The North Dakota game should worry everyone. There is a real chance this team is 1-2 to start. The wheels can come off real early.
Can you not drink Kool-aid but still be excited for season?
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The North Dakota game should worry everyone. There is a real chance this team is 1-2 to start. The wheels can come off real early.
The right coach for us? LOL. The dude is a turd and I called it 3 years ago. Year 4 ? Damn. . Get a clue. The slob will not do crap. Money grabber 19-19 coach. Dude, wake up. Horrible hire. Horrible coach. The proof is on the field. Crap from the get-go. Educate yourself. Canned in December and the search continues...Matt Kenneth Rhule.
Yeah. Going to be a barnburner with Matt backwards hat, spitter, licker, podcast, Temple, 104 recruiting class, unshaven, 429 lifetime as a head coach. ( 512. in college) fraud used car salesman Kenneth Rhule. Let's look forward to 2027!!! Wake up. Hey! At least Matt is 19-19 heading into year 4. That is a positive. Cannot wait!! Give him time. You do know the outcome of this turds tenure right? I do.
I've officially reached the point of being more excited for football season in general than actually watching the Huskers (learned to branch out into interest in other teams/levels a long time ago - a healthy move that more fans should try). And I'm also at the point that, although I will never cheer against us, the losses get easier to take, as the silver lining is that a loss means we're one step closer to being out from under this clown show of a head coach.
And make no mistake, he is a clown show. An embarrassment. I dislike him much much much more than any of our previous failed coaches. Can't decide is that's just because my tolerance has gotten so low...or if it's because he truly does suck the worst...probably a little bit of both. I just never felt so overwhelmed by any of those other guys constantly pissing on my leg and telling me it was raining. But, yeah that's probably a discussion for anther thread.
And make no mistake, he is a clown show. An embarrassment. I dislike him much much much more than any of our previous failed coaches. Can't decide is that's just because my tolerance has gotten so low...or if it's because he truly does suck the worst...probably a little bit of both. I just never felt so overwhelmed by any of those other guys constantly pissing on my leg and telling me it was raining. But, yeah that's probably a discussion for anther thread.
Good post.
Really need to win one of the those two games against Washington and Illinois and not stub our toe against Michigan St or Maryland.
I wish I could be excited for this coming season but I am not. I'm talking 0%. Last year was supposed to be our year and we tanked.I love the Huskers - love watching them play and look forward to every game. I’m not drinking the koolaid this year in the offseason but I can’t wait for football and see what the boys can do!
Hope spring practice has great development and everyone stays healthy!
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Man I didn't realize it was this bleak. I'm right with you. There's no way we take out Michigan State Maryland and Rutgers plus one of those teams above. I wonder what the over-under will be set at for next year. I'm going to guess Vegas has it at six wins.
And that's all assuming we can get by our first 3, which are not gimmes.
If we were a decent football team, I would be making an argument that we can beat Illinois, Iowa, and Washington. Going 3-0 won’t be easy, but we’ve got a good shot of doing it and should at least go 2-1.
But I don’t think our football team is that decent. 0-3 with one or two losses being ugly dominations is a likely outcome. And this is in season 4 under this regime.
Yay, another "you can't complain if you can't afford to pay the buyout" post.
Lamest. Argument. Ever.
Exactly. I’ll ***** as I did didn’t have a say in giving him a ridiculous undeserved extension this last season.. those people should pay.
I'm drinking koolaid in moderation.
5 wins, 7 wins, should have been 9 wins...(at least we are leaving the 3 win dumpster fires)
let the coaches coach and players play and see what happens...
5 wins, 7 wins, should have been 9 wins...(at least we are leaving the 3 win dumpster fires)
let the coaches coach and players play and see what happens...
Naw college football was mostly fine until the playoff started. (Once the fat cat cats got a small playoff they knew they could keep bumping the number up every few years.) Then NIL got approved, and completely unregulated matched with unlimited transfers. Along with the biggest conferences being incentivized by more and more greed to take and take. (Be that either trying to cry about their teams not getting 9 into the playoff or wanting to constantly expand their conference.)
I also think Rhule kinda lost me when he brought in John Butler and either:
Never thought Tony White was gonna leave so didn't worry about it.
Or:
Brought in John Butler and demanded he run a system he never ran.
Now this year he's like it's not smart to force systems on coaches who have never run it. I thought that would be a lesson our "experienced" HC who has coached what 9+ years as a HC would have already learned? Seems like something a first year coach would do.
Never thought Tony White was gonna leave so didn't worry about it.
Or:
Brought in John Butler and demanded he run a system he never ran.
Now this year he's like it's not smart to force systems on coaches who have never run it. I thought that would be a lesson our "experienced" HC who has coached what 9+ years as a HC would have already learned? Seems like something a first year coach would do.
I’m just happy to get to see another year of Husker football. I’m over the title demands. Resigned somewhat to mediocrity. Excited for the unknown of our coaching situation. Excited to watch the QBs compete. Might actually get to come to the spring game this year.Low expectations is actually my strategy. I don't want to be a neg Nellie, I simply think it will help me enjoy the games more. Too many years of the opposite. I am hopeful but no part of me is hypeful. lol.
If they start making hype videos or Rhule starts pumping things at pressers I will immediately delete or click off. Don't interrupt my serenity!
This is just wrong. Playoffs have nothing to do with NIL and the transfer portal. They would exist no matter what..those were legal decisions. The playoffs just happened to be at the same time and have injected something interesting. The bowl season is terrible and the big bowl games would be worse than the playoffs. The playoffs has actually been ruined a bit in implementation by the other stuff as playoffs 10 years ago would have been awesome.
well, if you want regime change...this is a big game. If we beat the patsys and a big 10 game or two we are looking at Rhule for 1-2 more years. If we start 1-2 and end up winning 3-4 games Rhule is probably gone. There are lots of ways to pay back buyouts and having a lame duck coach costs the university a lot in opportunity cost. Every fan who doesn't go into the stadium, doesn't buy merch, doesn't watch ads on TV, doesn't buy food at the game is lost income attributed to Rhule. People look at the sell-out streak, but there aren't 91k people in the stadium towards the end of the season, only about 60k entered for the OSU game in 2021, and people are certainly not tuning in.
I actually miss those days. I don’t think we even made the offseason playoff this year.
Not that they all have to do with each other. Things that have hurt the product. Every time they expand the playoff the regular season gets worse and worse. With 4 it wasn't too noticeable. Now if you lose a big game in season it doesn't matter. Notre Dame can lose to NIU and still make it to that national title game.
I agree with you on this. And we know how Rhule is. If he gets to 6 or 7 he's going to say: "We did great did you see how hard the schedule was this year."
The fan base already knows that Matt isn't the best decision maker or really that good of a football coach.
However..
Matt can still be successful here as the Head Coach (even if it is more head cheerleader, speaker, marketing guy etc.)
Matt once again brought in a bunch of people, recruits and coaches..
He doesn't have to be the best X's and O's guy, but he does need to be a good organizational guy, and all the sales stuff he does, needs to bring in the best recruits and coaches.
I think he has been in this shift since last season, and even more so this season.
If we look at his position in a different light, leaving the X's and O's strictly for the coordinators, I think Matt's got a chance to have a good year, and if we do, he deserves a lot of credit for bringing in all these great athletes and coaches.
We aren't going to make Rhule into the sage that Tom Osborne was, but we absolutely CAN lean on the things that he does well.
I'd probably rank his recruiting success behind Callahan, but above Frost & Riley, maybe better than or on par with Bo at this stage.
If for some reason it all goes south and we don't make it to a bowl game, I think then they will find another coach.
At this stage, I would prefer a big change at AD. We need someone driving the program that is an excellent decision maker and has the vision necessary to get the program fully on track, and keep it there.
To me, this is way more important that we get fixed long term, than what Rhule is doing/not doing etc.
Great athletes and coaches? Recruiting success?
What kind of alternate world are you living in?
The best coaches we've had have been one and done and just about every job has been recycled at least once. In three years. Coaching hires have been a JOKE. And that's putting it mildly.
And I'm sorry, what part of #79 overall class makes you say anything positive about his recruiting?
You should have quit with...
"Matt once again brought in a bunch of people, recruits and coaches."
Because that's about all he's done here...once again, brought in people.
I"m actually impressed with the people Matt got in here.. we buy a team every year now.. not concerned with recruiting rankings per se because the upperclassmen on any team make a bigger impact than true freshman coming in.Great athletes and coaches? Recruiting success?
What kind of alternate world are you living in?
The best coaches we've had have been one and done and just about every job has been recycled at least once. In three years. Coaching hires have been a JOKE. And that's putting it mildly.
And I'm sorry, what part of #79 overall class makes you say anything positive about his recruiting?
You should have quit with...
"Matt once again brought in a bunch of people, recruits and coaches."
Because that's about all he's done here...once again, brought in people.
I think way too many people are negative about Rhule.
Yeah, he's not a good coach, but he is a good salesman.. and that, you can't deny. He's got the contract to prove it.
Yeah, well, let me know when being a good used car salesman translates to actual success on the field.
let's see what happens.. I know everyone is down, but it's always darkest before dawn.. I'm 100% bought in as to contrarian thinking, so let's see how it all ends up in 2026.