They've also been a disaster more often than not. I'm alright with Rhule's contract though if the numbers are where I think they will be. We're probably going to keep him 3 or 4 years no matter what.
Who do you think Trev should have hired? I mean realistically. Not fantasy stuff like Urban Meyer.
2 AAC division titles, 1 AAC conference title
Dumb. He can resurrect Temple and Baylor into double digit winning teams by year 3, but won't be able to win at Nebraska and the Big 10?
Chuck is a smuck he shows up now and then to poke the bear with nothing concrete to back up what he’s saying
After reading about how the players & assistant coaches felt about UM in jacksonville I'm very glad we didn't end up with him.
We need to realize Nebraska is not the marquee job it once was. Maybe he was the only guy we could get? Nobody will know, but what we do know is that we last hired a head coach with HARDWARE who won championships and was the national head coach of the year and he failed miserably here.
Yes there are people that refuse to believe that a coach would turn down a job offer from Nebraska and the only reason we didn't get the top picks is because we didn't try. I'm happy with the Rhule hire because if he rejected us as well then this board could get really ugly if we settled for someone like Matt Campbell.
If you look at it that way you also have to concede the possibility that he always keeps an eye open for the next step up the ladder ....... which isn't necessarily a negative because he will be working hard to succeed here so he can take another step.higher.
true,I guess mean it ussually takes more then 3 years at a place for nc or hypesmen, unless theres alot of ncaa infractions
Yep. Which is why I called his bluff. Easy to troll and take pot shots. Much harder to say something meaningful and concrete
Yep. But if you're wired that way, you're wired that way.
Unfortunately Michigan State changed the dynamic. Then you had what USC and LSU did. Your choices are to give an experienced coach what he demands or go shopping in the bargain sale bin.
I would say it's a decent hire and we probably could have done better, but we could have done a lot worse too. I don't think people realize how lucky Trev got that Rhule was even interested given that Monken was our top primary backup option. But he ended up getting it done in the end which is all that really matters.
Who in God’s name could we have gotten that you KNOW was better? Fickell was not interested in leaving Ohio at any price. Urban is only going to go to a place with a playoff ready roster. He doesn’t need to coach. I said from day one that Rhule and BOB were the most logical and had by far the best resumes. IMO we got the best fit of those two.
I had at least 8 names that were better. Like I said, I don't think it was a great hire, but I think it was a decent hire, and let's just leave it at that.
What should the contract have been? When that was rejected, who do you go after next?
I voted it "5" hire in the 1-10 poll -- not as good as it should have been, not as bad as it could have been.
Have you ever heard the saying “it’s better to stay silent and let them think you’re stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”? Obviously not ….
