Agree. I seen no Fidone out there after the inexcusable false starts. Seems accountability may be a big factor in the turn around also.
Just keep getting better.
Dylan Raiola
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Just keep getting better.
I openly said he may be over rated. Have to wait and see. His rating suggested 1st round pick. He played very well today. Future looks brighter today.
It's a Holiday week for us. Dana has stated that he has done 16 Hour days and then he sleeps and does another 16... Ad nauseum.
That is not sustainable.
Can Husker Nation convince him to take time off??? For heavens sakes!!!
The shorter decisive passing game is nearly the entire upgrade in this offense along with personnel tweaks. You saw the difference in the USC game but they caught a few bad breaks.
It did not take Dana long at all to implement exactly what this team needed. Could go down as an all-time great hire by Rhule. He demoted his friend. His commitment to winning should no longer be in question.
It did not take Dana long at all to implement exactly what this team needed. Could go down as an all-time great hire by Rhule. He demoted his friend. His commitment to winning should no longer be in question.
THE big question now is whether we can keep DH in the fold. As with every year, there are going to be head coaching vacancies. And given the increased publicity he has gotten for engineering this turnaround at NU, his stock has probably gone up as a potential head coach again. We need to be very proactive and open the checkbook big time to ward off the small-fry programs. We will lose DH to any major P4 team who offers, but we will see.
I think he would need at least a year with us before being offered another head coaching gig at a P4 team. This end of the season will be a very small sample size.
If what @dinglefritz said is true and Dana was too “tired” at the beginning of the year, I don’t see him as a guy wanting to jump back to a head roll at this level anytime soon. He no doubt had multiple OC offers and only took a consultant position at TCU.
Possible he sees Dylan as a belt-notching type of project. I’m all for the marriage if we can get it! Dylan threw it 39+ times and we blew out what some claimed was a “tougher” Fickell team. Anyone who says that can’t work here is a moron. It is harder to do, yes but anything can work anywhere with the right coaches and players.
Those were Dana's exact words on Sports Nightly. He said he was too tired and wasn't ready to coach again right away. He worked 2 days per week breaking down film and working on game plans for TCU and then went and did other non-football stuff the rest of the week. He didn't even help on game days.
At least 2 yesterday alone. Where the heck is Jalyon Lloyd???? We have some young studs at receiver these 15 practices will help them a lot.
I mean there's no guarantee DH had a lot of OC offers last year. Most P4 teams either didn't have an opening or the HC may have had a closer relationship with other prospects. Hell we wouldn't even move on from Satterfield when we had DH right there. And I doubt DH had much interest dropping to a G5 team to be a coordinator.
I mean it's understandable and maybe he really did need a break, but just because a coach says something to the media doesn't mean it's the complete truth. If Alabama or another Playoff contender came calling, it's amazing how fast one can find the motivation. I know what's not near as motivating is being an underling to Satterfield which is exactly what we offered last off-season.
IF Dana stays, the majority of the offensive staff needs to go. They've had 2 springs, 2 falls and 20 ballgames to prove their worth. They didn't all just magically start coaching better in the last 2 weeks. Its all because of the Dana influence on the entire unit.
If Dana leaves, this will be the same old sad sack of **** coaching staff as we've become accustomed to. And Rhule will be headed down the road in a couple of years.
It's a lot of things. One of them is giving Dylan a lot of quick reads on plays not always just 5 read progressions to diagnose. DR multiple times looked around quickly and checked down to EJ.
All certainly possible. Also possible that Rhule can go and find a different OC that will work out. He found Dana, he found Jeff Nixon, who isn’t a terrible OC at Syracuse. He went and got Tony White. Lots of possibilities out there and assuming we’ll just be fvcked without Dana is kind of small-picture thinking.
Rhule has already shown boat loads more flexibility than any head man we’ve had in the past 20 years. Cosgrove, Mark Banker, Eric Chinander anyone?? People that assume he won’t make necessary changes at this point have just been so triggered they’ve made their hatred personal against him.
First of all, I like Matt, I just think he's really overrated as a head coach. If he was as good as some people think he is, he wouldn't have found himself in this desperate situation in the first place.
Yes, NU can get a different OC, but I doubt many of them can come in and completely revise an offense in 2 weeks as Dana has demonstrated. How many of them are gonna have the balls to call out players and by implication their position coaches?
I resent the fact you think I have "hate" for Matt. I've only criticized his "elite" ********, some of his overstatements and overestimations of some current and former players, i.e. SIms, that have proven to be ********, but I haven't personally attacked him like a few others on here. He talks too much before players have proven it on the field.
Now, continue on with your hate fest with kong.
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If Dana wants to be an OC in 2025, I think he would want to be OC for Nebraska. Raiola at QB is the biggest reason. Another is he is already here, and the fanbase already thinks his **** doesn’t stink. Even a loss to Iowa would not dampen the positive feelings of going bowling.
Rhule just can’t screw this up. He needs to let Dana make the staff changes he wants. If he wants them.
Rhule just can’t screw this up. He needs to let Dana make the staff changes he wants. If he wants them.
Please no.
What used to be hate has been replaced with pity.
He’s become so obsessed with me that I’m very glad this board is anonymous.
Anthrax in the mailbox vibes from that poor broken shell.
On the other hand, look what Dana has done with those assistants in 3 weeks. Maybe Dana wants changes or maybe Dana thinks he can work with the guys we already have.
Rhule needs to quit using “elite” and “he’s an NFL talent”. If you’re going to use those terms they need to be guys like Suh.
There's no other choice for OC next year, not after what we've seen so far. Let Dana hire who he wants.
Matt needs to hire great coaches and let them do their thing, sit back and reap the rewards. If he's making too many decisions then we're in trouble
Same. We used to get so much pressure with our front floor and now very little.
I’m excited about the offense because if they hurry up the tempo just a little, they’re going to keep defenses on their heels much of the time. Then everyone eats.
I agree. Just say that he has been OK and has the chance to be pretty good. Worked for TO
dingle, you and I think a lot different, and that's not an insult.
NO highly successful football team has ever been near the top with a subpar assistant coaching staff.
Some of Saban's greatest teams had 3-4 former head coaches as position coaches.
Does anyone here actually think McGuire, Barthel, Satt, and Foley are even adequate position coaches?
Won't happen but let's hypothetically replace McGuire with a Mickey Joseph or a Ron Brown, and replace Barthel with a Frank Solich, and Foley with a Bill Bush. How much better would that be? It would be a kick *** group of assistants that are actually doing their job so the OC can concentrate on scheming for any upcoming opponent. It allows Dana the ability to really get creative then.
Tom was able to elevate mediocre assistants. Holgerson clearly has done wonders in 3 weeks. I believe it will be his call to make and I’m fine with that.
Frank was never really our OC and when he took over play calling when Tom retired it wasn’t great. The play caller and attention to detail by the coordinator are huge factors and I think Holgerson can make these guys better if he chooses to keep them.
I dont think he would get a p2 job unless it’s something like Purdue or Maryland. But I do hope we pay him very well so that he won’t be lured away to be an assistant elsewhere
Biggest thing is we run vertical and hit the holes with a full head of steam, as opposed to dancing around and losing yards and being behind the chains. We also stopped tipping our hand with substitutions.
This is true about the receivers. But to be fair, Dylan has missed several TD throws that cost the receivers TDs as well
That’s just football
No? But doing that back then would not have amounted to much. Do you want to give play calling duties to an assistant who may have never called plays before?
The only person I can think of is when EC was fired and Bill took over as our DC in 2022.
Matt went and got a guy who has called plays before, really well, hence the flexibility.
Chinander was fired a week after Frost was.
Yes, but the past examples could not have happened in the past. Now with no staff limitations bringing someone in will happen a lot more next year. Nebraska likely has started a trend.
seems like today with nil and the portal, recruiting, discipline, media, selling to program to donors, etc... the hc has to count on his oc and dc more...and keep his eyes on the big picture
