Preacher Rhule’s GM: DL Expensive, Lucky to Get Who We Did
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Yeah, the money was not a problem...Rhule is though! Ha
I know the Rhule lovers will be like "Well, at least he is trying something new!"
Shut up...just get rid of this guy and go hire a guy that actually wants to win games and not "Help shape young men" and all that ****.
You must have missed the part where he said it didn’t matter to him. There are plenty of other reasons to not like him as a coach but you’re reaching here.
If it didn't matter to him, he would not have changed it.
"It doesn't matter to me" is what a guy says when it does matter to him but he know he sounds like a fool...or he is trying to get laid
After watching the clown show unfold, anyone who seriously still thinks we are headed in the right direction is a naive fool. There isn’t a single player on this roster on either side of the ball who is a first team all B1G caliber player. Not one. And probably a struggle to find anyone on our roster who is second team all B1G.
Holgerson doesn’t have a clue what our offense will look like? Check. We don’t have enough NIL money to compete for the difference maker players? Check. Rhule is just now figuring out that you don’t hire coaches then ask them to coach in ways they have no experience doing? Check.
We are a program in a steep, fast, and accelerating decline. We are about to go from bad to horrible. We will struggle to win five games this Fall.
Rhule is a fraud. And a catastrophe. Not sure if NU will ever dig out of this hole. Mainly because we need to fire Rhule and we have no money for that. We then need to hire a proven winning coach, and we have no money for that. Then we need to buy the very best players. And we sure as hell don’t have the money for that.
Where does that leave us? F$cked.
Holgerson doesn’t have a clue what our offense will look like? Check. We don’t have enough NIL money to compete for the difference maker players? Check. Rhule is just now figuring out that you don’t hire coaches then ask them to coach in ways they have no experience doing? Check.
We are a program in a steep, fast, and accelerating decline. We are about to go from bad to horrible. We will struggle to win five games this Fall.
Rhule is a fraud. And a catastrophe. Not sure if NU will ever dig out of this hole. Mainly because we need to fire Rhule and we have no money for that. We then need to hire a proven winning coach, and we have no money for that. Then we need to buy the very best players. And we sure as hell don’t have the money for that.
Where does that leave us? F$cked.
We will become the B1G's full-time fleshlight this year, no doubt.
These players are young
Going off portal Rankings is ridiculous at best
We had the 6th best portal class last year. How did that work out.
We got what we needed..you think an NFL draft pick is going to drop in the portal from a major school.....lol
I still don't trust Rhules do what firs it really matter.
I'm actually wondering if I'd rather have an old guy over the hill, a drunk or an incompetent buffoon as our coach. At DONU we got all 3 in the last 10 years.
The saddest part? Back-hat doesn't know how foolish he looks and sounds these days. It's amazing - every time he talks it gets worse.
The saddest part? Back-hat doesn't know how foolish he looks and sounds these days. It's amazing - every time he talks it gets worse.
Who is young?
Owen Stoudemire is a 6th year senior.
Anthony Jones is a 5th year senior.
Jahsear is a 3rd year Sophomore.
They have a combined 11 years of collegiate experience before coming to Nebraska.
My comment is reference to Rhule's "we have the money to get any player we want" and "there are many players who want to come to Nebraska" and then we have Pat Stewart saying we did the best we could and "we're lucky to get what we got". We scraped the bottom of the barrel for the position that was arguably most devoid of talent last year. And THEN they have the audacity to tell us they liked what we had last year.
But anyways, who of those 3 is "young"? Because, none of them are.
Combination of a lot of things.
- Temple and Baylor are nowhere near the level NU is. They're middle rung programs. We're a f*ucking blue blood. Apples and oranges. And Rhule clearly isn't ready for our level.
- The game has passed him by. When every real college coach was learning portal and NIL, Rhule was failing miserably in the NFL, (speaking of not ready for that level). That puts him squarely several years behind everyone else.
- And speaking of the NFL, it probably broke him. Any shred of confidence he had in college was stripped from him when he got a taste of the real world. That level of comeuppance will humble most mortal people. Especially someone who's as all hat and no cattle as Rhule.
- Complacency. He's made so much money and he's that much older now. What does he have to stay motivated for? He's fat and happy. Age and complacency has a way of sneaking up on most people.
- All that mid level success was a mirage. Two good year threes and still managed to beat like one ranked team. He was never as good as most people thought he was.
I would agree the experience would be good, if they weren’t borderline duds.
Owen Stoudemire has 47 tackles, 3.5 TFL and 2.5 sacks in 5 years. Per year numbers: 9.4 tackles, 0.7 TFL, 0.5 sacks.
Jahsear Whittington has 13 tackles, 3.5 TFL, 1 sack in 2 years. Per year numbers: 6.5 tackles, 1.75 TFL, 0.5 sacks.
Anthony Jones has 58 tackles, 6.5 TFL, 3.5 sacks in 4 years. Per year numbers: 14.5 tackles, 1.6 TFL, 0.88 sacks.
We got old guys who have arguably done nothing in their career. Anthony Jones is a career portal entrant. Nebraska is his 5th school in 5 years. Heck, Elijah Jeudy had almost as many tackles last year as Jones did.
Those are all really good points.
It is so sad that Trev either "fell for it" or Rhule was really his first and only choice...because it really is such a foolish hire. There was nothing in his resume that screamed "This is the guy" Now, there was not much to say that he would suck either, but clearly Trev was banking on hiring a guy that would do JUST ENOUGH to make most of the fans, sort of happy.
I could never reconcile the disconnect between a guy touting himself as a "program builder" but has never been anywhere longer than 3 years.
Then I realized why. It was all bullsh!t.
Then I realized why. It was all bullsh!t.
Ohh $&it you're back with more of your gibberis.
Im just glad everyone is coming to their senses about Rhule and his staff. Gonna be a long 2 years.
The weird part was that even the national media ate that stuff up.
1. I guess I don't see what difference it makes between beating crappy teams while at Baylor and beating crappy teams while at Nebraska? Somehow it's more difficult to beat the Minnesota's & Iowa's of the world than the Iowa St & Kansas St of the world?
2. This seems right to me. Especially coming from the NFL back to college football, like your said, out him behind the 8ball. Wasn't able to take good players from his previous gig to Nebraska like what Cig and Sanders was able to do.
3. Not having success in the NFL is irrelevant to me. But I agree, it may have broken him.
4. I can see this being somewhat true too, but I was hoping Rhule would be one of those coaches who wouldn't get complacent even with all of the money. Many have done it.
5. Disagree. Yes, he only beaten like 1 ranked opponent, but do people forget what he walked into at Baylor? Worst than what Penn St had to go through. Also, Temple has never beaten a P5 team who finished ranked, so again, not a lot of opportunity there. Shoot, Cig never beat a ranked P5 opponent until he got to Indiana.
I get what you're saying, but 3 guys don't make up the entire team.
I'm too lazy to look it up, but are we a young team or no?
You're getting a little off topic though. The topic is specifically about the defensive line portal additions. So the focus is solely on the DL, not the entire team. Besides, if being a young team is the problem that needed addressing (which we've heard for 3 years now "We have a young team, they're still learning how to win"), why did they acquire 10 underclassmen of their 15 additions last year, 5 underclassmen of their 9 additions in 2024, and 11 of 14 additions in 2023? It's also silly to add older guys for the sake of having older guys. Guys like Ty and Nash were good older guys because they were productive. Ty had more stats that all 3 of our new DL additions combined. Nash had more stats than Stoudemire and Whittington combined and Jones and Whittington combined.
Besides those 3 new guys, we have:
Cam Lenhardt 4th year
Dylan Parrott 5th year
Sua Lefotu 4th year
Mason Goldman 4th year
Dylan Rogers (now a DE) 4th year
Conor Connealy 4th year
Mac Markway (TE to DE) 4th year
Gabe Moore 4th year
Landen Davidson 3rd year
Ethan Duda 3rd year
Willis McGahee 3rd year
Ashton Murphy 3rd year
Jordan Ochoa 3rd year
David Hoffken 3rd year
Williams Nwaneri 3rd year
That is 15 guys who were already on our roster draft eligible next spring. 15 guys who are 3rd year or more, AKA veterans and should be leaders of their room. We added 3 more older guys to a room that has quite a few now and they don't really bring much.
You're right. I misread the what was being said.
Yeah, not young at that position.
its all good. we desperately need production from that group this year.
It’s called throwing shiit on the wall and hoping it sticks.
Oh Brother Rhule is too much
This comes to mind, except with Big Ten opponents.
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Nobody cares about Nebraska. What made us great was we were a winner who happened to be in the middle of nowhere, a small population, that really had nothing exceptional going on, but we had a couple of the greatest coaches of all time and a well built program. That is LONG gone...25 years gone. Just imagine Kansas Basketball not winning another thing from now until the year 2051 and still acting like they were a blue-blood in 2051, as if people should care. It MIGHT make sense for USC or Michigan, or OSU to do such a thing because the have the population base to quickly rebuild. On top of this. Kids don't care about teams anymore. They are likely to get us confused with Wisky or Northwestern...all that they know is the fans are a little redneck, Lincoln is boring as hell, and the girls are mid.
In the end, the good news is the B1G is flush with $$$ being distributed to conference members.
Dannen will have the resources to dump MR next winter.
That's IF Dannen doesn't get shiitcanned first.
Dannen will have the resources to dump MR next winter.
That's IF Dannen doesn't get shiitcanned first.
Dannen authored the extension. He rides the lightning first. Stubble gummy gets strapped in shortly thereafter.
And both corpses depart Lincoln millions of dollars richer for having been abject failures in their endeavors.
Why don't all you "so called" NU fans just get together and fire Rhule? Pay his buyout. Isn't that what you do? Chickenshits. Must be really young and used to instant gratification. It takes time to turn a ****-show around. If you hired JC, you'd be bitching within a year.
Well, at least you didn't let it get to you.
Consider deleting this in the cold, unforgiving light of tomorrow's late morning hangover tug.
And don't forget to hydrate*
*bud light doesn't count
Yikes. The pressers are hard to watch now from Rhule. And I mean hard to watch period. Him and Holgo don't give me any optimism that we can have a functioning team to get us to at least six wins next season. This would be the first spring game (not counting last year and Covid) that I haven't attended since 2015. It isn't even spring and Holgo doesn't seem to know what the **** hes doing. "Find what works and roll with it" got us to 7-6 last year, and we should be thankful EJ carried our offense because we would've been 5-7.
At what point do you think the university is gonna look at its own administration and see that they're plucking the football program apart? At what point do the fans stop showing up to support this team?
Jesus H. Christ, we're turning into Kansas State.
At what point do you think the university is gonna look at its own administration and see that they're plucking the football program apart? At what point do the fans stop showing up to support this team?
Jesus H. Christ, we're turning into Kansas State.
I watched them yesterday. I thought Rhule was genuinely sad about his defense changing. He did not seem more upbeat with his media time off. A bit concerning actually. The kids deserve a motivated head coach. It's a new season, new year.
Dana is a huge problem imo. He admits that it took him until the 6th game last year to figure out what EJ was good at. Nobody could punch it in last year because we don't have real running backs on the team. What did the staff do about it? Nothing, and Dana is pissed we are asking about running backs again. You're at NEBRASKA YOU STUPID DUCK. What the hell do you think the fans are going to ask you about???? This guy is a complete asshat.
New DC was more upbeat that the other coaches, but kind of afraid to talk to the media.. that sort of raised a red flag to me. I hope he knows what he is doing.
I came away more upset at the coaches than before the PC. The players deserve motivated, positive, forward looking coaches.. what I saw on the podium are 2 bozos that are not good at their jobs and they know that we know. Instead of doubling down and working harder to improve, what we get instead is attitude, and somehow, it's allowed. That's the part that really irks me. These multi-millionaires are not even going to try. UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS.
Dana is a huge problem imo. He admits that it took him until the 6th game last year to figure out what EJ was good at. Nobody could punch it in last year because we don't have real running backs on the team. What did the staff do about it? Nothing, and Dana is pissed we are asking about running backs again. You're at NEBRASKA YOU STUPID DUCK. What the hell do you think the fans are going to ask you about???? This guy is a complete asshat.
New DC was more upbeat that the other coaches, but kind of afraid to talk to the media.. that sort of raised a red flag to me. I hope he knows what he is doing.
I came away more upset at the coaches than before the PC. The players deserve motivated, positive, forward looking coaches.. what I saw on the podium are 2 bozos that are not good at their jobs and they know that we know. Instead of doubling down and working harder to improve, what we get instead is attitude, and somehow, it's allowed. That's the part that really irks me. These multi-millionaires are not even going to try. UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS.
Love when newbies come on here fired up and look like idiots.
At this point in Rhule's tenure, it's funny to me when people act like *how* Rhule talks actually matters. I'm not sure why you pretend that if Rhule had a more upbeat tone, you'd change your mind on how his presser went.
Would probably actually complain about it. "Why is Rhule all upbeat. That loser acts like everything is going great, but he sucks..."
There is some Truth to that for sure... Body language tells the tail here and it sure feels like the last year of so many past failures... I'm sad for the players and I'm sad for the new coaches he brought in. Unless something drastically changes they very well could be a 1 year & out type of hire. How they keep that touted 27 class together will be the real canary in the coal mine both in getting them here and then actually keeping them long enough to make a difference
