Pretty good discussion on the shortcomings of all the head coaches since Osborne, including Rhule.
Mike'l Severe: Nebraska's Reality & Rhule's Tenure on Carriker Chronicles
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He is a fkn Hawkeye lover who cares what he says.
He’s actually an LSU Tiger.
I always think he does a pretty good job.
He tries to be objective. He does not pump any sunshine and is not beholden to NU. He is diplomatic in his approach but at the end of his show you know exactly what the issues are with the program.
Right?
I know he is not a sunshine pumper but I don't think he is that way with any team. He seems fair and objective and honest. His opinion is not always right (unlike mine) but he does a good job.
I know some of us fans need 4 hours of how great NU is and how amazing Rhule is and how every player on the team is the best player ever, but I like Severe and for the most part he is not even all that negative.
His take that Bo needed head coaching experience between LSU and NU was interesting. If Bo had gotten the burr out of his saddle that the media/fan scrutiny and other parts of his job that seemed to make him so surly and a not-so-great face of the program, and realized those were not NU issues but head coach anywhere issues, his tenure at NU may have gone differently
That is actually a pretty good take.
I am a huge Bo fan...so nothing he did bothered me because I am not a 12 year old girl who takes everything personally. But I know a lot of our fanbase can't handle a coach that doesn't want to make love to them.
With that said, Rhule was a total fan favorite because he kept stroking our dongs and playing with our balls...but we see how quick that wore off.
Your hyperbole is annoying, yet kind of funny because that's who you are. I mean that as a compliment too.
BUT... Pelini didnt need to stroke everybody off to be liked or wanted around here. All he had to do was NOT be a d!ckhead. There was a lot of middle ground he could have gravitated towards but he chose to be an *** instead. Which did eventually wear thin.
Yeah, I like him. He has great insights and isn't a half wit like most every other sports talk personality around here.
Who was that giant puss of a QB we had under Callahan? He was a 4 star, I think he goes by throwgod now? I remember Severe telling everyone before he ever stepped foot on campus he was terrible and not a D1 QB....one of many recruits he nailed. Don't listen to him anymore because I don't travel for my job like I used to, but I liked him when I did
Him and Kugler were great together.
I know that a lot of fans need 100% positive all the time and a lot of our fans also think that they know everything so they can't stand anyone else saying anything.
Bo was definitely calmer at YSU than he was at NU so maybe that take has some merit. There certainly wasn’t the pressure and media scrutiny at YSU that there was at NU.
Didn’t he blow up at the officials during a playoff game and cost YSU the game? His faults were he didn’t hire top assistants because he didn’t like anyone who might make him look bad and the other one and his biggest Demon was his ego/temper. It didn’t bother me when he did a press conference direct and to the point
Ehhh, I know us fans liked to complain about his asst coaching hires but
Carl became a D1 head coach
Tim Beck went to OSU (I think), Texas and then became a head coach
I honestly don't remember the rest of his staff but that is still pretty good.
And if his staff wasn't good and he was still winning 9 and 10 games "on his own" that is even more impressive.
And he always had good DB coaches.
John Papuchis has turned himself into a Mike Ekeler type of guy, ST coordinator/LB at 3 P4 schools the last 7 years. John Garrison is a respected O line coach.
Probably yet another indicator that Bo was never ready for a head coaching job of our level. Perfect fit for the minor leagues. Not everyone is cut out for the majors.
You do wonder if his personality was a powder keg no matter when he may have taken the NU job or whatever experience he had elsewhere. He was always on the edge of being pissed off about something and some personalities just can't handle pressure when it all comes down on you as head coach. I loved when he coached the Michigan State bowl game. I think he won many over right there. And his early years he infused some aggression into the program but the pressures ate him up and say what you will the recruiting dropped off. I think he was a short wicked candle and didn't have what was required to be a long tenured coach at this fish bowl.
Kind of a weird take because Bo went to a perfect situation after Nebraska and had major issues with the media and following rules set down by the university. He obviously didn't learn anything to the point where he ruined a promising career. Hypocritically he seems immune to taking responsibility for his actions and how his approach to people, the media, authority might have consequences.
He is a hell of a football coach when placed with a perfect group of guys who don't have any external accountability. The moment he takes any heat however he has no capacity for self-reflection and improvement. Perfect example of this is the fact his first tenure at LSU was very successful, he then ended his career after much failure at LSU, and was basically doing exactly the same things but instead giving up 50 points a game.
I think Shawn Watson was his first oc and I believe Watson was actually a calming effect on Bo, when he was let go Bo felt more empowered Jmo. Look I was solid on Bo after he coached the bowl game after frank was fired. I’m not a fan of severe be he was just about spot on with his analysis. Hide sight is 20/20 the big question is how do we improve from here on. Sounds like from severe there was a mess in the athletic department and it took Rhule 3 years to clean house.
Again...if I was just starting out my career in coaching and someone said
"Hey, here are two options"
1. I promise you a super bowl ring, a NC ring, two head coaching gigs where you win like 60% of your games, coach a heisman finalist (should have been the winner), put about 15 guys in the NFL, at least two of them will end up on the NFL hall of fame and you will make millions...and you also get fired like 3 times.
OR
2. You just go on your own and see how your career goes.
I am taking option 1.
Was Ekler also on Bo's staff? Because he is also a big deal.
I like Adam, but I wish he would ask follow-up questions when the people he interviews make certain statements. I believe Mike said that the Huskers lost a lot of games under Rhule by 3-4 points? Last season the Huskers lost to Michigan by 3 and USC by 4 points but the four other losses were by double digit points; Minn 18, Penn State 27, Iowa 24 and Utah 22. Rhule had the most 3–4-point losses, 4, during his first season.
So Beck, Pap, Carl, Ekler...Garrison (who I guess is the OL coach at Ole Miss)
I mean, that is pretty freaking good.
I am not a Bahe fan when he starts talking about the BaheJays. But together those two are very funny. Schick got suckered into hosting a banquet for us and he was great...so was I.
2015 playoff game against North Dakota state, it’s on YouTube in all fairness to Bo I don’t think the db interfered with ND states receiver but the call was made he should have kept his mouth shut all they needed was a field goal to tie the game
Curious what Bo did to make you a huge fan? I thought he did good with Callahan recruits, but was not overly impressed after that. After NU, he never did much as a younger coach.