Is Matt Rhule distracted?

[dinglefritz]

Next time you and the wife head to Europe on a vacation and the Huskers get nailed by an inferior team, don't come back. LOL

Probably won’t be a next time but, we are what our record says we are. Not sure that makes Minnesota the inferior team. A team is the sum of all parts working together. Individual superior talent does not necessarily dictate that we have a better “team”. Right?

 

[konaki]

I really don't know how this program will ever be fixed and at this point I would just love to have a winning team every year, not championship caliber just a winner. This football program reminds me of a car that gets stuck in the mud and just spins it's wheels, every once in awhile it regains traction only to slide back into the ditch.

 

[itseasyas1-2-3]

Probably won’t be a next time but, we are what our record says we are. Not sure that makes Minnesota the inferior team. A team is the sum of all parts working together. Individual superior talent does not necessarily dictate that we have a better “team”. Right?

Some of the NU kids must have thought it was gonna be easy. Lindemeyer Quote. "We were going in maybe wanting to put on a show rather than being ready for a 60 minute fight." End quote.
Put on a show? Yeah, they put on a show alright.

This team, maybe some of the key players may have had a delusional view of actually how good NU was/is.

I've always looked at October as the month that kind of determines if a team is getting better or not. Most teams start in late Aug or early September, they get maybe 1-2 cupcakes to pump up the PPG average and stats, then when they get in conference those number deflate weekly.

Depending on schedule, the 2023 NU team was 3-1 with ILL, PUR, NW wins and a loss to MICH.
In 2024, the NU team was 1-3 with win v. RUT, and losses to IND, OSU AND UCLA.

Luckily they bypassed the 3 best BIG opponents OSU, IND and ORE.
This year 2-1 with wins v. MSU and MARY and the loss to MINN. All middle of the road teams.
Overall 6-5, average like everything else in this program.

How they fare Saturday will be big, because under the Rhule regime our record down the stretch in November is a not so gaudy 1-8.
So have the first 3 Rhule teams actually gotten better as the season has gone on? Doesn't look like.

As you say, the sum of all parts determine how good a team is or isn't.

 

[itseasyas1-2-3]

I really don't know how this program will ever be fixed and at this point I would just love to have a winning team every year, not championship caliber just a winner. This football program reminds me of a car that gets stuck in the mud and just spins it's wheels, every once in awhile it regains traction only to slide back into the ditch.

That's a pretty accurate analogy.

 

[HuskerBruce81]

I really don't know how this program will ever be fixed and at this point I would just love to have a winning team every year, not championship caliber just a winner. This football program reminds me of a car that gets stuck in the mud and just spins it's wheels, every once in awhile it regains traction only to slide back into the ditch.

I'm willing to give a young coach a lot longer leash (7 to 8 seasons) to implement a system that has the attitude of "we are going to run the ball down your throats and you won't be able to stop us". I'm not saying he has to run it 78 percent of the time or you even have to run the option. Just give me a system where you can still run the ball even if the opposition knows you're going to. Give me what Frost promised us before he decided to ***** out.

 

[dinglefritz]

Some of the NU kids must have thought it was gonna be easy. Lindemeyer Quote. "We were going in maybe wanting to put on a show rather than being ready for a 60 minute fight." End quote.
Put on a show? Yeah, they put on a show alright.

This team, maybe some of the key players may have had a delusional view of actually how good NU was/is.

I've always looked at October as the month that kind of determines if a team is getting better or not. Most teams start in late Aug or early September, they get maybe 1-2 cupcakes to pump up the PPG average and stats, then when they get in conference those number deflate weekly.

Depending on schedule, the 2023 NU team was 3-1 with ILL, PUR, NW wins and a loss to MICH.
In 2024, the NU team was 1-3 with win v. RUT, and losses to IND, OSU AND UCLA.

Luckily they bypassed the 3 best BIG opponents OSU, IND and ORE.
This year 2-1 with wins v. MSU and MARY and the loss to MINN. All middle of the road teams.
Overall 6-5, average like everything else in this program.

How they fare Saturday will be big, because under the Rhule regime our record down the stretch in November is a not so gaudy 1-8.
So have the first 3 Rhule teams actually gotten better as the season has gone on? Doesn't look like.

As you say, the sum of all parts determine how good a team is or isn't.

Rhule has blown smoke up our butts and their butts about how talented they are at times calling multiple kids “NFL guys”. I understand that he was trying to build confidence in an emotionally beaten down group, but I think he may have overdone it. I can imagine listening to my wife talk about today’s medical students what it must be like to try to balance critique and praise. There’s a ton of entitlement to be dealt with in younger people and we see it every day on this board. I’m talented so I deserve success just by being here.

 

[WHCSC]

I'm willing to give a young coach a lot longer leash (7 to 8 seasons) to implement a system that has the attitude of "we are going to run the ball down your throats and you won't be able to stop us". I'm not saying he has to run it 78 percent of the time or you even have to run the option. Just give me a system where you can still run the ball even if the opposition knows you're going to. Give me what Frost promised us before he decided to ***** out.

 

[K Rod]

Some of the NU kids must have thought it was gonna be easy. Lindemeyer Quote. "We were going in maybe wanting to put on a show rather than being ready for a 60 minute fight." End quote.
Put on a show? Yeah, they put on a show alright.

This team, maybe some of the key players may have had a delusional view of actually how good NU was/is.

I've always looked at October as the month that kind of determines if a team is getting better or not. Most teams start in late Aug or early September, they get maybe 1-2 cupcakes to pump up the PPG average and stats, then when they get in conference those number deflate weekly.

Depending on schedule, the 2023 NU team was 3-1 with ILL, PUR, NW wins and a loss to MICH.
In 2024, the NU team was 1-3 with win v. RUT, and losses to IND, OSU AND UCLA.

Luckily they bypassed the 3 best BIG opponents OSU, IND and ORE.
This year 2-1 with wins v. MSU and MARY and the loss to MINN. All middle of the road teams.
Overall 6-5, average like everything else in this program.

How they fare Saturday will be big, because under the Rhule regime our record down the stretch in November is a not so gaudy 1-8.
So have the first 3 Rhule teams actually gotten better as the season has gone on? Doesn't look like.

As you say, the sum of all parts determine how good a team is or isn't.

Excellent post. I did not realize we were that bad down the stretch, but there it is. Part of the problem has been lack of depth, or rather lack of confidence in the backups to come in and be able to produce. Here again, player development is an issue, I think. As for the schedule, next years schedule is brutal. Unless something changes with player development, things will get ugly next year. You can't buy a whole team in the portal for God's sakes.

 

[WHCSC]

Excellent post. I did not realize we were that bad down the stretch, but there it is. Part of the problem has been lack of depth, or rather lack of confidence in the backups to come in and be able to produce. Here again, player development is an issue, I think. As for the schedule, next years schedule is brutal. Unless something changes with player development, things will get ugly next year. You can't buy a whole team in the portal for God's sakes.

Unless you’re Indiana

 

[God_zilla]

Rhule has blown smoke up our butts and their butts about how talented they are at times calling multiple kids “NFL guys”. I understand that he was trying to build confidence in an emotionally beaten down group, but I think he may have overdone it. I can imagine listening to my wife talk about today’s medical students what it must be like to try to balance critique and praise. There’s a ton of entitlement to be dealt with in younger people and we see it every day on this board. I’m talented so I deserve success just by being here.

At least he didn’t say they had a great week of practice?