Injury updates-Stadium upgrades
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Matt Rhule Pre-Purdue Presser (Monday) #Huskers -Turner Corcoran out "for awhile" with a "significant hamstring injury"-Tommi Hill day to day-Ceyair Wright played pretty well-Gunnar Gottula came in and played well, "overtime got away from us" but Gunnar needed more help there-Illinois had a lot of yards after contact. "Second week in a row I'm saying that" and its disappointing.-"At the end of the day, we didn't get off blocks"-Tackling isn't at the level that has been shown before.-DeShon got fooled on the tight end swapping between eligible and ineligible, but "gonna have to be more disciplined" when things come up.-"I don't think anything was good enough in that game"-Had some good rushes but "a lot of errors on defense I haven't seen us make since last year at Michigan"-"None of it was quite good enough and we still had a chance to win the game"-Expecting more blitzes against Nebraska's O-Line and Dylan Raiola. "I'd blitz him"-Need more discipline on picking up blitzes and responsibilities.-Dylan did well on figuring out Illinois going back and forth between zone and man coverage.-Long punt return for Illinois was a "bad punt" that outkicked the coverage to the wrong hash.-Same thing happened on kickoff coverage.-Team needs to play looser.-Have good character and leadership but just need to play a little bit better.-Can't worry about officials or a call that goes against us.-Wants guys to stop worrying about past results in tough situations in games.-Game should not have come down to John Hohl's field goal attempt.-Tristan Alvano wasn't getting any better last week so shut him down for the week (as of Wednesday). Building him back up.-Brett Maher is on staff working with specialists. At practices and meetings. Has consulted with Ed Foley for awhile but with new rule was able to officially add him during camp.-"Hate that we're still in the learning how to win phase"-Defense has a lot of ownership over what they should be doing.-Need to run the ball better. Wanted "like 25 carries for Dante".-Would like to get Emmett more involved in the offense.-"As long as we win, I don't care if we run the ball once, or pass the ball once."-Micah Mazzccua could play other positions on the line but Rhule needs to see it in practice.-Getting the team ready for the first road game of the season after four straight home games.-Knows the fans will travel-"I hope our guys are looking forward to it"-Purdue giving up rushing yards to running quarterbacks doesn't equate to what Nebraska does and game plans to do.-"We practiced hard". Not happy about not being the more physical team last Friday.-Purdue runs outside zone well.-If someone is going to help the team win, they'll play. Only if they can't help win (depth, experience) will they redshirt.-Wants to see defense make some more plays.-Heinrich Haarberg is one of the guys Rhule would say isn't being utilized enough.
Agreed from pretty serious foot injury to hamstring is encouraging. Tommi also day to day doesn’t sound like planter fasciitis - and maybe any little less concerning
Maher coming in is huge - I wonder how many old kickers he called after Friday?
Action plans - love it. Better than the “we just need to get better”
That plantar fasciitis sucks. It's like someone is stabbing you in the foot with an icepick. Worst in the morning when you wake up and before you start moving around. Some mornings I couldn't even put any weight on that foot. Compression socks and a foot sleeve helped me deal with it.
Did anyone ask Rhule why he freezes up at the end of games? How about not calling timeout when the wheels were coming off in OT? Was Carter Nelson in the game at the end so we could try to throw one up and utilize his freakish jumping ability? Did Rhule get a bonus for having a TO in his pocket at the end of the game? Anybody ask why he let so much time run off at the end of the first half? Yes, DR bailed him out, but otherwise we probably don't score at all on that possession, given we don't have a kicker and Rhule let over a minute run off the clock while he sat on 3 timeouts.
We can talk all we want about the players (and there is a LOT to talk about), but something is amiss with the coaches. The running scheme is way too easy to defend (not nearly enough miss-direction/counters), and opponents have figured out the 3-3-5. UNI got drilled by Hawaii last week, and barely beat no-scholarship St Thomas. They are not good, and figured out how to out-scheme White's D. We have ballers on the DL, who are consistently out of place.
Rhule, look in the mirror before placing all the blame on the players...
You make a lot of good points here, but the clock management at the end of the half I had no problem with. He was playing it down so that only one team could score, and that was us. The way our defense was playing, giving Illinois the ball back with a minute to go would have been terrible. He played that the way it should have been played.
Good points otherwise.
second time this year we've had zero urgency at the end of the 1st half and DR bailed us out. it's odd
and Rhule is awful with 2nd half clock management
surprised nobody is talking about his abhorrent challenge
Maher has been here.
With all the communication going on, tell Gifford to cover that guy sneaking out to corner of end zone. Make it simple stupid
Edge and backer are my biggest concern right now. They abused us there on Friday night.
I was saying the whole game. You gotta keep running or you get one dimensional and they can pin their ears bag after your QB.
blah blah blah blah. A bunch of coach speak. Just start winning or shut the hell up. Sorry to sound so pissy but it is the same crap we have heard after every close loss over the past 8 years. So sick of it. That was a game we should have won. Again. But did not. Again. Matt Rhule has kissed the Blarney Stone and can talk the talk. But so far he has not shown me jack **** in terms of winning close games.
Yes I had this when I was working about 15 years ago but I was on feet all day 5 days a week 8 hour days and it took quite sometime before it felt better and went away..
Agreed. I know many fans and the coaches didn’t seem that concerned about UNI results based on the scoreboard. But that 10 minute drive at the beginning and nearly 40 minutes of time of possession was really concerning to many of us. And now for the second non-NU game in three weeks we see evidence they are a pretty bad football team, probably no better than middle of the pack in the MVFC.
Purdue obviously isn’t good but they are probably much better than UNI, so even the Purdue game looks very questionable.
I agree. His DNA as the son of a preacher is obvious. But I don’t care about attending church services led by Rhule. He has two short term successes but doesn’t have a lengthy resume at any one stop so one can only wonder if those great year 3’s would have been repeated.
We all recall Frost’s coach of the year turnaround success in a short time at UCF. If anything, his work at UCF was even more impressive than Rhule’s two stops. Yet Frost was a total cluster f here. Rhule may or may not succeed here but he will never have two schedules easier than last year and this year. If we stumble around like we did last November and end up with another losing record heaven forbid what happens the next couple years against really tough schedules.
We’re not the only team that has these things happen. I saw it all weekend in college and the NFL. Go watch the replay of the Niners game.
Well, last I saw Purdue was like #131 against the run so if we don't pound it this week we never will.
It’s part of his job. He has to do it. We don’t have to watch or listen to the press conferences. We need to chill. I can understand some frustration and depression but damn people need to get a grip. They bought in too much to the preseason hype and hysteria after we beat CU. This is not a playoff team. Never was. Strive like hell to get to 7-8 wins and keep building. Keep landing 4 star LBers, OTs and TEs that teams like OU, Bama and Georgia are recruiting hard. I know I want it NOW too but that isn’t how it works.
if we throw it 30 times it will be very, very disconcerting.
you have to have discipline as a play caller to run the football effectively.
it has everything to do with want-to.
I tend to agree with you here. I send in another thread that we weren't expecting to go to the playoff this year. This loss stings because we should have won, but we are still building. CFB is a grinder and you literally have to bring it every week until you have a roster like Georgia or the the Big Boys. Seems like everyone has struggled at least 1 week this year. Georgia struggled at Kentucky. Oregon struggled against a few people, ND, LSU, Michigan, etc. This is Rhule's hardest job is having the team to have the mentality that every week is a Colorado or Iowa type week. That you just need to leave everything on the field and go get after it. So hard to do and we still need to develop our roster.
I love that you see so many of the youngsters out there as well. My personal opinion is this team will be a lot better once the final players of the Frost era leave. Just need to finally get away from taking about that ****. I'm all for motivation, but the Chasing 3 **** to me just ties us back to those past coaches and we need to shed that. That is one good thing I love Rhule is doing because I feel like Shavers, WM4, Kai, Van Popple, Jacory, etc are all going to be studs and create their own path, not dwell in the previous regimes failures.
completely agree
I know it's not Rhule's "nice guy, man of the people" style but he should just not answer those questions anymore, either
I'm as pissed about the L as anyone, but this is a whole bunch of nonsense.
Did anyone ask Rhule why he freezes up at the end of games?
Probably not, because he didn't. Not even sure what you are referring to here. If anything he probably allowed his OC to be too aggressive at the end of regulation.
Carter Nelson in the game at the end so we could try to throw one up and utilize his freakish jumping ability?
Just silly. If you want to just throw up jump balls Banks is probably that guy, and you could play that game with about any player. Why wasn't Lloyd in on a failed play, with his blazing speed? Why wasn't haarberg running the option instead on some failed running play?
Anybody ask why he let so much time run off at the end of the first half?
Because they wanted to run it all the way down before they scored and not leave Illini any time. And it worked perfectly.
Rhule, look in the mirror before placing all the blame on the players...
He does this all the time, just listen. The guy isn't "blaming the players" in the slightest.
There is so much to actually be frustrated about, but this bizarre list isn't it.
I don't need a condescending lecture on needing to chill or how I just do not understand the "process". And it was Rhule himself who built up expectations preseason by talking about the big goals that this team has. That they were a "good team" that would achieve more than just getting to a bowl game. The hype train started long before the CU game. And I get that it is "his job" to hold press conferences. Again, I don't need a lecture from you on what his job is. But the dude rambles on and on and on. I think he needs to talk a lot less. Just answer the questions without all of the lengthy commentary which amounts to nothing but a load of hot air until he shows us he is a winning coach.
I am not one who expected us to be a playoff team. Go back and check. You will see my preseason prediction was 6-6. And the fact is dingle, though I greatly respect you as one of the long time posters on here, you have a track record of defending our long list of failed coaches right up to the bitter end and accusing those of us who can see the obvious of not seeing the "big picture" like you apparently can. It is you who need to "chill" on your constant pollyanna, silver lining boosterism and your constant need to belittle anyone with two eyes who can see the obvious.
And the obvious is this: we are not a very good football team. And we were outcoached last week and the week before. And in many games last year. And if you take DR out of the equation we are actually in some says, so far anyway, a worse team than we were last year especially on defense. Rhule is going to be loyal to his buddies Satterfield and Foley and both are huge liabilities. So sorry, but it seems to me that Rhule is following the same path as previous failed coaches here. And that is to remain stubbornly loyal to staff who are not getting the job done. We keep leaving points on the field of play. Last year and this year. That is not an accident.
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Condescending? Really? How about trying to apply logic to the situation. IF people want to lay blame for that loss they need to blame White. The defense was WAY more responsible for that outcome than anything Foley could have controlled. People think Maher is going to sprinkle pixie dust over the kickers so they don't miss kicks or mishit punts. Maher has been working with our kickers since fall camp. Alvano is injured and had a set back from his surgery to repair his injury he played with last fall. I get the frustration but it's illogical to lay all the blame on Foley. The kid who missed that kick may in fact turn out to be the answer but there's no way to be sure just yet. Justin Tucker, Mr Automatic has been awful this fall in the NFL. Maher himself lost his job multiple times in the NFL for missing extra points. We're talking about a 19 year old kid missing a kick. We're talking about a punter who blasted the ball 60 yards in the air but to the middle instead of the side then two of our cover guys got held with no flag. Even then the DEFENSE could have stopped them. The same damned thing happened to the Niners last night.