Me too, but it sounds like he wants to be a HC and will get that opportunity soon.
“You wanna be a 10 win team and you’re spending in the middle of your conference.” Nebraska 12th out of the 18 teams that will make up the new B1G
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Me too, but it sounds like he wants to be a HC and will get that opportunity soon.
Oh, great, what did Matt Rhule say to offend Tony White? MR is dead to me!!!
This is how you take a tweet out of context and make it mean whatever you want it to mean…
But $400M for backseats and a contiguous concourse sounds so much better than getting 5star players and winning championships
The politics surrounding donors and NIL is complex in Nebraska. Shelling out 400 million for stadium renovations seems practical because it probably needs to be done at some point anyway. While the prospect of potentially giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to 18-22 year olds seems asinine to many donors.
We're in the top part of the 'middle third' of universities in terms of what's available to spend from donations. Would guess around the 60th/70th percentile. And its a guess, based on published available general endowment available to both public and private universities. We're not in the top 60. Donations that could go EITHER to general or athletic endowment funds (i.e. Obesity Seats in East Stadium for $450M), or directly to athletes thru NIL. Allegedly.
tOSU/Michigan have and will always have exponentially more money at their disposal (and we're permanently f*cked from an NIL standpoint until it's regulated/capped because of this), but we're paying our players well under what we could be. Well below what other similarly-endowed programs are paying theirs. We're over-performing (IMHO) in facility development, yet dramatically under-performing the market with NIL.
We don't suck because our facilities aren't up to date. We're like Top 1%, without adding Obesity Seating. We're not an impoverished program, at all. We SHOULD be in the top 3rd of the BiG, including the New BiG, in terms of being able to afford better talent; our fanbase has to-date simply chosen not to. OR, the athletic Dept is holding out on it for reasons they're not talking about. A little transparency would go a long way here, IMHO. Something OBVIOUSLY stinks to high hell here.
^^^^ this is an example of the type of logic seen on message boards HERE, and very seldom anywhere else. This sentiment seems strangely Unique to Nebraska fans. People actually defending seats for Fat People being more important than putting quality athletes on the field. Makes me giggle.
Dang.. that was some CNN style missing context there.
I’m mean Nebraska is a conservative midwestern state. Like I said most around here seem to scoff at the idea of paying players to play college ball. I hate when other fanbases say “ their stuck in the 90’s”, but when it comes to the reality of recruiting in college football today Nebraska is way behind for the expectations they have.
If you think about it, the fact he said this about another program seems to suggest he feels good about the money Nebraska has given as it relates to all things football not named NIL. If he is cautioning TW not to take jobs like this, why would he have taken the Nebraska job if it weren’t up to snuff?
We’re 1000% stuck in the 90’s. 90’s are never coming back. Our advantage in strength training is gone, never to return. The REALITY that the best talent will more often than not goto the program that puts the most money in their bank account is probably also never going away, and that reality is evidently COMPLETELY lost on a huge % of our fanbase. They’re in the Denial stage.
Full disclosure I talked with a dude who works in the athletic dept last game. No names, obviously. And I know no one likes the whole ‘I heard a guy talking to someone’s sister’s best friend’ bullshit, this was a guy who seemingly legit knows, was introduced by another donor… basically said our athletic dept won’t deal with NIL as currently structured with another well-known but Unnamed (M.D.) former Husker player at its helm. They’re legislating a way around it, somehow doing it internally, and I don’t know exactly what that means. They want to compete and pay players, just they’re just hamstrung at this present moment.
Hope it’s true. If there’s no BIG change starting very soon (the offseason is starting Saturday, after all), we SHOULD start seeing a lot of empty seats. Mine’ve been either empty or sold for the most part this year.
Interesting that he said "Don't take a job without a great recruiting base."
It’s common knowledge who “M.D.” is. If this person is such a problem why can’t he be forced out? He was practically forced out of the athletic department if I’m not mistaken.
That’s what I’m not 100% clear on, the politics of that whole situation. Wish it were made clearer for everyone. Would put an end to this hysteria, baseline depression and sense of impending doom.
Exactly. Pump him up to the media about being ready to be a head coach BUT telling him “not yet and not that one”.
Yeah but it still sure SEEMED like he was talking about US, ya know fans expecting 10 wins but willing to commit very little to support that.
‘If The Shoe Fits’…
Cool story douche bag, STFU idiot..... Jesus most of you that post on here regularly must have really enjoyable life's 😂 to be arguing with others idiots on a free message board about how to fix Nebraska football when most of you never accomplished a thing in sports is absolutely hilarious
Nebraska fans willing to commit very little to support the football program? I’m not sure that shoe does fit.
Support used to be buying branded hats, clothes. Now it means giving cold hard cash to NIL collectives. We just dont do that and we should.
Broadly speaking, he was referencing situations where the expectations exceed the financial commitment to meet those expectations. While he may have been referencing Syracuse specifically, those circumstances seem to match the description at NU.
Expectations at NU are to be at or near the top of the conference while spending is in the bottom half to third of the conference.
In fact the expectations to financial mismatch maybe wider at NU than Syracuse.
Unless Rhule was just talking about head coaching salaries where he is in a situation where he is making top tier conf money for a long duration and it doesn’t really matter to him the university spend on the rest of the stuff because he gets paid regardless
Expectations at NU are to be at or near the top of the conference while spending is in the bottom half to third of the conference.
In fact the expectations to financial mismatch maybe wider at NU than Syracuse.
Unless Rhule was just talking about head coaching salaries where he is in a situation where he is making top tier conf money for a long duration and it doesn’t really matter to him the university spend on the rest of the stuff because he gets paid regardless
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We’re definitely either a) FAR below what other similarly-endowed programs are putting into their NIL initiatives, or b) the funds are there but not being put onto the football field. Either way, you can’t not see the resistance here in paying the more talented 18 year olds to come play for our program.
My biggest issue is that this is fairly unique to Nebraska fans. Goto other teams message boards, specifically those linked to actually successful teams, and tenor of discussion is very different. Nebraskan Conservatism is wholly responsible for the abysmal state of our team. Just my opinion.
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Regardless of one’s personal feeling about Matt D. I don’t know how anyone could expect him to succeed in this position. He was the front guy for the Frost hire and the go between the program under Frost and the boosters.
So you now have the same guy who went to the boosters to fund the biggest fraud in program history (Frost) and now he is charged with going back to the boosters and raising more money after asking them to invest in Frost. Who in their right mind would invest in what that guy was selling after stumping so hard for Frost
The irony of this post coming from you is hysterical.
Hey, @TampaBaySkers you should listen to him. He's the board authority on only hearing what he wants to hear...and not letting it go...and obsessing about a coach...and especially taking things out of context.
Lmfao
I appreciate the continued obsession from the Coach Prime fan club, even on Thanksgiving day. No days off for the super fans.
What's this have to do with Deion Sanders? Weird that you would go there. Seems you're the one obsessed.
Because that is what has your little feelings so hurt. Keep fighting that good fight for your guy, I look forward to your continued stalking.
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What a weird and failed deflection.
Hope you have a happy Thanksgiving and also find some truth in your life.
Cheers
You are still crying, on Thanksgiving, about someone questioning the Cu coach months ago. Get a freaking grip and stop the creepy ass stalking and obsessing already .
Nebraska has an assistant coach salary pool of $7M. The top 4 spenders nationally are over $9M.
Some like Wisconsin are doing it on the cheap with a pool of $5.4M but even Michigan State was giving Mel Tucker $7.5M before he got fired after upping his pool by $1.5M when he redid his contract last year.
Nebraska's pool probably should be at $8.5M anyway and now likely needs to be at least that much. And sooner rather than later if we want to keep White.
Some like Wisconsin are doing it on the cheap with a pool of $5.4M but even Michigan State was giving Mel Tucker $7.5M before he got fired after upping his pool by $1.5M when he redid his contract last year.
Nebraska's pool probably should be at $8.5M anyway and now likely needs to be at least that much. And sooner rather than later if we want to keep White.
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No way with the turds Rhule hired for his first year. Most of the coaches he hired are inexperienced and in no way should be good paid more then what they are getting right now. Give White a raise and the rest need to win more than 5 games before they deserve shit.
