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jkeb said:
The biggest grift hasn't even been the coaches here. A few participated in it, but not all went along happily. There are people at every single position around the program besides the coaching staff, from the regents on down, who haven't been doing whatever it takes to win. They don't care about winning per se, as long as fans keep the business profitable. That is the grift and it has endured ever since TO retired because the fans are loyal to a fault. Sometimes the coaches end up being the scapegoats and the grifters stay while the coaches get replaced with a new whipping boy. Rhule seemed like he was figuring out the politics with those folks, which nobody before him was able to do, but now he has the fans turning on him and it may be too little too late.
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There needs to be a a turning point for all the grift going on
 
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Kakdawg

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Anon690994 said:
We have not been competitive for a long time, that may have been a more fair statement. I appreciate the efforts of all who have worked to improve Husker Football, they all wanted it to succeed. Why would you attack the program you are leading?
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Idk...I guess I just heard it a little different. I didn't feel offended at all and he was speaking the truth. Maybe it's a little of him kinda "defending " what he has accomplished as well. While nobody feels satisfied with where we currently are. Based on the last 10 years or so we ARE better.


Maybe it rubbed you and some others the wrong way. We are all a bit different of course. In the end though it'll all come down to whether he wins enough games or not. That's what I hope he and any other HC here is measured by. Better so far but definitely not good enough to feel comfortable imo.



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inWV said:
If we review the first four games of the 2022 season - Lost to a 1-win team, beat a 1AA team while struggling mightily in the first half, lost to a Sunbelt team because we couldn't keep them out of the endzone and got boat raced at home by an OU team that finished 6-7. The next week after a win at Indiana, Bill Busch said the goal of the defense in that game was to get lined up correctly. Those four games were the natural end point for a program that featured increasingly sloppy play during Frost's tenure. That was a degraded roster that was not being prepared to play to win. Not even mediocre.
Some of us are so busy blaming Rhule that we are totally willing to memory hole the Frost years.
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No argument from me. I said it at that time. Frost was absolutely the worst HC to wear a whistle during my 40+ years of watching the Huskers.



Yet somehow Rhule who actually made two bowl games in 2 straight years (baby steps) is getting crucified. No its not great but it's better. May as well get strapped in because he's definitely getting couple more years regardless.

IDC what he does I'm not sure he could cause more harm to the UNL than Frost did. Jmo tho...




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The only way to lift NU football back into some semblance of relevance is to hire a head coach who:
A) Knows how to attract championship caliber coordinators and position coaches
B) Creates a recruiting dynamo that brings in great athletes
C) Knows how to raise tons of NIL money
D) Knows how to game plan and outcoach the opponent by spending hours and hours watching film
E) Knows how to adjust during a game. Knows how to manage the clock. Knows when to take risks vs. when to play it safe and settle for the easy points.

Rhule possesses none of these qualities. You might say my list of qualities is impossible and an idealized fantasy. But you would be wrong. All I have done is describe the qualities of every successful coach operative in the game today. Such coaches exist.
Our head coach is not one of them.
 
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jkeb

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NikkiSixx said:
that is just more politically correct coach speak is all.. I'd prefer a coach who was straight forward and told you things how they were.
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I don't like coach speak but I don't see what I wrote as that. I see it as explaining to people why so much action is being taken. I wish he would have owned the reset because other guys we have had refused to make changes and went down with the ship. To me the reset actually made me think "okay maybe he still is the guy". Overall he has been pretty good against Nebraskas "gotcha" media questions but he did fall for that one hook, line, and sinker. Sip got him good on that one and probably generated a lot of clicks.
 
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mr.michigan

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jkeb said:
I don't like coach speak but I don't see what I wrote as that. I see it as explaining to people why so much action is being taken. I wish he would have owned the reset because other guys we have had refused to make changes and went down with the ship. To me the reset actually made me think "okay maybe he still is the guy". Overall he has been pretty good against Nebraskas "gotcha" media questions but he did fall for that one hook, line, and sinker. Sip got him good on that one and probably generated a lot of clicks.
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That press conference was the beginning of the end for that phony
 
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The iowa fans are the best! My gosh, I love that they think their coach of 30 years, the all time leader in losses, is going to "figure it out" next season.

Then they run over here to act like they are Husker fans...
 
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Pennsyhuskers said:
The only way to lift NU football back into some semblance of relevance is to hire a head coach who:
A) Knows how to attract championship caliber coordinators and position coaches
B) Creates a recruiting dynamo that brings in great athletes
C) Knows how to raise tons of NIL money
D) Knows how to game plan and outcoach the opponent by spending hours and hours watching film
E) Knows how to adjust during a game. Knows how to manage the clock. Knows when to take risks vs. when to play it safe and settle for the easy points.

Rhule possesses none of these qualities. You might say my list of qualities is impossible and an idealized fantasy. But you would be wrong. All I have done is describe the qualities of every successful coach operative in the game today. Such coaches exist.
Our head coach is not one of them.
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Spot on. I agree 100%. I do give Ruhle credit for fixing the problem with ball security and turnovers. He said after last year that was a priority and by gosh that was better. However, how do you not address the wretched O line play? That has been an issue since day 1. How do you not figure out the 3-3-5 is playing right into the hands of the majority of the B1G run heavy offenses? It seems like Matt stayed with poor position coaches way too long and it cost us big time. Now we have a depleted roster depth and are going to have to hope guys like Hunter and Clark do not hit the portal. If they do, we are in big trouble.
 
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