3.”

I’d pair this with what we pay coaches, and how we’ve recruited athletes ranked collectively between 15th and 39th the last 5 years.
Yet our results that exceed the coach’s own goal ranks us in the 90’s.

B1G has tough defenses, I get it, but our schedule has not been a crazy guantlet so far. Top 20 type of athletes and well paid coaches should at least get us into the top 50 for results before we start making excuses.

GBR

Welp…

personally, I don't think OSU is that good.. not a top 10 team, not even a top 20.. more like 20 something.

I get all the 'feel good' stuff about not getting blown out, but the reality is, we should have won that game, and should have scored at least 2 more times.

I do not believe all this moral victory crap that is being claimed by the preacher and I guess they will take the opportunity to feed the weak minded that are on the team, but I would take a much different track.

They effin blew that game and should have won it. This is in spite of one of the worst OC's we have ever had.
OSU just about beat Oregon, to think the Buckeyes are not a top 10 team is a bit disingenuous.

Ucla

Nebraska should beat UCLA. But they have to play well to do so. UCLA has a bye and can tweak some things on offense. Can't let that be an excuse. Better win the individual battles.
I think they win, gain even more confidence by scoring in the high 20s or kow 30s. Take that confidence and win out. Feeling good at 9-3 headed to Florida for a bowl game. Beat TX A&M for the 10th win.
Ruhle doesn't fire Satt, Many are mad, BIG MAD 😠.
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Raiola

He doesn’t have a weak WR room. Could it be better? Absolutely yes. One year in AM’s tenure - his starting wr core were 3 walkons. So AM had a poor WR core for a year or two. DR doesn’t have a “weak” WR room in comparison. But it could be better for sure.
As others mentioned, the difference is coaching.

For some reason, Rhule decided to fool around and hand the WR room over to a 23 year old with no coaching experience and whose own athletic career topped out as walk-on benchwarmer at Baylor.

We have had two years to observe the on-field results from the position group that he leads. They don’t run great routes, they don’t get separation, they dog it when they are not the target, they cant hold on to a contested ball if they are, and they are terrible at blocking. That is all coaching. Either he doesn’t know what to do, doesn’t know how to teach it, or doesn’t know how to command respect of those he leads. Probably all of the above.

Rhule needs to upgrade here. But he probably would feel guilty for hiring the kid and dealing him a career setback before it really starts. But he gets paid many millions to do what it takes. If he doesn’t like it, he shouldn’t hire people like that. It really shows bad judgment on his part.

Maybe we could land a 5 star WR like Terry, but not with who he sees will be coaching him. Maybe DR loses faith in his Nebraska experience and transfers at season’s end. These can be the potential consequences of trying to be cute with who you hire.

Raiola

He doesn’t have a weak WR room. Could it be better? Absolutely yes. One year in AM’s tenure - his starting wr core were 3 walkons. So AM had a poor WR core for a year or two. DR doesn’t have a “weak” WR room in comparison. But it could be better for sure.
We will have to disagree. I can’t remember worse wide receivers. What do those two portal dudes do well? Blocking? Catching 50-50 balls? Getting open? Of course there are other guys in the room but the guys we expected to be the difference makers have not produced.

Supposedly they both expected this year to really help their draft stock. I’ll bet neither will get drafted nor ever see a snap in the NFL.
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