Totally agree, but playing devil’s advocate here, he’s saying what he’s supposed to say.
I think he believes it, for sure. And I’m excited to see it play out that way. But some may want to call him a kinder, gentler snake oil salesman.
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I think he believes it, for sure. And I’m excited to see it play out that way. But some may want to call him a kinder, gentler snake oil salesman.
Lol, not me, I love the guy. Others are taking it slower. I get it. But I’m all in.
The ironic thing is - the same fans that now are praising and honoring Coach Raiola are the same idiots that were up in arms with the ineptitude of the offensive line play just a couple months ago. What a bunch of morons! Be consistent
Honestly, I’m not sure I’ve seen this at all. No one on this board who was critical of Raiola are all of a sudden praising him. They are still highly critical. Which posters have changed their tunes?
Some of us realized very early that there were things that were out of his control. I’ve said that prior to Rhule getting to Lincoln that he had done a good job recruiting. I think everybody wants to see better O line play but the OC has some bearing on that n
Agree, I am cautiously optimistic. He made a nice run on recruiting to close out the class. I think he did okay here, but the proof will be in the results in a couple of years. I'm hoping to see some improvement right away next year, but it might take longer to get where we need to go for line development.
for the record, not a fan of anyone named PJ..
We need to keep our top guys healthy and available. Landing Scott is a big deal and I think Donovan was a big part of that. One thing to watch is the South Dakota kid. He’s a guy that we had in camp. Raiola had told him he wanted to offer him at camp but Whip and Frost didn’t want to. Big bodied road grader with pretty good feet.
And you’ve been consistent from the start. I was wondering about those who were calling for his head who are now praising him. Haven’t seen that here at all.
totally agree about the continuity between play caller and what the OL is being asked to do. I have coached OL and currently am coaching OL, and I have lots of discussions with our HC about what we can and can not do with the guys that we have. Our best practices are when our HC/OC is down working with our OL specifically in drill and inside run game work.
None of the people calling Raiola a bad coach have ever coached a D1 lineman
is that a requisite? or can you just watch the results to make a judgement instead?
here is another one.. how smart does an offensive line coach need to be? I'm being serious, for those that know, is there a base level of smarts required (thinking Bill Callahan) or can the line coach be as dumb as a brick and get the job done?
I thought you weren't going to comment on Raiola's interview
can you find a quote from someone who has coached D1 linemen saying he's a good coach?
Perhaps he sees some diamonds in the rough on the OL and he thinks he can develop them.
Judging results without pertinent knowledge or without factoring in variables outside a coach’s control is a fool’s pursuit.
I’m not the one judging him. I don’t think we’ve seen enough of him at NU to assess him. That said, I’ve posted many times that I’m not qualified to judge anything other than results. Even then lacking talent at ONE spot can be problematic for any offense and make everybody look bad.
Rhule and Raiola are both Harry Hiestand disciples. Rhule is particular in how he wants the OL trained and coached. Raiola speaks his language. I don’t think Rhule is concerned that Raiola is perceived to have poorly performed.
you do a lot of "I'm not judging xyz" while insinuating quite a bit of judgement
I agree
same language + the position group the head coach is most comfortable inserting himself = opportunity to take a chance
Maybe I do. I just don’t think Raiola and his O line were put in a very good spot to be successful. One thing I do know, Rhule is an O line coach at heart and if things don’t go well with our line the buck will stop with him.
I don't think any of frost's coaches were put in a place to succeed
wonder why that and only that didn't save them, too?
that you cannot fathom his nephew had even 1% impact in his retention is flat out intellectually dishonest &/or willfully ignorant
you made a good prediction & deserve victory laps for it
He made it sound like he is gonna be heavily involved with the O and D line. Which can only be a good thing.
It certainly convenient that they are related. Seems like there's a high chance it pays off.
I don't give shit what Rhules reasoning was. The dude seems to have a plan and seems to be executed it the way he wants.
Dingle has been saying since Rhule was hired that Raiola wasn’t as bad as people were saying. He’s been super consistent as far as I recall.
Our lineman were not recruited for the offense they participated in last year and the offense was not adapted to their ability...no cohesion...we had two play callers who wanted to do their playbook regardless of personnel...Rhule is saying that the line will be good because the playbook is dictated by personnel. I was more angry that we were running a deep drop passing game when we had tackles who struggled to protect against edge rushers, that we ran the ball with too many Wrs on the field and required our plodding lineman to pull and get up field in the run game...when we went heavy set and used bulk and power we could run the ball. Thompson couldn't play under center and therefore we couldn't run heavy set play action regularly enough to take advantage of our best in conference WR and massive oline. Poor kids had too many coaches checking out and looking for checks only.
Which power formations did we run? Shotgun with one TE and no fullback? Our “power” formations were pretty week. JMO. And I don’t know s#%#.
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Wow literally chose the person in season who said he was not as bad as everyone thought. He literally had people disagreeing with him. Son, I think you need to sit in a dark corner and think before you post on here for awhile
Yup @dinglefritz was 100% a defender of his. I was not a big fan of him but did some research and realized that it likely was not his fault and OL did eventually get a little bit better.
Also I am not praising him but understand that Matt Rhule loves assistants like Raiola and will likely get a lot out of him.
Also let's not forget OL is a priority and if Raiola really does fail coaches are not going to allow it to happen. Our OC has coached OL and our HC says he watches OL all the time.
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