Culture Matters

Truewooper

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You simply cannot let the inmates run the place. I don't care who the player is. He should be gone. No exceptions. A HC and position coach should demand excellence and if attitude or effort are an issue then kick some arse and get rid of the problem. How can you have any kind of standard with that going on? This, if true, speaks to a larger cultural issue. But at the same time, there has to be communication both ways from the players through the position coaches. Players get down if they know a system will not work. The 3-3-5 sucked ***. Period. And why and how it took Ruhle 3 years to figure that out....well....you wonder.
2023 Rush D: 7th, Rushing 1st downs rushed allowed 7th. 2024: Rush D 7th. 1st Down rushes allowed: 1st. 3-3-5. Didn't suck it worked wonders. Matt Rhule tried to get his little fingers in it after it was successful in 2023. Now it sucked when Butler ran it. Butler was a bad DC who'd never run a 3-3-5 defense.

Essentially Matt Rhule tried to have Steve Spurrier run Tom Osborne's offense. It was never going to work.
 
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PTHUSKER

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1:52 am and you were posting in multiple threads on the HUSKER board. You are a sad sad human being. Seeking professional help for your mental health issues would be wise. Laying off the meth might help too.
Well to be fair it’s hard for him to sleep on all the meth and he’s waiting for his turn with his sister when his brother Cletus is done with her
 
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Maui-Wowi

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Our current culture has transitioned to the point that the only thing that still resembles Nebraska Football is the color of our uniforms.

Every year they take away a little more and give us reasons why we can’t carry on what made us successful for decades and every year more and more people buy into it.

There’s a whole list of BS excuses that never ends…the latest excuse is NIL.

Since we’re enabling them, I guess you can’t blame em. Why would you strive to get better if you can still sell out the stadium with a crap product?

Must be nice to be able to run a business, not be successful and still get paid the same.
 
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davecisar

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Our current culture has transitioned to the point that the only thing that still resembles Nebraska Football is the color of our uniforms.

Every year they take away a little more and give us reasons why we can’t carry on what made us successful for decades and every year more and more people buy into it.

There’s a whole list of BS excuses that never ends…the latest excuse is NIL.

Since we’re enabling them, I guess you can’t blame em. Why would you strive to get better if you can still sell out the stadium with a crap product?

Must be nice to be able to run a business, not be successful and still get paid the same.
It’s like that in academics here. USA is 4th in world in per capita education spending. Yet by most metrics our academic outcomes are 30/50 ish. Little accountability in that world and mountains of bloat and spending. Public universities are the epitome of bloat, over spending, over paying and lacking of accountability.
 
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steinek11

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Our current culture has transitioned to the point that the only thing that still resembles Nebraska Football is the color of our uniforms.

Every year they take away a little more and give us reasons why we can’t carry on what made us successful for decades and every year more and more people buy into it.

There’s a whole list of BS excuses that never ends…the latest excuse is NIL.

Since we’re enabling them, I guess you can’t blame em. Why would you strive to get better if you can still sell out the stadium with a crap product?

Must be nice to be able to run a business, not be successful and still get paid the same.
In simplest terms, we don’t have a lot of talent in our backyard. We have to be able to find and retain talent. In the era of NIL, you are paying for it. Most of these kids are smart enough to know they will not go onto the NFL, so maximize the next four years.
 
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dinglefritz

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Our current culture has transitioned to the point that the only thing that still resembles Nebraska Football is the color of our uniforms.

Every year they take away a little more and give us reasons why we can’t carry on what made us successful for decades and every year more and more people buy into it.

There’s a whole list of BS excuses that never ends…the latest excuse is NIL.

Since we’re enabling them, I guess you can’t blame em. Why would you strive to get better if you can still sell out the stadium with a crap product?

Must be nice to be able to run a business, not be successful and still get paid the same.
Nebraska football as you kids knew it. I grew up listening to Tagge, Ferragamo, Van Brownson and Humm chuck it to guys like Guy Ingalls and Frosty Anderson. Tom was a WCO guy to start out and they won a ton of games that way.
 

Macho Man

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"I'll let the players decide," Rhule said. "They'll have to decide their leadership. They can either make it a popularity contest, or they can make it a 'hey, who's really about it.' I hope they make good decisions."

Rhule from today
My word Rhule is worthless 😂 We’d be better off just paying him to stay home.
 

OxfordComma

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Following the big 12 championship in Kansas city where we filled the stadium in -10 degree weather he was all in. He was blown away by fan support and really thought, like the rest of us, that 2007 would be special. We were top 10 at one point, had a top 5 recruiting class, and one of the biggest marquee games of the decade at home against USC. Obviously a paper tiger but the collapse came so fast I don't buy he was looking to get out...compare that to Frost, Rhule who were/are just hanging on out of greed, and Bo who openly asked to be fired and publicly **** on fans.
I agree with this. Pelini and Frost both wanted out well before the end came. Rhule is trending the same way. All with a sense that this is a dead team walking for the last season or two and we have to put up with it for some reason. That was not the case with Cally. There was hype and hope until it rapidly vaporized.

For Bo, we held on because we didn’t want to fire a 9 win coach no matter how toxic he was. For Frost, we held on because he was the former golden boy and the sense of despair if he couldn’t have success here. For Rhule, we are holding on because we gave him too much money over too many years. Riley was just somebody that should have never been hired. Eichorst was such a dumb ***.
 

dinglefritz

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I agree with this. Pelini and Frost both wanted out well before the end came. Rhule is trending the same way. All with a sense that this is a dead team walking for the last season or two and we have to put up with it for some reason. That was not the case with Cally. There was hype and hope until it rapidly vaporized.

For Bo, we held on because we didn’t want to fire a 9 win coach no matter how toxic he was. For Frost, we held on because he was the former golden boy and the sense of despair if he couldn’t have success here. For Rhule, we are holding on because we gave him too much money over too many years. Riley was just somebody that should have never been hired. Eichorst was such a dumb ***.
Let’s see. I can keep working 80 hours/week to get paid 10 million per year OR I can get fired and get a 80 million payday and retire to Florida.
 

king_kong__

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Let’s see. I can keep working 80 hours/week to get paid 10 million per year OR I can get fired and get a 80 million payday and retire to Florida.
"If you guys fire me tomorrow, I'm just going to go back to Cape May and sit on the beach….”

- Matt Rhule, July 2025
 
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