68 million still owed.
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I would assume when the time comes NU will negotiate a lower buyout. In all 5 buyouts previously NU never paid the full amount on the contract. Always won in court as well.
I doubt Rhule would coach again- filthy rich. Doubtful anyone would want to hire him either- Hes been exposed. There just isn’t any meat left on the bone.
Thing about Rhule…literally no one in the world will hire him to be a coordinator.
Usually fired coaches can work their way back up that way, but he’s only a HC or a position coach, and nowhere in between.
Kinda embarrassing when you think about it.
Dannen goes before Rhule goes. That's how it should be. Unless Dannen points to some of the success of other sports (for which he had nothing to do with).
Rhule would coach again and someone will hire him too. Plenty of suck-*** coaches seem to coach forever
I guess UCF hired Frost again. Nobody in their right mind is going to pay him what we did. Temple maybe.
"Duty to Mitigate. In the event of termination by LSU without cause, the amount of liquidated damages owed by LSU under this Section shall be reduced and extinguished by and to the extent of any compensation Employee earns, receives, or is entitled to receive for football-related employment, whether intercollegiate or professional, including coaching, administration or media, from any third party from the termination date until LSU's obligation pursuant to this Section to Employee terminates or ceases to exist."
From Brian Kelly's contract
The clauses usually include pro, college, media also so if he takes any job in football it'll mitigate the total.
I'm not sure that Rhule is not a good coach. I do know that he is has not done a decent job at NU to this point. One thing I am pretty certain of is that NU, all things considered, is a tough place to win at right now. Husker fanatics will scoff at that, but I'll just point to the recent past and the fact that college football is totally different than it used to be.
I am. He hasn't won anything in almost a decade. And it's arguable that he's ever really won anything of substance at all.
I think he had a lot of promise at one point and he's either lost it, or the game has passed him by, or he's gotten complacent and is happy just counting his money, or doesn't have nearly as many contacts (for assistants and recruiting) as he used to, or he was never good enough for the NFL and/or a blue blood college program, or something. Probably a combination of a lot of that. But make no mistake, he's not a good coach. Not at the level we need anyway.
From what I can tell the players like Matt. And I think overall he has done an average job recruiting. But he made some very poor calls on staff hires, with Satt, Uncle Don, and Butler as DC. An unwise call to stay with the 3-3-5 when we were getting steam rolled. You can run that defense in the B1G IF you have elite players. We did not. Going with 3 Down linemen meant even good players like TY and Nash got the hell beat out of them by the time we started league play and it got worse and the season wore on. I do not thin think Matt realized how physical the B1G is.
There are several bottom line facts that so far define his tenue here. The first being that we are 2-34 vs ranked teams and his time here has not helped that stat one bit. Second, a clear lack of player development shines a light on the importance of the staff, and S & C program which clearly at this point in time are an issue. He has addressed the staff issues. Not one world has been said about S & C. The need to bring in 17 portal guys when we have a huge bunch of underclassmen means either your a terrible recruiter, or your staff is failing to develop them. Take you pick there. Third is an issue that is had to prove but the EJ situation makes me think the staff has been unable to actually identify WHO our best players actually are. I know this sounds almost crazy, but when you look back on all the times EJ would have 1 or 2 good runs then get yanked out of the game, and him being third on the depth chart when Dana arrived, does shine some light on this issue. That is just basic football coaching. If there were 4 or 5 other guys who should have been playing more, that might account for 1 or even 2 games that could have been won with a competent OC on the staff and a defense better suited to the B1G. Had all that taken place, there well could have had 2 eight or even nine win seasons, and our discussions would take on a much different vibe now. Being sloppy and not detail oriented accounts for some of the difference between NU and the Iowa and Minnesota types. Programs that do more with less. It isn't rocket science. And lastly, NU is paying you 9 million a year. Go to the pressers clean shaven, do not be butt hurt by the comments from passionate fans who see issues that you yourself should be seeing. Own your record. You know damn well 7-6 and a Flex tape bowl on Dec 13th is not getting the job done here by any stretch. You see your team getting manhandled, why the hell don't you demand a better S & C program? Come on man!
There are several bottom line facts that so far define his tenue here. The first being that we are 2-34 vs ranked teams and his time here has not helped that stat one bit. Second, a clear lack of player development shines a light on the importance of the staff, and S & C program which clearly at this point in time are an issue. He has addressed the staff issues. Not one world has been said about S & C. The need to bring in 17 portal guys when we have a huge bunch of underclassmen means either your a terrible recruiter, or your staff is failing to develop them. Take you pick there. Third is an issue that is had to prove but the EJ situation makes me think the staff has been unable to actually identify WHO our best players actually are. I know this sounds almost crazy, but when you look back on all the times EJ would have 1 or 2 good runs then get yanked out of the game, and him being third on the depth chart when Dana arrived, does shine some light on this issue. That is just basic football coaching. If there were 4 or 5 other guys who should have been playing more, that might account for 1 or even 2 games that could have been won with a competent OC on the staff and a defense better suited to the B1G. Had all that taken place, there well could have had 2 eight or even nine win seasons, and our discussions would take on a much different vibe now. Being sloppy and not detail oriented accounts for some of the difference between NU and the Iowa and Minnesota types. Programs that do more with less. It isn't rocket science. And lastly, NU is paying you 9 million a year. Go to the pressers clean shaven, do not be butt hurt by the comments from passionate fans who see issues that you yourself should be seeing. Own your record. You know damn well 7-6 and a Flex tape bowl on Dec 13th is not getting the job done here by any stretch. You see your team getting manhandled, why the hell don't you demand a better S & C program? Come on man!
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Speaking of S & C, this is a real head scratcher:
"Head football strength and conditioning coach Corey Campbell signed an extension that will keep him with the Huskers through the 2029 season. The strength coach's contract was dated Oct. 13, with head coach Matt Rhule also signing a two-year extension at the end of the month.
The extension also upped Campbell's annual salary to $1 million from $650,000. The contract spells out salary increases to $1,050,000 on Feb. 1, 2027, to $1.1 million on Feb. 1, 2028, and $1.15 million on Feb. 1, 2029."
Husker strength coach receives pay bump with signed two-year extension
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Wow, that is quite the laundry list when you lay it all out like that. Almost doesn't feel like a top 15 paid coach in the country level performance to me. Almost feels bottom half of the B1G level.
The more sh*t like this we see, the more it's impossible to ignore comments about this administration just lining their pockets and not caring about winning. It really has become too much smoke for there not to be fire.
It’s a tough place to win when you don’t have a good coach with a good plan. As it would be anywhere in the P4. Get a coach with a vision, knows want he wants and knows how make players better, and the progress would obvious quickly.
We know he can't coach, he tried against Utah and it was embarrassing. He was supposed to be a CEO...but nearly all of his first hires have either left for lateral positions, or were so bad that they were fired and demoted, most of the fired ones were hired because of nepotism, the competent ones left. Even the secondary hires have been jumping ship. His recruiting has been poor and getting worse, the marketing of the program nationally is non-existent. And of course the play on the field really couldn't be worse considering the soft schedules. He was a complete joke in the NFL, and is for us as well. History tells us that coaches either fail because of immorality such as substance abuse or cheating, and then can be redeemed, or they fail from being ***. They rarely if ever succeed after being so *** that they are fired mid-season.
Yeah, I wasn’t really trying to say Rhule $ucked, just that there seems to be a lot worse coaches who always find a way to get hired again and again. As SuperBigFanof69 likes to point out, the coaching fraternity has a way of taking care of their own. And as we all can see, Rhule is indeed good at selling himself. Furthermore, I’m not buying into the idea that he is way rich so he’s content to never coach again.
Yep!
Coaches don't think other coaches suck because they know they have hit the lotto by having a college/NFL coaching gig. So they would rather hire a guy and help him out, knowing that they might need his help later on.