His true colors are showing. This is the Big 10 and it's cut-throat. Not many people realize that 75% of his wins throughout his head coaching career were against teams with a losing record.
I don't have a good feeling about Rhule.
Matt Rhule Presser 11/14/24
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I don't have a good feeling about Rhule.
Rhule has a tough job if he wants to get back to dr. tom championship football, I'm thinking more solich championship football..
he's having to fix a long line of non championship football..callahan, bo, riley, frost..
I think he's doing ok except simms and the oc..
he has a defense unlike callahan,
he not a head case like bo,
he's not a retirement case like riley,
and he's of sober mind...
I like his organizational skills and his efforts in recruiting.
the key here is holgerson and special teams
if the offense and special teams can help the defense during game day, on the gridiron..
I can see solich championship football at the end of the tunnel
I think dr. tom championship football is a thing of the past, with the nil, the transfers and the all around feminization of college football.
when busing with the boys asked the don if he can make Nebraska football great again...he automatically pointed to the quite professionalism of dr. tom without hesitation...
I'm not putting all that on rules shoulders...but solich championship football can be had if:
HC rhule, OC holgerson, DC white all move in one accord...and the addition of special teams...
the players play with pride, and smash thru the fear, uncertainty and dought, and grasp victory from the jaws of defeat.
and the fan base grow a bit of a pair, and not go into chernoble melt down, during a rough patch...
he's having to fix a long line of non championship football..callahan, bo, riley, frost..
I think he's doing ok except simms and the oc..
he has a defense unlike callahan,
he not a head case like bo,
he's not a retirement case like riley,
and he's of sober mind...
I like his organizational skills and his efforts in recruiting.
the key here is holgerson and special teams
if the offense and special teams can help the defense during game day, on the gridiron..
I can see solich championship football at the end of the tunnel
I think dr. tom championship football is a thing of the past, with the nil, the transfers and the all around feminization of college football.
when busing with the boys asked the don if he can make Nebraska football great again...he automatically pointed to the quite professionalism of dr. tom without hesitation...
I'm not putting all that on rules shoulders...but solich championship football can be had if:
HC rhule, OC holgerson, DC white all move in one accord...and the addition of special teams...
the players play with pride, and smash thru the fear, uncertainty and dought, and grasp victory from the jaws of defeat.
and the fan base grow a bit of a pair, and not go into chernoble melt down, during a rough patch...
Exactly. This year is toast. Unless DH works a miracle we just don’t have enough offense to avoid 5-7. Despite what Rhule said the DH hire is about next year and taking enough pressure off of Rhule to get to next year with a certain amount of confidence. Therefore, what we really need now is for DH to take his reputation out there and haul in a wicked good transfer class for the offense.
In a market so heavily dominated by NU sports, you will never find media willing to risk being frozen out by NU coaches. So a few of them may grumble on podcasts and YouTube videos but almost all of their questions directed to coaches are soft as Charmin.
Frozen by walking dead coaches? Tough questions by the media won't rank too high on their list after the get embarrassed by a 2-5 team. At $8M a year, that mother fukjer doesn't get the luxury of an easy button.
I think every win by Foster, Sanders and Cignetti have shined the light more and more on Matt.
I can't imagine how Matt would begin to answer a press question like this,
"Looking at CU, IND, and UCLA, three completely different programs, three different personality types as their HC, all improving from week after week.
Everything they have, we have more and we have better.
Why are we having so much trouble getting this thing turned around?"
Now that would be a tough question to answer on the podium right now.
Cignetti is an issue for any first or second year coach not showing real significant improvement.
Not just Rhule having issues with this.
You can’t deny that he isn’t one of the best offensive minds in college football..
cig might be a flash in the pan with the transfers, time will tell
I like Rhule's demeanor and persona, it seems to fit the role as HC and can be a great asset. But, no doubt his eye for talent may be lacking; that, or he does have an eye for talent, but the talent, for one reason or another, doesn't want to join the team.
Former Husker players not named Damon are a great source. Sirles had a great segment on 590 the other day. He’s not a Satt fan.
Fix the OC and that IMO is going to fix a lot. We still have some walk ons playing too many minutes on D with a 4th year making huge costly mental mistakes on simple plays. We have plenty of talent to be an 8-9 win team this year. A freshman QB coupled with an underperforming OC has killed us. TW has gotten outschemed at times too but that’s going to happen sometimes.
Every fxcking year there are coaches that pop out and have great seasons, then totally disappear for the rest of their lives. Every year. Go back and you can find all the examples. Do you think IU is gonna become a powerhouse? Or UCLA, or CU? Do you think Deion is gonna stick around when his kid leaves? What happens to those programs when these coaches leave? Are kids gonna line up to make IU a blueblood in football? UCLA? Never. Foster will have a decent end of the year, come back next year and be another meh team, be fired in about 3 years and will never be heard from again. Cignetti will come back next year, might do ok, but will eventually flop and disappear just like Tom Allen did.
Its the QB. They make every coach look better. We have the opportunity to take ours and make him very good. After that, who knows. Cignetti and Sanders will see significantly less wins next year if they are still coaching these teams with new QBs. I dont care about UCLA. They are never going to be relevant.
Yes
We, meanwhile, are on a championship trajectory and doing it “the right way”.
Perhaps this will finally be the year we don’t need to replace a coach less than 6 weeks prior to the season starting
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Lots of truth there but guys like Leach could make a QB look good enough to get him drafted and then he wouldn’t do much in the NFL. Cignetti’s backup looked damned good too. Coaching maybe matters more for a QB than any other position on the field.
I have too much time on my hands, so I couldn't resist. BTW, your statement that 75% of Matt's wins came against teams with losing records is not 100% correct, but it's damn close...
Also, I'm not gonna do Baylor cause I doubt the final results are that much different than at Temple, and besides in the 3 years at Baylor his teams overall were 19-20.
I went back and looked at Matt's 4 years at Temple to see how his teams fared against teams with winning records vs. losing records. I didn't include 2 teams (Delaware State and Stony Brook, cause it wouldn't make any difference if they had a winning or losing record since they are nowhere near D-1 level).
In the 4 year period, Temple went 28-23 and I eliminated Del State and Stony from the #'s.
So that would mean 26 games that Temple won, less those 2 teams:
They beat a total of 6 teams with a losing record;
They beat 20 teams with a losing record.
23% against winners and 77% against teams with losing records.
Only a true blockhead could be swept off his feet by a guy with this track record
Yep. That is what was so perplexing about Pelini's adversarial relationship with the press and 'us against them' mentality.
The next tough question our media asks of a coach will be the first. It's just not in their DNA.
Maybe, maybe not.
Frost had an undefeated season once. Mel Tucker went 11-2 once at MSU.
By “talent” I don’t just mean the players. Getting a good OC will do a lot, but can Rhule figure out the right OC? And if so, can he get him here? Maybe we will get lucky and DH is the guy and will stick around for a while
I remember another B10 foe who had early success this way, but then he got caught with his pants down on the phone.
Yeah, the local media is in a very weird spot here.
Fans are soooo loyal to the program that if the media guys "get tough" the fans tend to attack them. Even if the questions they ask and the things they say are fair.
Podcast guys seem to have a little more wiggle room. But even when those guys are on the radio as guests you can tell that they are less negative at times.
You might be right but you might be wrong. Sure, there are much higher odds of all these guys flaming out than becoming the next Saban for LSU or Urban for Florida. But those do happen.
I predict Cignetti moves on from Indiana. He's not getting any younger and he'll be a hot commodity for a football power school this year.
I was starting to buy into Deion moving on when his kids are gone. However, I just heard he's predicted to flip one of the top QB recruits, so that would indicate that he's staying.
UCLA, I agree is just UCLA. I don't think that coach is really in the conversation other than he's a first year coach who beat us. The other two could actually end up being the next great coaches
If I remember correctly, many years ago one of the main Sports writer's for the World Herald started taking TO to task for not winning the big one, etc. It didn't take long before he was no longer a Sports writer but instead was publishing all the rummage sales or some other non important job there. I think his name was Olson? It's been quite a few years.
We've had 3 different guys responding as apologists for Rhule, I have them on Ignore, so I'm just saying Rhule hasn't won everywhere he's been but I think we know Cig has.
Even a minimal examination of Rhule's actual coaching record is underwhelming. Even coaches with big records tend to feast on wins against losing opponents.
What was TO's overall record against KU, KSU, ISU and CU? 80-5 or something like that? Something and 0 against KU and KSU, something and 2 or 3 against ISU, and I suppose CU under McCartney won a few vs. TO.
