We'll see if Rhule is going to be different than folks like Callahan and Frost. If he's built different, cares about the success of the program and values all those young men in the locker room over his buddy, then we won't see Foley anymore. If he's a big talker and has fake standards then Foley will be around all season. A champion lets him go this weekend, we'll see.
Fire Foley.
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A scared coach makes immediate knee jerk reactions to try to save their jobs. Hope it doesn't affect our recruiting of specialists
It's not knee jerk, that would be after week 1. We're at the point where we can't plan for field goals and are almost at the "we can't punt" stage, it's time for him to go.
Some of these guys prioritize their buddies over the program, it's their fatal flaw.
Some of these guys prioritize their buddies over the program, it's their fatal flaw.
Yup! I doubt if he will be fired mid season but if he's back next year I'll be extremely disappointed in HCMR. No we you can justify bringing him back after what we seen from our special teams the last couple years. Easily the worst hire made by HCMR. I THOUGHT it would be Satterfield and I'm still not sold on him being anything more than average but Foley I'm completely sold. It's time....
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Satterfield is not the right fit, but he isn't the complete and utter failure that Foley is. Like I said, if Rhule is a champion then Foley will be doing analyst work this week and someone else will be on field coaching. We'll see if he's got that dog in him or if he is like the other failures who've stolen a paycheck from the university the last couple decades.
Players who constantly fail typically get benched and replaced. Why would a coach be any less accountable?
Foley is a hindrance to us winning. Unacceptable if we expect to win games.
I actually don't feel the same about Barthel. I think we have a pretty "average" RB room and he's getting the best outta them. EJ looks better, Rahmir looks better, Dowdell compared to spring Dowdell is night and day. So I really don't feel the same about him.
NOW I will say he needs to recruit at a higher level. No reason in the world we shouldn't be recruiting NFL calibur RBs at Nebraska and he hasn't. I do like the kid coming from Mizzu in current class tho. Maybe he's it.
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I'm gonna let the year play out for Sat. I'm just not sure. I admittedly didn't like the hire to begin with because being in South Carolina I watched a ton of USC football and Sat imo was bad there.
However I gave him a clean slate coming to Nebraska and no matter how hard I try I can't blame last year on him. In fact I have to give him some props for what he had to deal with and how he did.
But NOW he has a "dude". Albeit young Raiola is gonna prove one way or the other within the next year or so whether he's a good OC.
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We’ve got a few posters call for the heads of multiple staff members and we’re 5-1. 🤔
Same posters were calling for heads over “close” win with UNI and for the finish to last year. We are 5-1 with our best start in 7 years - I’m convinced regardless of our record and even if we were playing championship level football there would be someone on the staff people would want gone.
I agree that Foley is not worth his salary through these 6 games but also trust Rhule to make the best decision for the team. If that’s at the end of the season (as I suspect it will be) it doesn’t mean he’s soft, or doesn’t care about winning, it means he knows when the right time is.
I haven't gone back and reviewed that block but it looked like they got outnumbered on our left side. The protector took the outside guy when generally you are taught to take the inside rusher with a more direct line. To be fair, the inside guy was a bit delayed.
Likely, without counting, there should have been a protection adjustment call on that.
Obviously these people want top win, everyone wants to win, but their egos get in the way and think they're smarter than everyone and it will work out. Or they value their relationship with said coach more and don't want to be the bad guy. It was the same for Callahan, same for Frost...these guys wanted to win, but they hired buddies instead of good coaches and they got canned. It'll happen to Rhule too if he doesn't prioritize the program over any 1 individual. You think Saban would have got to this point? He'd have had the locks changed.
So Saban fired every assistant that wasn’t meeting muster in the middle of the season?
Sh## happens awfully fast. I never played in college but I played against some guys who were All Big 8 at Nebraska. You take a half of a step the wrong way and you're pretty much screwed against P5 talent. I haven't watched any replays and really don't care if I do. I leave the analysis to the "experts". I don't know if scheme is some of our problem on punt protection or if it's dudes or the grey matter between the dudes' ears. I'm a wait until the end of the season and then let the head coach evaluate his assistants. I think calling for somebody to be fired in the middle of the season is counter-productive.
