Reset vs Rebuild
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I loved seeing him getting fired up. It’s a good sign of urgency
Cute response by him.
Time to back up all the talk.
Time to back up all the talk.
I came away from watching Rhule's pc with the feeling he is hearing from people that want to know when the Huskers are going to start winning more games and play better. I think he made a lot of excuses. Rhule made the comment that Belichick says it takes 3 years to get everything in place. He stated he finally has the right people in the right places. Does that mean no excuses, now?
Rhule has thrown his fired coaches under the bus and now, three years in, he is doing the “you have no idea how bad it was when I got here” excuse, throwing Frost and Riley under the bus. He can get triggered all he wants, but this looks and smells like a reset and not a tweak.
He sounds like a coach hearing from boosters and others that it is time to start winning. But he also knows what his schedule looks like next year and that he has not recruited well to either line. He also knows he really doesn’t have a QB for next year yet.
Pressure.
He sounds like a coach hearing from boosters and others that it is time to start winning. But he also knows what his schedule looks like next year and that he has not recruited well to either line. He also knows he really doesn’t have a QB for next year yet.
Pressure.
I thought the past ten year comment was interesting- yes we know the program was a $&@“! Show by the results each year.
Fans can get as triggered as they want about Rhule mentioning that three-year window, but if you’ve ever actually built a professional organization from scratch, you know his point is valid. Unless you have the ability to bring a bulk of a staff that was the key to your success at a previous venture, it is very rare to hit on even half of your first hires when you are under those kinds of time constraints. I can only imagine how much more limiting those constraints are given the way college football coaching windows and recruiting cycles work now.
I’ll dare to say very few on this board have ever been given a fixed budget and told to take a failing business and turn it around. Your first steps are always to stop the bleeding, hire proven management where available, retain the existing staff who are the least broken just to keep the lights on, and go from there. I am not saying he is guaranteed to be successful, but having been put in that exact position before, he is right about the process for the most part.
I’ll dare to say very few on this board have ever been given a fixed budget and told to take a failing business and turn it around. Your first steps are always to stop the bleeding, hire proven management where available, retain the existing staff who are the least broken just to keep the lights on, and go from there. I am not saying he is guaranteed to be successful, but having been put in that exact position before, he is right about the process for the most part.
Oh boo hoo. Poor little Matty Rhule. The dude is making $7 million a year (more with incentives and endorsements). Highest paid public employee in the State. He has been in the football business for many, many years, both college and pro. He is getting paid handsomely to use his experience to hit the ground running and hire the best damn coaches he knew. Instead, apparently, he hired a bunch of duds.
He owes us a refund.
I think it's a reset to what he wanted to be following 2023 if DR never committed. Just how I see it.
Nope. Garbage take top to bottom.
This isn't some plucky startup. EVERYTHING is already in place. We have a program in a top conference, we have a stadium, facilities, athletic support services, boosters, admin, marketing, tv contracts, branding, tradition, loyal customers, etc etc etc
All Rhule has to do is the job of a coach which is winning ******* games. He just happens to be ****** at it.
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It’s not far to lay blame on Riley. Things went way downhill after he left.
I wish he would have said (and meant) something like "We didn't win enough games, so we made changes. We will keep making changes until we make enough of them to win. It may seem like a lot of changes, but understand we are going to do whatever it takes to win. You can call that whatever you want."
I am sure he woke up and a nice little voice in his head said, "you are about to retiring age and Nebraska owes you 70 million". He probably just tells himself he has nothing to lose, he doesn't need to coach well, or make good decisions and he is still sitting pretty.
Bingo. This isn’t like Bill Snyder trying to turn around KSU in the early 90’s, or a team like Temple today. We have top five facilities. We have a loyal and rabid fan base, maybe the best in the country. Huge stadium with amazing game day atmosphere. We have a magnificent tradition. We are in a great conference. Lincoln is a damn cool city. We have generous boosters.
All that overpayed preacher had to do was to hire a first rate coaching staff. Nobody expected an overnight miracle. There was patience in years one and two. But in the era of the transfer portal we expected to win this year. Our patience is over and rightly so.
Rhule is now in the desperation phase all failed coaches go through. He is starting to blame everyone else around him and before him. He is getting testy with the media. He knows — as he damn well ought to know — that this new and improved coaching staff will be his last if he does not start winning. Losing to Michigan and USC in close games is one thing. Getting blown out by Minnesota, PSU, and Iowa was a f$cking inexcusable disgrace.
His agents played 4-D chess while Neb played checkers. He was never considered for PSU but they made it sound like he was. Brilliant move by his agents and business managers. He’ll be gone in 2 years max getting paid. Neb will continue to be the laughing stock of the onece proud blue blood program.
I see rhule getting 5 years minimum, because he's not a 3 win coach that got 3 years..but fans belly aching next year will put him on the hot seat and will make year 5 a make or break year.
so he still has time to make the right decisions, on the lines and at skilled positions.
the portal coming up will be vital.
I think the Lincoln office after a 2 decade coma is waking up and realizing:
1. pass happy is not the way
2. flipping hc's every 3 years is not the way
so he still has time to make the right decisions, on the lines and at skilled positions.
the portal coming up will be vital.
I think the Lincoln office after a 2 decade coma is waking up and realizing:
1. pass happy is not the way
2. flipping hc's every 3 years is not the way
The one thing we have been great at for 15 years or more. Giving outbectentions for nothing.
Fred, Matt, Scott, Trev....etc.
He will need to improve his own coaching. Not sure he can at this point.
Nebraska had 56 wins in 10 years before Rhule and Indiana had 49 wins before Cignetti. I’ll just leave it at that…
The grift is coming to an end. He parlayed good luck and good b.s. into an NFL gig that he got drummed out of and is now seeing the same thing happen here.
But hey at least he got rich.
true...thats half of it, the other half how much money they put on the table (are we texas tech serious?)..we shall see...
he needs a young team to grow up fast and plug the weak links with the portal.
there's been game management that left one scratching their head.
I don't like the big 10's "flex protect xviii model" doesn't really seem balanced or consistent.
nothing like a division when you know where, when and WHO every year, like the big 8.
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Rhule was more than happy to take the praise for the “3 year turn around” narrative when it looked like Nebraska was going to take another step with their powder puff schedule. After getting curb stomped by B1G mid tiers, that narrative “thankfully” has been exposed, just like Rhule.
Now Nebraska gets to pay for the privilege to see what Rhule can do in years four and onward.
Wonder if Geep doesn't recognize this and sees his opportunity to take over when Rhule fails.
I took offense with the statement of the program being dead for 10 years. Disrespected the players, coaches, boosters, fans who have been supporting the program long before he arrived.
The natives are restless now, but what happens if Utah kicks Nebraska's *** like predicted? Then spend all off season getting ready to play that schedule in 2026? Just be happy that we chickened out of playing Tennessee.
I have. Done it a few times. Latest in Healthcare where the government tells you what you can charge and the open market tells you what things cost. Was part of a team that took an absoulte sh*+ show and made it great. We’ve tripled in employees and doubled in facilities across the state. We are now a billion + entity
You might say he’s right about the process but he just talks a good game. He’s lacked execution thus far. We aren’t seeing major improvement and he’s losing games from his bad game management. So let’s stop acting like he’s been great and everything around him is the problem.
Dude is living off the coattails of 2 good years and silver tongue. He’s never proven he can sustain success and it’s a major red flag that he fled after having some success
dumb people will believe in the magic seeds until the day they die. I can’t fix stupid
And coming from a coach who’s 49-65 in his last 9 years of coaching, with one true successful season.
Want talk about the program being dead for the last 10 years, how’s your last 10 years been as a coach. What an idiot
Go back to G5 coach, cause that’s where you belong
he's not on a fixed budget.. he can do whatever.. remember?
Matt Rhule didn't make a plan and follow it.. he let a 5 star kid pull him into a different direction, and now wants to start over, but doesn't want you to call it starting over. The more he talks these days, the more bs comes out of his mouth. He probably gets 2 more seasons before they fire him, if he doesn't take another job first.
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.
Fred and Rhule have similar coaching records in that they both failed as pro coaches. Matt's winning percentage at Nebraska 52% compared to Fred's 46.8%. Here is the difference. Fred had a winning percentage of 67.3% at ISU, never had a losing season (first season 16-16) and took his team to the Tournament the last 4 of 5 seasons he was there. Rhule has never had a 5 year stretch that has come close to that record.
This is exactly right. Landing Dylan was probably, in hindsight, one of our biggest missteps in the rebuild process. I think Rhule’s philosophy is toward a run heavy team with a dual threat QB. His first year he made the Sims mistake out of desperation, knowing that his only other options were the awful HH or Purdy. Yikes. He then chose to go after Dylan and I truly think that Rhule thought Dylan was more mobile than he turned out to be.
We need a QB with dual threat potential. We can’t whiff on this.
Another similarity is that Hoiberg got his 5* HS recuirt in Bryce McGowens and the team wasn't very good with him.