Matt Rhule was the best available hire at the time
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No you brought Bo into it . @SuperBigFan69 just provided video proof that Cignetti is not perfectly calm on the sidelines as @davecisar said he is .
No, I didn't. I believe @dinglefritz was the first to mention Bo by name...
But, yeah huge overstep by any of us to think @SuperBigFan69 was referring to Bo when he posted this. What ever were we thinking making that kind of reach...
Besides, all I really wanted to do was make a pissing contest on the sideline joke. Lighten up.
Yeah, but most had to google to try to figure out why the hell we would be hiring him. Most of us just knew he was the Oregon State coach and that they weren't very good.
I agree with that. I knew he who he was, but wasn’t sure why we hired him. Why was Eichorst ever in charge?
Well that covers about 50 percent of the board i would imagine. Just by the responses they give you can tell they don’t watch anything but Nebraska teams.
Cigs in an analytics master. He is an actor, a psychologist, he knows when to freak out, what faces to make, when to yell at his kids, when to yell at staff, or custodians. He'll crack a smile into the camera and it will get a million views. Great recruiting on top of great coaching and program building.
I rarely watch any college football other than Nebraska because when we lose I'm too pissed off to watch football the rest of the day and we lose all the time. Friday games are the worst when we lose it ruins Saturday football.
Well, dave said Cigs was the perfect example of being calm. All I did was show him losing his mind. Which I am totally okay with. None of that bothers me.
The Rhule hire never made sense. He his stats were awful. The data was there to support he wasn’t a good hire. He lived off the coat tails of two years of winning years that weren’t even that great of years.
it made sense to Nebraska fans that didn’t do deep dives into him because he said all the right things, and they didn’t know about his silver tongue and that he’s a con-artist
I am sure you are right on Trev wanting to run away from Lincoln as fast as he could after he hired Rhule. I don't think it would take long being around Matt the Hat to figure out he is all hat and no cattle.
AI must be broke. It seems to have determined Cig is pretty chill most of the time. I’ve watched quite a few Indiana games - Hes dialed into winning- not harassing refs or screaming at players, which I’m a big fan of lol. Huge fan of him - a winner at every stop- no excuses
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I've worked with big time administrators and I never understood how decently intelligent people could become so stupid when they were in charge of big decisions. I tend to think that the stress of the decision making gets the best of them, causes a lot of impulsive behavior, and a complete loss of the analytical patient mind. This is why companies buy search firms with no stake in the decision, obviously Trev was very emotional about firing Frost, since he did it a month too early, and he really just wanted the safe pick. As bad as Rhule is, he was likely to make it at least four years, and if Trev didn't get a better opportunity Trev would still be here getting paid. Same thing for Dannen...from his perspective, losing Rhule to another school and being left without a roster or a coach was the worst outcome. Extending Rhule was an impulsive decision based on fear and insecurity.
No you haven’t. Haha. You are to easy to read. You make stuff up
What made him the best coach available? Getting fired by the Panthers? One decent season at Baylor where he didn't beat a single ranked team and played a non-conference schedule of UTSA, Rice, and Stephen F Austin?
Hey…leave Iowa out of any discussion about poor Matty Rhule.
I think you can take the word “seemed” out of your sentence when describing Frost’s coaching tenure at Nebraska.
The worst outcome of any product is losing the customer. Rhule has lost majority of the customers. He’s got this year to fix it.
Why do you continue to make such stupid *** comments?
You've done this in the past when you posted as thall.... I can see why you changed your name as people realized what ****-for-brains posts you had & laughed at your idiocy.
If you dont understand the argument to begin with, instead of making up a new one to try and save face, just sit in the corner and stfu.
> Refusing to address the points made
> Whining like a bitcch on her period
Another classic post from the board retard @HuskerO58
Thanks for letting me make you look stupid again
Don't they pretty much have the same lame record over the last 3 years?Hey…leave Iowa out of any discussion about poor Matty Rhule.
I think you can take the word “seemed” out of your sentence when describing Frost’s coaching tenure at Nebraska.
From a customer retention standpoint, Nebraska is almost impossible to predict, mainly because we aren't a normal supply/demand situation nor is there another "market" that can take Nebraska fans. The trope of bored Nebraska people is real, people just don't have that much to do, and a husker game weekend is still pretty cheap and awesome compared to going to some dry reservoir, or the loup river for the weekend.
I do not think the AD worries about losing fans in a massive migration, I think he worried about becoming ISU. You can't forget that. at the point of the extension, we were looking at a possibility of a 7-3 start, with 9 wins certainly possible with wins over UCLA and Iowa or Penn state. Dylan was still healthy. Lets say we beat USC, then UCLA, then Penn State...we are 9-3...no extension even when Rhule requested, Rhule would have to feel targeted and not likely to be retained by Dannon in the future. Dannon certainly should have waited until after Penn State to make the decision but he was afraid of losing Rhule to one of the 20+ jobs that might open. He loses his roster and has to find a coach in a terrible market.
In a perfect world PSU would not have fired Franklin until the season finale then the extension probably doesn’t happen with how the season played out after Dylan’s injury.
The only logical explanation for that extension was the PSU opening and contrary to popular belief, I believe Rhule would be coaching at PSU this fall if the Minnesota debacle hadn’t happened.
Agreed and we better duck because incoming will be soon. Kraft took Rhule for granted and thought he was an automatic yes but Julie said no.
I don’t believe the Julie veto stopping him from leaving. She may like it here, but there’s no way the PSU boosters would have swallowed hiring him after that embarrassing loss.
Must have been a fascinating conversation:
“No way, Matt! There’s no way in Hell we are leaving Lincoln - and that’s final!”
“But see if your agent can get Troy Dannen to bend over before we tell him.”
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And the Riley hire was made by incompetent self proclaimed lawyer.
I am talking about if the Minnesota game went the other way I didn’t clarify. Because Rhule literally said “Julie decides where we live “.
Have you entertained the possibility that Rhule is completely full of crap?
A sob story about how much your family wants to stay in Lincoln sounds a whole lot better than, “Penn State wasn’t interested, but my buddy the AD helped me squeeze an extra $21 mil out of Dear Ol’ Nebraska U.”
As for Rhule's wife literally deciding where they are going to live, raise your hand if you think it was her idea to move from Philadelphia to Waco, Texas.
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If the ADs not worried about fan retention, he should be fired immediately. 20k at the spring game at the lack of hype in the off sense should be alarming. Sears was unstoppable at one point, even having the largest tower in the world. Now it has 5 stores. You can’t take it for granted ever. I have no doubt the university did, but they better be sh*ting their pants right now
Yes, our program has cratered since the extension and the USC game. I still think the baseline was set at Scoot Frost and Mike Reilly levels of success, lest the media and nation think we deserve more than six wins a year. It was hard to create momentum against Rhule when Scott could barely win 3 a year. This is why we see graphics like "first bowl game in 10 years", back to back bowls for the first time in 10 years. Some people know it is b.s but it is hard to fire a guy that has done something that the previous two coaches couldn't do.
