Fair Expectation for Matt Rhule This Season?
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But your solution is that Rhule needs to take a pay cut, give the extra money to players BUT then you use Harbaugh as an example of why it work while also saying Harbaugh didn't have the extra money to go to players.
If you want Rhule’s pay cut to go to the players, okay cool, that's fine but;
1) I dont think it works that way and
2) Don't use Harbaugh as an example as to why that plan would work because Harbaugh didn't even do that.
Lots of guys are great at sales, but bad at being a boss. Whether that's finding the right employee (players) or managing (coaching) a team.
Sounds like you were a great salesman, but not a very good boss/owner and blamed your staff for the business underperforming rather than your own shortcomings.
But you see, most believe they're the ones who are doing just fine. You feel that way, Rhule feels that way, 99% of everyone feels that way.
Right, we've already established that you dont feel money or talent is what's holding us back. I completely disagree though.
I believe and I’ve been told by a plugged in booster that Rhule was in fact in fact in play at PSU until MN embarrassed him. Rhule was their AD’s guy from the minute they fired Franklin. Not saying that was smart. Not saying their fans would have liked that. Their AD is cluelsss.
Let’s be honest: nobody would miss Matt Rhule. He’d gladly spend an hour on a podcast talking about burgers, but couldn't spend five minutes figuring out how to keep his team from completely collapsing in November.
I didn’t want to start over and still don’t. Don’t want to ever hear him utter another word about JoePa, PSU or Baylor. Just do your job. Refreshing would be for him to channel Bill Belichik from his New England days.
I was told by a longtime friend and PSU booster that Ruhle was in fact a candidate. But the PSU board of Trustees were divided about 50/50 on him with most of the push back on his record here and the fact that many of them thought they were getting a much higher profile guy. In the end they settled for Campbell but even that is a step back from Franklin. I guess it is hard to blame Matt for accepting the extension our dunder headed AD gave him.
Rhule had the extension on his desk before they left for Minnesota. He didn’t sign it until after he got raped. There was a complete change in demeanor by him after that MN loss. He knew that he had blown the chance to come back to the place he really loves. Dannen was a fool to offer the extension and he was a fool to not pull it off the table after that gopher game.
And all he had to was beat a thoroughly mediocre MN team. But instead, even I was embarrassed by the performance.
No kidding! After than MN game, everyone knew that nobody was going steal him away. Take the extension off the table. Sorry, extensions are for winners.
At least he’s analyzing how he and his staff have F’d up. I doubt ai will hurt his coaching
Maybe AI will tell him how to beat a ranked team. Rhule is only 0-9 against AP-ranked opponents at Nebraska!
To improve on his 77-89 head coaching record. In 12 years he might even it up.
We are underperforming teams that we have much more money than and better players. We are consistently losing to those less talented teams and those teams have far less resources than us.
That’s a multifaceted systemic problem with the staff
Poor evaluators
Poor developers
Poor in game coaching
Poor NFL draft numbers
Poor at formulating an identity
Poor staff management
It clearly shows in our record
And the bumbling mess on many game days - that seems pretty consistent
When was the last time we looked like our team outcoached a competent team?
How many times did it look like we were out coached? Be honest- a lot
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Peter principle at work here I’d say. You have a good overall system for building a team. When you’re in weak conferences, that can translate into some wins. But that’s fool‘s gold in the big league.
We can clearly see when players develop. He’s not a good Xs and Os coach, panics in pressure situations and does not come up with good game plans. Also not a great evaluator of coaches.
Lower your expectations. Good coaches can work miracles with less than stellar rosters. It seems he needs for the environment to be dang near perfect to succeed.
We can clearly see when players develop. He’s not a good Xs and Os coach, panics in pressure situations and does not come up with good game plans. Also not a great evaluator of coaches.
Lower your expectations. Good coaches can work miracles with less than stellar rosters. It seems he needs for the environment to be dang near perfect to succeed.
My conclusion is that our best hope is that he has hired a really good DC now and stays out of his way. I think Dana is really good and I’m interested to see what he does without a QB who thinks he’s smarter than his OC.
5-7, with a defense that gets the ball jammed down their throats by every non conference team we play and Colandrea turning the ball over 15-20 times running for his life behind a vastly overrated(for the 20th straight year lol) offensive line.
I take it you’re not President of your local Optimists club.
After the season, no matter how it goes, the buyout will still be too high and I agree with those who question who you hire that would be better. Ruhle was not my choice when he was hired, but I do think he enjoys Nebraska and likes coaching here. I think he made some awful staff hires when he arrived. I hope he can pull an 8-4 year out of his hat and get some mojo going. To do that, this staff will have to become much better at player development. We do not have the resources to buy a team every year, even though Matt said he had the funds to bring in top players. We did not land even one top 100 portal player according to what I have read. So for now I am going with the "even a broken clock is right twice each day" and hope the staff cobbles together a better team.
I’d agree with most of this sentiment but the Huskies are not the same team away from Husky stadium traveling to the east coast.
Clarkeyes won’t have Gronowski under center this fall and they have the least returning players entering the B1G season so the verdict is still if they’ll be better than last years version..
Whoa! What a concept. A group of trustees looking at his record and realizing Rhule is NOT the guy….while our AD looks at the same record and rewards him with essentially a $25M bonus.
We aren’t splitting the atom here.
All true. But what is it about the past 10 years that makes you think any of the deficiencies of our opponents matters? We have had more talent on paper than Iowa in many years. And yet we manage to lose to them. And Washington has talent. When was the last time we beat a team with equal to greater talent than we have? I love your optimism! I just don’t share it. Wish I did