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Ohio State Practice Week: 24 October Coach Rhule


AzHusker said:
Hard to know what the "best" approach is. But I agree with Rhule - you're a good football player, you want to go to the NFL, so do the players you are opposing. Go make a play. Go beat them. If you are supposed to block the safety, block the safety. Don't catch a kickoff on the 2 yard line.

IMO, he has to give the players the credit - and the responsibility - to do the job. No lowering of expectations because someone had his feelings hurt.

I had a hard time hearing his comments - did he say both Rahmir Johnson and DeShawn Singleton were in the concussion protocol this week?
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I didn't catch the RJ DS comment in full either, but I think he said he expects them to play.

That Barney catch is just a freshman mistake. He wanted to make a big play and didn't think it through.
 
NU_Alum said:
Been my thought for some time, why isn't he coaching these receivers better on blocking? He was a master of that back in the day.
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This is my thought when wondering players or coaches. Ron Brown is there and well known for teaching WRs how to block. At any time has Rhule not used anything he can get from past coaches? No, he's embraced the old coaches and has had them at practices many times. I have a hard time believing Rhule hasn't had Ron Brown's success mentioned to him and he hasn't taken it.
 
Rhule pulled a Frost by stating in different words that he inherited a team with weak confidence. It's on Rhule and staff to build their confidence.

I'm calling my shot right now just like I did then. This isn't going to end well. And I'm not calling for firings. I'm just saying that however long the Matt Rhule lasts, it's not ending with Nebraska back to relevance.
 

The Big Red Lebowski said:
Rhule pulled a Frost by stating in different words that he inherited a team with weak confidence. It's on Rhule and staff to build their confidence.

I'm calling my shot right now just like I did then. This isn't going to end well. And I'm not calling for firings. I'm just saying that however long the Matt Rhule lasts, it's not ending with Nebraska back to relevance.
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The differences between Frost and Rhule are oceans wide. I wasn't a fan of his little comment but he did say he isn't seeing it himself and it's not an excuse. Frost blamed the players and Riley for everything.
 
NU_Alum said:
The differences between Frost and Rhule are oceans wide. I wasn't a fan of his little comment but he did say he isn't seeing it himself and it's not an excuse. Frost blamed the players and Riley for everything.
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I'm standing by my take. We got smacked in the mouth and basically quit. Rhule explicitly said that the quitter's attitude "predates" him. Not going to end well.
 
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Captkenny said:
He said we will find about a lot about ourselves going forward. We will find out about the coaches, the players and himself. Sounds like everything is on the table.

I doubt anything we do was invented at Nebraska. Schemes work if executed as they are supposed to be carried out. I suppose the question is whether every player on our current roster has the ability and desire to carry out their part. If not, can we replace the components that don’t work or tweak the offense to better fit what they are capable of doing, or maybe scheme around the weaknesses.

But getting real simple here, if our jimmie’s can’t push their Joe’s, no scheme is going to work. We must control the line of scrimmage more often than not and our players have not been able to do that for the better part of a decade. If we can’t create holes to run the ball, there is no quick fix available.

Recruiting and development at every position group is the solution going forward it seems to me. Maybe that recruiting includes position coaches that can inspire the way Pelini did in the past or Cignetti is doing today. Hopefully, Rhule is open minded and will take a critical and honest look at his staff. If he decides to keep them, I’m fine with it. But he has to ask the questions and put everything under a microscope.
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This 100%.

And do it before it's too late which is typically the case with Head Coaches.
 


Regardless of the anomalies, Rhule has pretty much addressed the defensive issues. I don't mind a broken game or two. It's a pretty proven system.

Offensively and special teams, outside of a slight turnover improvement which took a huge hit Saturday, I don't see an improvement over Frost at all. In fact, I think if Frost has all his faculties together he is an infinitely better OC than Satt. He had really good schemes and horrific discipline. Special teams has been equally terrible under both.

Does Rhule win in rhetoric? Character? Organization? Hell yes. Is that important? Absolutely... it gets you a bigger runway. But right now he is basically the other MR until he proves otherwise... good dude, great rep of the program, ordinary coach.

I said before the year that this season's floor is a bowl game, and that making one is a legitimate improvement over basically the past decade. He is going to have to coach the heck out of this group to find one more win this season, and if he does, job well done. If he doesn't, I don't think the seat should be warm but he'll need to clean house on offense and special teams. I think we have 6-win talent. Anything beyond is above and beyond reasonable expectations.
 
It has been asked here and Carriker is discussing it on his show: who is Nebraska as a football team. The question can refer to both offense and defense, but generally I think we are talking about the offense.

Who decides who Nebraska is as a football team? I would imagine it is the head coach. But if that is the case, the offense we are seeing is often in conflict with what Rhule has said he wants. Why would this be so? Why would he allow Satterfield the autonomy to run/call what he wants instead of what Rhule has said he wants.

Doesn't make sense to me.
 
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Nehunter88 said:
I'm sure it's on everybody, but I thought he was pretty clear, our perimeter blocking has been bad all year. If you can't run into a run blitz successfully you screen or bubble screen to stop that, which is a coaching adjustment. But if you can't rely on your perimeter blocking the adjustment is not going to work.

So now the real coaching starts, is it a coach that can't teach blocking, or is it a receiver that wants to catch the ball but doesn't give it 100% when it comes time to block. None of us knows for sure which it is, but Rhule will have to decide and act accordingly somewhere down the line.
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My take is that when its pretty much every receiver, every game, that's clearly a coaching issue. Boy Wonder needs to do better ASAP.
 

Anyone else of the opinion that Rhule should have totally gutted the roster of all the holdover guys the first year? Losing and "Here we go again mentality" is contagious and should have been purged year one. Our 5th year guys sure as heck aren't leading like winners.....
 
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