Rhule Hires A DL Coach
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"Brown worked with new NU defensive coordinator Rob Aurich at South Dakota during the 2021 season.
Prior to that, Brown had two stints at Miami (Ohio) from 2014 to 18 and from 2023 to 2025. He was also the defensive line coach at Rutgers in 2018 and served as a graduate assistant at Notre Dame in 2012-13."
Prior to that, Brown had two stints at Miami (Ohio) from 2014 to 18 and from 2023 to 2025. He was also the defensive line coach at Rutgers in 2018 and served as a graduate assistant at Notre Dame in 2012-13."
Underwhelming hire. Thin resume for the rebuilding project we need. South Dakota? Miami of Ohio? One year at Rutgers? Looks like a hire that was made after our top six candidates said no thanks. Maybe he can bring some of his Miami of Ohio d linemen with him. 
I guess we're putting A LOT of trust in our dc at this point. In a sense it makes sense to have someone he has trust in at dl and edge coaches to mesh with the dc theory and objective
Had to wait for Miami (Ohio) to be out of the playoffs
To me the jury is still out, the Mac is no slouch for a conference he could possibly be a pretty good hire, gotta trust the new dcUnderwhelming hire. Thin resume for the rebuilding project we need. South Dakota? Miami of Ohio? One year at Rutgers? Looks like a hire that was made after our top six candidates said no thanks. Maybe he can bring some of his Miami of Ohio d linemen with him.
I'm fine with an underwhelming hire. I don't give a **** about winning the off-season anymore. We've got to assemble a staff that can recruit, teach and work well together. The fact of the matter is that there are good coaches to be found at all levels. And there are grossly overrated coaches as well.Underwhelming hire. Thin resume for the rebuilding project we need. South Dakota? Miami of Ohio? One year at Rutgers? Looks like a hire that was made after our top six candidates said no thanks. Maybe he can bring some of his Miami of Ohio d linemen with him.
I like the pickup MUCH prefer this to the obese Texan assistant D line coach. We can’t whine that we should have hired Cignetti then ***** about hiring a MAC D line coach. This obviously is a guy our new DC wanted. It isn’t rocket science. Going to be interesting to see how he coaches.Underwhelming hire. Thin resume for the rebuilding project we need. South Dakota? Miami of Ohio? One year at Rutgers? Looks like a hire that was made after our top six candidates said no thanks. Maybe he can bring some of his Miami of Ohio d linemen with him.
This joke is actually spot on. If this guy was our first choice why did it take this long to hire him?
And I get that there are good coaches in the MAC. Trust our new DC? Why?? Because trusting our DC has worked out well for us recently?
Played at Iowa. Started his senior year. From Houston TX. Grad assistant at Notre Dame when they played in the BCS championship game. 14 years experience. Resume is a little deeper than some think. I think watched some Miami-0 this year. His guys at Miami got after it. IF he can inspire every down intensity from out DTs, he’ll do well.
Elijah was clearly our AD’s and maybe Rhule’s first choice. From there, who knows? It’s very common for position coaches to not be named until late January.
I'm just glad we didn't go back to an NFL assistant DL coach. Just because coaches don't come from the BIG or the SEC means very little to me, it's not like they are putting the pads on, it's what they teach and how well their players learn. I think some need to get away from the theory about players or coaches can only be good if they come from power 4 or power 5 programs. One more tidbit Corey Brown played at Iowa DL and was a stud for them so he knows discipline and how it looks and works something we've lost our way with.
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Maybe he was the first choice of the new DC. I don't know. but assuming he is not, what about this program recent history makes you think that getting our first choice should even be a thing?
Many were claiming the reason for Cig’s success his first year at Indiana was the JMU players he brought - so you never knowUnderwhelming hire. Thin resume for the rebuilding project we need. South Dakota? Miami of Ohio? One year at Rutgers? Looks like a hire that was made after our top six candidates said no thanks. Maybe he can bring some of his Miami of Ohio d linemen with him.
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So if they wanted Elijah (and I agree they did) and they were ready to offer him weeks ago, why did it take so long to hire the new guy? Seems they wanted to move quickly but when Elijah said no they were then in scramble mode. The guy we just hired was not our first choice and given how long it took he wasn’t our second, third, or fourth choice either.
And traditionally it has been the case that sometimes you don’t hire a position coach until January. But that was pre portal. These days you want your position coaches in place before the portal opens. You certainly don’t wait until halfway through the portal window to hire the position coach for your team’s greatest area of portal need! And not only is defensive tackle our greatest need, it is also the hardest position to recruit to due to the fact that good defensive tackles are the hardest players to find.
Sorry, this hire has another keystone cops look and smell to it. Another late “scramble” to overcome an initial incompetence.
In before some dork says, “the new DC is just hiring his buddies”
Elijah used Nebraska, his intent was always to go to ATM. As to why it took so long to hire a DL coach I have no idea other than Nebraska probably offered others and were probably turned down or Aurich and Rhule weren't always on the same page about who they wanted. I believe Aurich wanted Brown but had to probably convince Rhule it's who he wanted and after Elijah finished using Nebraska all options were on the table. jmo
The staff was returning from a bowl game less than two weeks ago. Miami's bowl game was Dec. 27.
Aurich was hired Dec 7. Rumors of Robinson to NU Dec 8, rumors all over the place for a couple of weeks, then he goes to TAMU on Dec 21.
Ray Manning (DE coach) hired, announced Dec. 19th. Given your claim that DL is the greatest psn of need, you might disagree with Manning - "Just being here a quick observation in four or five days: There's no lack of talent here. I think it's just a matter of developing guys and putting them in a position so they can maximize what they're good at ... Belief is a huge thing in our game so I think just instilling that in our guys will help."
So the keystone cops look was Rhule trying to get a "name" and that "name" went to a program much closer to the college football playoff. Then they coached a bowl game, hired a DE coach that worked with Aurich at SDSU, and those two got familiar with the players on the roster. After the bowl game, they reached out to some DL coaches they liked, with Brown being one of them.
Of course it is, just like everyone's that's why I said I don't have any idea why it took so long and I just put my guess on the whole thing just like everyone else. Speculation, analysis it's really just semantics in the end.
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Seriously? What did you expect the new DE coach would say? “Hey guys. I have done a quick analysis of our defensive line roster and quite frankly we need to upgrade our talent there. We need to hit the portal and bring in better players.” Of course he isn’t going to say that or even imply it in subtle ways. Nor should he. He said what a new coach should say, even if he knows in his heart that he needs better players.
Corey Brown may be a great coach and a great hire. We will see. What do I know anyway? Not a damn thing. I am just not going to rush in with immediate thumbs up for the guy just because he is now “our guy”. We sucked this year on the line. We lacked a dominant nose tackle and had very little depth. I won’t be jumping cartwheels over this new guy until our line improves.
As it stands right now our defensive line sucks. And that won’t change until it actually doesn’t suck. And until that happens the reality is that Nebraska has a sh$t defensive line. Maybe this new guy will change that. And maybe he won’t.
Well for one thing they have to do background checks then interviews. It appears they interviewed multiple guys before they landed on this guy. It’s a DT coach. He’s going to coach the DTs exactly the way his DC wants them coached. He’ll be fine.
You can’t know that “he will be fine” until he proves he can recruit talent to Lincoln and then develop it.
This is my point about the Pollyanna boosterism on here. One day ago nobody on this board had ever even heard of this guy. But just like that all the two thumbs up boosters in the offseason cheerleader squad are out to let us all know that this is a solid hire and things will be fine.
How do you know that? We have now had ten years of failed coaches and crap seasons. But even after all of that we are “bad pessimistic fans” if we point out that this new dude is an unknown coach whose tenure here might suck as much as previous years.
One more portal day is now gone and we still have zero defensive tackle recruits.
He could be a great hire. He at least has experience and not being forced to adapt to a defense he has never run like last year. Unfortunately with our tough schedule and lack of defensive lineman next year we are not putting him in best position to succeed.
Recruiting is my biggest concern hiring a guy from the MAC. He’s an unknown from a P4 standpoint but he did develop some good players at Miami.
This is what the defense is going to do to other teams with Corey Brown:
Obviously this is on Rhule, but the one thing our DL was last year was young. Jeudy was the only Senior. Nwaneri, Moore, Pietrzak, and Hoffken (later in the season) were all playing “for real” for the first time. RVP was coming off a RS year. George didn’t pan out, and Cam L has always been undersized for a 3 man front. So it was a young group that was playing in an alignment that wasn’t conducive to them.
Three years ago, we had a defensive line that could not stop the run when we needed it to be stopped. We changed coordinators, adopted a front that fit the two best players on the line and stoned Minnesota’s run game in the first game of the season the next year. Nobody expected that performance out of the group before that game. That’s the thing about football players when they get to play, even if they “suck”. The next year they are a year older and now they are experienced football players.
I’m sure they’re trying to get the best players they can out of the portal.
The guy might be amazing but it would have been nice to have a guy with some connections to players that NU wants.
Who recruited Suh to Nebraska?
Answer: John Blake. Suh said he trusted Blake and when Blake left Mississippi State for NU, he eventually flipped to Nebraska.
Pennsy, it's not Pollyanna boosterism, it's refusing to go around constantly pissed about something beyond my control.
Yeah and Blake was a great recruiter. Maybe this guy will be too.
Now, the bigger question is...could this guy get a stud that is in the portal?
We've been reassured by credible folks on this board that there aren't any studs left in the portal. I want to see what he can do with a full crootin' season.
Blake had a stash of bags. I suspect that played a role in some of the guys BC landed.