I think his motivation would be to get hired by someone else if Nebraska fires him. Any self-respecting athletic director or general manager will hesitate to hire someone who quit on his last job.
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Losing My Religion
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I think Rhule has the want to win. I don’t think Rhule knows how to win. He is mostly a talking head with no vision or strategy. He relies on his coordinators to provide identity and strategy. So far here he has experienced poor hires and lots of churn. When/if he gets good coordinators, they’ll move on to their own jobs and the churn will continue.
Matt is the best we've had since Pelini. He's going to be good for a winning record and slightly better most years. After Riley and Frost, I'll take it. As we have discussed ad nauseum, Nebraska is in a different place and time, with a lot of different circumstances. A Mark Cuban or Cody Campbell would help our cause a lot.
I agree Rhule is a little bit better than Riley, and certainly better than Frost. The question is why are we paying a guy $8.5 mil a year for only 6 wins? Riley averaged 6 wins a year and we only paid him $2.7 mil. If we are content with only 6 wins a year, we can find some mediocre coaches who can achieve that for a lot less than what we are paying Rhule.
Like I said above, I don't think we have the money to buy out his contract yet. Let's give him a couple more years, and if he is still only getting 6 wins in 2028 or 2029, then he should be fired.
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FWIW, that rumor was also very strong among the PSU fanbase. Considering how their search went, he may have been one of their options after Cig turned them down.
Frank brought his firing on himself. It was for behavior outside of the stadium. But the AD was inept, wanted to make changes for change sake and then claim credit if they kept winning with Callahan. Even changed the uniforms which was a really stupid move.
I think the decline in Nebraska football to mediocrity was inevitable but undoubtedly accelerated by poor administrative decisions. I don't think any one player, not Carl Crawford nor Bubba Starling nor Joe Burrow would have stemmed the inevitable tide of disadvantages Nebraska accrued when college football became a huge money sport.
Bottom line, once college football games started appearing regularly on TV, schools became awash in football money and thus interested in developing their programs by investing in coaching and infrastructure. Schools invested in stadiums, locker rooms, S and C and training tables, coaching, and recruiting. Scholarship limitations and the elimination of partial qualfiers helped diffuse the talent pool. The population began to shift south and our major geographic disadvantage began to create a gulf in talent between Nebraska and the other blue bloods. One only need to look at the sharp decline in NFL talent produced by the program over the last 20 years as evidence. Our revolving door of coaching changes and systems coupled the talent decline with instability. Thus, here we are.
Bottom line, once college football games started appearing regularly on TV, schools became awash in football money and thus interested in developing their programs by investing in coaching and infrastructure. Schools invested in stadiums, locker rooms, S and C and training tables, coaching, and recruiting. Scholarship limitations and the elimination of partial qualfiers helped diffuse the talent pool. The population began to shift south and our major geographic disadvantage began to create a gulf in talent between Nebraska and the other blue bloods. One only need to look at the sharp decline in NFL talent produced by the program over the last 20 years as evidence. Our revolving door of coaching changes and systems coupled the talent decline with instability. Thus, here we are.
hitching our wagon to the rust belt conference didn't help.
Maybe not, but the B12 is a shadow of its former self and the Big 10 provides more money, more stability, a bigger profile, and academic perks.
Geography, loss of blue blood status, and program instability are the ongoing biggest barriers to a resurrection. Can't do anything about 1. Have to consistently win for #2. #3 is at the whim of the adminsitration and fans.
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