New DC
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If these clowns would ever ask themselves, "What would I do if it were my money," they wouldn't make such indefensible moves.
I'm just glad to see it's not the same old retreads or old buddy club of coaches coming in, it's time to get new blood into the program, out with old in with the new 
We may not be the next Indiana but maybe we can be a program we can be proud of once again.
We may not be the next Indiana but maybe we can be a program we can be proud of once again.Aurich has had a meteoric rise through the ranks. His resume is pretty thin but he either was extremely lucky timing wise or exhibited excellent competence in everything he did. A year or two on a successful major program’s staff would be nice to see. Time will tell.
What people don't get is that the difference between a proven coach and a guy on his way down from the peak of his career is about timing that cannot be known. Bo Pelini was hired to be the DC at NU with a track record of coaching that included Cardinal Mooney and being an assistant with NFL teams. The reaction of this board to hiring someone with that thin of a pedigree would be something to see.
When Frank hired Bo this board and our fans were still pretty trusting of the program. We’ve lost most of that. IF Rhule were to hire a no name linebacker coach from the NFL with no ties to Nebraska to be our DC, people would lose their minds.
Rhule already pretty much did this with butler
And that’s exactly what I said in the post above the one you quoted.
I just wouldn’t call it a “home run”. I’d call it a double at best. We did what we needed to do and got on base
At least Butler had a fairly deep resume. As a DB coach he was a helluva hire. DC? Not so much.
That’s on Matt, not us. He hasn’t proven to be trustworthy
Dam Gina. You just took what Dingle said and showed him, his 🫏
I wonder if Dingle played corner in his day. Dude back pedal so much
I did actually but they put me on the side with our best DE. I was one of only a couple of seniors who played both ways. Our safety/I back had an offer to NU but didn’t qualify. That DE was a small college All American.
Who will the corners be? You have Marshall returning, Wright graduating at corners. Jones comes back and so far, I am not over impressed. Then you lose Wright, Buford and Singleton. Who are the safeties going to be? I guess you have Guthrie and Hartzog back along with Benning, Charles, Conn and Mario Buford among a bunch of them that didn't see the field much.
My guess is they go to the portal for at least one corner.
Jones had a fairly nice stat sheet for a RS freshman. Fifth leading tackler, 4 PDs and an INT. Right now I'd say Marshall and Jones at CB, Guthrie and Hartzog and safety, with the Rover tbd. Who knows how the new DC is going to use that psn. Guthrie was in the mix at Rover earlier in the season, and has a skill set that could translate to that spot. Conn backed up Ceyair Wright at the field safety position. If I'm spending portal money, DB gets lowest priority.
yeah i only skimmed that essay, hence why i replied to the post i did.
i'm looking at the top 10 scoring defenses this year and noticing Kehres and Aurich are the only two we had a shot at.
it's a great hire, and a homerun by Rhule's standards.
Must of been a pre requisite because Rhule doesn't know what the **** he is doing.
They should try to make do with what they have and take whatever amount of money it would take to sign a good corner and throw that additional amount at a NT or DT that can be involved in every snap.
Don't agree with all of it, but yes DB should be low priority and NT of DT HIGH priority.
Yes, but if we put 8 single-digits on defense that will fix everything, right?
It would be weird to find out that the better coaches out there have not sought this job since Solich's firing, but that we keep telling ourselves that we're hiring the wrong guy over and over and over and over and over, wouldn't it?
The lure of the magic coach is strong on this board. So strong that the howling on the board that would have met a Curt Cignetti hiring could have been heard from outer space. A guy who was the head coach of JMU? And Elon (where?) before that? Fire Trev!
if Cignetti was hired and did his "we're going to beat X, Y, and Z because they all suck" thing the only howling would've been from the holier than thou "that's not nebraska nice" crowd.
the overwhelmingly positive response to Rhule being hired and ensuing koolaid chugging was way worse than whatever hypothetical you've dreamt up.
There was an overwhelming positive response to Rhule because we had fired Frost toward the beginning of what was an historically awful season. As far as Cignetti writing checks with his mouth, we did have a coach that claimed that the B1G would have to adjust to him. His name was Scott Frost. And that didn't work out. So I'm not sure how well big talk from a new coach coming from the G5 (just like the last coach) would have gone over even with the set that is enamored of sh*t talking.
Boy. I remember quite a few naysayers about us hiring Rhule including a few former players. Suh has been very supportive. Maybe because he knows publicly criticizing him would be self defeating. Fan criticism probably doesn’t matter all that much until it reaches the deafening roar we’ve heard on here lately (which included a LOT of trolls from other fan bases ).
My larger point is that Lincoln is not the destination that some Nebraska fans want to imagine. And stories being floated about x or y coach being interested, but being passed on, are just that - stories. If Nebraska was a destination of the best of the best in coaching, we'd have the best of the best here, because we can pay.
That's revisionism.
The allure to Rhule was "does things the right way" and "will have a contender by year 3" when there was a mountain of evidence it wouldn't translate to the B1G, and so far hasn't.
There was public outcry at the notion of hiring Urban Meyer, because a large chunk of the fanbase prioritizes "Nebraska nice" over winning
They improved about as much as you could ever expect in 2025. Sometimes that is due to players maturing and sometimes it is due to a better system. But in any case, the 2025 numbers are off the charts. You would like to see a larger sample size. Also, there might be players buried on the depth chart that should be playing more. One only has to look at Emmitt to wonder if part of our problem was/is the right players are not playing enough?
Really, a small sample size but when you look at what he did at his prior stops the trend is unmistakable.
We've celebrated hiring these kinds of coaches before. Scott Frost, Donovan Raiola and Garrett McGuire come to mind.
Watched the Boise State and Cal games and once again I'm a little worried about stopping the run. Don't get me wrong, They're a lot better than N was this past year but Boise ran a lot of heavy sets. Two tight ends and was pretty much able to run right at them without a quarterback who was a threat to pass the ball. Cal move the ball pretty well against them but just couldn't cash in in the Red zone.
For this to work , you need DBs that can tackle in space
Ours can't tackle in a phone booth
I remember no public outcry at the prospect of hiring Meyer. In fact, I don’t think there’s any evidence that at any time in his career, Urban Meyer has considered coaching for the University of Nebraska. I do remember reading an article during the time we were running Pelini out of town. It was regarding Urban’s thoughts about the Nebraska coaching search after Solich was fired and was published at that time. Urban was a hot coaching commodity and his name was being mentioned with regards to Nebraska’s job. At that time, Myer said he’d be awfully leery at looking at a job where they had just fired at nine when coach. I think there is a way better than even chance that Stevie P wasn’t even looking at Urban (no mention of him being contacted) and was going for big names like Houston Nutt.
> Doesn't remember a common sentiment on this board from a couple years ago
> Very clearly remembers an article from a decade ago
I'm never surprised at your selective memory. I'm sure in a few years you'll pretend you werent pounding the table for Phil Snow too
Of course I googled Urban Meyer Nebraska coaching job to see what was out there on the rending of garments at the prospect of urban coaching in Lincoln. Of course I am accepting the fact that spousal abuse allegations tend to hang around. Urban was mentioned as a possible for the job in 2022, it was reported that he was contacted and the day following he announced he would not be a candidate for any positions for the upcoming season. I doubt whatever he heard at Nebraska caused him to blackball his coaching prospects for the year 2023. It is interesting that I did find this.
As far as Snow goes, I’d be fine having him coordinate the defense, but there were candidates in a far more suitable stage in their career to consider and we hired one. Snow has coached productive defenses and I’m glad he is associated with the program. So not so much pounding the table for Phil and more, yeah he’d be OK.
remember rhule took over a program that wasen't in a bowl for almost a decade...rome wasen't built in a day