Addicted to Quack

[OxfordComma]

https://www.addictedtoquack.com/gen...2484/duck-dive-nebraska-football-2026-preview

A detailed analysis of Rhule’s tenure at Nebraska without the hometown bias.

And, I love the URL name.

 

[BugsAreQualityProtein]

Interesting that they believe our roster is far more talented on the whole than what Rhule has chosen to start the last couple years.

 

[OxfordComma]

Interesting that they believe our roster is far more talented on the whole than what Rhule has chosen to start the last couple years.

There was one fundamental question that Jed and I kept returning to on the podcast: in 2024 and 2025 -- years 2 and 3 of Coach Rhule’s tenure at Nebraska -- it seemed to both of us that, at nearly every position unit, the Cornhuskers had available young talent options who could have helped, either by providing fatigue relief, an alternate set of tools, or simply because they were more talented than the players inherited from the previous staff … but other than a few glimpses to confirm they were healthy and as talented as we figured, that young talent rode the bench. The paradox of Nebraska’s roster under Coach Rhule is that he’s built it up enormously in both quantity and quality since the previous head coach was fired a few weeks into the 2022 season after a humiliating non-con loss to a G5 team, and yet the actual rotation who sees the field has been incredibly tight and of a slightly lower average talent rating than roster overall.

 

[skin-tight]

IMO that is not an uncommon trait of unsuccessful coaches. they frequently don't have the correct players starting or getting sig time and/or they have players not playing their optimal position. It's often seen when the coach gets dumped and then there is a very quick turn around of performance by simply identifying whom should be playing and where.