Rhule on Eisen show
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He looks at this as part of his duties, not just some extracurricular activity. The more familiar the general public is with him and their ability to get a feel for the kind of person he is, and what Nebraska is about only helps to get the right kind of players here to build the program. It’s a cheat code. Is there another coach out there half as good at this?
Everything is cupcakes and roses when you're winning but he's done a good job of selling NU.
He made himself extremely accessible last year too. His calendar has to be crazy - but he is an excellent promoter of the brand and winning helps get to a broader audience. Fortunate we have him and another reason why if the team can start winning the momentum will build exponentially.
He's accessible but he's also likeable and a GREAT interview for the talking heads. His early morning schedule allows them to get him on for the east coast morning talk shows as well. He's promoting NU AND he's promoting Matt Rhule. Bo would probably still be at NU if he would have had Rhule's personality and people skills. People would have grumbled about the embarrassing losses but we wouldn't have fired him. Bo worked his ass off much like Rhule but his paranoia and inability to control his anger were his undoing.
I listened to a successful comedian one time be interviewed about how he promoted himself. He lived on the west coast but would get up at an insane hour to to do the early morning radio talk shows on the east coast then stay up late to do the late night shows on the west coast. He did that for years to build his "brand".
For sure major differences in attitude between Pelini and Rhule. Bo always viewed the media as his adversary. And for Bo, fans were just a necessary annoyance he had to tolerate.
No one can say he doesn’t put in the work. it seems he looks at every detail such that it can be improved or maximized. it’s the aggregation of marginal gains. 1% better every day.
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100%!!! how you articulate yourself in both good times and bad defines who you are and where you're going... Great leaders run to problems not away from them and he has taken this behemoth and used it for his advantage! I Love everything about it!
This past weekend Rhule was the guest DJ on No Shoes Nation SXM radio. Cool listen.
Rhule seems to be a much higher end person than most of our previous coaches. It's night and day between him and Frost/Riley/Pelini.
Riley is a great guy and a very knowledgeable football mind. Rhule is much better at many of the essential jobs of being a head coach at a place like NU. Bo worked his ass off but his personal demons were problematic. Bo didn't recruit at the level he needed to win at the highest level at NU. Frost didn't seem to want to put the work in.
I often wonder about how things hit him not long into his career and how that ultimately lead to his downfall... I remember the guy working his Ass off right when he got the job and flying all over creation trying to get guys to sign... no one expected year one to be awesome as Riley left this place in the cellar... year two started strong and then obviously fell apart, couple that with COVID the year after and everything got beyond the guy extremely fast and I truly feel like he gave up... we see all the time how momentum carries a team, Scott just couldn't ever get it back and in the end he Really Hurt this team...
Bo recruited better than he gets credit for and our last decent team in 2016 was mostly players he signed or would have signed in 2015. Bo was limited by his temper and attitude, that caused major distractions for the team and created an "us against them" attitude between the players and the fans.
Riley was on a retirement gig and was a horrible recruiter. You can count on 2 hands the number of even decent players he signed in 1/2 of 2015, 2016, 2017, and 1/2 of 2018. Rhule has brought in over 20 players who are significant contributors now (most of them younger and not playing yet) in one full and one partial class.
Frost is Frost. As $5 million a year coaches go, he was lazy and ill prepared. He got out-coached by almost every other coach he faced, even ones from Troy and Georgia Southern. He made dumb decisions on the sideline and looked like a child a lot of the time. His staff was mostly FCS level guys with a few exceptions.
I hate this past coach argument stuff. .... but not enough to not chime in.
Pelini hated recruiting. Just because he was able to get a few players doesn't mean he recruited better than he gets credit for, he consistently had less than 80 scholarship players year after year. The 2016 team was mostly smoke and mirrors. He was a good enough defensive coach that he was able to beat bad the bad teams.
Riley was able to recruit players, he just wasn't able to get them to commit. He wanted to bring in big time players and he got quite a few to use official visits, he just wasn't the closer, so he got no coffee.
I still believe Frost was talked out of running the offense he wanted to run here by Osborne or some of the Osborne cronies. The ones that said you can't throw the ball and win at Nebraska. Secondly, bringing his entire staff from UCF was a mistake. He needed to upgrade some of those positions coaches as he upgraded from G6 to P5. By bringing in better coaches he could have found better talent. Maybe that is lazy or maybe he underestimated the difficulty of the job at Nebraska.
Comparing Rhule's recruiting to any of the past is a bit disingenuous. The rules are in place now where you can sign more than 25 regularly, players can take official visits earlier, the transfer rules are non existent, the NIL component allows for quality players to not count as a scholarship player. He does and excellent job, no doubt, but it is apples to oranges to what it was even 3 years ago.
Pelini hated recruiting. Just because he was able to get a few players doesn't mean he recruited better than he gets credit for, he consistently had less than 80 scholarship players year after year. The 2016 team was mostly smoke and mirrors. He was a good enough defensive coach that he was able to beat bad the bad teams.
Riley was able to recruit players, he just wasn't able to get them to commit. He wanted to bring in big time players and he got quite a few to use official visits, he just wasn't the closer, so he got no coffee.
I still believe Frost was talked out of running the offense he wanted to run here by Osborne or some of the Osborne cronies. The ones that said you can't throw the ball and win at Nebraska. Secondly, bringing his entire staff from UCF was a mistake. He needed to upgrade some of those positions coaches as he upgraded from G6 to P5. By bringing in better coaches he could have found better talent. Maybe that is lazy or maybe he underestimated the difficulty of the job at Nebraska.
Comparing Rhule's recruiting to any of the past is a bit disingenuous. The rules are in place now where you can sign more than 25 regularly, players can take official visits earlier, the transfer rules are non existent, the NIL component allows for quality players to not count as a scholarship player. He does and excellent job, no doubt, but it is apples to oranges to what it was even 3 years ago.
When Eichorst approached Riley, he had to initially think that he was being trolled. Where is the camera? Is it in the potted plant? It’s in the potted plant, isn’t it?
Eichorst was such a tool. Someone like him should have never been in his role. Embarrassing representative for our program and literally no charisma. I could understand Bo’s frustration having to interact with that dbag everyday.
