Some troll posted this a while ago. This is what a sissy would say. Def not what a leader would say - once I saw this, it put the nail in his coffin for me. He was already on thin ice..
Is Matt Rhule distracted?
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You cannot make a good steak out of hamburger. We have a lot of "hamburger" on the O and D lines.
He’s doing the pods to promote recruiting. But you’re right. Just win.
Distracted or not, you cannot ignore the facts. The idea that you can not replace a position coach mid season was proved wrong last year when Dana was brought in. Instantly the OC realized that Emmitt was our best back after being buried on the depth chart. Apparently Satt could not trust his eye balls and or figure out Emmit was our best back. So now we move to the discussion about our O line coach. We all heard how this line would dominate and win the national award for best O line in the pre season. Usual off season kool aid to get fans excited. Then we saw what is one of the worst ( your splitting hairs here ) O lines ever at NU. You saw the same crap that we have seen since 2021 when Don arrived. Just when you thought you saw the worst performance vs Michigan with 7 sacks and 36 QB hurries ( so basically EVERY pass play ) shitshow, you top that by allowing 9 sacks vs a Minnesota team that had ZERO sacks in its prior two games. Let that sink in. You can and should make an O line coach change mid season.
My question for you is: If Ruhle is actually serious about building a BEAST as he calls it, why on earth is Don still employed at NU? All the crap about Dylan leaving if we fire him is BS. How can you look the media and fans in the eye, pretend to be building a power program, and still keep that *** clown in charge of the O Line? Or is he at the point where he feels he is leaving and just wants to slide through the rest of the season as is??? You think Cignetti would give his O line coach a pass if they put up wretched results like this?? You think this would fly at Alabama, Ohio State etc??
My question for you is: If Ruhle is actually serious about building a BEAST as he calls it, why on earth is Don still employed at NU? All the crap about Dylan leaving if we fire him is BS. How can you look the media and fans in the eye, pretend to be building a power program, and still keep that *** clown in charge of the O Line? Or is he at the point where he feels he is leaving and just wants to slide through the rest of the season as is??? You think Cignetti would give his O line coach a pass if they put up wretched results like this?? You think this would fly at Alabama, Ohio State etc??
How many podcasts do you need? Do recruits like podcast or winning more?
Thank you for those kind words, and **** you very much.
Hey at least us older guys have seen the glory days of Nebraska football, you on the other just joined in 2025 and you act like you’re a freaking expert, except you show your true colors of being a idiot
#1 and #2 are hilarious to me. Those take what, a whole 1 hour out of the entire week if spread throughout the entire season?
some of us remember some lean years between Bob and Tom. The coaching turnstile we’ve had since firing Frank has been counterproductive. At some point maybe we need to stay the course with a guy who can recruit and let him hire the best coordinators we can buy.
Hindsight is 20/20 but we should have never fired Frank. His recruiting and organization sucked, but I don’t believe we would have sunk to the depths we have. Y ah we would probably become more of a 7-9 win team yo er the decades but….
IF we get to 8 wins, do you still want them fired? Are you going to write the check for 50 million plus to buy them out?
Firing Solich wasn’t the problem. Hiring someone good after him has been the problem.
What I remember hearing was "the guy won 70% of his games, and that was not good enough. Why would I want to go there"?? Urban Meyer was one of the people who said that after Bo was fired. That is why Penn State might find it hard to get the guy they really want. Same reasoning applies here, I think.
Do you guys seriously think we can win 3 more regular season games?
Fleck gave all middling big 10 teams the blue print to beating us. I feel like 3 wins is way out of reach.
Anything is possible. However, I think 1 to 0 wins is more likely than 3
Interesting. So because you’re 70 years old and I’m in my 30s that grants you the exclusive permission to criticize the state of Husker football?
In a way, the fact I missed the glory days and have still held on for the ride makes me a more dedicated fan than you.
Be a serious adult, you’re too old to act this stupid.
I don’t even want Rhule fired. I want the Raiola/Holg experiment to run its full course.
That doesn’t mean nobody can be critical of the glaring (and I mean among the worst in FBS type glaring) issue at offensive line.
I don’t know how you are a fan witnessing the last 20 years
I think the "distraction" thing is sort of overblown.
Most of us in our daily lives have SOOOOO many distractions, kids, work, bills, debt, family, car issues, house issues, rent issues, health issues, you name it.
Yet, we are able to carry on and do our jobs.
It "choosing" between two 10 million a year jobs is a "distraction" then I don't know what you call it for the guy that has 3 kids under the age of 10, two car payments, no money in the bank, the holidays coming up, and a bad back.
Most of us in our daily lives have SOOOOO many distractions, kids, work, bills, debt, family, car issues, house issues, rent issues, health issues, you name it.
Yet, we are able to carry on and do our jobs.
It "choosing" between two 10 million a year jobs is a "distraction" then I don't know what you call it for the guy that has 3 kids under the age of 10, two car payments, no money in the bank, the holidays coming up, and a bad back.
It is interesting the colleterial damage the Huskers have sustained since Penn State fired Franklin. Beforehand I think the Huskers would have won 8 or more games. Now, with all the distraction the firing has caused I am not so sure the team gets their sixth victory. Strap in and hang on, it is about to get very bumpy.
Matt already knew that. Why you think he's been messaging with that bull all year?
I mean, I am a high school teacher and coach. So I can imagine it.
Only besides just coaching them I have to give them homework, grade their papers, deal with their issues when they are "self harming", hear about breakups, talk to parents, show up to other sporting events to "support them" and blah blah blah
And I don't get 500,000 a month.
I’m not 70 and maybe you should act like you’re 30 something instead of a child, so you feel more entitled because you started watching during a bad era of Nebraska football? I hate to disappoint you but your not entitled to sh t
You got your feelings hurt when I rightfully criticized the HC.
If strangers with different opinions make you cry then close the laptop, grandma.
This is really long, so read it or not, makes no difference to me.
Since you're just a newbie as a Husker fan, and I'm one of your hated grandpa's, actually make that one of your hated great-grandpas in my case, after having watched about 750 Husker games. If you had been around long enough you would have been subject to the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, the reality being the last chance we had to be great was in '09 with Suh, only to have the Texas game stolen by the officials. Is Matt Rhule gonna ever return us to even that '09 excellence? Not hardly.
I was 9 years old when I watched Devaney coach his first game at NU. By the time I was 12 we were playing for our first national title, only to lose. Us old guys watched us get drilled 47-0 by Oklahoma. That one was humbling. A couple years later, for two straight years we got ran off the field by Bear Bryant's Bama team.
The latter part of the 60's included being shut out at home by Kansas State. It remained uneventful until 1969. With the help of the officials we managed to steal an unwarranted win against Kansas and that launched us to the second wave of Husker greatness. The signal was tying USC in 1970 as NU reeled off about 33 wins in a row. For two years NU won the national title squeaking by LSU then running Bama off the field in the Orange Bowl.
We fans then had the pleasure of having our as*ses handed to us by Oklahoma for 6 straight years, mostly close games mixed in with 27-0 and 38-7 a*s whippings. We finally reached euphoria in '78 beating the dreaded Sooners in Lincoln, only to be rewarded with a re-match in the Orange Bowl.
The 80's began as the program got better and then in 1982 we had a game stolen by us with Penn State, a game that cost us a national title. We came back even stronger and played a year or so later only to come us short again against Clemson. So, yeah, over the years there's been some tough days. We followed that up by our unsuccessful 2 point conversion against Miami while playing again for the national title. At that point, I was now 30 years old, about the same as you are now, so now us old timers have seen a bit more water under the bridge than you'll ever experience following this team.
You might even vaguely remember in 2004 when NU was humiliated by Texas Tech 70-10. I remember it well, so do many others, difference is we didn't just read about it, we watched it in real time. You notice I went right past the '93'-'97 seasons as we played for the national title 5 times and won it 3 times. Those days seem like 100 years ago.
For the most part, the last 15 years have been a waste of time and energy. We've been through 5 coaches, each one so far out of their league it's been pathetic. Now we have a really good man in Matt Rhule, no doubt just an average coach. A coach who can't seem to get his assistants to do what he wants them to do. Does anyone think Osborne would let a DC call a vanilla game on defense as we are being gouged by a decent, far from great, Minnesota team? Or have an offensive game plan that would yield 2 field goals against the same team that was just drilled by OSU 42-3?
You show me a coach who won't TELL HIS ASSISTANTS, this is how it's gonna be, and I'll show you a career .500 coach. The head man doesn't have to be a sonofabitch, but the assistants damn well better know who the boss is, what the boss wants, and then let them go off and do their own thing during a game and expect to work here next year.
I don't think any of us expect miracles in this day of parity and unequal NIL money. But, this bullsh*t of not showing up on a Friday night by a squad of entitled little sh*ts against a team that is totally beatable and get embarrassed is the latest chapter of this program. A coach can't talk about being physical with a commitment to running the ball, then show through actions that its nothing more than lip service.
The team has a chance Saturday to regroup, if they do or not remains to be seen. The question is does the head man and his assistants have what it takes to keep this thing from going in the ditch? Do the players have what it takes to rise up and beat a decent NW team? If they don't NU is gonna get their dicks knocked in the dirt the next 5 games.
I hope you enjoyed this little rant, because its what decades of following a team can do to long time fans. So the coach wants people to dig deeper in their pockets to help this program move forward, the first step to doing that is proving on the field that it's even worth donating a dollar. To me, it looks like a million miles away to ever be good again, or at least, until we find THE RIGHT coach. We know we have Matt for 2 more years, and I expect more of the same.
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I think Frank was probably doomed to fail, but I also believe he deserved a chance to sink or swim.
Just walked in the door at home. Left our hotel 29 hours ago in Italy. No sleep.
Next time you and the wife head to Europe on a vacation and the Huskers get nailed by an inferior team, don't come back. LOL