Congrats Bill, I have assigned you to a very small group of rational thinkers on this board whose opinion I actually respect.
Rhule is the right HC for Nebraska
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TL;DR past the subject line. It is debatable, whether or not he is the right coach. I don’t believe he will ultimately be successful here. He’s a good talker and organizer, but I don’t think he has the right mentality to be a lethal head coach
I can’t reconcile the idea that Matt’s the man for the job but he has to make a lot of changes. The most important job for being the top brass is putting good people in jobs below you. He failed. He failed everywhere on offense. Not one dam origanl guy should have been hired on offense. Those that say , “well he’s just not very good at offense, he’s a defense guy” Well if that’s the case, he should be a defensive cord not a head coach.
Not sure I’d say he’s the right guy, not the choice of words I would go with, but I am confident he isn’t the wrong guy, at least not for the next couple years. He’s made some glaring mistakes, but dumping Satt and keeping DH is proof that he’s all N. He needs to make another change. Just keep selling it to recruits and give the coordinators all they need to do their jobs.
When the rest of your offensive and special team staff shouldn’t even be coaching FCS football and you hire a decent FBS coach on offense, that hires going to look like a GOAT
Nebraska’s money management makes the United States government look like stingy misers.
Bill Callahan was a top play caller, top national recruiter, offensive design coach who was involved in creating proprietary play learning software while being one of the top online coaches in the nation...what does Rhule do with all his "time"? Sleep by the door. He might be the right man for the job but has done a poor job. His ridiculous contract allows him time to be humbled and reflect on his coaching decisions. He can either bunker in, hire people he "knows" and "is comfortable with" and take his buyout in two years. Or go out and get the most talented(analytics backed) coaches in the nation...you know he could restructured some of that 80 million he is making to make sure he can pay the top talent as well. You guys all forget that he takes such a massive amount of the coaching pool to do no actual coaching.
If he doesn't clear out all coaches with family or friend ties and replace them with the best at their position for top dollar this program isn't going anywhere. We won the lottery to have a legit 5 star qb come to our program and play an entire season healthy. We have hopefully one or two more years with him.
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I have watched more football in my life and probably more currently than most of the numbnutz on this board… so I know what I am looking at…. And we are the fvcking dumbest, sloppiest, sack of shit team in P4.
We may have a better record because we do have some talent, but I see things from us that I never see from P4 teams. Returning multiple kicks from our goal line and not making it back to even the 20 yard line.. fielding punts inside our own 10… dropping easy passes…. Blown coverages with the game on the line, mediocre QBs torching us when it counts, awful clock management
It all goes back to Rhule
He won’t get fired but he needs to fix it. Sadly that contract was stupid. And really, I am so beat down now I don’t really care. Nebraska is a loser team.. a fvcking punchline
We may have a better record because we do have some talent, but I see things from us that I never see from P4 teams. Returning multiple kicks from our goal line and not making it back to even the 20 yard line.. fielding punts inside our own 10… dropping easy passes…. Blown coverages with the game on the line, mediocre QBs torching us when it counts, awful clock management
It all goes back to Rhule
He won’t get fired but he needs to fix it. Sadly that contract was stupid. And really, I am so beat down now I don’t really care. Nebraska is a loser team.. a fvcking punchline
Hard work doesn’t matter one bit if you don’t work smart. I can really work hard trying to navigate myself through New York City with a map, but if the map is for Dallas Texas, it doesn’t really matter how hard I work.
I didn't even have to read more than a few lines. Rhule is an average coach at best that we paid through the nose for. I see our future and at this point I'm not excited. You'll all be here next year spouting NC's. We are Nebraska no matter who we get to play for us or coach. Were a losing program.
No way.
Go look at his actual Total Offense results and rankings. I’m not saying he’s the best Head Coach
pick your chin up brother. We have a few weeks and 15 practices for Holgersen to install more of what he wants to do. Then we will get to play it against a team outside our conference and see what it looks like.
If we get the snap right in the game yesterday it changes everyone’s outlook. If Neyor catches that ball he probably houses it and it changes everything. If we simply don’t try to field a punt on our 10 it changes everything.
We aren’t good enough to get away with errors like that against Iowa. Not yet.
But we were one play away last night from waking up this morning 7-5 and feeling completely different about things. Would be more of a “well we survived Iowa at their own game and finally beat them”.
We are right there. And are that close with a true freshman QB, soph RBs and true freshman as our best receiver.
Things will improve with Holgersen having time to work with his chess pieces.
Your extreme example doesn’t really apply. For me, I’ll take hard work over anything else. Especially in a head coach.
The hardest working coach you listed was Callahan. Dude failed. Sunk himself with loyalty to a buddy. That is not smart. So all the hard work ultimately failed.
maybe but the past has nothing to do with it. Most would agree the bar isn’t set to what it was back then. The bar much lower. It’s a very reasonable expectation. They have not being hitting their low mark
And let’s stop with the strawman approach of acting like fans demand the 80s and 90s. We just want better than 8 years without a regular winning season. Thats not asking for a lot. That’s not on us for setting our standards too high. Blaming us is clown world crap
I guess NU took baby steps from year 1 to year 2. I'll be disappointed if there are no more changes to the coaching staff - Special Teams in particular. NU is AT LEAST 8-4 with credible Special Teams. Having a true Freshman QB instead of one of the veteran transfers that gave us a look also probably cost NU. Probably still 8-4, but a veteran may have been able to offset the ST problems. This is not an indictment of DR at all, just an observation that we all made pre-season (i.e., we all predicted "Growing Pains").
Another of Rhule's problems is he looks really bad in comparison to Cignetti at Indiana. Indiana had the season Nebraska was supposed to have.
Another of Rhule's problems is he looks really bad in comparison to Cignetti at Indiana. Indiana had the season Nebraska was supposed to have.
Well that’s where we differ. I’ll take winning games over anything else. You take the hard working coach with a losing record. You are a proud person aren’t you. It’s a deadly sin you know
Good coaches know how to win. Period. Look at Curt Cignetti. Look at Kalen DeBoer.
This was a bad hire. Nebraska has been so fixated on hiring established coaches that they keep making terrible coaching hires.
Frost I’ll give them a pass because everyone including me thought that was a good hire. That was just unfortunate.
The next time around they need to hire a young coach that no one’s ever heard of from some small school who has a winning record.
And by the way, just because I think Matt Rhule is not the one doesn’t mean I think he’s going anywhere. He can’t. He needs to stay there until his contract expires.
Timeouts and game management is atrocious. On our last drive we let 25-30 seconds burn until we snapped the ball. WTF. I’ll give Rhule the benefit of the doubt and next year. But are we tons better than when Mickey was coaching? I’d say it’s pretty close at this point.
BTW - Nebraska had a huge talent advantage last night. Is that not on Rhule and the coaches? Iowa had 5 first downs and 20 yards of offense at halftime. We had double the time of possession and double the total yards. 98/100 times with the stat line we had - we win. Discipline (offsides), game time management have not improved IMO.
With Frost, the big blunder was giving him an extension for absolute dogshit results. Sent a "Congrats, you're entitled" message to the entire program.
Some of the finger-waggers who are giving everyone a good scolding this morning were huge supporters of that extension, but they'll never admit it.
He has one or two more seasons with me and that's it. He's a bit of a bitch who plays for 3-10 point wins and you can't do that in the Big. You want to exorcize the demons? Start kicking ass. Unleash hell. Stop going away from the run when you are grinding it down the field. And when you have a burner in Lloyd don't go out and get 2 unproven transfer WRs to take snaps away from him. All we needed was Banks.
I hope he can sign DH for his sake. If he can't, he better go hire Army's OC, hand him the 97 playbook. Tell him you can add formations to this but kick ass. Then you have to tell Raoila we can't use your talent here thanks for trying and move on.
I'm really pissed we didn't hire Fleck when we had the chance. 7 win seasons at Minnesota are like 9 win seasons here.
I hope he can sign DH for his sake. If he can't, he better go hire Army's OC, hand him the 97 playbook. Tell him you can add formations to this but kick ass. Then you have to tell Raoila we can't use your talent here thanks for trying and move on.
I'm really pissed we didn't hire Fleck when we had the chance. 7 win seasons at Minnesota are like 9 win seasons here.
Was fine until that last part. Loyalty above all else, except honor. Fleck is as unbearable a douche there is. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I’m not convinced Deboer is going to last in Tuscaloosa. Coaching at Blue Blood programs and winning per expectations is not easy. Most don’t succeed. The expectations are higher than reality most of the time.
I couldnt disagree more on the “young coach no one has heard of”. That same young coach will have a young staff no one has heard of.
No what's unbearable is a preacher who doesn't understand the importance of time management, special teams and not drooling all over your smock. I could give a shit about personalities anymore. We've had pretty bad. For as big of a "douche" people think Fleck is, he doesn't have any issues getting 18 to 23 year olds to buy in, and that's all that matters. He runs the ball, makes sure he has a stout defense and disciplined special teams. If he had come here and landed Raoila, this would have been a 9 to 10 win season. If you are turning that down, you are the douche
Yet people quickly forget what Matt Rhule accomplished in his 3rd year at Temple and Baylor.
Yep, good coaches know how to win. They get it done, not find new ways to lose. This team plays in crunch time like their coach looks on the sidelines, nervous Nelly.
If Rhule can't keep Holgerson, he's f'ed. DH is the only Offensive coach that shows any competency at all.
If he effs it up by not giving Dana complete control to fire and hire (who he sees fit to) on that side of the ball.
Next, fire the worst special teams coach in college football.
Finally, enough of the false tough guy bullshit. Issue an immediate public apology. Not shaking hands during the coin toss, walking through a teams warm-ups, the "midfield prayer" bs, and etc.
for everyone that has played and/or coached, you know that some of this shit is bush-league....at best.
Maybe instead, focus your attention on hiring competent assistant coaches. Make sure your players are mentally tough during the game. Not some bulls!t preacher talk prior to the game, after the game, or during the offseason.
Little things and attention to detail matter. It's the difference between NU and Iowa. NU (talent-wise) is clearly the better team. Coaching matters. Being mentally tough and solid fundamentally matters.
If there is no progress in the above areas after next season, Rhule needs to be fired. It will cost the University more to keep him than to fire him.
Should be 9-3 this year. Iowa, Illinois and either Ohio State or USC. Better coaching and discipline could have gotten us to 9 this year. IMO we underperformed. You?
If you’re okay pissing away 3-4 games per year because of coaching in exchange for a Nice Guy who “works hard” (when he’s not coming to the office to get some shuteye) then sure we have the right guy
That guy is an actual troll. One of the biggest on the board for years.
The fact people take him seriously with that moniker tells you just how desperate we are for any shred of good news.
Makes me laugh. My hat is off to him for showing just how pathetically clueless most fans on this board are.
Yes. What Rhule accomplished in his 3rd year at Temple and Baylor is similar to what Deion has accomplished in his 2nd year at Colorado. Give Rhule time and he will do what Deion has done.
So Rhule’s the “definition of mediocre” (your exact words) too then? Or sounds like you’re sayings because it takes Rhule 3 and Deion did it in 2, Rhule is worse than mediocre. Is that your point?
