Nothing you say is evidence based. He is just a football coach who leveraged himself into one of the best contracts in the sport after an embarrassing firing. This is like Frosty taking a 2 million a year OC job and then everybody running around saying how competent of an OC he is...his recruiting is good for a terrible program but he isn't top 5 or top 10, we have had a coach come in after years of poor recruiting and have a top 5 class immediately. The spring game was barely watchable, not that it was supposed to be amazing but it certainly wasn't a data point in favor of Rhule's genius. I think it is best for fans to remember he is just a college football coach, a super rich one now, who has been paid up front to do something that will be very hard and is embedded with built in excuses for failure. Our program once again is acting like we have to pay a guy a top 5 salary because "nobody wants to come to poor old nebraska". A nebraska guy hired Cally because he got desperate, a nebraska guy hired Bo because Bo was "culturally acceptable", Riley was hired because we didn't think we could do better than a coach about to be fired from Oregon state, Frosty fleeced us by playing that he was better than NU, and Rhule got a massive upfront contract because........... our Nebraska AD can't believe anybody would come here for a fair price. And Rhule admitted as much. I think the program will stabalize but we are going to spend 60 million on Rhule alone before we get to a team that is still playing for something in december.