Looks like the curse might finally be broken.
Matt Rhule saved Nebraska football
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Tap the brakes.
Rhule brought him in. Great move - excited for the change.
Waiting for kong, title almost seems like bait....
Rhule could cure cancer, win a natty, and feed the world and kong would complain. It’s what he does.
Maybe rhule banged his wife?
I’ll give Rhule the move. Ain’t crowning him yet. Trending up. I’ll crown Dana though. Long Live Dana
Mike Riley went 9-4 in Year 2. It's a little early to call Rhule a savior for going .500.
Rhule did bring him in - but I’m not convinced it was entirely his idea. He kept dead weight Satt on staff where most other coaches cut out the cancer.
Had NU beaten Illinois, as they should have. NU would have been bowl eligible and Satt would have still been calling plays today.....
Matt Rhule has definitely met his benchmark so far.
I'm curious to see if he stays past 4 years.
He left Temple for Baylor..so a step up on the CFB stage...Left Baylor for the Pros...so a step up in the Football stage itself...
Will he leave Nebraska for Penn State if he does well here, having been relegated to the college level?
He might be the most consistent coach I've ever looked into if so. We'll see.
I'm curious to see if he stays past 4 years.
He left Temple for Baylor..so a step up on the CFB stage...Left Baylor for the Pros...so a step up in the Football stage itself...
Will he leave Nebraska for Penn State if he does well here, having been relegated to the college level?
He might be the most consistent coach I've ever looked into if so. We'll see.
Are you sure about that? I mean Fickell did well in the AAC or wherever Cincinnati was at the time but that’s it
Dude we were 5-1 and he openly tried to get DH on staff prior to the year starting. We lost three games - he had enough and brought someone in to fix it. Big boy decisions we were pissed previous coaches didn’t make and some people crap on Rhule for making the hard decision.
Which is why the bowl curse had to be exorcised. Time for bigger goals.
True we could end up .500 but Scott Frost did a lot of damage. Riley never beat Wisconsin. This was a big win on many levels!
But, we really don't know, and never will know to what extent he as gonna allow Dana to tinker with the offense. Maybe he wanted Dana to kinda mentor a guy making 1.4M a year who doesn't really understand that offense is execution and rhythm.
Dana is not gonna be some second banana to a guy like Satt, and if Rhule wanted Satt to run the offense and have Dana sprinkle in things, it would have been a total no-go on Dana's part. Guys like him are gonna have total control of the play calling, not some babysitter for a guy whose never gonna "get it."
Dana may have left Lincoln, after several sessions with Satt and just knew there's no effing way that offense was gonna work.
Agree - I don’t think he wanted OC at that time which is why he ended up at TCU as an analyst. Had he come in - he would have been calling plays. Hell - he was here 6 days made the change to call plays.
The situation has changed. Given the way things have gone down, DH arguably gets more credit for ending the bowl-less streak than Rhule does. But Rhule is the head man getting paid. We will find out if Rhule is smart enough to realize that he needs the best coaches for his own success. He wasn’t that smart on his first test.
RHULE tried to hire Dana several months before Trev left. Dana said he wasn’t ready to coach again then. This was all Rhule. Dana and he have been friends for years.
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He’s still using Satt’s offense. The difference is his game planning, play calling and coaching of details. Some apparently think Dana was lying through his teeth when he explained what happened last winter and why he didn’t come to Lincoln.
This was something he was told to do in no uncertain terms.
We should root for his success, but that doesn't undo the boneheaded shit we saw this and last year.
He finally has a leader above him who’s made his bones hiring nothing but Big Winners!
Dana was on campus last winter. He addressed it on Spirts Nightly. Said he was tired and not ready to coach again. At TCU he would help game plan for a couple of days then take the rest of the week including game days completely off.
Read what you wrote because it makes no sense
By admitting they were in over their heads. All it took was some one to say RBs need to hit the holes harder and receivers gotta block
He said he wasn’t required to be a the games. I’m assuming he was involved in discussions and putting a play called sheet together.
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Specifically: "Dana tried to hire Dana." I lol'd at that part, ngl.
MR said he would do anything needed to get to a bowl game. Any decent coach ALWAYS seeks counsel and advice. In the end, no matter how it happened, MR made the decision to start a new OC. From what I can see and what I heard, even the announcers saying it over and over, DH simplified the playbook, perhaps without changing any major philosophy. QB DR was thinking too much, as were others. They definitely played faster and sharper, but maybe that was partly on Wisky. Breaking 40 points, points (sorry) to a visible change on the field of play. From what I saw today, DH also added certain savvy to the play calling. He was already known for keeping the defense off balance, and today it showed. He seemed to set up plays better, he seemed to take advantage of players strengths (and therefore probably avoid weaknesses), he did seem since last week willing to call out players pretty vocally and they responded positively. Some posted here he was brutally honest, but I have never EVER met a FB coach who wasn't. The job requires it. I also think he seemed to make the game more fun. Now I can't prove any of this, its what I observed, and many here have other opinions. In the end though, give credit where its due; MR made the change and gets the credit.
I don't believe in curses in sports, but we certainly have been snakebit. Perhaps psychological or more likely coaching, because we have steadily recruited better than many of our foes. Next week if we lose to Iowa, everyone here will be depressed again, pointing fingers and citing curses. Seems silly to me, but I am getting old. I do think we've been a bit conservative in selecting HCs because we certainly have the moola for a home run hire. That judgement remains to be seen with MR, but I always give the benefit of the doubt and believe in sticking by our choices. Can MR take us to the promised land, perhaps. Its a step by step process. So while many here touted the portal for the success of both CU and Indiana, they both lost today, so which "way" is better remains to be seen. Odds were on our side for many decades, and its hard when the decades bite back. I have considered Wisky to be a little red child of big red football, with Alvarez and similar colors and styles, but enough of losing to them. Today got that monkey off our back, and I hope Iowa pays next.
GBR!!
I don't believe in curses in sports, but we certainly have been snakebit. Perhaps psychological or more likely coaching, because we have steadily recruited better than many of our foes. Next week if we lose to Iowa, everyone here will be depressed again, pointing fingers and citing curses. Seems silly to me, but I am getting old. I do think we've been a bit conservative in selecting HCs because we certainly have the moola for a home run hire. That judgement remains to be seen with MR, but I always give the benefit of the doubt and believe in sticking by our choices. Can MR take us to the promised land, perhaps. Its a step by step process. So while many here touted the portal for the success of both CU and Indiana, they both lost today, so which "way" is better remains to be seen. Odds were on our side for many decades, and its hard when the decades bite back. I have considered Wisky to be a little red child of big red football, with Alvarez and similar colors and styles, but enough of losing to them. Today got that monkey off our back, and I hope Iowa pays next.
GBR!!
This is a point I think is gonna be hard to argue with:
Dana has done a better job in 2 weeks of coaching the QB, the RB's, the WR's, TE's and the OL than the whole fricking 5 offensive coaches combined. That's a fact.
How can I say that? You think all 5 position groups just magically got better in 2 weeks from the same shit the other coaches had been trying to teach them in the last 2 years?
Fvck, if those other position coaches were any good, the OLine would have been playing well, the RB's would have been hitting the holes, the WR's would have been getting separation and blocking the perimeter, and Dylan wouldn't have struggled for the last 5 games.
How did that entire transformation just happen to improve in 2 weeks? It's ALL Dana.
Same personnel, same playbook, same plays, same everything.
It's like we replaced the pitching coach who had his top two pitchers with ERA's of 7.50 a game because he didn't know how to set hitters up, how to pitch backwards and how to have hitters get themselves out. Same stuff on the mound.
So the new pitching coach calls pitches with the same pitchers with the same "stuff" and they have an ERA of 0.50.
It takes a coach with talent to bring out talent.
I don't think you have to be a nice guy to be a really good coach, I also don't think you have to be prick to be a good coach either.
So, big deal, Dana tells his WR's, other than # 17 you are big kids but you don't block and it's embarrasing, if you don't block, you're not gonna get the ball. Straight forward and really who can argue with that? Also, I don't remember seeing Lloyd today? Maybe I missed it. Maybe the flu?
Which makes me wonder what happened to Fidone after he got the procedure penalty. Did Dana tell those guys, either the OL, or the TE's...you commit a penalty and you're heading to the bench?
I know that's harsh, but other than Fidone, how many OL penalties did we have for procedure today?
Or holding? Or jumping offsides? Or offensive pass interference/holding? Maybe he's onto something.
Disclaimer, maybe Fidone got injured or is suffering from the flu Rhule talked about. At any rate, the offense was really clean today.
A chronically penalized OLine transformed today, we have to look at the common denominator.
I wouldn’t go that far but today was a nice win for the program. It was also nice to boatrace Wisconsin which boatraced NU a couple times in the past.
