So....is Raiola Gone after this year since he couldn't pull in his nephew?

[70county]

Maybe Rhule interviewed him and decided he would be a good fit. Pure speculation...

RUMOR

 

[shucker]

RUMOR

Maybe so, but that's the only one I'm revealing. The rest I'm saving for my pay site.

 

[Warzone]

You think Rhule would keep a coach for arguably the most important position on the field mostly to potentially land one recruit? Seems like a really bad idea.

Weren't you the one that always argued how bad he was? Rhule disagreed. We shall see.

 

[NU_Alum]

Weren't you the one that always argued how bad he was? Rhule disagreed. We shall see.

Yes, that's why I think keeping him for a chance at a recruit is dumb and I don't think he would do that.

 

[The Impaler]

I don't think he was kept to get Dylan. Maybe it was some small factor but I highly doubt given how far behind we already were on getting Dylan by the time Rhule took the job. I'm still baffled overall how of all the coaches to be retained, Raiola was given just how horrible our OL has been. I suspect he was 2 years to show what he can do before Rhule lets him go.

I'm not baffled, but overall agree with this post.

I take Rhule at his word until proven otherwise. He seems like an honest straight forth individual. He said he liked Donavan and likes how he coaches. That's good enough for me. With the absolute crap show of dysfunction last year, I frankly don't know how anyone on here can truly know just how good or how bad Donovan really is. Rhule is an oline guy, he's NOT going to sacrifice a year or two of rebuild to reach for A recruit.

 

[Hooked on Huskers]

Maybe second decommit, tOSU and UG.

 

[huskernut]

Rhule strikes me as less likely to screw up decisions about assistants than any coach we've had in 26 years.

He may have made some bets on young coaches but I don't believe he will stay with them forever if they aren't getting better fast enough for the team to get better.

 

[Cyberbach]

Shallow dig but a dig is a dig... do we wait the year or 2 to prove it on the field and hope for the transfer................

 

[True Husker]

Matt Rhule is not going to have someone on his staff to potentially land 1 player. He's on the staff because Rhule thinks he's a good O line coach.

 

[Stuck in the South]

Not trying to be a hot take guy whatsoever, but just asking the masses on this. If O-line is a soft point for our team....how long is his leash?

Then change the name of the thread, to what your point is, which seems to have been to get people to trash OL coach, not on his performance.

 

[cthusker]

We’ll find out next week Donovan has already been hired at GA.

 

[Husker In Oklahoma]

I'm not baffled, but overall agree with this post.

I take Rhule at his word until proven otherwise. He seems like an honest straight forth individual. He said he liked Donavan and likes how he coaches. That's good enough for me. With the absolute crap show of dysfunction last year, I frankly don't know how anyone on here can truly know just how good or how bad Donovan really is. Rhule is an oline guy, he's NOT going to sacrifice a year or two of rebuild to reach for A recruit.

I agree. The problems NU has had go way beyond one OL coach. Almost everything was a total SS.

 

[BleedinHuskerRed]

The title and thought process behind this thread baffles me. Did people really believe that Don Raiola was retained primarily to get his nephew to commit? If that was even one of the major factors, that’s a very short-sighted strategy and a significant cause for concern.

However, I am with the group that thinks Rhule retained Raiola because he thinks Don Raiola is a good OL coach, and his connection to Dylan a bonus. A nice bonus, but still a tangential factor.

 

[Hville]

nephew

Then change the name of the thread, to what your point is, which seems to have been to get people to trash OL coach, not on his performance.

. Thread title is fine. Everyone gets the point.

 

[Hville]

The title and thought process behind this thread baffles me. Did people really believe that Don Raiola was retained primarily to get his nephew to commit? If that was even one of the major factors, that’s a very short-sighted strategy and a significant cause for concern.

However, I am with the group that thinks Rhule retained Raiola because he thinks Don Raiola is a good OL coach, and his connection to Dylan a bonus. A nice bonus, but still a tangential factor.

It’s hard not to make the connection given DRs experience and background for this position. The fact is he doesn’t have the qualifications to be a head line coach at a P5 program. Now if Rhule believes he has enough inherent qualities that allow Rhule to help him grow into it then fine. But it’s a week argument to believe his initial hire and retention didn’t have some flavor of Dylan recruitment involved.